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Show Cuy Beauty Queen Summer Football Gingers Ma's Career By Virginia Val 1 TIMES certainly have changed. Miss Vera Dickens Dick-ens of Lynchburg, Va., was May Queen at Randolph-Macon college, and as a result pictures of her appeared in the news reels. Whereupon Metro offered her a screen test, and possibly a contract. But she wasn't at all sure that she'd accept; said that she wasn't particularly interested in a movie career. At Universal they're sort of out on a limb. When they sold the "Madame Curie" story rights to Metro, they made a deal which ( j I '. ' M 1 r HI i t I ROBERT MONTGOMERY gave them the services of Robert Montgomery, James Stewart and Robert Young, when they had the right stories for these three young men. And time passes, and they don't seem to have yet found the right stories. Maybe you think it's summer, but the football season is already under way in Hollywood. Paramount is filming its yearly football picture, "Touchdown, Army," with practically prac-tically the same cast that last year did "Hold 'Em, Navy." Taking one college a year, they can keep going forever at that rate. Paulette Goddard is taking her career seriously at the moment. She plans to go to the Cape Playhouse, on Cape Cod, in time to appear in "French Without Tears," and it's said that Charlie Chaplin will coach her. And of course, if the plan should be a great success and be done in New York, with her still in the cast, she wouldn't be at all annoyed. Virginia Payne, the star of the popular radio serial, "Ma Perkins," has all plans made for her vacation. vaca-tion. She wants to go to Alaska and ,she wants Mrs. Patia Power, Tyrone Power's mother, to go with her. Mrs. Power has agreed to go. The only difficulty is that Miss Payne, after elaborately making plans, may have to stay home. She's not like those lucky radio stars who write their own material, and can just write themselves out of a sketch for a few weeks when they want to go away. Ginger Rogers' mother has stepped out. She was a newspaper woman way back in the Texas days efTT'N-when efTT'N-when Ginger was '. just a youngster fv 3 who did the T "1 Charleston awful- J ly well. She has y 1 always stood be- O . hind her talented A " daughter, helping A""" her along and encouraging her. Now, she feels that it's time for t her to make a : : life for herself. Mrs Lila Rogers Ginger doesn't need her now, she says. So she packed up and went to New York, with a play, "Funny Man," that needed a producer. She also, though that wasn't generally known, was on a hunt for new talent for the screen. There are a lot of radio stars who believe that it's the second profession that you follow, not the first one, that brings success. Jack Benny began as a violinist Burns and Allen were tap dancers. Lum and Abner were blackface comedians before they adopted the characters of rural storekeepers. Phil Baker was a musician, and Fred Allen was a juggler way back in the beginning. ODDS AND ENDS Jean Arthur has been shopping for a collar for a cut, and then having to explain to the salespeople that she really wants it for a baby lynx the "Wild Bill tlickok" company brought the lynx back from Utah, and Jean mints to keep it for a pet . . . Lionel liarrymore spends his spare lime in the studio designing a yacht compass . . . And James Stewart has a 16 mm. movie camera, with which he's been snapping everybody in "You Cant Take It With You" . . . John Deal is breaking in a new meerschaum pipe, the gift of Edward Robinson. Western Newspaper Unloa. |