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Show ! STAR DUST $ Movie Radio $ By VIRGINIA VALE FIVE small boys have just about disrupted Hollywood. Holly-wood. They are the youngsters young-sters who played on the stage in New York in "Dead End" and who now are in Hollywood Holly-wood playing the same roles in the picture. They don't like Hollywood, they think acting in movies Is pretty silly, and their complete lack of reverence rever-ence for glamorous stars frequently makes the girls furioua or tearfuL One of them will go up to a famous star, and out of kindness let us call her "Miss X," and say politely, "Is it true that you get paid two thousand thou-sand dollars a week?" At her nod of assent, the little tough will look her over critically from head to foot, and say "But why?" "This Is My Affair," a Twentieth Century-Fox picture, has Barbara j Stanwyck and Rob- , ert Taylor as its 5 ' a 1 s which Is ; enough to cause a i $?flj stampede at the f'J?-. f V box office any time, t but in addition this k has ome gripping s? -t historical scenes. It fcs- j must be thrilling f 1 1 eDough to the old ff j folks who can remember re-member Teddy Barbara Roosevelt and Ad-Stanwyck Ad-Stanwyck miral Dewey to see them represented on the screen, but for those to whom these two great historical figures are just a legend, it is downright throat-choking. Barbara, Bar-bara, as usual, gives a beautifully sincere and moving performance. As for Taylor, he is his usual charming charm-ing self. If you like Xavy pictures with lots of gold braid, humming engines, wonderful marine views, and terrific ter-rific drama, there is "Wings Over Honolulu for you. It is a Universal Univer-sal picture with Wendy Barrie, Ray Milland, and BUI Gargan and it is so exciting that I just had to stay and see it a second time and any day now I may go back again. Incidentally, Bill Gargan is now making a picture on the Universal lot called "Reporter Missing" and he has been taking the thrills of the picture so seriously, that when a burglar-alarm salesman walked into in-to his house he found Bill a willing customer. Bill had an electric eye also installed so that anyone entering enter-ing the house in the dark late at night would pass it and set gongs and bells to ringing an alarm. Any week now Don Wilson may have to break down and sing a few songs on the Jack Benny radiq program. pro-gram. When Jack had to bow out of his usual Sunday night radio appearance because of flu, Wilson Wil-son subbed for him and threatened to sing. Phil Harris, Kenny Baker and the rest implored him not to and a few days later protests by the bushel poured in from Detroit listeners. lis-teners. They didn't realize it was all kidding and they resented it. They remember, you see, that Don Wilson used to sing with a vocal trio at a Detroit station and they know that he has a glorious voice. When Fred Astaire goes off the air for the summer, Trudy Wood, j his singing partner, will stay on ! with the new program, which in-1 in-1 eludes barytone Jimmy Blair and a sixtecn-voice rhythm choir. Trudy is only twenty-one years old, so i you can't blame her for being so happy she went home to sing and shout for hours the day the contract con-tract was signed. Gracie Allen has a perfectly wonderful won-derful idea for raising a lot of mon-, mon-, cy for charity. She wants to send her f ,v husband, George ' Burns, and hill j : bridge-playing cro- I . ' nies, Tony Mar- i A tin, Bert Wheeler, I i i and Benny Rubin on I ;v.. ; a tour of the coun- f n..--.-' try to stage bridge A -games in public. , She maintains that they play the worst, k the loudest, and the Grcio Allr funniest bridge and that everyone ought to have a chance to see and hear them. ()s An f:.)S . . : Folk, u h. srnbliltt on th tnhlcrlotlia in tht i'orn-moimt i'orn-moimt stlutio rcsttutmnt ar nmr fined thirty-firp crnt. Jwk Ilenny's tirht ran to liiiih that Nurv .iri'ri.Wfirir lin e him a fnv oltl tnblri'Iolhs from hurnr to 1150 on hi-t !it 11 stitJio . . . U hen lU-k Fornn lcn. girrn A new contract and told that lie K in Ruing to fmiWuur from W vitrrns into bill, .invMrurir, iffisirr production, he akal u tttjiilly if he ctmldn't make a M'ctlcrn now and then. "Don't you mint f hr n bit, im-nriinf im-nriinf ,(.ir i the hct j'ictntc?" hit inn akcd. ".V11," he i,ii. " ir.inl ride nn hnrwi" . . , wit miv U tlhams .huddci 1 11 hen he lliinht ol the jcciinq fan mail he i. foing to S, soon. II luid to eat .I cicatn put for a teenp m "..' Talk ol I ore." if -in Nrnin.fri l'nl,.ii. |