| Show 4 1 1 star dust sl for talent tal edit t A 4 glutton for or doing k typical ator actor at tour four byl by virginia valo vale IF TF A stranger ger bobs up in your town and begins asking people to take screen tests dont be e surprised just blame it on jesse lasky who began making pictures way back bacic in the early days probably y youve listened to his gateway to hollywood on the air i and perhaps you heard the final result of that search for or movie talent the selection of rowena cook and ralph bowman as the two fortuna fortunate tort Is young people whose names will be changed to alice eden and john archer with the leading roles in the picture career as their first screen appearances pe arances under these names six other contestants were given contracts and the search for new J aces far or the screen will probably be taken up again by some of the big producing companies about every so often this search seems s like a good idea to the movie mak ers usually it is practiced for a while with plenty of ballyhoo and results that are anything but spectacular ta cular and very little in the way of real talent is brought into the studios studio carrying it on an with the aid of radio as mr lasky has done may be the solution certainly there are plenty of potential movie stars in our midst and all they need is a chance nance to make good jean parker seems to be the pub lies favorite actress for the roles of the heroines of gene stratton por 4 an A JEAN PARKER novels she appeared recently in romance ot of the Limber limberlost lost and was signed recently by monogram to do her fathers daughter by the same auth author or never a dull moment seems to be leslie howards slogan these days day s playing a leading role in gone with the wind enough to keep him really busy it seems so he be has signed with international ter to act as associate producer on intermezzo and play the leading role as well it is scheduled to go into production early in may and he is spending his bis spare time on production pre plans theres an amu sling story going around about sally ellers eilers four year O old id son one that would indicate that hat hes bes losing no time in acquiring the typical actors point 0 of f view he made his screen debut in they made her a spy his mothers latest picture and when he was shown some of the rushes he demanded like any actor greedy tor for close ups wheres more shoots of me mc se seems ems hard to believe but major bowes capitol theater family hour celebrated its week on the air recently its the oldest 0 ot f the broadcasts and the major deserves a lew few bouquets tor for the way he be has handled it columbia Is coming to the aid of all ot of us who have been complaining about the short pictures that we have haie tilsit through in order to see the long ones they are preparing a series of six to be callet called pools fools who made history which will deal with men whose ideas really helped the human race although their contemporaries thought they were slightly haywire the first will li be based anthe on the dorkof work of dr norton who discovered anesthesia when don ameche was in the east he went to Connect connecticut fu and bought him himself selfa a house connect Connic ti cut Is now practically a second radio city what with practically all radio stars either buying or rent renting inid there burjust but just when mr ameche is going to find time t to 0 en joy that hous bouse e isa is a puzzling question for hollywood oy wood apparently cant got get along without him he see seems ms to io make twice as many pictures as anybody else does ODDS IND AND ENDS that new AU horl Au author tharl pro grat I 1 that shat u is broad cast on friday evenings promises sobe to be almost as popular as information ilease please and information tl please ease has made it practically impossible la 10 d get a dinner purly party fog together etheron on day evenings if theres heres not a radio its in the dining room niom my aly name nam which recently tell left the air will bill return to take fred allens aliens place he goes on vacation on Q western stern newspaper union |
