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Show I STAR ! I DUST I Movie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE RADIO amateurs played a big part in the preparation prepara-tion of the dramatization .of Peary's dash to the pole, presented pre-sented recently. If they had not come to the rescue of the authors, Henry Lanier and Alan Bunce, it might have been a year or more before this program could have been heard. In dramatizing historical event3 It Js necessary to get permission of all living participants to Impersonate them on the radio, and ol Peary'i North Pole expedition Matt Henson, the negro who was the only one to accompany him on the final dash, Capt. Bob Bartlclt and McMUlen still survive. It was easy enough to locate Mat! Henson; he was right In New York. But Bartlett and McMillen were ofl somewhere In the Polar seas. Lanier and Bunce appealed to various va-rious clubs of radio amateurs and for days the short wave channels were filled with calls to the two polar po-lar exploration ships. Finally communication com-munication was established with the Bartlett and McMillen ships, and permission to go ahead with the program pro-gram obtained. K The best picture of the week 13 "Dead End," the most breathtaking- ly-dramatic of all stories of New York. The setting Is an East river street where a millionaire apartment house is surrounded by squalid, sinister tenement ten-ement houses. Back to this neighborhood comes Baby Face Martin, a hunted gangster who had left ten years before Sylvia Sidney and things begin to harpen. Sylvia Sidney and Joel Mc-Crea Mc-Crea p!ay what nre supposed to be Lhe leading roles of the picture, j but Humphrey Eogart as Eaby Face Martin and Gaire Trevor as Lhe sweetheart he deserted. Just take possession of Lhe picture and romp away with the honors. -frit Is notliin; new for secondary players to steal a show. You may remember that It was In "Fl.vlnj Down lo Klo" In which Gene Raymond Ray-mond and Dolores k-l Rio wcra supposed to be the stars, that Fred Astalre and Ginger Rogers scored the knockout success that made them about the most popular younj couple la tho country. Fred Waring Is getting to be an Industrial magnate cf such propor-i propor-i lions that he has had to take a whole floor of an office building In N'cw York to house his music arrangers, secretaries, contract signers, and scrap books. No sooner had he and his versatile boys worked their way Eiist from Hollywood where they made "Varsity Show" for Warners, ! than he f.p and signed a contract to 1 piny at the Drake hotel in Chicago, i When yon see Meiro-Golilwvn-Mayrr's "Madame X." you will see , a scene made under most unusual ! rirruinstanrr. John Peal, making voice and make-up tests when they wero cettiiiK ready to produce the picture, ran throuch the Mcsest dramatic scene, larcely to see If ! lie had his lines all meniorlied. Alt- I cr the picture was shot, some of the start wero a liltlo disappointed, in the way ho played the courtroom j scene where ho defends his mother. Then they remembered the trsl ' shots dug those out of tho film ! vaults and substituted them for the 1 loss-spontaneous performance he Save later. Carole Lombard Is coin? to have such fun In her next Paramount I x i picture, "Truo Confessions." Con-fessions." She plays tho part of a confirmed con-firmed liar, such a habitual liar that she even confesses to n nnivder Hint sho did not commit. John Dairyinoro will support her, playing an eccentric Biiiateur detective who falls for every false chio. mid Fred MacMtiiTay will bo I'arolo laimliai il tho patient, lone sulTerlng hero, whe is Iho victim of her oiii falsa-lioods. falsa-lioods. (.S ,(A7) F.SPS; f.V,.,,, (.,?, lint fieroiue a fVumia )iu.m M , . , (.oiiii fi7,iii,).;;, ,i,.r 0 .loan, n,7i mu,e ier screen .7uf in ".Inulciilj II 1 ll,ii'i' n." r'or a ,ii l,m U lieu nuiiif mil (jiin irr a joi lee.nne ,ie iioAs i imiiiVi ,,e i.m t!ir f'ixif:if 11 miilil lip eonmiii,;, mi nl,iy fur 111 ,.,( .,, ,.iA,.r ,-,,,. imny Inl.r ier . . . K,v H,,P .,; Jin ",ur,v ,Sirmi5ei" ,,r U ,1111.11 lm a, (n icinf.'.i a i,,,, Ju l mil 11111 , irr.ir n .mining h,,,. nun, ml ir.iiin r, 1 .1111 ini r, inn ,,, 11 enii mv mil iron, .o ;, , ,,., ,,,. i"U . . . 'limit l',uk,-,t ,,, I, r.i.n. ,n , .1,1,. urn,,, (.lr, ,; III lie tl,!,!,!!,) $l.lf..0t Vitfrn New 4, i. |