| Show Star Stale D lU S tt k Glamorous the Order if Opera Cycle ul in Movies if Radios Radio's Grand Old Man ManBy ManBy an anBy By By Virginia irginia Vale ale ANDREA LEEDS has given her X her studio press agents no end of trouble They've tried to tomake tomake tomake make her a glamour girl and she doesn't want to be one Id rather get married says she It uIt lasts longer But orders were that she must be glamorous glamorous and and that she must take on some weight in order to do it in inThe inThe inThe The Last Frontier in which she captivates Gary Cooper She gave in and then stumbled while playing badminton and broke a bone in her right foot That meant being in bed with her foot in a plaster cast for three weeks she was told But she went night clubbing clubbing clubbing club club- bing plaster cast and all all if if a girls girl's 1 0 a A 0 ANDREA LEEDS going to be glamorous she has to be seen about town And her earnest effort to acquire the reputation the studio had ordered got her nothing but a scolding Now were we're to have an opera cycle in pictures The San Francisco Grand Opera company has been selling out at all performances so the motion picture companies got an inspiration and leaped right in Metro starts the ball rolling with Madame l Pompadour with a European European European Eu Eu- importation Meliza l Korjus starred Two other studios will follow follow follow fol fol- low suit Probably the best one of the lot will be Walt Valt Disney's Farmyard Symphony which will be knee- knee deep in burlesques of operatic arias its it's being released practically at once Tom Browns Brown's supposed to o break his neck in The Duke of West Vest WestPoint WestPoint Point and had to wear one of those braces around his neck for eight hours Eric von Stroheim wears one in Grand Illusion a foreign picture that goes down as one one of the best of the year Afterward Browns Brown's neck was so stiff that he thought hed he'd never ne be able to move it naturally again William Wiliam Powell is going back to work in January under a a new contract contract contract con con- tract recently signed with Metro His first picture will be The Return Return Return Re Re- turn of the Thin Man with Myrna MyrnaLoy MyrnaLoy Loy Lay of course That Thin Man series threatens to become as lengthy as the Charlie Chan one i If anyone were to offer a medal i f for The Grand Old Man of Radio Rudy Vallee would probably get it iti I Not that hes he's old but hes he's done so soi i much to develop good programs and has discovered so much talent that he deserves the title i C If you heard his tenth anniversary t program youve you've already checked u up upon upon p pon on that If you didn't you can probably probably probably ably remember that the list of people people people peo peo- hes he's developed as stars of the theair theair theair air includes a lot of famous folk from Alice Faye to Charlie McCar McCar- thy But you may not have known that he is responsible for the modern type of guest program Irene Bordoni Bordoni Bordoni Bor- Bor doni was his first guest star In 1922 his program developed into its present form The salary list was waslow waslow waslow low and still is far below the sums sum paid for some similar programs which are outdistanced by his in the popularity ratings 4 r. It takes the listeners in to make Tommy Riggs appreciate his tal tal- tal- tal First they made him what heis he heis heis is today with his Betty Lou voice and now they've been writing to him to praise his very pleasant baritone baritone baritone bari bari- tone voice and urge him to do more singing as himself on his program t r. ODDS AND fAD ENDS Jimmy Walker mayor ex of 0 New Nero l' l lor l'or York or certainly started something ng when he lie began those broadcasts from the thc city's city hospitals his many friends in the tle entertainment field clamor to tur for lor him for lor nothing he hes gives s tes his hb own oiin services and the programs are swell 1 1 f you Ou like li pictures picures about doctors you certainly must see The uThe Cita Cila- del which u is one of 0 the best And And be sure ure to 10 see The Young in Heart All the c studios are arc making rna Westerns caverns tilde these flays days 0 James Cn s Cagnes contribution tion to the cycle is iJ Oklahoma Kid Kid and andI lies hc's had laad to 10 learn to 10 shoot like li a cowboy I instead of a gau gangster m t Western Newspaper Union |
