Show I 1 STAR J I 1 DUST J movie radio by VIRGINIA VALE FIVE F IVE small boys have just about disrupted hollywood they are the youngsters who played on the stage in new york in dead end and who now are in hollywood playing the same roles in the picture they dont like hollywood they think acting in movies is pretty silly i and their complete lack of rever once ence for glamorous stars frequently makes the girls furious or tearful one of them will go up to a famous star ear and out of kindness let ti us call her er miss X and say politely Is lit it true that you get paid two thousand dollars a week at her nod of assent the little tough will look her over critically from head to foot and say but why this Is my affair a twentieth century fox picture has barbara and robert taylor as its stars which is enough to cause a stampede at the box office any time but in addition this has some gripping historical scenes it must be thrilling enough to the old folks who can remember ted teddy ely barbara roosevelt and ad miral dewey to see the them m represented on the screen but for those to whom these two great historical figures are just a legend it is downright throat choking barbara as usual gives a beautifully sincere and moving performance As for taylor he is his usual charming self if you like navy pictures with lots of gold braid humming engines wonderful marine views and terrific drama there is wings over honolulu for you yon it is a universal picture with wendy barrie ray milland HI illand and bill gargan and it is so exciting that I 1 just had to stay and see it a second time and any day now I 1 may go back again i incidentally bill gargan is is now making a picture on the universal lot called reporter missing and he has been taking the thrills of the picture so seriously that when a burglar alarm salesman walked into his house he found bill a willing customer bill had an electric eye also installed so that anyone entering the house in the dark late at night would pass it and set gongs and bells to ringing an alarm any week now don wilson may have to break down and sing a few songs on the jack benny radio program when men jack had to bow out oat of his usual sunday night radio appears appearance nce because of flu wilson subbed dubbed for him and threatened to sing sin phil harris kenny baker and the rest implored him not to and a few days later protests by the bushel poured in from detroit listeners they realize it was all kidding and they resented it they remember you yon see that don wilson used to sing with a vocal trio at a detroit station and they know that he has a glorious voice when fred astaire goes off the air for the summer trudy wood his singing partner will stay on with the new program which includes jimmy blair and a sixteen voice rhythm choir trudy is is only twenty one years old so you cant blame her for being so happy she went home to sing and shout for hours the day the contract was signed c gracie allen alien has a perfectly wonderful idea for raising a lot of money for charity she wants to send her husband G george e 0 r g e A burns and his bridge playing cro gl mr j nies tony marl i tin bert wheeler and benny rubin on a tour of the country to stage bridge games to in public she maintains that they play the worst gracie allen alien the loudest and the funniest bridge and that everyone ought to have a chance to see and near hear them ODDS AND ENDS polk bothi s who scribble on the tablecloths in the paramount studio 0 restaurant ore are now nou fined thirty five cents jack bennys bennas debt ran so 10 I 1 high that mary alary livingstone gave him a few old tablecloths from home to use on his table of el the studio when dick fortin foran was given a new contract and told that he was gums going to graduate from west erns erm into big spectacular expensive productions duct duc ions lions lie he asked wistfully if he t make a western now and then dont don t at ou want to be a big important star of the best pictures he was ash asked red no lie he said 1 I want leant to ride my horse big boy shudders ashen he thinks of the jeering fan an mail ail lie he is going to get gel soon ile he had to eat 18 cream puffs for a scene its in lets talk of love a western newspaper union |