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Show 1 STAR ! ! DUST ! jMovie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE IF YOU'RE interested in watching a career grow, keep your eye on young Larry Blake, who has been giving character interpretations of Charles Laughton, John Barry-more, Barry-more, Edward Robinson and Clark Gable at the Rainbow Room of Rockefeller Center. First thing you know he'll be on the air and in the movies; though he is in his early twenties now, he has made a good start. He went to Brooklyn college, and has appeared in vaudeville and at smart hotels and night clubs here and there about the country; the Congress and the Stevens hotels in Chicago featured him not long ago. Landing .in the Rainbow Room crowns him with success; talent scouts make it one of their first stops in New York, and no visitor wants to leave town till he's been there. Four members of the Abbey Players of Dublin, one of the most fnmntis thpat.rical l :, organizations in the world, arrived in the United States recently to appear in RKO's screen version of "The Plough and the I Stars," which : they've often per-: per-: formed on the : stage. One of them, : Barry Fitzgerald, was thrilled to Barbara death because he'd Stanwyck met James Cagney. Barbara Stanwyck will be starred in this new Irish picture, which is being made because all of us liked "The Informer" so welL And it will be made by the producers, pro-ducers, director and scenarist who were responsible for "The Informer," Inform-er," so it's going to be good. Seems there's a rumor around i that Major Bowes isn't so popular popu-lar as he once was; people have heard that performers on his programs pro-grams don't get paid much, but that he gets plenty. And some of the people who go to the broadcasts broad-casts feel that he isn't dignified enough. All that may or may not be true but a high-powered publicity organization or-ganization has been engaged to change public opinien regarding the genial Major; his new sponsors feel that the public must go on liking him, or else! K Want to know the low-down on how to play bad man on the screen? Noah Beery, brother of Wallace, can give it to you. He's now playing a hired killer in "Strangers on a Honeymoon," at the Gaumont British studios, along with Constance Cummings and Hugh Sinclair he's been appearing appear-ing as various kinds of murderers for years and years. He says that, if a criminal is to seem to be a real man, he must show a streak of human kindness kind-ness "A screen killer can mow a guy down with a shot-gun, but he's got to stoop and pat a kid on the head on the way out" otherwise he's a madman, not a human being. be-ing. Columbia Broadcasting System is going to give a lot of young men a chance this summer. With regular reg-ular announcers going on vacations, vaca-tions, others who have been auditioned audi-tioned in the past and are working work-ing here and there on the network will be brought in and given a chance to show what they can do in more important spots on the air. The most important arm in the movies at present is Margaret Sul-lavan's. Sul-lavan's. She broke it a while ago, you'll recall. It wasn't healing properly, so . she hied her to New York for special treatments. Now she's back again in Hollywood and hopes to go to work soon. But friends have cautioned her to be careful of that arm. Only the araret other day she was Sullavan reported as whizzing to the west side tennis matches on a motorcycle motor-cycle wnh Willie Wylcr. ODDS AM) EMJS . . . Kay Franci, played ike role oj a jamous nurse in ! her Horence Mghlinenle picture, and I now she nerds one; has livo impacted I uisdom ti'eth . . . Seems that the story about Clark Gable's knocking out his I sparring partner uas just a akrd-up ! publicity -)arn . . . Joan Blond'-ll and Dick I'au-rll seem lo be getting all set for that long-heralded uedding. j Have you joined one oj the flourishing Lanny Ross ru6? . . . Shirley Temple is cuter than eier in "I'oor Little j Rich CwirC . . . You'll uant to see Sm Francisco" because oj the earthquake scenes if for no other reason . . . : Thoui-h Jeanrue MacDonal(Ts sinking should be reason enough . . . Carole ' Lombard's Ulncs is holding up "Spaun of the yorth'' indefinite 7v. |