Show j STAR j I 1 DUST U 1 i movie I 1 radio by VIRGINIA VALE CAMUEL AMUEL GOLDWYN is tak S mg ing bows again for succeeding where many other motion picture producers have failed he has made a new version of an old picture that is even better than the old one and the first stella dallas was the best picture of its year some twelve years ago this picture Is frankly a tear jerk er the story of a milliand mil lhand s daugh ter who married a gentleman but could never become a lady but stella dallas was fine and cou enough to see to it that her daughter had a chance to become one of her father s set rather than hers barbara gives a sincere and gripping performance as stella it if U you would rather laugh than cry paramount and twentieth cen tury fox are all ready tor for you with two mad musical extravaganzas par amount Is con tribu tion is artists and models and it stars jack benny awen 1 bieth century s new one is you can cant t have everything and in it the ritz brothers are mad der and merrier alice ao lapaye than ever alice faye sings sad songs and don ameche Is a pleasant hero funny part about this picture is that you will adore phyllis brooks who plays one of the most unpleasant parts you have ever seen a soubrette whom everybody in the cast loathes with good reason gene autrey sets a pace that it Is tough for other cowboys to maintain now producers expect them all to sing buck jones chasn t fallen for vocal lessons yet but he has hired a heavy for his new picture I 1 sudden bill dorn who can warble western ballads with the best of them his name is harold hodge anna may wong who will return to the screen this tall fall under the auspices of paramount playing a sort of female charlie chan spent her time meanwhile playing sum mer theaters in the east at mount kisco where frances farmer had made a tremendous hit anna mae made a decorative and charming princess Turan dot in a play adapted from the opera of that name dorothy day one of the famous clothes models who worked in walt er s vogues of 1938 came to new york tor for a brief vacation and when she returned to hoi hol lywood she learned that she had a brand new name mervyn le roy who gave her a contract to make pictures tor for him decided that dorothy day was not a good name be cause there are several actresses and two authors already using it he is going to bill her as vicki les ter the name of the character that janet gaynor played in A star Is born 1 when you saw I 1 met alet him in pans paris you must have wondered why robert young I 1 fled from such an attractive wife as the one played by mona barrie well she explained all when she arrived in new york recently to rehearse tor for a stage engagement it seems that there were long scenes that explained their robert loung differences but the picture was too long and mona landed on the cutting room floor she hopes for better luck in the picture that she just finished james cagney s some thing to sing about she play plays a comedy role a sort of female mischa auer and she had so much tun fun doing it that she doesn doean t see why grand national had to pay her a salary ODDS AND ENDS everybody wo iders if framces farmer s costumes in the toast of new york were responsible for the revival of bustles in the big laris I 1 ans fashions showing showings benay venuta chose songs are so 10 pol popular ular on the air got her start dime ing trig in the same ballet with myrna lay loy i burgess meredith used to sing in the same church choir with lann lanny ross eddie cantor eats his blunck lunch between scenes on the set these days because he uses his regular lunch hour to dash over to the antique store he ke has boupha to see how business is going ina claire s sunday night radio dramas on blue network are groping so popular that maybe the she won I 1 come back to make motion pic tore tures after all gary cooper has bought a ranch for the old cowboys aho used to work with him in western dramas because she loves sun bathing betty bette dans datts will haie hate to stay away from the warner studio for a month most of the time in a darkened room 0 western newspaper unla union t |