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Show ! STAR f DUST ! $ Movie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE SO PHENOMENAL i3 the success of National Broadcasting Broad-casting company's Spelling Bee program that soon it will be transferred from its Saturday Sat-urday afternoon spot to an evening hour on the blue network. Apparently the whole country feels the urge to compete, for mail pours In from colleges, from old people's homes, from women's . clubs and orphans' asylums, from volunteer firemen and swanky country coun-try clubs asking for a chance to join the fun-Paul fun-Paul Wing, who conducts the program, pro-gram, travels around the country at top speed, broadcasting from here and there, drawing such crowds of fans you would think It was Robert j Taylor making a personal appearance. appear-ance. I If Carole Lombard Is not already j one of your favorite stars, she will ' be as soon as you j sea "Swing High, Swing Low." She Is so beautiful, so Ingratiating, In-gratiating, such a good sport that you just want to climb up to the screen and shake Fred McMur-ray McMur-ray for nearly breaking her heart This picture may do no end of damage . . I ! r ? - r- -' - and cause lnnumer- Carole able family rows, Lombard for Carole never nags, never whimpers, never rages. The character she plays is going to be held up as a model for behavior in private life by all the young fiances and husbands. ! Frances Farmer, who plays the feminine lead In "Toast of New ; York," has skyrocketed to fame in record time, but nevertheless, she has not buried her stage ambitions. ' This summer she will go to New Hampshire to work with the reler-boro reler-boro Players. j The rest of Hollywood may be-i be-i lieve that Glenn Morris, Olympic i decathlon winner, will make an j ideal Tarzan. but Lupe Ve'.ez holds j firmly to the belief that or.ly Johnny j Weismuller can effectively play the j part Even Lupe had to admit In the midst of argument that Glenn Morris had the looks and physique for the part, but she still held out that he would never be able to give the Tarzan yelL. Whereupon some old mcanie said that in that case the producers would hire the same yeller who howled for Johnny. Marion Claire, who for the past two years has been troupinj around the country with "The Great Waltz." has been signed to play Bobby Brcen's mother in "Make a Wish." Schulberg has signed Lenore Ulric, who was so good as the vicious vi-cious grafting friend of "Camillc." to play In "The Great Gambini!" A girl in her "teens r.an-.ei Wyn Cahoon who has had considerable success on the New York stajre has been sinned by Columbia, who have also nailed the veteran Dick Arlen dawn to a contract to keep him from gallivanting 0IT to England again. For those audience that like chills and fever, horror and suspense, sus-pense, blood and thunder, there are two new pictures Just made to order. or-der. "The Soldier and the I.ady," an HKO picture which is really that old classic of spine chillers, "Michael "Mich-ael SlrocolT," is the more spectacular spectacu-lar since It Introduces army scenes made In Europe. More intimate, but less tilood-curdliuc. Is I.ove From a Stranger."" which stars Ann Hard-liiE Hard-liiE and llnsll Hathboiie. It Is a klory of a mild young woman who wins a sweepstake prie and marries mar-ries a llcnd who has dispatched s,-v. oral wives via inorbldlj -conU ived minder. , j. aims An f..; -, (;,,v been liiililcii .... m,-h , , ballon,,,,,,, ,,,, , ho, lukfn )t .iv , y(11 hrar , (M ,nrii llrry in.i on h ;.,krI. ,; '..i.f.ril ),. ,(v lo . ,um ; bono, , krpt rrnun,!,,,, , tf,r,""ih fc'"7M-n ,; in ,, from a iMn.nf krrp, So K,n,lt j ;iit lilt, ir hp ;mi of ,,.r. ''' look ,... ; '.'IIIX lollou-cl" "" PWIrinN,,,,,,,, J |