Show rf r f N 0 by VIRGINIA VALE Helea Rele Md by western newspaper union iwho ROSALIND RUSSELL who considers columbia her lucky lot has been signed to play the feminine starring role in that studios new comedy this thing called love a tale of a six months trial marriage marriaga e which goes on the t h e rocks before it is well launched miss russell will be seen as a brisk and competent insurance executive and lets hope she wont won t overact over act as she sometimes does and melvyn douglas playing opposite her will be a mining engineer A few years ago the beautiful rosalind was borrowed by columbia for the title role in craigs s wife an unsympathetic part as you II 11 probably recall but in it she proved 1 11 L ROSALIND RUSSELL so conclusively that she could act that the picture gave her a place at the top she scored another columbia triumph as hildy johnson in his girl friday two daughters of famous football coaches are up for roles in tillie the toiler they are marcia and annie lee stagg and were suggested by no less a personage than maude adams the famous actress who coached them at stevens college the 52 6 second kiss record set by ann sheridan and george brent in honeymoon tor for three brought re actions of all kinds from here there and elsewhere A los angeles laundry asked for the handkerchief used by brent to wipe off miss Sheri dans lipstick offering to launder it for nothing an inventor in indianapolis asked brent to be the first to try his new lipstick remover A clock manufacturer inquired what kind ot of watch was used to time the kiss A new york promoter telegraphed a offer to the pair if they would officially open a by repeating the performance for mance and then a woman s club in topeka kan passed a resolution rec om mending that endurance kissing be banned on the ground that it is unhygienic and countless males between the ages of 17 and 60 wrote in volunteering to take over brents brent s next assignment of that kind for nothing when young betty brewer was working with him in rangers of fortune fred macmurray taught her to croon since then she has bas been rehearsing her sister and brother and a little neighbor girl in a quartet which she calls betty brewer and her playmates and its so good that art an advertising agency may put them on the air this fall k As old as radio is the annoying production problem of performers kicking the microphone stand or striking it with their hands if they make gestures while on the air iff I 1 a grating sound comes from your receiving set that s probably the reason cecil B demille thought hed bed solved so ived the problem for his radio theater last year by using a hang ing microphone but without a pase base stand to guide them actors bumped their heads into the mike glut tons for punishment these actor sl undaunted C B went to work again and this year when the cast assembled for the theaters theater s first production manhattan melodrama with myrna loy william powell and of course don ameche they found that a circular guard rail had been bilidt under the mike that suited them perfectly they could rest their scripts on it ODDS AND ENDS C inspirational extra of the yew year is M the title fide bestowed on doris dons davenport by the hollywood studio club because she rose irom from the ex tra ranks to the feminine lead kad in the westerner C douglas fairbanks jr is is vacation mg ing at his farm arm in in virginia C susanna foster starlet of 01 para mounts theres magic in in music alusic was all ready to leave for or a vacation in kearney neb when her dog rex was tila struck by an automobile she un packed k e d her trunks and abandoned act h e r plans to stay at as home until antil rex r re e |