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Show ! STAR ! DUST J Movie llaJio Dy VIRGINIA VALE '""pIIE day of the handsome J- hero with soulful eyes and long lashes is definitely over according to theater managers throughout the country. William Powell, Clark Gable, Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy are the current cur-rent idols of audiences everywhere, every-where, and the most up and coming young actor is James Stewart. Certainly If the Melro-Goldwyn-Mayer story department continues to do as wn by young Stewart as they have In "Navy Blue and Gold" he will somr to the very crest of the wave of TOCNii Lanky and homely, home-ly, Jimmy Srtwwart has naturalness and shy sincerity that endear him. Almost every company has had a try at making a picture about midshipmen mid-shipmen at Annapolis, and all of them have been pretty stirring with their martial music, their Navy spirit spir-it their campus romances. But Met-ro-Goldwyn-Mayer have taken all the old Ingredients and made them seem fresh. -K . When Mervyn Le Roy finishes tha last picture under his contract with Clark Gable Warner Brothers and moves to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a producer, he and Clark Gable will both start arguing with executives that they simply must make a picture together. to-gether. Clark has not forgotten how hard Le Roy tried to give him a start in pictures years ago. When Clark was a stage actor and trying to get into pictures, Le Roy recommended him to Warner Brothers. He asked only $250 a week, but Warners thought that was too much for a guy with such big ears. Now they would gladly pay thet much just to get one of his ears in a picture! Nowadays Shirley Temple rarely romps around the Twentieth Century-Fox lot visiting sets where pic-! pic-! lures are being made. She stays in j her dressing room bungalow and I strange are the sounds that come I out of there. It seems that Alan Dwan who is to direct her next picture pic-ture thought it would be very cute for Shirley to beat a drum, so he sent her a whole set of trap drums and hired a teacher to give her lessons. les-sons. No one, least of all Mr. Dwan, realized that Shirley would take to drumming with such enthusiasm. Studying box-office reports for the past few months, R-K-O have decided de-cided not to renew the contracts of Lily Pons and Nino Martini. Too hard to find stories for singers. Paramount Par-amount has notified Marlene Dei-trich Dei-trich that she can' make pictures elsewhere; they are in no hurry to make another with her. Joan Blon-dell Blon-dell has decided she would rather free-lance than stay with Warner Brothers, and Rosalind Russell has decided to go back to the stage when her contract expires next summer. Warner Brothers made such a hit with "Alcatraz," that they are filming film-ing a whole series of prison stories. sto-ries. Next you will see "Girls on Probation," then "Reform School," then one by Warden Lawes of Sing Sing called "Chalked Out." "Chalked Out" is prison slang for execution. Among new air shows of 1938 is the return to radio of Bob Beck er, nationally known sportsman, author, hunter and authority on dogs who broadcasts broad-casts each Sunday In the interest of a popular brand of dog food. He is heard over NBC's red network net-work coast-to-coast at 2 p. m. with a re-broadcast re-broadcast over WGN of the Mutual network net-work at 2:45. Becker knows the woods Bob Becker and waters of North and South America as few men do. He has hunted bear, moose, and sheep in Alaska and made explorations in the little-known reaches of the Amazon. ODDS AND ENDS Connie Boswell will be on the Paul Whiteman program again on January 28th . . . Robert Taylor Tay-lor asked to have Virginia Bruce play opposite him in "Northwest Passage" because she was leading woman in his first big screen success, and he counts on her to bring him luck . . . Ted Hits-ing; Hits-ing; ace sports director, has entered a knitting contest in Netv York and defies de-fies anyone to make a crack about it . . . If hen Grace Moore, Gladys Stvarth-out, Stvarth-out, and many other famous singers attended a business meeting of the Met ropolitan Opera Singers association, they insisted on calling a recess so as to listen to a Charlie McCarthy broadcast broad-cast . . . Edward G. Robinson and Jean Hersholt are transporting their whole radio program companies to New York for a few weeks. Jean Hersholt will be the guest of Lauritz Melchior, Metropolitan Metro-politan opera singer and fellow-Dane, while he is in the metropolis. Western Newspaper Union. |