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Show I STAR 1 I DUST I I Movie Ra Jio J By VIRGINIA VALE THE best motion picture of years, according to the figures on the cash registers, is "Nothing Sacred." This mad ond merry story through which Carole Lombard ond Fredric March scramble draws such crowds to theaters thea-ters wherever it plays that engagements are being extended ex-tended even in smaller towns where two-day showings are the usual rule. In big cities, it looks as if "Nothing Sacred" Sa-cred" had settled down to spend the whole winter. Carole plays the role of a village beauty who comes Into national prominence when a doctor says that she has radium poisoning poison-ing and will live but briefly. They soon find that he was mistaken, but in the meantime a metropolitan metro-politan newspaper has assigned one of their reporters, Fredric March, to fill her last days with enough excitement excite-ment to act as a circulation cir-culation builder for Fredrlo March the paper. Hilariously the picture pokes fun at newspapers, doctors, night clubs, publicity seekers, and the gullible public. New combinations of atari have proven bo popular at the box office that Hollywood producers are Tying with each other thinking up extravagant extrava-gant star-studded casta for their new pictures. Colombia Is going to have Grace Moore share top billing with Edith Fellowes, whose singing In "Little Miss Roughneck" is a thrilling surprise. Bing Crosby and Fred MacMurray are going to be teamed In "Harmony for Three." Jack Benny Is going to abandon musicals for once to appear opposite glamor-girl Franciska Gaal In "Never Say Die." Before starting his picture for Warner Brothers, Rudy Vallee rushed back to New York for a night club engagement. Popular as ever, if not more so, he drew such crowds that hundreds were turned away. One old friend who managed to get a ringside table was Frances Langford. Called to the stage to be introduced to the crowd, Frances told, with tears streaming unashamedly un-ashamedly down her cheeks, how much it meant to her to have Rudy Vallee send for hex a few years ago to sing on his program. Gonzaga nniversity certainly started somthing when It awarded Bing Crosby a doctor's degree in music. Now Northwestern university's univer-sity's going to bestow the honorary degree of "Doctor of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback" on Charlie McCarthy. Mc-Carthy. Edgar Bergen, Charlie's mentor, worked his way through college at this same Northwestern by presenting Charlie in shows. Leopold Stokowski is slated to receive re-ceive various honorary awards for advancing the cause of classical music mu-sic on the screen in "One Hundred Men and a Girl." But Stokowski believes that Mickey Mouse can do even more to popularize great music. mu-sic. He has offered to arrange and direct the score of "Sorcerer's Apprentice" Ap-prentice" for Mickey. Don't be surprised sur-prised If it is advertised as "One Hundred Men and a Mouse." Bette Davis is going to school two hours a day to learn just the A Bette Davis right Southern accent ac-cent for "Jezebel" and Professor Dal-ton Dal-ton Reymond, formerly for-merly of Louisiana State university reports re-ports that she is progressing pro-gressing wonderfully. wonderful-ly. Incidentally, one of the very small roles in this picture is played by Henry O'Neill who knew Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, co- stars, nine years ago when they were all with the Cape Cod Playhouse. Play-house. O'Neill was the star then. Fonda painted scenery and Bette was an usher. ODDS AND ENDS "Three on a Match," the picture chat launched Joan Blondell, Bette Davis and Ann Dvorak toward itardom will be remade re-made featuring Warner Brothers' newest new-est discoveries, Lana Turnert Gloria Dickson and Mary Maguire . . . The bearded outlaws in "Robin Hood" had to clank tankards 0 rool beer instead oj the ale the script called for, because be-cause Bidwell Park, where the scenes were filmed, was endowed by a prohibitionist pro-hibitionist . . , Jean Uersholt's scripts for "Dr. Christum" are rapidly becoming becom-ing treasured items of collectors. The veteran screen star, graduate of the Copenhagen Arts school, covers the margins with sketches, during rehearsal . . . Spencer Bentley played both Betty and Bob on a recent broadcast when Betty ReUer fainted just before broadcast broad-cast time. Early in his stage career, he did a female impersonation act, so he wasn't nervous. Western Newspaper Union. |