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Show ! STAR ! ! DUST ! J Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE JUST one more bit of information infor-mation about that New York vacation of Robert Taylor's. Tay-lor's. His popularity with the fans was so gTeat and took the home office so by surprise (they'd known he was popular, but hadn't expected that the fans would storm his hotel in such numbers) num-bers) that bodyguards were engaged or him. Anyone getting off the elevators at his floor was questioned. No one was allowed to go to his suite without a lot of to-do. The sad result re-sult of that was that friends whom he'd urged to come to see him, naming the time, found it practically practi-cally inpossible to get in to see him; in fact, one old friend was about to be turned away, but when she asked only that he be told that she'd been there, and he was, young Robert came rushing out and dragged her in. He was practically exhausted by all the furore. But he kept his head through it all. Herbert Marshall has turned farmer; he's bought a forty-acre place in southern t L is J California, and optimistically op-timistically thinks he's going to rest there till he has to go to work in "Portrait "Por-trait of a Rebel" with Katherine Hepburn. But he's supervising super-vising the building of a house. And all of us who've ev- . . er owned a farm Herbert , , . r . know what a men-Marshall men-Marshall .. , , ace it can be. You begin planting, and cultivating, and the first thing you know, that farm is the only important interest in your life except for your family. fami-ly. There's no rest on a farm! Gloria Swanson seems to have hit the bottom so far as her career is concerned. But you never can tell about her; she has a way of bouncing bounc-ing back when people say she's through. Off the screen (and she's been off it a long time, since that last picture of hers turned out so badly) she looks young and pretty, and no doubt she'll be landing a good role first thing anybody knows. At least she's not reached the place where she's appearing in "Hollywood "Holly-wood Boulevard," the picture that's to show us the old-timers way back to the time of Maurice Costello. Of course if was a foregone conclusion con-clusion that somebody would leap to the front with a picture based on the veterans receiving their bonus money. Metro grabbed the idea for Wallace Beery, and had camera men planted all over the place shooting bits that ' could be woven in as local color. You'll want to see W. C. Fields in "Poppy"; he makes it a grand picture. Rochelle Hudson and Robert Rob-ert Cromwell take care of the live story, but Fields is so delightful that most of us wouldn't care if the authors had omitted everything but his scenes. If you girls have ever thought that you'd like to dance in a Fred Astaire - Gineer Rogers picture, glance at this list of qualifications, RKO's dance director, direc-tor, Hermes Pan, will test all applicants appli-cants by them before be-fore he selects the twenty-five girls who will work in "I Won't Dance." A girl must be a Bl ...... . . -MimM whirlwind tap Fred Astaire dancer who can do every step in a tap routine; she must be not more than five feet, five inches tall, not less than five feet, two. She must have a perfect figure and a face which photographs photo-graphs well. She must have personality per-sonality that gets over to audiences, audi-ences, and must be able to average 99 per cent in a physical examination examina-tion so that she can stand ten-hour ten-hour days of rehearsals without cracking. Oh yes applicants who are brunettes will be given the preference, other things being equal, and if they aren't they'll have to wear wigs. ODDS AXD E.VDS . . . Greta Garbo has startled Hollywood by buying a new car, a big one at that . . . She's bring paged to make a picture in England . . . Gene liaymond gat e the j John Mack Browns a ten-year-old car when they celebrated their tin wedding wed-ding anniversary . . . Marguerite Churchill and George O'Brien are sterling cast for a vacation . . . Maybe the stage will grab her a sain . . . Charlie Chaplin teas in an automobile accident the other day nut serious, fortunately . . Donald If oods mu appear in that Buffalo BUI picture, j I jiltiying the hero as a young man . . . I l'l'nvale A umher" is one of tho pictures pic-tures you won't want to mis . . . And if you want to see colored pirmrrs at j their best, drop in at "iJancinz 1'iratr.'' j . Western Newnj.a jcr t'i,.t.n. |