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Show ord TvooJ o Fame Buck Doffs Sombrero "A" Mature Movies ' Hy Virginia Vale OOWARD HUGHES must 1 1 get awfully tired of hearing hear-ing that he's going to marry first one limelighted young woman and then another. Unless Un-less he's grown so accustomed to it that he just doesn't pay any attention any more. The gossip linking his name to Katharine Hepburn's had barely ft''. 'V: &(!- died down before the rumor-mongers were insisting that Bette Davis would become his wife as soon as she had divorced di-vorced her husband. He made no comment. com-ment. Bette denied that she and "Ham" were going to get a divorce, as long as she could; she insisted in-sisted that she was merplv cnenrlinry o Kette Davis vacation in Nevada, instead of establishing es-tablishing a residence for" legal reasons.' rea-sons.' The odds have been against that marriage for a long time, ever since she began her speedy climb up the ladder to fame. She has done everything every-thing that she possibly could to make it a success; it's not her fault that it failed. But Hollywood has a i way of being awfully hard on mar- ' riages in which one person is far more successful than the other. "Nobody outside this town knows how tough such a marriage can be, here," a star ?nce told me. "Stars associate with stars, big people with other big ones. You- have to do it! I was a star and my husband was a not very successful leading man, and in spite of everything we could do, we almost had to separate, before be-fore he got a lucky break and was I on top too." i It's going to seem awfully funny to have Buck Jones turning into a straight dramatic star. But that's what he is going to do. He has finished "Law of the Texan," which he says is his final western, and after a short vacation vaca-tion he will begin workin Paramount's "Vice Squad." We take this opportunity of showing Buck in a ten-gallon top-piece top-piece for perhaps the last time. Buck Jones If you believe along with a lot of other people that the movies are still in their infancy, pause and consider con-sider the fact that recently, in New York, a plaque was unveiled on the wall of the building now standing on the site where the first theatrical thea-trical motion picture was screened. The machine that made that showing show-ing possible was Thomas Edison's Vitascope, and his daughter, Mrs. Joen E. Sloan, unveiled the plaque. Another fact that brings home the realization that the movies have been in existence for quite some time is the presence, in the cast of KKO's "Gunga Din," of a young woman named Fay McKenzie. She has had experience in stock with her parents' troupe and has appeared ap-peared with various Los Angeles theatrical companies, but has yet to make her name in pictures. But she made her screen debut when she was ten months old in the role of Gloria Swanson's daughter! If you are interested in writing for the radio you'd better make a list of the things that just musn't be done in the script of the average serial. Only the older men can smoke preferably a pipe or a cigar; ci-gar; no women can smoke. No one, not even the villain, can touch liquor. As a radio veteran Lanny Ross is true to the air waves, but his summer sum-mer as a theatrical star almost made him wish that he'd gone on the stage long ago instead of becoming be-coming a singer. He appeared in a number of summer theaters, and at the one in Ogonquit, Maine, a farmer was so pleased with Lanny's work in "Petticoat Fever" that he came backstage afterward and promised Lanny free milk for a year. Have you heard the new singer with Horace Heidt's band, Jean Far-ney? Far-ney? When the band was playing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she walked into town from the farm where she worked and asked for an audition. Heidt was skeptical, but let her sing. And so she got the job. ODDS A!'D EXDS . . . After his im- nromptu appearance on r ox I op, when he revealed the fact that he has a delithtlul singing voice Governor Chandler of Kentucky could easily ha, become a radio star if he d uanied to "Drums" is a swell picture it jus : 'ti'fi'es that claim that "Motion picture.-are picture.-are your best entertainment" Maurice Mau-rice Costcllo, father of Dolores Coslello narrrmorc and screen slur in the earli est days of the movies, is working again before the cameras as a bit player . . Tommy lane, who's just eleven, won out over all competition for that sing-ing sing-ing spot on oe tenners programs. Western Newspaper Lmon. |