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Show tan Bist Trimming Stars Chaplin's Find Hidden Ambitions I . jiy Virginia Valo ' ZASU PITTS has been having hav-ing a lot of fun on her personal appearance tour, and has learned a good many things about her own box office value. , , t. She has brought crowds to the theaters the-aters where she has appeared, and r motion picture ex-' ex-' hibitors have told her that it hasn't been their fault that they haven't shown her pictures. They've begged for them. Any picture that she Is In makes money for them, it seems, no matter who else appears with her. "But you just haven't been mak- Zasu Pitts ing any pictures, Miss Pitts," they said to her. There's a good reason why Miss Pitts hasn't been making pictures, these last months. A number of other actors, also big ones, haven't been making pictures either. Not that she hasn't been offered roles that she really wanted to play. But the companies who sent for her wanted to cut her salary to the bone. These days the big money Is likely, It seems, to go to newcomers new-comers to the screen foreign Importations, Im-portations, cute girls who are being built up. Some of the big players have to swallow their pride, and do, and take the" cut; others stay off the screen. Maybe that's why you've been missing some of your favorites. favor-ites. Miss Pitts has two opportunities to make her debut in New York as an actress; one in a musical show that, because of its authors, is practically prac-tically sure to be a hit, the other in a play. If her husband and children chil-dren weren't so firmly established in California she wouldn't hesitate about accepting one. Remember passing mention that was made here some time ago of Charlie Chaplin's new screen find, Dorothy Comingore? He had seen her in a little theater performance ' 7 F x s "0 X s J fc'-"" - .- . .iSwyr.ny.-,.- -x FREDKIC MARCH at Carmel-by-the-Sea, where he had gone to work out the script of a new picture. Just in case you have wondered I what happened next, she has changed her name to Linda Winters, and you'll see her in "Trade Winds" with Joan Bennett and Fredrlc March, here's a chance to see if you agree with the great comedian on what constitutes good I screen materiaL ! When you see "The Great Waltz" i you'll see some lovely bits of seen- ! ery used as background, American scenery in Gcncseo, N. Y. The rea- I son is that Richard Rosson, Metro ' director, lived there for a while j when he was a boy; now he's back in the old home town, shooting it for the public. ! Cal Tinncy has had such fun on 1 the air with his "If I Had the Chance" broadcasts that he's been tackling his co-workers in the stn- j dio and qtii7.ins them about their ! hidden ambitions. Fred Allen said lic'd like to run a grocery store in a small town in Maine, and Jack I Benny declared that he'd like to be a racing driver, and find out what it's like to tear across the salt flats at Bonneville, Utah, at S50 miles Per hour. As for Cal himself, his Bunprciiscd dcslro Isn't so hard to attain; h0 Just wants to learn to Play the piano. ODDS AND K!'DS-Carefrea' isn't "P to the ,,, KOJ?,.r.t-.srfl ,ard . . Jon Hull ,, n51(,(J b k j No ork ,o lIolly,cod in ord. r to bo II " ,';"s'"", ""I'o "Th Thief of , h ' ; ' v"" is Ion )" ''"'"""' ''" " hit in Um,lonl,, ,,, ,,, happvnrd , V,l'y "' "ro-nul I'aramonnt u ill n racntion tlmt in. 1;' r""'r 01 0rr"" to )'"' New Y,,, k and on tlw ,,ir .. TZn.'- r't in -Hoy, VV.t.rnN.w.,.,ip.r Union. |