Show I STAR STARDUST DUST S Movie M. M OVle Radio R a J. J 10 J By VIRGINIA VALE HAS lIAS always been difficult IT to get permission to visit stu stu- studios studios stu- stu studios dios in Hollywood From u. u now on ans Marx Brothers Jack Benny and Burns and Allen hope t to tomake tomake make it impossible In fact i if there were any way that they could make pictures without having a flock of carpenters electricians property men am and extras around they would b be heartily in favor of adopting it Thieves on the set are the reason for all this uproar It would be ba bad enough if the thieves merely lifted jewelry or furs but these thieves thieve steal ideas whose worth cannot b be estimated unless you can think in staggeringly big figures When co co- comedians comedians comedians medians and their gag men have finally f fi- fi nally worked out a funny situation and filmed it two months may elapse before it is shown on th the screen But almost at once come come- comedians comedians comedians elsewhere introduce their funny situation Obviously someone some some- someone someone one from the studio told them about abou it but it-but but who i It is always gratifying to see a areal areal areal real trouper win out over all odds That is why everyone every every- everyone everyone one is rejoicing over r Alice Fayes Faye's hit in inOn inOn inOn On the Avenue When Irving Berlin ilk moved m 0 v e d into the Twentieth Century- Century Fox studio with a knockout musical score under his arm the studio officials said Weve got gots something s 0 met h i n g big here So they de- de deAlice Alice Faye tided to build up a marvelous cast with players pla ers bor bor- borrowed borrowed borrowed rowed from other studios They go goDick got Dick Powell from Warners Warner's and Madeleine Carroll from Walter Walte Productions for the leading roles And then their own Alice Alic Faye in a secondary role walked off of with all honors that weren't taken by the crazy antics of their o own Ritz Brothers tc A long time ago Paramount bought a story called Easy Mon Ion Money Money ey for Carole Lombard but she has been so busy on other pictures she never got around to make it it Meanwhile the studio officials have been impressed by the bounding popularity of Jean Arthur and de de- decided decided de- de decided she would do nicely in the leading role After a vacation in New York she will ic 4 For months Cary Gary Grant has gone around saying that if his Paramount contract would only come to an end he would never sign another with wit anybody He would just make pictures pic pic- pictures pictures tures when he felt like it and spend the rest of his time lying on the beach at Santa Monica or taking leisurely trips to England But after watching his work in the new nev Grace Moore picture Columbia officials didn't like his idea at all They de de- decided decided decided they must have him under contract No one has ever been known to win an argument with Jack Cohn the grand mogul of Co Co- Columbia Columbia Co- Co Columbia lumbia Pictures so Cary Gary signed the contract he offered tc Back in New York all the young stage players and all the dramatic school students go to see Greta Garbo in Camille over and over Two girls who are living on a tiny budget that permits eating only now and then and never riding on a street car ear or bus had gone every day for six days and seen the pic plc- picture picture ture tare at least 14 H times They were broke and hungry but they felt they just had to see it again So they screwed up their courage and told the manager of the Capitol theater how much they were learning from watching her and he arranged to let Iet them in free tc i Deanna Durbin the year fourteen-year- old sensation of of Eddie Cantors Cantor's radio program and Universals Universal's Three Smart Girls thinks J New Yorkers arent aren't very good She realized t t her her lifelong I elong ambi ambi- ambition ambition J tion of climbing the stairs inside the Statue of Liberty on her first visit to New su York a few weeks ago But the lc sign Bu at ai Deanna the thc foot fot of the steep Durbin winding stairs said there were steps and d a Deanna counted Determinedly ealy edly she dragged her weary feet up the thc steps again only to find that she was right the first time it C- C ODDS AND 5 ENDS Clark Clarl Gables Cables birthday lice on set sel was tJ a hilario Oln occasion o cm n. n c gave Mill hi a cafe inscribed to the wor i Taylor greatest Joan actor o Crull ill in IT the T has as ed out her curls curis wears her hair t very e y straight and plain in aid USes colorless nail polish Judy JI dy Garland nude a Ire r III hit singing at al a flood b Cit benefit and ad MI will I get some big film fim roles now flOW e estern Newspaper Union |