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Show j STAR ! I DUST $ Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE IF YOU'D like to see a motion picture that has everything-, be sure to be on hand when "Under Two Flags" is shown in your neighborhood. It's great! Ronald Colman donned his Foreign Legion Le-gion uniform again for this one. Claudette Colbert gives a fine performance, perform-ance, and so do Kosalind Russell and Victor MacLaglen. In fact, the whole cast Is good. And the story ! No doubt you're familiar with it ; it has been popular ever since Ouida wrote It, years ago. Now that the reticent Oarbo has broken down and talked and been pho- A I. Garbo tographed and been interviewed in-terviewed by reporters, almost anything can happen. Arriving in New York on her way back to Hollywood from Sweden, she made no effort to dodge newspaper men. She did her best to give a good Interview but was 90 nervous that It was almost pitiful. piti-ful. After all, facing cameras and reporters Is no easy thing to do; it's nn art, one for which most of our movie stars almost al-most go into training. K Microphone fright is a strange thing, as the news reels show you over and over again. Take the case of Nellie Grainger, the air line hostess who showed such remarkable courage when the plane she was working on crashed not long ago. Her bravery saved two lives. But when she posed for the news reel boys she was so frightened that she could hardly speak! K Sylvia Sidney wanted to d.Mlge the people who appeared to interview her when she traveled from Hollywood East, but she had a good excuse makeup make-up poisoning, an ailment that causes a good many of the stars to suffer, and In some cases does lasting damage. X Want to enter a beauty contest, girls? If you do, you'll be interested in knowing how at least one experienced experi-enced Judge works. He is Max Factor, Fac-tor, Hollywood's make-up king, who has judged more than 1,400 beauty contests during the 27 years he has been in Hollywood. Here's the way he picks winners. Skin and complexion get 15 points. Regular, well-formed features especially especial-ly large, clear eyes, count for 15 more. Five points for soft, well-groomed hair, and five for slender, well-manicured hands. And 15 each for a well-proportioned figure, graceful carriage, a pleasant, vibrant personality, and inherent in-herent intelligence and poise. These are the days when a talented child Is a better Investment than stocks, bonds or real estate. The greatest great-est difficulty Is that, provided you have the child, you've got to be a talented parent ns well, for success Is likely to spoil the child, and then movie and radio contracts go by the board. Young Walter Tetlcy, who is fifteen now, and began bis career when he was six, has the right kind of mother; consequently he is now heard on about 12 Important network radio shows each week Town Hall Tonight, tiie March of Time and Showboat among them. K Buck Jones experienced one of his worst moments recently in Max Fac tor's studio. Buck Is planning to do his next "western" In color, and wanted some advice on make-up for It, so he went, naturally, to Factor, who has specialized spe-cialized In Technicolor make-ups ever since Hollywood began going color-mad; he's responsible respon-sible for the realistic effects in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." And though Buck has ; . l Buck Jones been In pictures for years, he was embarrassed em-barrassed almost to death when ho walked Into the salon and had to tell the hostess, In front of a lot of beautiful beau-tiful ladies of the movies, just why he was there. - Kndio 1ms done homm; thing to Kifl D'Orsny thut Hollywood couldn't do. L'cr fiery tcniiicnimcnt used to hp tlir? lm;il)00 of the directors for wlmrn mode pictures, but when she gels up In front of a microphone, Willi some liO.OO.Ofrfj people listening In, she doesn't dare blow tip. No mutter how fclie roes jnwordly, she K1"' "h without n hre;ik, nnd usually by the time the broadcast is over the rage is gone, too. K ODDS AM) EMJS . . . Sprint nwy be here, Out I'urumount is (filing rrtnly fr autumn by making a foathall pirture . . . Belle Dm is ruhrd home to llollyn ood from hor AV;o York xucution, jttt in lime to be al;vd to take a thrra-weehx layoff, uilfiout pay . . . It's oil in h'T contract; shn uorlcx forty weeks a year . . . John Botes has just sinned a new contract ui'i I'urumount, which calls for $0,000 per picture . . . Think of the income in-come lax he'll hat e to puy ! C Wedtorn Nuwwp.ijnr L'utyn. |