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Show ! STAR DUST I ovie o i By VIRGINIA VALE AN ANNIVERSARY celebration cele-bration that meant much to motion-picture and radio folk, took place a short time ago at Loew's State, one of the few remaining vaudeville houses in New York. On its sixteenth birthday, players who got their start or revived their careers there sent telegrams tele-grams and encouraged the manager to keep vaudeville alive. Among the many famous names who graduated from this theater are the radio Dets Ed gar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Martha Raye, James Cagney, Walter Huston who played a dramatic sketch fifteen years ago, and Joe E. Brown, who was one of a team of acrobats acro-bats who called themselves artists. Screen stars too Joe E. Brown numerous to mention men-tion have played personal appearances appear-ances there, and it was during an engagement of Buddy Rogers and his band that his romance with Mary Pickford first became widely known. -K Tex Ritter's musical Westerns made for Grand National are becoming be-coming so popular he Is looming up as a real rival for Gene Autrey, who is currently the screen's number num-ber one attraction. No drug store cowboy is Tex Hitter he really comes from Texas, and every so often he bolts from his stage, screen, and radio successes to go back to ranching. The first time he was lured away from ranching, it was for a role in "Green Grow the Lilacs," the Theater guild play which also launched a young actor by the name of Franchot Tone. The next time he came East to appear at the Madison Square rodeo, the radio moguls grabbed him. -fc Gordon Miller, who threatens to become a matinee idol, reached pictures pic-tures by the hitch-hike route. He is slated for the very important role opposite Deanna Durbin in her next picture, "Mad About Music." He hitch-hiked from his home in Flint, Michigan, to New Orleans, where he went to the Plantation night club and offered to sing for his supper. He sang himself into a steady job. Universal picture's talent scouts heard him and signed him up. The same men who picked Tyrone Power and Don Ameche out of obscurity ob-scurity and guided them to film fame think that they have a new matinee idol in the person of Dick Baldwin, whom you will see in the Ritz Brothers' new picture, "Life Begins Be-gins at College." Baldwin was just about to Leave Hollywood, discouraged discour-aged over his failure to get parts, when he was called to the Twentieth Twen-tieth Century-Fox studios for a test. A day later he was given a contract. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, the beautiful beau-tiful swimming star, who has been thrilling the customers at the Great Lakes Exposition since early summer, sum-mer, is going to be Tarzan's mate in motion pictures this winter. She will play opposite Glen Morris, world decathlon champion. Eleanor was in pictures for a short time two years ago. Barbara Stanwyck surprised even her closest friends when she got on f . ; -I ; -r a boat headed for the Panama canal and the Pacific coast instead of one going to London where Robert Taylor is. She said sh has no idea when he and Bob will meet again. It has been raining so continuously in England that out- door scenes of his Barbara picture have bcen Stanwyck deIayed and his aJ most-daily cablegrams sound pretty blue over the prospect of a long absence ab-sence from Hollywood. She won't go over to see him, though, partly because be-cause she is all signed up to make a lot of pictures in Hollywood. ODDS AXD EXDSMay Robson, who is play inn Aunt folly in "The Adventures Ad-ventures of Tom Sawyer" celebrated her fifty-fourth anniversary as an actress ac-tress recently at the David Selznick studios . . . Rod Skelton made such a knockout test for R. K. O. that he has been given the role intended for Milton Mil-ton lierle in "Having a Wonderful Time' . . . Dousfas Fairbanks, Jr., was tummoned back from London via telephone to play opposite Catherine Hepburn in "liringing l'p Baby . . . ( Hollywood moguls really ivant to lure Irene Rich away from radio and back to the screen, she says that they will have to let her play a giddy siren. She wont play any more neglected wives . . . So strenuous is the dance that Eleanor e Whitney will do in Fara-mount's Fara-mount's "Thrill of a Lifetime" doctors doc-tors have prescribed a six-week health routine that includes five meals a day ind ten hours sleep a night as preparation. prepa-ration. Western Newspaper Union. |