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Show I STAR I I DUST i Aiovie Radio $ By VIRGINIA VALE THAT new: series of comedies com-edies that Patsy Kelly and Lyda Roberti are making promises prom-ises to be very funny. Lyda was teamed with Patsy to replace Thelma Todd, you know. And the little Polish girl can be very, very amusing. There's one drawback to the current cur-rent picture, so far as the girls are concerned, and that's the presence of a lion in the cast. (Good old Keystone comedy stuff!) Not that the girls are afraid of him, despite Charles Bickford's experience with a lion some months ago. But lions well, as a former comedy star explained, "You have to get so close to them. And practically all lions have halitosis !" Don't be surprised If it rains and rains in your town when "One if k.' Mary Pickford Rainy Afternoon" is shown in your town. That's the first picture made by Mary Pickford and Jesse Lasky, you remember. Mr. Lasky bet that it would rain when the picture was first shown In Hollywood. Hol-lywood. It did. So he traveled East for the first showing show-ing In New York, and again he bet that it would rain that day. And after days and days of bright sunshine. New York had four Grade 'A thunderstorms that day! -fc This week's bad news is that Freddie Bartholomew will probably be the hero when "Kim" Is finally screened. If you've read the famous fa-mous Kipling story you'll recall that Kim was a red haired, freckle faced youngster, a scrappy young brat the last role in the world for the talented English kid! If you like horror pictures you'll be crazy about "Dracula's Daughter," Daugh-ter," with Gloria Holden looking very beautiful in the title role, and Marguerite Churchill looking equally equal-ly beautiful as the lovely victim. It begins to look as if the children who go to this one will some day he taking their own grandchildren to see "Dracula's Great-great-granddaughter." Marion Nixon has just had her tonsils out, which seems funny, because be-cause she's been In Hollywood for years and years. Usually having your tonsils out is one of the first things you do when you settle down in Hollywood. Your appendix is likely to be the next thing that leaves. And sinus trouble sometimes some-times haunts you. Joan Crawford seems to be taking her music pretty seriously. They do say that she's given giv-en up coffee, for the good of her voice. And she and Franchot Tone have been giving musicales and making mak-ing quite a name for themselves In musical affairs on the Coast. Singing In the movies has experienced a steady progression from the days of f ' , -Sfe "I It Joan Crawford the pioneer crooners to the opera I prima donnas. Now a good voice Is an asset like good looks and histrionic histri-onic ability. X Those pictures made In Technicolor Techni-color are causing not a little trouble trou-ble for companies Indulging In them. They're worth It, of course but just listen to this! Pioneer Pictures was ready to shoot the works on "Dancing Pirate." Pi-rate." No effort was spared. Little Lit-tle tilings like special make-up, specially spe-cially supervised, were just details. But for two solid weeks they tried to get a group of full-color portraits por-traits of Steffi Duna, the feminine (Star, and couldn't, because she had la cold and a red nose, and color photography Is so realistic that the nose couldn't be camouflaged with make-up because that would show. ODDS AND EM)S . . . You'll hrar Hoot Gibson crooning in "The Laxl OulUnv1 . . . Along with Harry Carey and llrnry B. Walthall . . . The Governor Gov-ernor of l'pw Mexico will appear in jH77ie Texas Ranpers" . . . Hetter see "The Case against Mrs. Ames" and figure out for yourself which two sen-' sen-' sutional news stories figure in the ! story . . . Remember Lealrice Joy? She had a voice tet the other day; may return to pictures . . . Herbert 'Marshall will be co-starred with Kath-erine Kath-erine Hepburn in "I'ortrait of a Rebel" I. . . Anne Shirley savs she unn't mar ry till she's established a $Ql(tO an-nuitv an-nuitv for her mother and all because, 'uhen Herbert Ilfenon wanted to adopt j Anne find hrep her out of pictures, her mother refusetl and kept her in llnlhuood. Irvine to rrt in . . . iow Ume's tamng in "V7(s" and sat ing II lor ll.'it annu'ty .' V, .-T':i( N.--.V - r..ij.-r T'r.1"n. I |