Show star dust king tyrone off the air joan signs for 5 years A F fan an gets vew new illusions ity by virginia vale HERELL be no mort mon tyrone trone THERELL power on the radio by order of his boss darryl zanuck k production head of twentieth century fox mr zanuck made this annoyance ment as a result of protests from theater exhibitors against too many appearances of screen stars on radio p programs ro grams mr zanuck stated that he had no quarrel with radio but that the stars were endangered dang ered because it was so difficult to get adequate material for those weekly appearances especially since it must be new so tyrone recently elected king of the movies by some newspaper readers had to go off the air joan blondell has tied up her future again so far as making movies is concerned ashes signed with columbia to make two pictures a year for five years and starts the ball rolling with good girls go to paris too originally scheduled for jean arthur its said that columbia wanted to borrow her for joan that one some blondell months ago and that warner brothers refusal to lend her was at least partly responsible for her winding up her contract snow white and the seven dwarfs will be retired from circulation cu the first of april after breaking records in every important city all over the world and will probably be reissued re issued again about this time next year it cost to make and will gross about eight million it played in 41 countries and was the first sound picture to be translated into a talking book for the blind and dopey got more fan mail than all the other characters put together when madeleine carroll paused recently in new york on her way from europe to hollywood she shattered r one movie fans illusions the movie mad girl az went to a smart night club and during the course of the evening noticed a rather buxom young lady who danced every dance with gr great eat enthusiasm she had on madeleine iii rather dismal look carroll ing gun metal col ored hose and very flat shoes reported the movie tan fan dec decidedly not smart but her hat was an un copy able french and the collar of her suit marked it as one of the latest efforts of a famous french modiste suddenly the rather buxom young lady smiled and the movie fan wilted she had recognized miss carroll and had learned that movie stars when left to their own devices arent always as smartly dressed as they are on the screen incident incidentally tally the next carroll picture is cafe society and the one after that is called air raid and is the story of two young people caught in a city in the war zone hollywood has to be awfully careful about these war pictures in idiots delight for example esperanto was used instead of italian french or german just to avoid the danger of angry protests from foreign governments when it was done as a play no such precaution was taken when tame fame begins to come to a radio performer it certainly comes fast kay kyser the orchestra leader particularly well known even so recently as a year ago now hes so well established at the top of the ladder that when he signed recently to appear with his iund band at a new york movie house the contract called for a salary of a week an all time high want to know what sort of thing is likely to trouble big executives it seems that there were weeks of huddles over the title for raymond baiges new program it was to be called men and a girl and paige had men in his band and the girl was hildegarde and everything was rine fine but bu universal owned the title remember the picture by that name eventually somebody thought up 99 men and a girl and after more indecision because that was pretty close to the original it was cleared |