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Show ! STAR ! ! DUST ! Movie Ra Jio J By VIRGINIA VALE- EVERYTHING goes in cy-' cy-' cles in motion pictures, and just now the Russian cycle cy-cle threatens to monopolize the screen. No less than three of the most fascinating screen sirens are currently holding forth in the midst of Russian magnificence. There is. Marlene Dietrich with Robert Donat in "Without Armor" for instance, Miss Dietrich and Robert Rob-ert Donat make a thrilling romantic roman-tic pair. Another of the Russian cycle is "The Emperor's Candlesticks" Candle-sticks" in which Luise Rainer and William Powell appear as rival spie3 of Russia and Poland. Last, but by no means least, particularly for music lovers, is "Two Who Dared" with Anna Sten, who has been too long absent from our screens. -fc At last George Raft Is out of seclusion seclu-sion and he is so relieved. For George Raft months he has had I to go without a hair-rut hair-rut for his role in "Souls at Sea" and to his eternal discomfiture dis-comfiture his shoulder-length hair was J daily waved with a j curling iron. He j didn't dare face the ! mugs who are his i best friends looking like thaL The day the picture was finished fin-ished he celebrated with a very tight haircut and smeared on the vaseline lavishly. Ever since a court forced Mae West to break down and admit that she really was married twenty-six years ago to one Frank Wallace, she has been in seclusion. Couldn't stand having people stare- at her intently looking for wrinkles, while they counted on their fingers eighteen eight-een and twenty-six make forty-four. In those odd moments when they are not discussing Mae West's age, j Hollywoodians are raving over the ; beautiful newcomer, Zorina, who j is under contract to Sam Goldwyn. ! She is an enchanting young woman about nineteen years old. Born in , Norway, not far from the Arctic ' Circle, she went to school in Berlin, I joined the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe j company when she was visiting in Mexico City, and because of her two years association with this troupe now has a slight Russian accent Rudy Vallee spends many of his evenings nowadays at a night club in New York where his friend Jackie Osterman is making a comeback after a long stretch of hard luck. Vallee is a great story teller, and j one of his favorites concerns Jack Benny. Vallee whole-heartedly ad- mires the drastic way in which Jack Benny treated a hostile vaudeville'! audience years ago. Benny came out on one side of the stage merrily j saying "Hello folks" only to face a j bunch of tough-looking ruffians who , glowered at him. Continuing right on across the stage, he exited from the stage saying "Good-by folks" and walked right on out of the theater never to return. Martha Rave made the hit of her life and smashed all box-office records rec-ords making personal appearances at the Taramount theater in New York recently. The audience simply could not get enough of her. They surged down to the footlights when her act was over, shot questions at her, begged her to sing one more song, and then just stood and yelled when her voice threatened to give out. Frankie Masters, NBC star and band maestro says "it pays to work your way thupugh college." Frankie started out to earn his way through the commerce school at tho University of Indiana by strumming strum-ming bis banjo in the band. Soon the band became more profitable than commerce com-merce and he had engagements at hotels ho-tels and leading night clubs in Chicago Chi-cago unci other big s ,,-v v. - - y Frankie Masters cilios. Frankie is starred with Eddie Ed-die Guest on the "It Can Be Done" program. ())S A0 KynS-Thrrt is n fan in (,'rnm liupids, Mich., u7n writes On Autry n sixteen-hi iw tetter of criticism " comment every tirno a new picture of his is shown. Ho not only reads every line appreciatively, ho tries to correct alt thos faults in his next picture . . . Everyone i marveling marvel-ing at Connie llennett's good spnts mnndiip in letting tioland Young get 7tmt of the tatigh in her fitt comeitv " I'opper.' . . . I'aul Mnni has heen prtH-taitned tte host of all screen actors ly all n ho have een " I he I ifo of Emtio !." And Muni sas this is tho verv last hitnt aphical picture ho wtll make. He doen't teant to rttnk mi more picture for a long time. C Wrsliun Npwi;ot Union. |