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Show AT ' .! STAR I I BUST I I Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE HAVE you heard Hilde-garde Hilde-garde on the radio? You must, not merely because she is delightful in a way of her own, but because it is always interesting to watch the progress prog-ress of someone who is on the way to stardom. Not so many years ago she was playing the piano in a motion picture pic-ture theater. She went abroad. First thing she knew, the Milwaukee girl was singing for royalty King Edward Ed-ward VIII when he was Prince of Wales, the King of Sweden, ex-King ex-King Alfonso of Spain, the Duke and Duchess of Kent they all helped make her one of the toasts of Europe. Eu-rope. Now she has come back home, and broadcasts on Tuesday evenings eve-nings from ten to ten-thirty, and on Saturdays from eight to eight-thirty eight-thirty over N. B. C. "K Marlene Dietrich couldn't wait to get off to Europe and now she can't wait to get home! She is mak- F ing a picture in Eng- land, you know, and 1 there have been de- 1 lays (it's reported that Robert Donat walked out on it, for reasons not an- i nounced at the time) and she doesn't know when she'll return. She is so sold on Hollywood Holly-wood that she telephoned tele-phoned her studio 4 Marlene Dietrich dress designer to asK ms advice on the gowns she will wear in the English Eng-lish picture perhaps she was afraid that the designers over there wouldn't let her wear enough feathers. feath-ers. Well, another grand picture has come along, one of the best in years. It is "My Man Godfrey," with Carole Lombard, William Powell, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon, Eugene Pallette and Alan Mowbray. It is almost too funny you find yourself laughing so hard at one bit of funny dialogue that you miss the next one. Take it from Simone Simon, who has become to tremendously popular popu-lar in so short a time, her name should be pronounced "Semone Semon" but it takes a French student stu-dent to get that last syllable exactly ex-actly right. She is having a grand time in Hollywood; goes out practically prac-tically every night, looking even younger and cuter than she does on the screen, and gets just about everything she wants at the studio by day. No doubt you've heard Edwin Ed-win C. Hill who comments to ably on news events. Well, he's starting something original with his new series. He will begin with a summary sum-mary of the week's news, and after that dramatize the story of some unknown un-known American hero or heroine. You can't help liking Errol Flynn.' He refuses to let making pictures Errol Flynn dominate his life, perhaps because he did so many things before he became an actor. He learned to play tennis comparatively com-paratively recently, entered the Pacific Southwest Tournament Tourna-ment and had to play Frank Shields. But he gave a good account of himself, though he was up against a champion. When he lived in New Guinea he collected rare snakes for Dr. Raymond Ditmars. Now he collects rare insects for British museums, and his wife, Lily Damita, goes along, though she loathes bugs and doesn't particularly particu-larly care for the Mojave desert, where he does his collecting. It is good news for Nelson Eddy's many admirers that his new fall scries of broadcasts is under way. He began them September 27 from Hollywood, on a nation-wide Columbia Colum-bia network of eighty-two stations, and will continue to broadcast from there until his concert engagements take him East in January. ODDS f.VO EM)S . . . filler Crabbe, after teaching Harold Lloyd's children to swim, had begun giiing lessons to Shirley Temple . . . The March of Time is o( the air for only a short uhile, just Ui give the people uho do it a chance to rest after sixty successive wecl;s of broadcasting . . . Eleanor Vowell ordered fifteen pairs of slacks at once; the Hollywood hahil of wearing them got her, and now all she needs is a mini; coat to wear with them . . . Helen Hayes, uho is broadcasting broad-casting acain. Hears a slave brafi-hl instead of a icedding ring . . . it hen Emg Crosby gels hail; into the harness har-ness and begins mahins pulure and broadcasting aeain. he'll tune a run title president of the Itel Mar lirj club; it's near San ltiego . . . I'tmlir. tion on "(lamille" ha been lit hi u indefintely by Irving 1 ha'' t i death, uliich prostrated Cnut (fuh. cMcrn .N tws;;i; cr I im .'i |