Show STAR kj JL J DUST uk U S IT I 1 L r J movie 0 radio by VIRGINIA VALE a bad break in S kj hollywood leads to a good one which is just another way of saying that motion picture producers are slow to make up their minds metro goldwyn mayer is going to star willie howard the veteran comic of the stage in a big musical extravaganza trav aganza because he was so funny in a skit in B roadway broadway melody of 1938 you never saw the skit no mat ter how carefully you watched the picture because it was cut out when they first saw it the officials of the studio didn dian t think it was so funny and having to take some thing out to shorten the picture they sacrificed what howard was sure was the most hilarious skit of his career taking another look at the discarded film officials have decided that it was very funny so funny that they won t waste how ard s talents in the future it t with the season of big mot on pic tures only a few weeks old four of the thirty or so u pic evl tures released have J j f 1 aa J made outstanding hits these are prisoner of zenda jad with ronald colman and madeline car roll men and a girl with deanna durbin thin ice with sonja son a henie and grand nation al s something to deanna sing sina about with durain james cagney this last is a grand bit of nonsense in which the pugnacious jimmy sins dances and fights his way through a delightful story aid c ed d and abetted by mona barne barrie victor roared into new york recently on his way to london to make a picture and when victor roars anyone would think the whole boist rous good humored american legion was back in town his high spirits are infectious and his mas ma net sm so overpowering that when he introduced his friend brian don levy as the greatest actor in the world eNe everyone agreed for the mo ment paramount goes right on announce ing one ofie picture after another for frances farmer but miss farmer says that she is coming to new york to do a stage play called the manly art written by luise ram rain er s husband out at the universal studios where henry mcrae turns out thrilling se rials faster than you can say to be continued next week they don t have much time to humor tempera mental actors but recently they had to give in and waste an hour or so while an actor had a tantrum the actor was a lion mcrae thought he would save the lion from the ex hau haisting sting period of posing while hot lights were adjusted and brought in a stured lion as double jealous of this interloper the lion broke loose from his cage rushed on the set and tore the stuffed animal to bits theater owners all over oer the conn coun try are begging republic and grand national officials to speed up irp pro on westerns starring gene autry and tex ritter so that the warbling cowboys will have time to make personal appearance tours the ever gr growing owing popularity of these two lads is the sensation of the bookkeeping departments ever since claudette colbert broke out in she met him in paris as an accod pushed figure er all the other girls have wanted to show of their prof chency at winter sports ruby keeler recuperating from V her recent illness is planning for her first 7 starr ng picture at R K 0 the story ak K A is called lonebe low freezing and claudette the big surprise is colbert that skiing is the ma man n feature of the picture u K ODDS AND ENDS 51 marlene arlene deitrich s eyebrows th it used to exten I 1 way out like streamers return to normal in her new picture angel and mil probably start a nc ne av fashion jean parker n de herself a hat copied from onel gary coo cooler er wore in the I 1 lai niman and now she is lery tery busy helping I 1 f lends tends in ke copies of it honald ronald sinclair I 1 las as proven entirely satisfactory in roles intended for or freddie bartholomew so it is doub ul lul that fredd e mil get gel any where with his strike for more money simone simon is gong go ng to sing a difficult coloratura ar a in her next p c tu e 7 he st studio idao fust just found out that she site used to make male records in france B ng crosby uia wa its his friend babe babo hardy to p ay a dramatic role in his new p now that the team of laurel and hardy have split a western newspaper union |