Show I 1 STAR I 1 J DUST 1 movie radio J by VIRGINIA VALE FIVE fv E small boys have just about disrupted hollywood they are the youngsters who played on the stage in new york in dead end and who now are in hollywood playing the same roles in the picture they don dont t like hollywood they think acting in movies is pretty silly and their complete lack of rever ence for glamorous stars frequently makes the girls furious or tearful one of them will go up to a famous star and out of kindness let us call her miss X and say politely Is it true that you get paid two thou sand dollars a week at her nod of assent the little tough will look her over critically from head to foot and say but why I 1 or o this Is my affair a twentieth century fox picture has barbara and rob ert taylor as its stars which is enough to cause a stampede at the box office any time but in addition this has some gripping historical scenes it must be thrilling enough to the old J folks who can re member T teddy e d d y barbara roosevelt and ad miral dewey to see them represented on the screen but for those to whom these two great historical figures are lust just a legend it is downright throat choking bar bara as u ual ual gives a beautifully sincere and moving performance As for taylor he is his usual charming self c it if you like navy pictures with lots of gold braid humming engines wonderful marine views and ter rifle drama there is wings over honolulu I 1 for you it is a sal picture with wendy barne barrie bay ray milland and bill gargan and it is so exciting that I 1 just bad had to stay and see it a second time and any day now I 1 may go back again incidentally bill gargan is now making a picture on the universal lot called reporter missing and he has been taking the thrills of the picture so seriously that when a burglar alarm salesman walked in to his house he found bill a willing customer bill had an electric eye also installed so that anyone enter ing the house in the dark late at night would pass it and set gongs and bells to ringing an al alarm arm any week now don wilson may have to break down and sing a few songs on the jack benny radio pro gram when jack had to bow out of his usual sunday night radio appearance because of hu flu wil son subbed tor for him and threatened to sing phil harris kenny baker and the rest implored him not to and a few days later protests by the bushel poured in from detroit lis beners they dian didn t realize it was all kidding and they resented it they remember you see that don wilson used to sing with a vocal trio at a detroit station and they know that he has a glorious voice when fred astaire goes off the air for the summer trudy wood his singing partner will stay on with the new program which in eludes jimmy blair and a sixteen voice rhythm choir trudy is only twenty one years old so you cant can t blame her for being so happy she went home to sing and shout for hours the day the con tract was signed gracie alien allen has a perfectly wonderful idea for raising a lot of mon ey for charity she wants to send her tier lius husband band G george e 0 r g e burns a and n d his bridge oridge playing cro rues tony mar tin tm bert wheeler and benny rubin on a tour of the coun try to stage bridge games in public she maintains that they play the worst gracie alien allen the loudest and the funniest bridge and that everyone ought to have a chance to see and hear them K c ODDS AND ENDS folks who scribble on the tablecloths in the para mou mount nt studio restaurant are now fined thirty five cents jack benny s debt ran so high that mary alary livingstone gave him a few old tablecloths from home to use on his table at the studio when dick foran was given a new contract and told that he was go g ng to fradua e from west erns into big spectacular expensive pro duct factions ions he asked wistfully if I 1 he couldn coulden I 1 make a western now and then don dim t you want to be a big important star of the best pictures picture sP 9 he teas was asked no he wid aid I 1 want to ride my horse dig big bo boy williams hams shudders when he thinks of the leering ring fan mail he is going to get won soon he had to eat 18 cream puffs for a scene in let lets s talk of love a western newspaper union |