Show STAR TR S O I I DUST J Movie a Radio By VIRGINIA VALE EACH year the Paramount company can be counted on o n to present a thrilling panorama of American history in the mak mak- making ing and this year they offer Wells Fargo which in many ways tops all previous efforts even last years year's Plainsman for sheer excitement The adventure heroism and ro ro- romance romance mance of developing coast to coast transportation has the breathless sweep of fiction doubly stirring because we know it is based on fact Joel McCrae and Frances Dee are F the principals in the interwoven romance and Bob Burns steps out of character to play a stalwart of ot the early West Bet- Bet Joel McCrae ter send the children early to see this one they will want to stay all day ay And they'll learn a lot of American history in a painless and entertaining fashion Greta Garbo stole quietly away from Hollywood without even saying say say- saying ing good good-by to her closest friends and sailed away to Sweden to stay Indefinitely Her contract with Mayer Goldwyn calls for on on- only only only ly one more picture and it is likely that she will make that one in England Jc Metro Mayer Metro Gold Mayer want Tru Tru- Truman Truman Truman man Bradley narrator on the CBS Sunday Evening hour from Chi Chi- Chicago Chicago Chicago cago to go into motion pictures but Mr Bradley is reluctant to take a chance so they have arranged what is probably the most comprehensive series of tests ever given a per per- former For one whole month Brad Brad- Bradley Bradley ley will make daily film tests in New York flying back to Chicago weekly for his Sunday evening stint Jc A new combination of talent is putting put put- putting putting ting over the On Broadway pro pro- program program program gram heard h rd over NBC Don John John- Johnson Johnson Johnson son known to radio listeners as the comic Professor ProCessor is writing writ writ- writing writing ing the program and the leading player is Alice Frost of the Big Sister cast Jc Fredric March and his wife w e Florence Eldridge are running into so much excitement on their stage tour they are half tempted to write a scenario around their Recently the company became fran fran- frantic frantiC tic when on one of the leading actors became b came ill just before a perform perform- ance ance That persuasive Freddie March who really should have been beena a salesman talked Kay Johnson the film player into tackling the role after a brief rehearsal Miss John John- Johnson Johnson Johnson son was traveling with the com com- company company company pany to be near her husband John Cromwell who directed the play playas as asa asa a sort of vacation from directing spectacular pictures like The Prisoner Pris Pris- Prisoner Prisoner oner of Zenda Anyone in Hollywood will tell teU you that a picture motion star is lucky if it he can hold on to his popularity for r five years One of the lucky exceptions is Richard Dix who has just signed one of the biggest con con- contracts contracts contracts tracts of ot his rus life lite aft alt after after alter er fifteen years of Id uninterrupted larity R. R K K O. O plan to lo make a big West Vest Western Western ern em spectacle some some- something something something thing on on the order ord r Richard Dix of Cimarron his biggest success Like Jack Holt Hott another Mother veteran he gets better with age Jc Ethel Merman could have signed a picture motion contract any time during the past four tour years but the popular blues singer preferred to tomake tomake tomake make just one picture every year or orso orso orso so and then rush off to New York and forget about it In Happy Landing however she is so well wel photographed and her voice so beautifully beau beau- beautifully beautifully recorded that she has succumbed suc suc- succumbed cum bed to Twentieth Fox Century-Fox blandishments and will make pic plc- pictures pictures tures regularly for them from now on Ethel whose perfect phrasing has made her many a 3 composers composer's favorite singer thus adds one more chapter to an inspiring career She was a stenographer and a Q speedy one who used to get occasional en engagements erl- erl engagements to sing at nt parties Taking a chance she went into a n small night club at very low salary and within a few weeks had a contract to make Warner shorts it- it ODDS AND ENUS Sonja ENDS Sonja limit hat organized an un tee ice u carnival ur inal company ilia tha trill uW tour lour set nal cities while the she waits trails Ua for or the scenario of o oher her next picture IJ CIU t to bt be written Jessica Dragonette IS tt being tempted by pierre again olain Nobody can read rod Fred Allen m. j scripts scrip but the comic himself ll Ills Iti writing wring u is micro- micro microscopic Maureen hurried back beck from England to 0 piny play with Norma Shear in Marie Allor C C Western Newspaper Ne Union |