Show I or p J gaj u c E C EN Ir 0 d. d By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union t ad ROSALIND RUSSELL who considers Columbia herov her ov lucky lot has been signed tos to toaY s play aY the feminine starring role in that studios studio's new comedy i This Thing Called Love a talef tale j of f a six months' months trial marriage which which goes on the rocks before it t is well launched Miss Russell or T will ill be seen as a brisk and orto to competent insurance executive and lets let's hope she wont won't over-act over as she sometimes does and Melvyn Douglas playing opposite her will willbe be e a mining engineer Ji A few years ears ago the beautiful ul Rosalind was borrowed by Columbia of for r the title role in Craigs Wife i ran Ian unsympathetic part as you'll oib probably recall but in it she proved I pw v wL rn ent R t r rh h cliff 32 of 4 1 Itt ROSALIND RUSSELL tr r so conclusively that she could act that the picture gave her a place at atthe atthe atthe the top She scored another Columbia Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia triumph as Hildy Johnson in T His Girl Friday 7 Two daughters of famous football ed coaches are up for roles in Tillie as ai the Toiler they are Marcia 1 or or r and Annie Lee Stagg of oft I and were suggested by no less a personage pertE per per- tE than Maude Adams the Itt Ind famous actress who coached them vat at Stevens college eThe e i 1 The second kiss record set by byAnn byAnn Ann Sheridan and George Brent in Honeymoon for Three brought reactions reactions reactions re- re actions of all kinds from here there and elsewhere I A Los Angeles laundry asked for forthe forthe the handkerchief used by Brent to wipe off Miss Sheridan's lipstick offering offering of of- fering to launder it for nothing An inventor in Indianapolis asked Brent I to be the first to try his new lipstick m D remover A clock manufacturer inquired in in- D. D D. D what kind of watch was used to time the kiss A New York promoter promoter promoter pro- pro moter moter telegraphed a offer to the pair if they would officially open a by repeating the performance performance per per- s And then a womans woman's club in Topeka Toy To- To y 4 peka Kan passed a resolution recommending recommending rec rec- x JO that en endurance durance kissing r be banned on the ground that it ii is i unhygienic And countless males between between between be be- tween the ages of 17 and 60 wrote tin volunteering to take over Brents Brent's r rI I next assignment of that kind for J r nothing rte When young Betty Brewer was working with him in m Rangers of x Fortune Fred MacMurray taught her to croon Since then she has been rehearsing her sister and brother broth broth- er and a little neighbor girl in a quartet which she calls Betty Brewer Brew Brew- er and Her lIer Playmates and its it's so 1 S good 01 that an advertising agency may put them on the air this fall Call As old as radio is the annoying I I production problem of performers kicking the microphone stand or striking it with their hands if they y make gestures while on the air If Ifa Ifa u a a grating sound comes from your receiving set that's probably the reason Cecil B B. B DeMille thought hed he'd solved the problem for his radio theater last year by using a hanging hanging hang hang- ing microphone microphone but but without a base stand to guide them actors bumped ct 1 their heads into the mike Gluttons Gluttons Glut Glut- tons for punishment these actors Undaunted C. C B. B went to work again And this year when the cast assembled for the theaters theater's first productIon production production pro- pro Manhattan Melodrama with Myrna Loy William Powell and of course D Don n Ameche they 3 found that a circular guard ra rail l had been built it under the mike That i- i suited them Perfectly they perfectly they could m rest rest their scripts on it i G i ODDS AND ENDS iy Q I. I Most Inspirational Extra o of the Year rear is the title bestowed on Doris Davenport by the wood holly Studio Club because became site she rose from the extra r ranks auks k to ur the feminine lead in 11 The Tile Westerner ef I. I L I. Paramount will spend on sd launching North rr Vest hest Ct punted Mounted Police all all for lor advertising publicity and an ex cx- exploitation ptY campaign Q L Susanna Foster Poster starlet o of Paramount's Theres I here s Magic in Music was all ready to 10 leave leaie for I a n vacation on in Kearney Neb when wilen her lIer don dOl Rex flex U was lS struck e by by an automobile She unpacked her trunks and her lIer plans plan to stay May lt y at home until l Rex flex recovered |