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Show l STAR ! j DUST ! J Movie Ratlio t 13y VIRGINIA VALE 'TIIESE are stirring times J- in radio, motion pictures and newsreels for all three have reached a new high peak of achievement. With the Toscanini symphony concerts con-certs the National Broadcasting Broadcast-ing company has deservedly won the greatest audience response, re-sponse, the highest tributes from music critics, composers compos-ers and musicians. Norman Alley's Universal news-reel news-reel of the bombardment of the U. S. S. Panay is graphic history that brings to every citizen citi-zen a first-hand account ac-count of the outrageous outra-geous conditions our government Is facing fac-ing in the Orient. In the field of fictional motion pictures "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Walt Disney's first feature-length fantasy, fanta-sy, is a glittering V: r,- J Walt Disney milestone. Any day now, Dopey, the little dwarf who never learned to talk because he had nothing to say, will take his place in your hearts along with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Paramount and Warner Brothers are going to remake some old pictures pic-tures of theirs, having failed to find any new story material as good. Paramount has selected "The Letter" Let-ter" as the first starring vehicle for Isa Mirande, famous Italian ac-tre,ss. ac-tre,ss. This story, a spine-chilling thriller by Somerset Maugham, was first filmed some ten years ago, and. was an outstanding success among early talking pictures. Warner Brothers feel that It is high time to film "Trilby" again. This time Claude Rains and either Anita Louise Lou-ise or Olivia de Havilland will play Svenhali and Trilby. When you read that so-and-so made a film test in New York and was sent to Hollywood under contract con-tract to make pictures, it may not sound impressive. It should, however, how-ever, for last year out of 52,000 applicants, only 56 won contracts. Variety, the authoritative trade paper pa-per of the theatrical world, checked up and found that of the 52,000 applicants, ap-plicants, only 6,050 had auditions. Among these, 360 were given screen tests. Most spectacular successes among the young players sent to Hollywood a year or so ago are Frances Farmer, Don Ameche, and Tyrone Power. Motion - picture producers are scurrying around trying to think of some new formula for making musical musi-cal pictures, because they can't go on making them bigger. "Rosalie" stretches the eye of the camera to its utmost limits. It has armies of dancing girls, platoons of singers, sing-ers, it has airplanes, boats, football foot-ball players, it ha,s more of everything every-thing than you have ever seen crowded into one picture. A lovely newcomer, Ilona Massey, whom you have probably heard on the radio, makes you want to see and hear more of her. Nelson Eddy works valiantly with all his heroic and vocal might. Infinitely less pretentious, but generous in the array of public idols fall'''' J 1 f. "S 'i pa.. J . Joe DMaggio it introduces is Republic's Re-public's "Merry Go Round." Gangsters led by Leo Carrillo take over a recording record-ing company, and then the fun and noise begin. Mixed up in the proceedings proceed-ings are Joe DiMag-gio, DiMag-gio, baseball star, Gene Autry and his cowboy band, Kay Thompson and her radio chorus. Cab Calloway and Ted Lewis and their bands, singing Phil Regan and Ta-mara Ta-mara Geva. The story never tries to make sense, just goes jocularly along its way with blasts of music, from crooning to hi-de-ho. DO.YT LOOK. NO IP BUT Jim Ameche, twenty-two-year-old Grand Hotel slur, once held the high school debuting championship in Kenosha, li is. . . . Luise Barclay, iBC's "Woman in li hitc," studied to be a concert pianist pi-anist as did Ruth Bailey, secondary lead on the same show . . . Fibber Mc-Gee Mc-Gee is an inventor of numerous household house-hold gadsets, including a device which enables Molly to open the icebox door with a foot lever when she approaches it with loaded plutlers in both hands . . . Frances Carlon, leading woman in "Attorney at Law," is the granddaughter granddaugh-ter of John Carlon, first man ever to print the poems of James U hitcomb Riley . . . First Nighter star, Les Tre-mayne, Tre-mayne, is an expert modeler in clay, a crack swimmer, a fair swordsman, and a topnutch golfer . . . Harriette K id-mer, id-mer, feminine emcee on "Cabin at the Crossroads," on the NBC coasllc-coasl network, was recently complimented on her negro dialect work by no lest an authority than Roark Bradford. Western Newspaper Union. |