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Show STAR ! I DUST I M ovic . Radio I I!y VIRGINIA VALE NO ONE could blame Rob-' crt Taylor if ho decided to avoid New York City on his return from Europe. The reception his fans gave him was so frenzied a demonstration demonstra-tion that several stalwart policemen are still nursing bruises. It was bad enough at the railroad station, where screeching women broke through police lines and shoved each other around in an effort ef-fort to shake his hand. But that was nothing to what occurred on the Berengaria Just as the ship was about to sail with him on board. Girls in their teens simply swarmed all over the boat, climbing over rail- ings, breaking through guard ropes, hiding themselves under life boats. Sailing was delayed half an hour because a steward found two youngsters young-sters hiding under the bed in Taylor's Tay-lor's stateroom, and it was thought wise to search the rest of the ship.- Taylor was wearing a three-year old battered brown felt hat, a brown sports coat, gray slacks and shirt, and sturdy brown sports shoes and looked as wholesome and modest as a powerful farmhand. Before "Vogues of 1933" opened in New York, the professional dress J models association gave a party for Joan Bennett, and gave her a plaque to commemorate the occasion. They say she has given new dignity to the modeling profession by appearing in this picture. Joan is the most modest and inconspicuous in-conspicuous guest of Y"?"7WW X f u. i y 1 I ir t P I r 1 honor you ever saw Joan Bennett at a party. She drifted drift-ed In so quietly that few even saw her. She has many charming traits, Columbia Pictures have entered the competition to see who can crowd the most radio, stage, and night club celebrities in one picture pic-ture and at the moment it looks as if they are well in the lead. Their "Freshman Follies" will include Gertrude Neiscn, Jimmy Durante, Hal Le Hoy, the sensational tap dancer, and Johnny Breen, who has grown so popular as bandmaster on that Tuesday night automobile hour. Several of the radio stars around N. B. C. headquarters are dashing through second-hand stores and Chinatown Chi-natown curio shops these days and studying books on Chinese ceramics at odd moments. It is all the fault of John Gambling, commentator on the Monday night "Melody Revue." He recently sold eight rare vases for five thousand dollars after buying buy-ing them for eight hundred. Ramon Novarro went to Reading and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a few days ago to attend the first showings of his Republic picture, "The Sheik Steps Out," and came back quite dazed and deeply touched by the warmth of his receptions. re-ceptions. Crowds came from far and near to meet him at the station, sta-tion, escort him to his hotel and then on to the theater. He appeared ap-peared four times a day and sang encore after eacore and still the audience shouted for more. Smilin' Ed McConnell, radio's well loved singer, humorist and Kw. "WK.-. Mtfte-Lv . philosopher has returned re-turned to the air for his sixth consecutive year as dispenser of good cheer on Sun-d Sun-d a y afternoons. With the new series of thirty-nine weeks comes a change of outlet to N. B. C.'s Blue Network, giving giv-ing the Acme singer-sage a coast-to- Ed McConnell coast hookup. Genial Ge-nial and corpulent Ed returned from "the little place in the North woods" after a summer sum-mer of fishing, swimming and "jes' loafin' around." He is being supported sup-ported in his half-hour broadcast by a distinguished group of musicians. -K ODDS A!'D ENDS Ida Lupino is going to be pretty cautious ajter this when she invites guests to dinner. W. C. Fields liked the cooking so well that he persuaded the cook to come to work for him . . . Hollace Shaw, the C. Ii. S. soprano, has been in New York for six months and has never been inside a night club. Says she likes symphony concerts better, but hoio does she know? . . . Marlene Deilrich is having a lot of peasant blouses made up in Budapest to bring home to her Hollywood Holly-wood friends . , . The most widely-quoted widely-quoted joke in motion-picture circles concerns the wild leopard which is being be-ing tamed to act with Katherine Hepburn Hep-burn in "Bringing Up Baby." Everyone Every-one says, "But who is going to tame Katie so she won't frighten the leopard'"' leop-ard'"' . . . Eddie Cantor wears a blonde wig and impersonates a harem dancer in a sequence of "All Baha Goes to Town1' and his daughters are enjoying it immensely. They pursue him calling call-ing him "Mama." Western Newspaper Union. |