Show star dust A picturing thomas edison A great picture to see A obrien rates contract J by virginia vale THERE that HERE are two new books that should greatly interest you one if you like the movies the other if you are interested in radio serials in general and two in particular pepper youngs family and when a girl marries K the book for movie fans Is by an ex motion picture actress patsy ruth miller its title is that flan agan girl patsy ruth made a name for herself on the screen in the days of silent movies although she s very young to be a veteran of that era some of you old timers may remember her as the girl in the lon chaney version of the hunchback of notre dame she gave up the movies for the stage after a while she s one of these girls who want to take a shot at everything simultaneously and very successfully she tried her hand at writing short stories then she went back to hollywood and wrote scripts tor for the movies also success fully that flanagan girl Is that rare thing a novel about hollywood which doesn doean t try to get even 1 with the place and its people by slam mag it As for the other book it s elaine sterne carrington s all things considered a collection of short stories that have appeared in some of our best magazines mrs car arington made her name as a story writer and a playwright before she ever thought of writing tor for radio pa 1 the life of thomas edison Is now being turned into motion picture bis his tory two pictures based on it are being made young tom edison with mickey rooney and edison SPENCER TRACT TRACY the man mail I 1 with spencer tracy tracy took a trip east to familiarize himself with the famous inventor inventors s background sack ground he visited the edison laboratory at menio menlo park N J ind and then went to washington to talk with charles edison son of thomas at last we have drums along he the mohawk and a swell picture it t is too plenty of thrills plenty of it indians lots of romance and bu hu nor mor mabe yon you read the book if you ou did you won t be disappointed in n the film version which was ably directed by john ford it deals nth with an aspect of the revolutionary war that Is unfamiliar to many of us is showing settlers in the back roods woods region of new york fighting a war without really knowing what hey they were fighting for or the cast t be better claudette colbert henry fonda edna may oliver ward bond john Carrad me y after five years freddie freddie bartholomew is off the metro payroll re member when he came to these shores to play david copperfield as a young boya his last picture on the home lot was listen dar ling and at present he s working for la in swiss family robin son when yon you see the new I 1 hunch back of notre dame pay some attention to edmund 0 brien if you want to see the kind of performance that picks up a contract for an actor just gave 0 brien one which permits him to switch from screen to the stage and back again when the pretty kitty kelly cast assembled recently they found a large sign on the studio wall this is NOT the floyd bennett air port it sternly announced seems that the bays and girls had been amusing themselves at rehearsals by making paper airplanes flying them all over the place and then leaving them also all over the place k ODDS AND ENDS bob hope lope and bing crosby livened up the luncheon hour on the paramount lot the other day by riding around on bicycles in black face and wearing is 11 and baggy pantaloons mark alark warnow conductor on the hit flit parade used to play the violin in a street corner band and by the way his pet baton was whittled from a bat used by babe ruth in the 1932 world sert series ir irene en e dunne and cary grant es wilt vill appear together again this time in pass port to life released by western newspaper union |