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Show k Glamorous, the Order k Opera Cycle in Movies k Radio's Grand Old Man ' Uy Virginia Yale ' ANDREA LEEDS has given her studio press agents no end of trouble. They've tried to make her a glamour girl, and she doesn't want to be one. "I'd rather get married," says she. "It lasts longer." But orders were that she must be glamorous and that she must take on some weight in order to do it In "The Last Frontier," in which she captivates Gary Cooper. She gave in, and then stumbled while playing badminton and broke a bone in her right foot. That meant being in bed with her foot In a plaster cast for three weeks, she was told. But she went night clubbing, club-bing, plaster cast and all if a girl's s 1 , !. I 't - ' ANDREA LEEDS oing to be glamorous she has to be seen about town. And her earnest effort to acquire the reputation the itudio had ordered got her nothing but a scolding. Now we're to have an opera cycle in pictures. The San Francisco 3rand Opera company has been idling out at all performances, so '.he motion picture companies got an inspiration and leaped right in. Metro starts the ball rolling with "Madame Pompadour," with a European Eu-ropean importation, Meliza Korjus, starred. Two other studios will follow fol-low suit. Probably the best one of the lot will be Walt Disney's "Farmyard Symphony," which will be knee-deep knee-deep in burlesques of operatic arias; it's being released practically at once. Tom Brown's supposed to break his neck in "The Duke of West Point," and had to wear one of those braces around his neck for eight hours. (Eric von Stroheim wears one in "Grand Illusion," a foreign picture that goes down as one of the best of the year.) Afterward Brown's neck was so stiff that he thought he'd never be able to move it naturally again. William Powell is going back to work in January, under a new contract con-tract recently signed with Metro. His first picture will be "The Return Re-turn of the Thin Man," with Myrna Loy, of course. That "Thin Man" series threatens to become as lengthy as the Charlie Chan one. If anyone were to offer a medal for "The Grand Old Man of Radio" Rudy Vallee would probably get it. Not that he's old, but he's done so much to develop good programs and has discovered so much talent that he deserves the title. If you heard his tenth anniversary program you've already checked up on that. If you didn't, you can probably prob-ably remember that the list of people peo-ple he's developed as stars of the air includes a lot of famous folk, from Alice Faye to Charlie McCarthy. McCar-thy. But you may not have known that he is responsible for the modern type of guest program. Irene Bor-doni Bor-doni was his first guest star. In 1922 his program developed into its present form. The salary list was low, and still is far below the sums paid for some similar programs which are outdistanced by his in the popularity ratings. It takes the listeners-in to make Tommy Riggs appreciate his talents. tal-ents. First they made him what he is today with his "Betty Lou" voice, and now they've been writing to him to praise his very pleasant baritone bari-tone voice and urge him to do more singing as himself on his program. UDHS A) r:M)S . . . Jimmy W alker, ex-mayor of New York, err-unniy err-unniy started something wlien he began be-gan those weekly broadcast from the city' hospitals; his many tnerias in the entertainment field clamor to work for him lor ntilhmfi, he gives his own services, and the programs are swell . . . you Uktr pictures about doctors you cerlnily must see "The Ciladrl," which is one of the best . . . And be sure to see "The Young in Heart" . . . All the studios are making Westerns these days . . . James Cagney's contribution to the cycle is "Oklahoma Kid," and he's had to learn to shoot like a cowboy instead in-stead of a gangster. (' Western Newspaper Union. |