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Show 1 By VIRGINIA VALE 1 (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) JOE E. BROWN'S first week before the cameras in the Columbia picture, "So You Won't Talk," marking his return re-turn to the screen after a serious automobile accident that put him in the hospital for four months, left no doubt that he was fully recovered. In the first three days Joe fell off beds, crawled under them, jumped out of a second-story window, win-dow, and swung a haymaker to Charles Wilson's jaw that connected connect-ed accidentally and knocked the actor senseless for two minutes. "So You Won't Talk" is a comedy in which Brown plays the dual role of a timid book reviewer and a gang www-, JOE E. BROWN Sporting whiskers he grew while recuperating. baron for whom he is mistaken; Frances Robinson plays opposite him. Ace Director Clarence Brown recalls re-calls that in the days of the silent pictures the saying was that the worst pictures had the most titles, and a really great picture such as "The Last Laugh" had no titles at all. Now it seems likely that one of the great talking pictures has proved that the bigger they are, the less the actors say. "Edison, the Man," Mr. Brown's latest directorial effort, goes a long way toward proving that fact. There is perhaps half a reel during the climatic sequence in which hardly a word is spoken. "The suspense during the 40-hour test of Edison's first electric bulb, I tried to relate entirely in pictorial terms," said the director. "And that is the stretch during which the audience is most acutely attentive." Wayne Morris can't escape the Lane sisters. If he isn't acting with Priscilla, he's acting with Rosemary. Rose-mary. Priscilla's one up on her sister; she teamed with him in "Love, Honor and Behave," "Brother "Broth-er Rat," and "Brother Rat and a Baby." Rosemary won him in "An Angel From Texas," and she's his romance again in "Ladies Must Live," their current picture at Warner War-ner Brothers'. Meanwhile the romance ro-mance of his personal life seems to have hit the rocks. Betty Brewer, Paramount's 13-year-old discovery who is making her film debut opposite Fred Mac-Murray Mac-Murray in "Rangers of Fortune," has a suggestion for anyone who wants to learn a foreign language. She suggests that the would-be student live next door to a family which speaks no English, be broke and hungry, and have to ask the foreigners for food, in their native tongue. "That's how I learned to speak Spanish," she explained. If you're one of the vast army of fans who've enjoyed the pictures made by Osa Johnson and her late husband, Martin, you'll want to see "I Married Adventure," which Columbia Co-lumbia is releasing the last of this month. It is based on Mrs. Johnson's autobiography, auto-biography, and is the first pictorial dramatic thriller of a famous woman wom-an explorer. It tells the story of 27 years of adventure, shared by the Johnsons. The Court of Missing Heirs, a half-hour half-hour radio program which has been taking only 25 minutes because of Elmer Davis' news broadcasts, has moved from its customary spot on CBS to one-half an hour earlier, which will give it a full half hour. Even in its 25 minute weekly broadcasts broad-casts it has not done so badly at digging up missing legatees; in 28 weeks under its present sponsorship the program has found claimants to more than $120,000 more than $6,000 a week. station agent for the Great Northern railroad here but his faithful dog, Terry, carries on. Terry reaches the station every morning at 7:30 o'clock, meets all passenger trains and then trots to the post office and bank a routine he followed with his master for years. |