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Show 1 STAR 1 I DUST I t jMovie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE OVER at the Paramount studio you are just a wallflower if you don't know your American history. Directors, Di-rectors, players, authors and any visitors who happen to be around swap stories about pioneer days, and anyone brash enough to mention current cur-rent events, like who won the second race at Santa Anita, or what happened last night at 'a cafe, is quickly squelched. To the great success of "The Plainsman" goes the credit or the blame for all this pride in the past. The company is so enthusiastic over that picture, and the forthcoming "Maid of Salem" that they are delving delv-ing into history for their next big production, "I, James Lewis," the story of the early days of the Wells-Fargo Wells-Fargo express. Actors are apt to be a pretty gloomy and pessimistic lot when you know them well. They are al- - x, ways worrying be- - . V cause the career of ? s 1 an actor is apt to be I J short, always point- 1 ing out men in the x I extra ranks who on- N'"" J ly a few years ago J were stars. Now V s I they have suddenly v discovered that f their worries were ,.x.,J imaginary. Jack Holt, after twenty- Jack Holt four years in pictures, pic-tures, just signed a new contract with Columbia to make six Westerns a year. He is as popular as ever, maybe more so. For weeks Clark Gable has been completely mystified by receiving high offers for the decrepit old Ford Carole Lombard sent him as a valentine val-entine last year. Now the truth is out. A Mr. Brown of Richmond, Virginia, wants to buy it to exhibit at County Fairs. But Clark won't sell unless Carole gives him permission. Instead of raving about Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney in the gripping, grip-ping, tragic "You Only Live Once," Hollywoodians come out o the theater thea-ter making up silly couplets. That is what the company gets for dispensing dis-pensing with grammar in the title. One of Henry's best friends said, " 'You Live Only Once' may be better bet-ter grammar, but 'You Only Live Once' is elegant drammer." Another Anoth-er one, playing with the same idea, said, " 'You Live Only Once' may be more grammatical, but 'You Only On-ly Live Once' is very dramatical." -K Susan Fleming thought that she had retired from the screen when she married Harpo Marx,' but she made the mistake of stopping in at the studio to have luncheon with her husband, and first thing she knew the director called out, "That girl over there she's just what I've been looking for." So, she is playing play-ing in "A Day at the Races" with her husband and his giddy brothers. Ginger Rogers is not only the m.Oit popular girl in Hollywood these days; she is the most surprising. sur-prising. Night after night she is out dancing with one of her many beaux Jimmy Stewart, or Cary Grant, or the visiting socialite, Alfred Al-fred Vanderbilt but all that gayety hasn't stopped her from breaking into a new career. She lias written a song called "I Can't Understand." Maybe you heard Fred Astaire introduce in-troduce it over the air recently. That is team work for you. T.Tyrna Loy isn't complaining, but she does think wistfully nowadays of W. S. Van Dyke, r,? ...TTjg and the way he can ..v '":"" ' 1 direct a marvelous "' picturo like "The f 1 Thin Mnn" or its se- f'.., quel in eighteen or I y 'sy twenty days. She I ' has been working in f, jy "Parnelr' for three months and the end ' , isn't anywhere in . v . ..-r sight. John St;ihl, i'tLtkM... i 'hO directed "The Magnificent Obses-Myrna Obses-Myrna Loy sion" and many other thrilling pictures, pic-tures, is very deliberate about his work, and in making "Parnell" he is just as apt to have Myrna and Clark Gable do scenes over and over as he is to repeat the scenes of minor players. -f 0rS AD KrjH: A'o for srrns hin t, hrrn fdrnrrt in any of lht iioj jiir llit! pntt urrk and mare hrrausr. of llf flu ffi(Jrmic . . . uilh ihe rrsl ftf thfi country rhnpiodizinf ovpt sftring IfjHYTi, CJuiirlt'tte (.tilhfrl is uirronndfd by blizzard, do lffimt and mountain of snnw at Sun 'all'V, Idaho . . . thf tdfirn mnl bi-anlifnl artiil mnd'h uho usually smilf at you frftnx cizarcttfi udi it II M-mantl half ftatn untied to apfifar in "l ocur of ')'? a musirnl i allrr W unvir ii ma:nz. i, Wcs'crn N'cwsp per Union. |