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Show j STAR X DUST Movie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE- ALWAYS a dauntless trail blazer, Sam Goldwyn ' has just announced that in ! future all of his productions will be filmed in Technicolor. Where Sam leads, others feel that they must follow, and the chief drawback Is that it Is going to be very expensive, because Technicolor Technicol-or film costs considerably more than black and white. First of the Goldwyn Gold-wyn Technicolor films will be "Follies" "Fol-lies" with Helen Jepson, the Ritz Brothers, Zorina, the great Russian ballerina, Virginia Verrill, beloved of radio fans, to swing those blues and a vast array of comics. -K Robert Young got a wonderful break when M-G-M loaned him to play opposite Claud-" Claud-" ette Colbert In "I j Met Him in Paris." ' His own studio ofii-3 ofii-3 cials who lately had ;j been treating Bob rather like a comfortable com-fortable old shoe, 5 went to the preview 5 and came out rav-a rav-a ing about him as if he were a new dis-- dis-- covery. Right away Robert Young they went out and bought the screen rights to a grand story called "Witness "Wit-ness to a Murder," and presented the star role to Bob. There is a pretty thrilling story of grit and courage connected with the Hal Roach picture "Pick a Star." A blonde beauty named Ro-sina Ro-sina Lawrence who sings and dances light heartedly in that and in "Nobody's Baby" was paralyzed as a child as the result of a back injury. After months of consultations, consulta-tions, her mother located a doctor who thought he might improve her condition by giving her exercises. Now she is strong and healthy and agile much more so than other girls who did not have to fight for a chance to walk and dance. There isn't a busier girl In all Hollywood than Dorothy Lamour, which is a break for film fans, but bad news to the many radio fans who have been wishing she would find time to sing regularly on a radio program again. She has just finished roles in "High, Wide, and Handsome" and "The Last Train From Madrid" and will start any day now on "Her Jungle Love." Her first big success, you will recall, re-call, came when she played "The Jungle Princess" and Paramount has been looking for a sequel to it ever since. -K Connie Boswell is the latest radio singer to succumb to the pleas of motion-picture producers. She will warble in Paramount's "Artists and Models." But the most exciting news on the Paramount lot is that Mary Livingstone, the giddy comic of Jack Benny's program and in private life, his wife, is such an inspired in-spired screen comic in her first picture pic-ture that all her supporting players play-ers are sulking. The picture, called "This Way Please," was supposed to star Shirley Ross and Buddy Rogers, but Mary is just romping off with all the scenes. -K It looks as if Kenny Baker of the air waves will be a strong rival of Bing Crosby's on the screen just as soon as "Mr. Dodd Takes the Air" is released. Walter Wanger, who has been searching for a good - looking young singer to play the lead in "52nd Street" persuaded Mervyn LeRoy to let him see as much of the picture as has Bing Crosby been filmed. Immediately, Imme-diately, he decided Kenny Baker was just what he had been looking for. Kenny Baker will have Pat Patterson, wife of Charles Boyer, playing opposite him in the Wanger Wan-ger film. That's a break for him, because she is one of the most utterly utter-ly charming young women in all Hollywood. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Screams of rage and violent protests broke loose on the Paramount set for "Artists and Models" uhen he-men like Richard Arlen and Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist, car-toonist, found they had to get all prettied pret-tied up in knee breeches and lace ruffles ruf-fles for a masquerade scene . . . Mo-lion Mo-lion picture producers are trying to argue Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor out of galloping through mountain, moun-tain, passes on frisky horses. Barbara look a nasty fall the other day with the horse landing on top of her. She wasn't seriously hurl, though ... Motion Mo-tion picture stars can get into accidents acci-dents anywhere, it seems, because Sylvia Syl-via Sidney look a header on the slippery slip-pery floor of a beauty salon and cut her face quite badly . . . Ginger Rogers Rog-ers and Harriet Ililliard have more fun on Sundays when streams of tourists tour-ists are haunting all the well-hnown Hollywood cafes. They pack a lunch and go picnicking, and nobody recognizes recog-nizes them. Western Newspaper Union. |
