Show star dust tr lahos simple simon A in royal atmosphere cooper as gen john illy by virginia vale WHEN you see walt dis new technicolor short mother goose goes to hollywood have a lot of fun guessing the identity of the main characters F for or disney has caricatured film doms greatest as simple simon old king cole and other famous 7 af ia WALT DISNEY nursery rhyme favorites and in in nearly every instance the casting is perfect whenever he wants to reginald denny may visit at white lodge which was the girlhood home of 0 queen mary of england and where the duke of windsor was born the home of british royalty for years ayears it is the house honse to which the present king when he was duke of ihas york took his bride white lodge has been leased by mrs reynolds albertini who is dennys sister incidentally barbara denny daughter of the famous reginald is jetting getting to be a big girl now she is breaking into the movies by being stand in for heather angel jack holts son is also getting somewhere in pictures has just signed him to a long term contract his most recent pictures are westerns We sterns but hes not worrying about being typed as he did well in such pictures as gold Is where you find it and stella dallas before he took to the wild west it begins to look as if gary cooper would never escape from playing historical characters once he begins at present hes making the last frontier but before long hell be playing abraham lincoln hes had photographs made in makeup make up and is delighted with the idea of playing the great emancipator land and should be better at it than the other movie actors who will probably tackle it meanwhile general john about to write his autobiography is said to have stated that held hed like to see cooper in in the role of the hero if it is screened As there is little if any resemblance between them it must be that the general has always longed to look like a long leg ged cowboy lessons in government are to be made easy if other producers follow the example set by warner brothers starring pat obrien in a series of two feelers on what the constitution means to you you yon might put nancy kelly down on your list of youngsters who will be top botchers in the movies by the time another year has passed ashes set for the only good feminine role in stanley and livingstone at least what this film of darkest africa is called now but surely it will be changed and as that will be one of twentieth cen tury foxs coxs big numbers of 1939 her being chosen for the part is sig significant bifi another young girl who is rapidly yi carving out a career for herself is i J jane ane warren whom youve heard on the rudy vallee hour rudy likes her voice or she be on the program but thinks that the most amazing thing about her is the fact that she had had only about 15 months of vocal instruction and practices only 30 minutes a day any boy could do well in school if he had chances like this recently peter van Ste edens young son had to prepare a lesson which included some questions about admiral richard E byrd he went to his father for help cant help you said van steeden sr but admiral byrd is going to be on my for men only program come to the rehearsal with me and you can ask him those questions young van steeden got the highest mark in his class the following day now hes wishing that his bis father I 1 could introduce him to george washington abraham lincoln and the man who invented lathema mathematics ti C S 41 ODDS AND ENDS nan wyn CBS is such a ping po pong 9 en c thusia st that ashes arranged a bourna open only to girls aho ate are connected aith radio neat hopkins ins who writes two on a shoestring says that an intelligent blind person is the best critic a radio author can hate haiie hopkins llop hins knows anois he used to be in charge ol of production of recorded classics lor for the blind richard allens going to make six pictures a year fear for universal 0 western newspaper union |