Show 90 d V mala 71 m ai H 0 TT U HP T r movie e radio dy by VIRGINIA VALE i RETTY I 1 doris We success pc PRETTY is proba probably bayone one of the most encouraging things that has happened P I 1 cried in in a long time so far as a lot of our amateur performers are concerned doris is the girl who appeared on a radio amateur hour and as a result was sign signed ed to appear at the rainbow room in radio city audiences liked her so well that her contract was extended and she Is now well launched an on her ca career r cir as a singer of course she has hag beauty and an original way of putting her songs across But girls aa a over the country are working hard now with a view to breaking into the big time as she has by appearing on an amateur hour i f r just because a lady Is a star in the cinema mean that she doe snot retain a great s spirit P arlt of mother love part i in the case fc fujs JS ot of joan blondell her great affection for her young son Is causing herb her to lose a week and hei heres es how it all came about plus tier her regular contract salary she received an additional bonus the equivalent joan blondell ondell of the above mentioned amount but she was forced to forfeit the bonus in III order to be able to leave tha at 5 evera every day so she might go home and be with her youngster at least half an hour before he went to bed henry Wll coxon whom see in De decilles Milles new spectacle the crusades decided to bo be an an actor for the s sake a ke of the money there was in it h hed eld had a job III ih london that thai paid him so little that after one days work as an extra he received nearly as much money as tie he had been getting for a whole weeks work so he gave up his job and took to the stage and the screen and there hes been ever since hes a likable young man with enough sense of humor to think its rather funny that he once hoped to come to america as a chauffeur X helen hayes staggered everybody when she turned down along with the offer to play the old maid alaid in pictures some people claim that she was ashamed to go back into the movies after the things shed said about not belonging in them when she left hollywood others declare that ashes perfectly sincere in feeling that her stage and radio work will t take ake so much of her time that she cant give any to pictures too and have enough for her child and husband 1 T I if youre wise you will see alice adams the first moment its shown in your neighborhood because you will probably want to see it again and again its a remarkably good picture and cotrue so true to life that in spots its painful its presentation at the music hall in new york was doubly significant for on the second day early in the afternoon ter noon crowds outside the theater were flocking around a news stand to buy the newspapers which gave the first reports of the death of will rogers it seemed strange to go into the theater and see fred stone on the screen for stone was one of the men who at that very moment must have been almost breaking under the shock of that dreadfulness dreadful news from alaska he had been in a plane crash himself not so many years back and rogers a lifelong friend had stepped in and played stones role in a stage show for him amazing the cinema in the new kay francis picture 1 I found stella parrish which deals with the life of a famous english actress miss bliss F Is shown in excerpts from a grecian play P perc e r c westmore West nore holly woods number 1 wig creationist was sent for to design a grecian wig for her so lie he did a very snappy one made out of blue white hair when orry kay francis kelly warners style creator saw the wig he Ae designed assigned a blue white dress to go with it but when mervyn le roy the director saw the wig and the dress he had them desdun a blue white set to further en nance hance bliss F the effect no doubt Is quite startling if we could only figure out what blue white really looks like ODDS AND ENDS fred As Asta faires irei success on the radio radians ais is certainly a tribute to his per personality sodality sona lity its as weve cometo come to khuu kno it in the movies bing crosby banu to take his wife and three sons saris abroad next year now that lew ayres aykes is set ns a director richard robert Arni armstrong strong and bert litell are likely likel to follow it in his is footsteps tom boin going to make 10 four ur p pictures ei for or alio he says Roia rosalind lind Rim velli vac ailon cn ins ing by taking a freighter from rum san k diun ats cisco to rio do de janeiro Jani siro Q C New inper union |