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Show : STAR ; DUST 1 JVtovie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE EVERYTHING goes in cycles cy-cles in motion pictures, and just now the Russian cycle cy-cle threatens to monopolize the screen. No less than three of the most fascinating screen sirens are currently holding forth in the midst of Russian magnificence. There Is Marlene Dietrich with Robert Donat in "Without Armor" for instance, Miss Dietrich and Robert Rob-ert Donat make a thrilling romantic roman-tic pair. Another of the Russian cycle Is "The Emperor's Candlesticks" Candle-sticks" In which Lulse Ralner and William Powell appear as rival spies of Russia and Poland. Last but by no means least particularly for music lovers, is "Two Who Dared" Mth Anna Sten, who has been too long absent from our screens. At last George Raft Is out of seclusion seclu-sion and he is so relieved. For plliil Pti monms ne nas naa to go without a haircut hair-cut for his role In "Souls at Sea" and to his eternal discomfiture dis-comfiture his shoulder-length hair was daily waved with a curling iron. He didn't dare face the mugs who are his best friends looking like that The day George picture was fln- lla" lshed he celebrated with a very tight haircut and smeared on the vaseline lavishly. -K Ever since a court forced Mae West to break down and a&jnit that she really was married twenty-six years ago to one Frank Wallace, she has been in seclusion. Couldn't stand having people stare at her Intently looking for wrinkles, while they counted on their fingers eighteen eight-een and twenty-six make forty-four. In those odd moments when they are not discussing Mae West's age, Hollywoodians are raving over the beautiful newcomer, Zorina, who is under contract to Sam Goldwyn. She is an enchanting young woman about nineteen years old. Born in Norway, not far from the Arctic Circle, she went to school in Berlin, joined the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe company when she was visiting In Mexico City, and because of her two years association with this troupe now has . a slight Russian accent Rudy Vallee spends many of his evenings nowadays at a night club in New York where his friend Jackie Osterman is making a comeback after a long stretch of hard luck. Vallee Is a great story teller, and one of his favorites concerns Jack Benny. Vallee whole-heartedly admires ad-mires the drastic way in which Jack Benny treated a hostile vaudeville audience years ago. Benny came out on one side of the stage merrily saying "Hello folks" only to face a bunch of tough-looking ruffians who glowered at him. Continuing right on across the stage, he exited from the stage saying "Good-by folks" and walked right on out of the theater never to return. Martha Raye made the hit of her life and smashed all box-office records rec-ords making personal appearances at the Paramount theater in New York recently. The audience simply could not get enough of her. They surged down to the footlights when her act was over, shot questions at her, begged her to sing one more song, and then just stood and yelled when her voice threatened to give out. Frankie Masters, NBC star and band maestro says "it pays to work your way through college." Frankie rtarted out to earn his way through the commerce school at the University of Indiana by strum- ming his banjo In the band. Soon the band became more profitable than commerce com-merce and he had engagements at ho- tels and leading Frankie night clubs in Chi- Masters cago and other big cities. Frankie is starred with Eddie Ed-die Guest on the "It Can Be Done" program. ODDS AND ENDS There is a fan in Grand Rapids, Mich who writes Gene Autry a sixteen-page letter of criticism and comment every time a new picture of his is shown. He not only reads every line appreciatively, he tries to correct all those faults in his next picture . . . Everyone is marveling marvel-ing at Connie Bennett's good sportsmanship sports-manship in letting Roland Young get most of the laughs in her first comedy "T opper." . . . Paul Muni has been proclaimed the best of all screen actors by all who have seen "The Life of Emile Zola." And Muni says this is the very last biographical picture he will make. He doesn't want to maka any more pictures for a long time. Q Western Newspaper Union. |