Show ci rr r r a S STAR T AR DUST X J u 1 I 1 A A movie 9 radio by VIRGINIA VALE fears FANS ANS had to wait two long y years for the marx brothers new picture A day at the races but it was well worth waiting for it is almost too funny the laughs coming in such quick succession that you are still shouting over one comic scene when the next hits you this picture tops their previous masterpieces of hilarity by several lengths groucho is as usual the wise guy but when he goes to the race track he is a gullible customer for chicos sales talk on tips on the races chico performs one of those piano solos that makes enough tough little boys want to become piano virtuosos so they can copy his tricks and carpo is even greater than usual lie ile talks in pantomime only at great length and it is a tossup whether his pantomime or chicos efforts to translate it in into t 0 words is funnier planned for fall is a household housego id hints pro program 4 ram starring zasu pitts if she can ever stop ai I 1 in making a k I 1 n g pictures long enough to appear 4 on an air a ir az N gram r a m regularly k putting this t h I 1 s program together is a job for a magician for while zasu is always a comedienne to her public at home she is just the w 0 r I 1 ds greatest zasu pitts housekeeper a and n d cook nobody could write funny lines about basus cooking if they had ever sampled it and her new kitchen which she designed herself is a model of ingenuity beauty and efficiency As you may have read zasu has been working on a cook book for the last year or two lily pons pens last broadcast of the season before leaving for hollywood to make the girl in the cage for was a big night tor for her she was elected the best dressed star of the radio studios an honor formerly divided between helen jepson and gladys most singers take such honors in their stride but not the he volcanic and appreciative precia tive lily motion picture producers have just about given up hope of interesting their public in shakespeare but broadcasting companies have decided the bards stirring lines are just what the public wants john NBC program has proved a tremendous success since the first monday night a few weeks ago when he presented a foreshortened version of hamlet for its competing hour columbia has signed up an impressive array of talent everybody would like to have an employer like walter ne ile thinks that every workman ought to have three months a year in hi which to get away from his job nis his hired help are supposed to relax and seek new impressions but joan cennett bennett sylvia sidney and henry fonda are all going on the stage during their heir vacations IVI madeleine adeleine carroll is going yachting off the he coast of breaz great britain charles es boyer and pat patterson are going to france to make a picture any time henry fonda and gary cooper want to stop acting and open a traveling art exhibit they h have a v e plenty of lucrative offers both are candid camera fans and when they have a few minutes lei 1 sure between scenes they stroll around whatever s studio t u d I 1 0 they are working in and snap pictures of players off guard they have some fine gary cooper snaps of stars snood ing in chairs of directors watching scenes with obvious disgust of romantic co stars glaring at each other between scenes but they wont sell them 4 ODDS AND ENDS shirley temple is learning to yudil for her next picture 11 lucidi idill dick und and franchok Fron Fran chol tone are just two of the many alae players cars acho aitio long to make westerns We sterns carols lombard ins has tampered with the color of her hair to the extent of a making it a deep golden blond the new color sho shows s up tip better in technicolor john gambling who for twelve years him has roused the he radio audience nt at six forty five fife and bullied them into doing morning exer dies cise siu in at on easy chair chile he bellows lows at his audience and neier takes tabes any ally exercise connie boswell has her first big screen role in columbian Colum bias its all yours 1 C nugent stage veteran is a also so is in it which lends leads to a lot of friendly arguments argument since th li e picture is being directed by his son elliot who learned his stagecraft acting in his fathers companies deanna Dur darbins bins director has rigged up tip an old fashioned auto horn to call her from the schoolroom to the mo tion picture set when lights and cameras are all ready to no go 0 western newspaper caloa |