Show 1 1 I STAR i I DUST J Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE AMUEL GOLDWYN is tak- tak taking taking SAMUEL S ing bows again for succeed succeed- succeeding succeeding succeeding ing where many other motion picture producers have failed He has made a new version of an old picture that is even better bet bet- better better ter than the old one one and and the first Stella Dallas was the best picture of its year some twelve years ago This picture Is frankly a tear jerk tearjerker er the story of a daugh daugh- daughter ter who married a gentleman but could never become a lady But Stella Dallas was fine and cou cou- courageous courageous courageous enough to see to it that her daughter had a chance to be be- become become come one of her fathers father's set rather than hers Barbara gives a sincere and gripping performance as Stella I tc If you would rather laugh than cry Paramount and Twentieth Cen Cen- tury-Fox tury are all ready for you with two mad musical extravaganzas Paramount's Par- Par Paramount's Paramount's amounts amount's contribution contribution contribution tion is Artists and 9 Models and it stars Jack Benny Twentieth Twentieth Twentieth Century's new one is You Cant Can't Have Everything i and an l in it the Ritz t t Brothers are mad mad- madder madder madder der and merrier Alice Faye than ever Alice A lie c Faye sings sad songs and Don DonAmeche DonAmeche DonAmeche Ameche is a pleasant hero Funny part about this picture is that you will adore Phyllis Brooks who plays one of ot the most unpleasant parts parts' you have ever seen seen seen-a a soubrette whom everybody in the cast loathes with good reason Gene Autrey sets a pace that it itis itis itis is tough for other cowboys to main main- tain Now producers expect them all to sing Buck Jones hasn't fallen for vocal lessons yet but he has hired a heavy for his new picture Sudden Bill Dorn Dora who can warble warble war war- varble ble Western ballads with the best of them His name is Harold Hodge iC Anna May Wong who will return to the screen this fall under the auspices of Paramount playing a sort of female Charlie Chan spent her time meanwhile playing sum sum- summer summer summer mer theaters in the East At Mount Kisco where Frances Farmer had made a tremendous hit Anna Mae made a decorative and charming Princess in a play adapted from the opera of that name tc Dorothy Day one of the famous clothes models who worked in Walt Walt- Walter er Vogues of 1938 came cameto cameto cameto to New York for a brief vacation and when she returned to Hol Hol- Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood lywood she learned that she had a abrand abrand abrand brand new name Mervyn Le Roy who gave her a contract to make pictures for him decided that Dorothy Doro Doro- Dorothy Dorothy thy Day was not a good name be be- because because because cause there are several actresses and two authors already using it He is going to bill her as Vicki Lester Les Les- Lester Lester ter the name of the character that Janet Gaynor played in A Star Is Born iC When you saw I Met Him in Paris you must have wondered I why Robert Young f fled from such an anA I A attractive wife as asp p z r the one played by Y Mona Barrie Well I she explained all Lix bs y 4 when she arrived in I I New York recently 1 to rehearse for a aI j stage engagement V t It seems that there I ors ors' f were long scenes that explained their Robert Young differences but the picture was too long and Mona landed on the cutting room floor She hopes hOles for better luck in the picture that she just finished James Cagney's Some Something Something Something thing to Sing About She plays a comedy role a sort of female Mischa Auer and she had so much fun doing it that she doesn't seewhy see seewhy seewhy why Grand National had to pay her hera a salary f fODIS ODDS ODIS Everybody ENDS won toon wonders ders if i f Frances farmers farmer's costumes costumes in The Toast of New N lW York were responsible for forthe forthe the revival ret tal of bustles in the die big M. M Paris Iaru ar fashions showings s Benar f whose songs are so popular on the air ai got her start dancing in the same ballet balle with Myrna Loy Lay Burgess Meredith used to sing in the tIle same sonic church choir with willi Lanny Ross loss Eddie Cantor eats his lunch IUT between scenes on the set Sf these days dap because he uses his liis regular lunch hour to dash over to the antique jutie store st re he lac has laas bought to k sec how business is go go- going ing Inn Claires Claire's Sunday night radio dramas NBC's N nc's blue on network arc are grow ing so popular that maybe she u ont come conic back to make motion pictures after all a Gary Cary Cooper has laas bought a ranch for the tlc old cowboys con ii-ho ii used to work with him in Western W estem dramas dram s Because Became she loves sun bathing Bette Davis Vatis will have to stay Slay uway from the Warner IT umer studio for a month mOT most of 01 the time in a darkened room m C Western Newspaper Union |