Show I Star Sta I The T Bat Again A Jane Has Preference To the ze Bitter er End By Virginia Vale THE HE Presidents President's son plans to give us a mystery picture pic plc- ture made ture-made made from one of the best mystery plays ever written writ writ- ten ten ten-as as the first release of his I Globe Productions Its It's The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart Rinehart Rinehart Rine- Rine hart and Avery Hopwood and has everything that a thriller should have It was filmed by Mary Pickford's company in 1926 and done again as The Bat Whispers It in 1931 Norman Foster will direct the new version I Hard on the heels of her scrap with Warner Brothers over her refusal refusal refusal re re- re- re to appear in Married Pretty and Poor Jane Janc Bryan showed the studio that she preferred to be married married mar mar- marred ried red pretty and rich she rich she announced her engagement to Justin W. W Dart who is general manager of a drug firm I Mickey Rooney may rank first at atthe atthe atthe the box offices of motion picture theaters in this country but in Great Britain and Ireland he comes second second sec sec- ond with Deanna Durbin pushing him out of first place She was not among the first ten in this country I If you are devoted to the story The liThe Light That Failed Failed you'll like the picture version which sticks to the original even to the unhappy ending If its it's Ronald Colman rather rath rath- er than the story who's r. r I i i ji j i f i r f a a. a r a i v rr f. f Y it f J aA 5 Y RONALD COLMAN 1 ble for your interest in th the p picture you'll enjoy it hugely for he gives an excellent performance So do Walter Illusion Huston uston Dudley Digges and Ida Lupino Miss Lupino Lupino Lupino Lu- Lu pino has had a hard time of or it in Hollywood she was put into parts and kept there now that at last she had been given a chance to show what she could do with a areal areal areal real role she had made the thc most of oC it Hers is rather like the one in Of or Human Bondage that established establish cd Bette Davis as a dramatic actress Miss Lupinos Lupino's performance is good goodenough goodenough goodenough enough to do as much for her No longer can she be thought of as just one of those pretty blondes who are so numerous in the picture mak ing metropolis If youre you're interested in the present activities of former radio favorites heres here's news of some of them Jim Jimmy Jimmy my Meton is now known as James Melton and is a concert singer Morton Downey wound up his summer sum sum- mer engagement at the Worlds World's fair fairand fairand and followed it with an equally successful suc suc- successful one in a Hollywood night club Sam is making money by making recordings Jessica makes occa occasional occasional appearances on the air and air and Travels Travels' when you see you'll hear her voice voice Vera Van Leah Ray and Annette Henshaw have retired I IGene Gene Autry Aulry the singing screen star who is Public Cowboy No 1 heads a new nev western series from Crom The liThe Double Doable M 1 Ranch over the Columbia network each Sunday InI Incidentally In In- I did you know that Gene GeneI i I was discovered by the beloved Will WillI I Rogers Rogers stopped slopped at a small smalltown 1 town in Oklahoma to forward his I i syndicated column Gene the telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph operator was singing a western west west- i I ern em ballad Rogers advised him to capitalize on his talents talents and and a little littlemore littlemore I more than a year later Gene Autry was a popular radio and recording artist f. Del Courtney who features Can Cnn Candid Candid did Camera music over NBC hay has borrowed an idea from the movies in his presentation of previews of his forthcoming programs Before Before- concluding his broadcasts he plays a few bars of some of the new tunes to be bc featured on the next program Its It's a novel idea and will probably be widely copied by bandleaders who dont don't hesitate to imitate their more successful brethren t S- S ODDS AND AAD ENDS ENDS Tile The New York Film Critics Critic picked inched VT lf inhering Heights a as best picture Its It's a little more than twenty six years cars since Cecil B. B DeMille Samuel Gold Gold- wyn and Jesse LasTy Lasky began filming The Squaw Man the thc first motion picture made in 11 Hollywood Released by Western Newspaper UnIon I |