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Show : STAR ! I DUST JMovie Radio $ By VIRGINIA VALE CO GREAT has been the success of "A Star is Born," all the Hollywood studios are busy making pictures pic-tures concerning the private lives of film stars. Just copy cats, that's what the film producers pro-ducers are. First one of these pictures to reach the screen is "Hollywood Cowboy" with George O'Brien as the star and it Is a very entertaining enter-taining Western. Most pretentious of them all is "Stand In" which boasts Leslie Howard and Joan Blondell in the cast. Most soothing to the ears Is "Music for Madame" in which Nino Martini lifts his voice in song, and the biggest novelty Is Grand National's "Something to Sing About." . Divorces don't Interfere with business busi-ness judgment In Hollywood. For instance, when Wil liam Wyler was asked what player he would like to have in the leading role of "Having a Wonderful Time" he said that only Margaret Mar-garet Sullavan, his ex - wife, had the beauty and acting skill required for the role. TTn snnkp Hpn. ry Fonda, another Margaret ex-husband of Mar- Sullavan garet's, to say that he would like to play opposite her. So, just to complete the cycle, they telephoned her present husband, Iceland Ice-land Hayward, who is her manager, and asked him if she would be free to make the picture before going back to New York for stage engagements en-gagements and he said he would be happy to arrange it. "The Toast of New York" starring star-ring Frances Farmer is a fascinating fascinat-ing picture. It deals with the picturesque pic-turesque period when Jim Fisk was becoming a big shot in Wall Street, when business men went around brandishing buggy whips when they weren't conniving to get control of a railroad, or wreck each other's fortunes. All over the country box-office records are being broken by "Saratoga," "Sara-toga," the picture on which Jean Harlow was working at the time of her tragic death. Her fans would be happier, I think, to see one of her old pictures again, a gay, light-hearted light-hearted picture like "Bombshell" or "Reckless," for in "Saratoga" she is but a pallid shadow of her former self. After arguing for weeks about her salary demands, RKO have at last signed Ruby Keeler to make two pictures a year for them. She won't be in the next Fred Astaire picture, pic-ture, however, for Joan Fontaine has that leading role nailed down. Joan has been working like a beaver, taking dancing and singing lessons preparing for this big chance. Ruby's first will be "Love Below Freezing," the picture which will bring little Mitzi Green back to the screen. A few weeks ago Josephine Hutchinson Hutch-inson was busily reading plays, planning to go back to the stage because be-cause she was so depressed over the parts Warner Brothers had given her. But when her Warner contract expired, M-G-M signed her up and now she says she won't go back to the stage until she is old enough to play character roles. Freddie Bartholomew's guardian has lost one round of her battle to get M-G-M to pay i -si j :: ox j :: ':. . & :. s , . v.-.s ittS-: :- S....v ..ft A him more money. The studio has taken him out of the cast of "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" and giv-: giv-: en the role to Doug-: Doug-: las Scott who played in "Wee Willie : Winkie." As soon ; as Freddie Bartholomew Bartholo-mew started making hi!? monev. his rjar- Frcddie ents- vvho had left Bartholomew his care m the entire en-tire charge of his aunt from his infancy, swooped down on the household and wanted the privilege of spending his money. mon-ey. A court fight followed wherein his aunt tried to protect him, and she did win his guardianship. ODDS AND ENDS Paramount troupes on location are running info plenty of trouble: "The Buccaneer" company near New Orleans had their camera barge wrecked in a sudden storm. An earthquake in Alaska held up work on "Spawn of the North." Furnace-like weather on the California desert knocked out several members of the "H ells Fargo" troupe, and expense ex-pense checks did not arrive in lime to cover production expenses of Clyda Elliot and his gang in Singapore . . . Bob Burns and his bazooka have a rival! Mischa Alter has invented a pop-a-plumc and plays it whenever offered the slightest encouragement. It consists of a row of pop bottles containing con-taining varying amounts of water. ii Western Newspaper Union. |