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Show ! STAR 1 I DUST I J Movie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE OF COURSE you've seen Sid Silvers, and laughed at him, in many a movie now you're going to hear him on the air with Al Jolson, whom you've also seen in pictures, pic-tures, but not recently. Silvers is something new under the sun. He writes the very funny lines he speaks-; that is, he makes them up, but he doesn't put them down on paper. He just says them. Somebody else takes them down. And if he gets a very funny idea during the final filming of a scene, in it goes and the scene is done over again. But what havoc that will create cre-ate if he forgets himself and does it on the air, since radio scripts have to be written and re-written, and then approved. Now it's Claudette Colbert and her husband who are going to adopt a baby from that famous orphanage in Chicago. Irene Dunne and her husband hus-band were the latest couple to do it and Irene, worse luck, had such a bad cold during the first few days of the little girl's presence in her new home that she couldn't go near the infant. Meanwhile Claudette has been given the lead in the Claudette Colbert screen version of "Tovarich," the successful stage play; she should be grand in it. Claire Luce, who was Fred Astaire's first dancing partner after his sister deserted him for matrimony, matri-mony, is in Hollywood, with yearnings yearn-ings to become a motion picture actress. On the stage she got along beautifully with the nimble Fred, but she's not making tests "for RKO, so apparently she isn't being considered con-sidered for his partner on the screen. Practically everyone else has been, apparently! The blonde Miss Luce has a lifetime life-time on the stage behind her that is, she has her lifetime, as she started at the age of four. She was one of the six or eight chorus girls in the musical show in which Miriam Mir-iam Hopkins and various other celebrities cel-ebrities were also chorus girls and what tales they all tell about each other in private! It looks as if James Cagney would break out again not in a fight with a motion picture company this time, but in a new venture. He is talking of reviving the theater in small towns, so you may see him in person per-son before long. It is said that Robert Montgomery and Pat O'Brien may appear with him, as well as his brother Bill. Meanwhile his first picture for Grand National, completed at last. How do you like the idea of a picture with Robert Taylor, Spencer Tracy and James Stewart in it? The picture will be "Three Comrades," and the author is the man who wrote "Journey's End," so the story ought to be good. Once upon a time studio executives would have screamed at the idea of putting three such players in one picture, but nowadays the big companies plan to give us as much for our money as they can. Have you been missing "Minnie Mouse" from the screen? If you ' j ! ' j: --A have, don't worry she'll return. You see, her voice that is, the young woman who plays "Minnie's , voice got married i and went off on a honeymoon. Being the voice for one of Walt Disney's popular characters , is a pretty good job and it means a j contract for the actual owner of the rniep ton. hpcansc Walt Disney the public is so familiar tvith the sounds that Mickey and his co-players make. Maybe some day we'll see that Disne? feature-length picture that has been talked about for bo long. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." ODDS A1SD ENDS . . . Ever since he finished "The Gay Desperado" Nino Martini has been traveling around, giving concerts, and flying east each Wednesday fr his hrond- cist so imagine how thankful he is ' that tlic opera season lias started in New York, keeping him home for the, : winter . . . H. V. Schulberq, the movie I producer, finally admitted that he and Sylvia Sidney uill probably marry uhen his marital affairs are straight' ened out . . . He and Mrs. Schulberg have been living apart lor some time . . . Richard Dix is taking out a patent pat-ent for a thornless rose which he has developed al his ranch . . . Robert Young will appear with Claudette Colbert in "She Met Him in I'aris" which may console him for losing out on "Love on the Run' the Crawford Gable-Tone picture . . . Now they say U is Gladys George who will play the role of the mnfhrr in "Stella Dallas. Western Newspaper Union. |
