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Show 1 1 Star sag! k Picturing Thomas Edison Great Picture to See O'Brien Rates Contract I By Virginia Vale THERE are two new books that should greatly interest inter-est you, one if you like the movies, the other if you are interested in radio serials in general and two in particular, particu-lar, "Pepper Young's Family" Fam-ily" and "When a Girl Marries." Mar-ries." The book for movie fans is by an ex-motion picture actress, Patsy Ruth Miller; its title is "That Flanagan Flan-agan Girl." Patsy Ruth made a name for herself on the screen in the days of silent movies, although she's very young to be a veteran of that era. Some of you old-timers may remember her as the girl in the Lon Chaney version of "The 1 Hunchback of Notre Dame." She gave up the movies for the stage, after a while she's one of these girls who want to take a shot at everything. Simultaneously, and very successfully, she tried her hand at writing short stories. Then she went back to Hollywood and wrote scripts for the movies, also successfully. success-fully. I "That Flanagan Girl" is that rare ! thing,, a novel about Hollywood which doesn't try to get even with the place and its people by slamming slam-ming it. As for the other book, it's Elaine 1 Sterne Carrington's "All Things Considered," a collection of short stories that have appeared in jjome of our best magazines. Mrs. i.Car-rington i.Car-rington made her name as a story writer and a playwright before she ever thought of writing for radio. The life of Thomas Edison is now I being turned into motion picture his-I his-I tory. Two pictures based on it are being made "Young Tom Edison," with Mickey Rooney, and "Edison L" t - HI ' ' r f I SPENCER TRACT the Man" with Spencer Tracy. Tracy took a trip East to familiarize himself with the famous inventor's background he visited the Edison laboratory at Menlo Park, N. J., and then went to Washington to talk with Charles Edison, son of Thomas. At last we have "Drums Along the Mohawk," and a swell picture it is, too. Plenty of thrills, plenty of Indians, lots of romance and humor. hu-mor. Maybe you read the book if yon did yon won't be disappointed in the film version, which was ably directed by John Ford. It deals with an aspect of the Revolutionary war that is unfamiliar to many of ns, showing settlers in the backwoods back-woods region of New York fighting a war without really knowing what they were fighting for. The cast couldn't be better Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Ward Bond, John Carradine. After five years Freddie Bartholomew Bartholo-mew is off the Metro payroll. Remember Re-member when he came to these shores to play "David Copperfield" as a young boy? His last picture on the home lot was "Listen Darling," Dar-ling," and at present he's working for RKO in "Swiss Family Robinson." Robin-son." When you see the new "Hunchback "Hunch-back of Notre Dame" pay some attention at-tention to Edmund O'Brien, if you want to see the kind of performance that picks up a contract for an actor. RKO just gave O'Brien one, which permits him to switch from screen to the stage and back again. s When the "Pretty Kitty Kelly" cast assembled recently they found a large sign on the studio wall. "This is NOT the Floyd Bennett Air Port!" it sternly announced. Seems that the boys and girls had been amusing themselves at rehearsals by making paper airplanes, flying them all over the place and then leaving them also all over the place. ODDS AND ENDS Bob Hope and Ding Crosby livened up the luncheon hour on the Paramount lot the other day by riding around on bicycles, in black-face, and wearing turbans and baggy pantaloons . . . Mark Warnow, conductor on the Hit Parade, used to play the violin in a street corner band . . . And by the way, his pet baton was whittled from a bat used by Uabe Rulh in the 1932 world series Irene Dunne and Gary Grant will appear ap-pear together again, this time in "Passport "Pass-port to Life!" (Released by Western Newspaper Union ) |
