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Show Star Bust "A" Smart Claire Trevor k The Beadle Is a Fox! k Marg Wins Over Dad By Virginia Vale CLAIRE TREVOR'S experience ex-perience shows plainly that it's a wise movie actress who has a radio contract up her sleeve. If she hadn't all signed and sealed for that "Big Town" program with Edward G. Robinson she might still be making B pictures pic-tures for 20th Century-Fox. That's what she was doing when she was given the rather small role of "Francie" in "Dead End," the Goldwyn picture. She played it magnificently, mag-nificently, everybody raved about her performance and then she went back to her own studio, and into B pictures again. She couldn't persuade Darryl Zanuck that she ought to break away from the type of thing that she had been doing for his company. So, last May, she stepped out. She was convinced that, as a free lance, she could get the kind of picture work that she wanted. If she couldn't, she'd do without it. After all, there was always that radio salary, rolling right in! One thing that she wanted, and got, was the leading feminine role in "Stage Coach." One thing' that she didn't want, and didn't take, was a long contract with Warner Brothers. One more thing that she wanted very much and took was marriage, last July, to Clark Andrews. An-drews. He directs that radio program pro-gram that has played such an important im-portant part in her life. Ever since they told Cary Grant that he'd be the beadle on that new Cary Grant radio show entitled "The Circle" he's been asking other people if they knew what it meant. He does (he looked it up immediately,) but he's gauging other people's intelligence intel-ligence by their replies. re-plies. First he queried que-ried the other star performers on the program Ronald Colman, Carole Lombard, Lawrence Tibbett, Grou-cho Grou-cho and Chico Marx and Robert Emmett Dolan. His private quiz program brought out an amazing amount of misinformation. One girl said a beadle was something that hung on a necklace. And everyone was disappointed when they heard that a beadle is just a herald. Hal Roach has given his daughter, Margaret, a full-fledged dramatic role in "Captain Fury."' That marks a victory for 17-year-old Margaret, Mar-garet, ner father didn't want her to be an actress, so she went out and got minor roles in pictures made by other producers. She also sang in a night club. He finally gave in, and now she is happy, and all set to play an Australian settler's daughter who provides romance for John Warburton in the picture. From Jean Hersholt, who is president pres-ident of the Motion Picture Relief fund, comes a story on the "Screen Guild Show." which is broadcast by CBS every Sunday, 7:30 to 8:00 p. m. eastern standard time. Practically all of Hollywood's famous folk, as well as many of those behind the scenes, are contributing their services serv-ices to it. They receive no salaries for their work. The money which ordinarily or-dinarily would go to the artists, writers, producers and technicians is turned over to the Motion Picture Pic-ture Relief fund. It will be used to build a home for the aged and needy of the motion picture industry. Be sure to listen to this program if you want to hear your favorite screen stars; they are all booked to appear sooner or later. Nelson Eddy, whose marriage to Mrs. Ann D. Franklin, former wife of Sidney Franklin, motion picture producer, pro-ducer, recently came as a surprise to studio officials, is taking a vacation from that coffee program. That is, i if you call making a concert tour taking a vacation! He will return to it later in the year. ' K ' t ' " While he Is gone Nf.,son E( Donald Dickson takes his place. He made several appearances on the program last season. Dickson is one of the few important singers who have come to the top by the radio route. lie was singing regularly on a radio program when he was signed by the Metropolitan Opera company ; before be-fore that he sang in local operatic productions in Cleveland, Ohio. ODDS AM) EI)S The latest Citidrrclla stnry from llfdlytvinirl concerns con-cerns yoimn Dana frulrcus, a lad from I pxns . . . '.i said that Samuel Goldu yrt discovered him uJtrn he, trtis piping pai and wiping windshields at a service. .!(! tion nitt far from Hollywood . . . Jame. hi 1 1 son has been ordered to grow a heard for "I'icirdy Mux" and his wife tcoutd HI:p to use one. of his razors on the mnn u ho cast him for the picture. Western Newspaper Uiiirn. |