Show STAR I 1 DUST 11 movie radio by VIRGINIA VALE asure there is s one 1 sure way for an executive of 0 a motion picture company to find out whether his company considers him really important or not it if iles hes a bi big t shot hes not allowed to fly a hardship when a roan man Is commuting from hollywood to new york and back again of course but bat hardship or riot not they take trains I 1 only last week three of metros big men wanted to get from new york to hollywood in a hurry burry and planned to fly they had bad done it so often that it meant no more to them than walking down the street they knew all too well that flying was no more dangerous than any ally other means of transportation but at the last minute somebody got wind of their plans the resulting argument was wag hot and heavy but in the end they went by train one of them really object however he was howard chief of publicity and advertising all right with me he remarked ill win a thousand dollars at bridge on the way out IK theres just no stopping them 1 I mean these girls who are as deter mined now not to be blonde as they once were to be as blonde as possible jean harlow started it of course by curnin turning brownette and no now we have carole lombard alice faye and joan bennett follow ing ingling ling her example they seem to feel that it will help them tp to joan bennett set get more serious roles quite forgetting that ann harding who Is naturally so go blonde has been doing pretty well with serious roles for a R lon long long iong time gulme on the other hand marion talley ex opera star and farmer now work ing hard in pictures has turned blonde for her first screen appearance if you have seen her or seen photographs of her in the old days youre going to be surprised at her appear ance she has lost a lot of weight and it is a big improvement k those major BOPS amateur stage units haie hae been so successful that bob belleve Del believe leve it or not ripley rapley Is going to hae some of his own the first will be begin in its tour somewhere in new englard the last or of april it will probably include these acts little jeanie a thirty pound ald midget et grace mur ghys phys phy s quintuplets quintuple ts five ballet dances averaging three hundred pounds each a concert pianist who plays and well with his elbows john tio tin and his talking bird and a man who makes music with leaves dob bob himself encountered at a party after the opening of gs circus was trying to curb a strong desire to go out them himself frank parker who bobs up on so many radio programs Is going to make another picture his first recall was sweet surrender hett het been on the stage so BO hes prepared for a movie career speaking of his stage career the other day fifel dorsay came to a rehearsal of her radio show with a picture of the cast of greenwich village follies of 1925 11 willie howard glanced at it then at parker and said frank theres a fellow in this picture who looks exactly like you looks like me retorted frank it Is rine me I 1 was a chorus boy K I 1 wish you could meet bette davis darts ashes an overwhelming young person because ashes so devastatingly frank no matter what you ask ash her shell answer it and intelligently too with no regard for whether the movie moguls will ill like what she says saya or not nol N now ow some interviewers use rather brutal tactics that work with bette davis she get angry she just tells the truth with a pleasant smile illow how do you get along with your husband someone asked her recently there are reports that youve separated oil oh we fight she replied its my fault sometimes I 1 simply have to light fight and then nothing will stop me 4 1 ODDS AND ENDS john boles doesn doean t wit to be tied down to one company any longer hes going to free lance fredric march felt fell the same nay thought he atvas making too many costume pictures so the first one he signed up for as a free lance ivas mary alary of scotland with te ith katherine hepburn paramount is going to lo give us beau beat gesta again in color this time aith gary cooper in I 1 tie the leading role A message to ta garcia carcia is a fine picture jane withers does docs fine work in gentle julia shirley temple got another raise the other day practically all the molie companies are trying to sign up charles coyer boyer alws already under tinder contract see hint him before long in the carden of allah and in color margaret sullivans Stil Sul lavans broken urns arm is holding up two pi pictures coures myrna loy wilt will be teamed with warner baxter in to mary alary with IF it it late lot e remember them in broad uy bill bai 0 western newspaper union |