Show I STAR i I t I DUST I II I I Movie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE i THE HE great experiment of a aFred aFred aFred Fred Astaire picture without Ginger Rogers is now up for public approval and first reports reports reports re re- ports promise that it will tri tri- at at the box office Damsel Damsel Damsel Dam sel in Distress hasn't the effervescent effervescent effervescent effer effer- Ginger but it has that most blithe of Gracie Grade Allen and her solemn George Burns The setting of this giddy tuneful story is England where Astaire as asa asa asa a shy matinee idol becomes romantically romantically ly entangled with a ae pee peers peer's e e r r s daughter played by the ingratiating ingratiating ingra ingra- fyr Joan Fon Fan Foni i taine tame The story doesn't get in the thes I s way of the dancing and Astaire has never never nev nev- er r danced with such j I breathtaking skill I before Fred Astaire When you see him himI and Gracie romping I through a carnival engaging in dizzy dizzy dizzy diz diz- diz- diz zy antics on treadmills revolving barrels and in front of those crazy I mirrors that distort reflections y you u will wonder why Gracie's Grades amazing talent as a dancer has been overlooked overlooked overlooked over over- looked so long iC The long delay in making another feature picture with the Dionne quintuplets has at last been exI explained explained ex ex- by Twentieth Fox Century-Fox I officials They have been waiting wailing for the tho little girls to learn English figuring that audiences cant can't be counted on to study French just in order to understand the little cher cher- iC Waves of dissatisfaction spread through Hollywood like an epidemic every once in a while and lately producers have been having their troubles pacifying pouting stars Loretta Loretta Lo- Lo Loretta retta Young has decided that she doesn't want to make any more pictures pictures pictures pic pic- pic- pic tures with Tyrone Power for a while Not that she doesn't like him She does but she thinks that the public tires of seeing the same sameI couple on the screen in picture after I picture Ginger Rogers has served notice on R. 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O that in addition to her salary she wants a share of I the profits of pictures she appears in Fred Astaire and Katherine Hepburn Hepburn Hepburn Hep Hep- I burn both share in hi the profits of theirs Dorothy Lamour has rebelled against wearing native dress in pic pic- pic- pic tures Wants to be clothed like a civilized lady And Wayne Vayne Morris wants no more up build-up as a handsome handsome handsome hand hand- some youth iC I Wallace Ford is one of the screen players over whom the night first-night audience audience audience au au- au- au at Of Mice and Men MenI I cheered in New York recently Even EvenI I if the play runs all aU year however t Wally figures that his fans out outI I through the country wont won't forget him for before going into the play he completed the as yet unreleased Swing It Sailor for Grand National National Na Na- and three pictures in Eng Eng- land iC K KJack Jack Holt is rounding out his twentieth year as an actor and his eighteenth as a mo mo- mo- mo tion-picture tion star No other performer has r enjoyed outstanding A popularity m more o 0 r e ethan e than half as long as asbe ashe Y he be has and Hollywood Holly Holly- i wood producers will tell you that he is t just as popular with i ithem them as with the public Whether he heis heis heis is is assigned to horses or top hats Jack is Jack Holt always amiable and andi i if H a story seems thin he figures it itis itis itis is up to him to give a performance that will build it up Some of the young players supporting him in Columbia's Under Suspicion asked him recently how he got his start and then shuddered a bit as ashe ashe 1 he be told them that he rode a horse over a thirty-five thirty foot cliff into swirling swirling swirling swirl swirl- ing rapids ODDS ANDS ENDS Marlene ENDS Marlene Dietrich shed lied her wan and bored manner in a aNew aNew aNew New York night nish club and joined the crowd She could be as aJ sensational sen rational in comedy as aJ Irene Dunne is if i she he only would but bu she sho wont won't Hull Bull room dancing bores Fred Astaire until Benny Denny Goodman starts tarU playing and und then he just cant can't si sit still Betty Dally Jaynes youthful sensation of oJ the Chicago opera will win play Norma Shearer's old role in Stud Student en Prince when M M GM GM films i it again as U a musical When Dick Powell stopped over in Chicago between i trains train a group o of oj f fans Jam surprised him by presenting him with their autographed photos Spencer Trucy Tracy It will ll send ou out its his Christmas cards curds from Ireland I Fathers of oJ twins arc are the only for 11 most exclusive tc club M Membership Mem- Mem em so 10 Jar fur consists of oj Bing Ding Crusby Crosby Laurence Tibbett Charles and Richard Dix Girls do dont don't want to be cast in the next Munch twins picture because be be- cause their favorito pets leU nowadays are white mice The TIle Voice of oJ Experience will be broadcast broa coast to beginning December 27 C 4 Western Newspaper Union |