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Show STAR DUST I J Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE GARY GRANT is all set to be the busiest actor in Hollywood for the next year. Now working with Katherine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby," he is all set to rush from that to "Love on Parole," Pa-role," with Miriam Hopkins, after which he will support Ruby Keeler in her first R. K. O. picture Columbia pictures hold a contract with him also, and will have sev- if ' eral stories ready for him just as soon as he finishes his stint on the R.K.O. lot. And somehow or other, Cary expects to find time to play one of the leads in Sam Goldwyn's production pro-duction of the ever-popular ever-popular romance, "Graustark." If you heard him on the air Cary Urant recently with Irene Dunne, giving excerpts ex-cerpts from "The Awful Truth," which theaters will be showing soon, you don't need to be told that it is a thoroughly delightful picture. Practically all of the motion-picture companies have decided that comics in sets of three bring sure success. R.K.O. has the Marx brothers broth-ers now, Twentieth Century-Fox have the Ritz brothers with their hilarious antics, and Paramount has signed up the Yacht Club boys to appear in three more pictures for them. Hollywood producers wish that plump girls were fashionable. Insistence In-sistence on streamlined figures causes them no end of worry. Many of the stars noted for their beauty and chic have to live on strict diets in order to stay slim, and when they are working on a strenuous schedule sched-ule they get so run down that they have no resistance to colds. Recently Re-cently on the ailing list were Carole Lombard, Alice Faye, Joan Crawford, Craw-ford, Virginia Bruce, Simone Simon, and Zorina, the lovely Russian dancer danc-er who is soon to make her debut in Goldwyn pictures. Bing Crosby, who always Insists that he doesn't know anything about music, or about anything, in fact, but race horses, received an honorary hono-rary degree from Gonzaga college in Spokane, Wash. He was a student stu-dent there before he joined Paul Whiteman's rhythm boys and got launched on a radio career. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, Bing gets so much fun out of his radio appearances that he would like to be on the air more than once a week. Radio and picture stars have their favorite performers, just like the rest of us. Rudy Vallee insists on having Jack-Oakie in the picture he will make for Warner Brothers soon. He says Oakie makes any picture a success. Jack Benny would like to have Abe Lyman on his radio program pro-gram permanently thinks he adds a lot of laughs. Beverly Davis, the four-year-old daughter of Joan Davis, that madcap mad-cap dancer who risks breaking her neck in the Ritz Brothers pictures, gives imitations of her mama when she goes to parties. At a kiddies party she was not going over so well, because instead of laughing at her falls, the youngsters howled in fright, but everything turned out all right anyway. Along came a Twentieth Twen-tieth Century-Fox official to call for his youngsters, and he hired little Beverly to play a part. Closest friends of Douglas Fairbanks, Fair-banks, Jr., thought that his great success as an actor in "The Prisoner of Zenda" had cured him of all ambitions to be a producer in England. Douglas says they are wrong. As soon as he finishes fin-ishes playing opposite oppo-site Ginger Rogers in "Having a Wonderful Won-derful Time," he will he off to London t 1 : :: '' ' ' iU J again to be the big Ginger boss ot a production Rogers company. In the future fu-ture he will spend six months of each year in Hollywood working as an actor, the other six in London producing pictures. j ODDS ASD LA7S One of the j most important instruments in B. A. ' Roljes orchestra is an ordinary tin can filled with coins. Shahen by the drummer, this gives out those minor tinlding notes like Oriental bells that build up the gruesome atmosphere of Hi ploy' s u' e irdest Relieve It or A o t s . . . Eddie Cantor's recent high spir-its, spir-its, even higher than usual, are due to the general verdict that his new picture "Ali Rah a Goes Its Town" is by far the best he has ever made . . . Ginger Rogers' favorite tribute tame from a cameraman when she had finished fin-ished hrr big dramatic scene in "Stage Door" lie hollered at h r; "J hrow au a th'.se dancing shoes.'" t Wcstfrn Ncwsp.ipcr Union. |