Show star dut dust k hard road of fame A buck doffs sombrero A mature movies by virginia vale OWARD HUGHES must aget HOWARD get awfully tired of hearing that hes going to marry first one lime lighted young woman and then another unless hes grown so accustomed to it that he just pay any attention any more the gossip linking his name to katharine hepburn s had barely died down before 5 the rumor mongers were insisting that bette davis would become his wife as soon as she had divorced her husband he made no comment bette denied that she and ham were going to get a L divorce as long as she could she in bette davis sted that she was merely spending a vacation in nevada instead of establishing a residence for legal reasons the odds have been against that marriage for a long time ever since she began her speedy climb up the ladder to fame she has done everything that she possibly could to make it a success it s not her fault that it failed but hollywood has a way of being awfully hard on mar nages in which one person is far more successful than the other nobody outside this town knows how tough such a marriage can be 0 here a star once told me I 1 stars associate with stars big people with other big ones you have to do al it I 1 was a star and my husband was a not very successful leading man and in spite of everything we could do we almost had to separate be fore he got a lucky break and was on top too its it s going to seem awfully funny to have buck jones turning into a straight dramatic star but that s what he is going to do he has finished law of the texan which he says is his final western and after a short vaca tion he will begin work in paramount s vice squad we take this opportunity of showing buck in a ten gallon for perhaps the last time buck jones if you believe along with a lot of other people thal that the movies are still in their infancy pause and consider the fact that recently in new york a plaque was unveiled on the wall of the building now standing on the site where the first thea motion picture was screened the machine that made that showing possible was thomas edison s and his daughter mrs joen E sloan unveiled the plaque another fact that brings home the realization that the movies have been in existence for quite some time is the presence in the cast of s I 1 bunga dm of a young woman named fay BIc mckenzie Kenzie she has had experience in stock with her parents troupe and has ap feared with various los angeles theatrical companies but has yet to make her name in pictures but she made her screen debut when she was ten months old in the role of gloria swanson swansons Sw ansons s daughter I 1 it if you are interested in writing for the radio you d better make a list of the things that just husn t be done in the script of the average serial only the older men can smoke preferably a pipe or a cigar no women can smoke no one not even the villain can touch liquor As a radio veteran lanny boss ross is true to the air waves but his sum mer as a theatrical star almost made him wish that he d gone on the stage long ago instead of be coming a singer lie ile appeared in a number of summer theaters and at the one in Ogon quit maine blaine a farmer was so pleased with work in petticoat fever that he came backstage afterward and promised lanny free milk for a year have you heard the new singer with horace heidt s band jean far neya when the band was playing in cedar rapids iowa she walked into town from the farm where she worked and asked for an audition heldt was skeptical but let her sing and so she got the job ODDS AND ENDS after his impromptu appearance on vox pop when he revealed the fact that he has 1 a I delightful singing voice governor chandler of kentucky could easily have become a radio star tf t hed wanted to drums is a swell picture it justifies that claim that motion pictures are your best entertainment maurice costello father of dolores costello barrymore and screen star in the earliest days of the movies is working again before belore the cameras as a bit player tommy lane who s aist eleven won out over all competition for or that sing ing spot on joe penner s programs 0 western newspaper union |