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Show ! STAR ! ! DUST ! 1 Movie Radio I I By VIRGINIA VALE JUDY GARLAND, Fanny Brice and Allan Jones, those persistent favorites of the "Good News" radio hour threaten to become top-ranking stars in motion pictures, too, as soon as Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer releases "Everybody "Every-body Sing." Unlike recent screen musicals that buried their stories under ponderous pon-derous sets and armies of dancers, this one makes the story all-Important and just introduces song numbers num-bers and gaudy sets Incidentally. It is a tale of a frenzied family. Papa is Reginald Owen, an excit- k.':." , ."" 1 ;.;:;::.. . . -X . t4,;ilillili wmmmmmA mmmmmimmsm Fanny Brice. able playwright; mama is Billie Burke, a stage star given to fits of weeping; Judy Garland the swing-singing swing-singing daughter, Fanny Brice the maid, and Jones, the chef. With the aid of the maid and chef, Judy tries to bring some order into the chaotic household. Waiters up at the Arrowhead Lake lodge where many Paramount companies com-panies go on location think that motion-picture acting and strange tastes in food go together. Fred MacMurray demanded maple syrup on his cottage cheese. John Barry-more Barry-more puts pepper on his oatmeal. Gladys Swarthout eats whipped cream on boiled cabbage, a peasant dish she learned to eat as a vocal student in Hungary. -K Because Carole Lombard does not like turkey and cannot eat it without with-out an expression of disgust, a property prop-erty man on the "Fools for Scandal" Scan-dal" set had to fix up something that looked like a turkey leg, but wasn't, for a scene of hers. He just stripped a turkey leg, wrapped it with roast beef, and Carole was able to play the scene with required enthusiasm. Hollywood players, equally weary of crowds, are joining a back-to-the-farm movement. For some time Barbara Stanwyck has lived on a fcwv& .... Uul.M. Clark Gable Kay Francis ranch quite remote from Hollywood and recently the hinterlands have claimed Myrna Loy, Charles Win-ninger, Win-ninger, Kay Francis, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor and Carole Lombard. -K There is no unemployment problem prob-lem these days among the Hollywood Holly-wood studio hairdressers. Extras appearing with Norma. Shearer in "Marie Antoinette" require the daily services of one hundred and fifteen hairdressers, who draw a total to-tal wage of two thousand dollars. Rumor has It that several of Ray Bolger's best scenes were cut out of "Rosalie," but he does not care any more because he is to be rewarded re-warded with stardom in "Snug Harbor." Har-bor." Audiences at the preview of the "Goldwyn Follies" were so enthusiastic en-thusiastic over Phil Baker. that Sam Goldwyn ordered his salary doubled on his next picture. Third of the trio on whom good luck smiled this week is Frances Dee. Paramount was so impressed by her work in "Wells Fargo" and her current "Marching Herds'" that they have given her a glamorous role opposite George Raft in "Racing Form." -K ODDS ASD EXDSDon Wilson, Jack Benny's announcer, plays himselj in" Radio Ciiy Revels" . . .Fred Astaire and James Cagney are inseparable pals these days. Ever since Cagney revived his old days as a hoofer in "Something to Sing About" he has been dance mad . . . Hcnny Youngman long on the Kcte Smith hour made a tremendous hit in a Hollywood night club with the result that you will be seeing him in motion pictures soon . . . Dick Fowell is dissatisfied dis-satisfied with his radio program and threatens to walk out on it if he is not given more authority over what appears ap-pears on the program . Western Newspaper Union. |