Show star 1 S t A stockings to see AT tributes of a kind Un breakables scarce by vi virginia vale WHEN HEN you see castles in the air take a long look at ginger rogers stockings in fact you might take a look at all the stockings 9 s worn in m the picture for the bill for them will probably be about ginger gingers s are important because they 11 cost a pair Y want to know what those gala openings of pictures cost in hollywood just about 35 8 of it for flowers 6 for spectators stands so that the fans won t have to stand while they wait to see the stars arrive and the rest for programs police protection and ads in the newspapers one of new york yorks s movie impre barios now dead used to send the flowers used for lobby decoration to the newspaper critics the day after the opening he never suspected that they were so annoyed when they received the slightly wilted I 1 blossoms that they gave the pictures that he showed slightly less li ass favorable notices than they would have if he hadn haan t bothered about the floral tributes nobody can say that edward G robinson isn t tactful recently a certain radio actor wrote a book a book so bad that even his best friends longed to tell him the truth 1 AL EDWARD G ROBINSON about it but just hadn haan t the heart he gave robinson a copy and said be over to your house tonight and get your reaction to it if I 1 in reading the book when you come in said edward G trying to give him a gentle hint as to his writ ing ability don t hesitate wake me cupl up I 1 9 one of the most exclusive clubs in the world is the H R and S G A the hollywood riding and stunt girls association its it s made up of girls who do stunts for pictures cling to the wings of a speeding plane pane jump off cliffs and out of windows fall off speeding horses little things like that it was or about ten months ago and has only 37 members frances miles who s been doing stunts for the last 12 years is dent she says they d have more members if it t that a girl has to be practically unbreakable if she wants to join samuel goldwyn wanted a couple of dozen members in I 1 the cowboy and the lady but found that he was lucky to get 10 in these days when westerns are so popular the unbreakable girls are in demand radio performers are like the sailors who spend their hours of shore leave rowing in central park frances adair who sang soprano until radio discovered that she was better as a contralto was flourish ing one hand around quite a bit re bently at a johnny presents re hearsay to the bewilderment of the other girls in the swing fourteen ensemble finally it came out that she d spent her spare time the eve ning before at one of the quiz shows of the air and had won a gold wrist watch sully mason who is saxophone saxo phon and vocalist with kay kyser the college of musical knowledge man was a classmate of kyser s at the university of north carolina when kyser organized his band sully was the first man he hired just j 12 years ago it has been reported that franchot tone would leave the movies for the stage that be he d stick to the movies that he d do quite a lot of things it isn it generally known that he s headed for radio recently he s been conferring long and earnestly with elaine sterne carrington author of I 1 pepper young youngs s family who is scripting a show for him ODDS AND ENDS they had to keep the young in heart two weeks at new yorks radio city music hall a sure sign that the public loved the picture no matter what anybody tells you IF C fields left that thai radio spot because he diani didn t like his material not because the sponsor f like IT C fields jane lane froman of ot radios star theater has worked for forty different sponsors in eight and one half hall years sung 9 songs and kept a record of ol every broad broadcast casil S 0 western estern newspaper union |