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Show Star SDust -fa Consolation Prize No Publicity Wedding -fa Rolling Home Next? By Virginia Vale IT LOOKS as if the skids had been put beneath another foreign star. Columbia has had Dolly Haas on the payroll for a year at $1,250 a week, which mayb e is a tidy little sum and nothing more to Columbia , but is a lot of money to a lot of us and she was scheduled to play the lead in Lubitsch's "The Shop Around the Corner." She didn't make any other pictures; just waited for that one. So Lubitsch recently moved Into the Selznick-International studio, ready to begin worn: on the picture, his first as head of his new unit In association associa-tion with Myron Selznick. But he wanted, not Dolly Haas, but Janet Gaynor, for the lead. A disappointment for the lovely Viennese, Vien-nese, no doubt. Incidentally, In-cidentally, the demure de-mure Janet goes I IS' . Janet Gaynor right on Increasing In feminine charm all the time. Ronald Colman's marriage to Benita Hume rather startled a lot of people, who felt sure that he'd never marry again. It wasn't exactly ex-actly the sort of ceremony that might have been expected, but Colman's Col-man's knowledge of the publicity that attends any star's wedding no doubt prompted him In keeping his application for a license secret, and having a police judge perform the ceremony. Ever since 1920, when he and his first wife separated, there have been rumors to the effect that the dashing dash-ing hero of "If I Were King" was going to marry someone or other, although he has never been one of those young men about Hollywood who used rumored romances as a sure-fire way of garnering publicity. The beautiful Benita Is just the wife one would select for him best wishes to them both! The fates seem to be agin' Ralph Bellamy, so far as owning a home is concerned. Last winter the California Califor-nia floods washed away his $50,000 home in North Hollywood. This summer the Connecticut hurricane washed away the house and much of the land on his farm in that state. Looks as if he'd have to buy him a trailer and settle down In that. I like Kate Smith; I like her new radio program Thursday nights, which keeps her right up there with the topnotchers. But I do not like her when I am waked up at the crack of dawn to receive a pale blue turtle with "Greetings From Kate Smith" aeross its painted back, accompanied ac-companied by a box of fish food. Any time the movies need a young and handsome man to conduct an orchestra and really conduct it, too they can't do better than to raid the field of radio and take Mack-lin Mack-lin Marrow. He has been guest conductor con-ductor of practically all the big symphony orchestras but the Boston Bos-ton and he is undeniably both young and handsome. What's more, it was accidentally, discovered, the other day, that he screens welL A friend of his got involved In making a commercial movie. She took a look at the young men sent by one of the model agencies, and they wouldn't do at all. Then she remembered him. Unlike many radio ra-dio big-timers, he was delighted to do it, just for fun and to oblige a friend. With that picture serving as a screen test he should be able to sign his name to a Hollywood contract if he ever wants to. X Dorothy Thompson, our most famous woman news commentator, has also discovered something about herself as the camera sees her. She's on the air now on a program that includes Phil Spital-ny's Spital-ny's orchestra, and the other day a picture was taken of him leading the orchestra, with her at the microphone. mi-crophone. It couldn't be sent out to the papers; the dignified Miss Thompson or Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, just as you like looked exactly like a pretty blues singer, instead of an important commentator on world affairs! Harry Duncan of the "Radio Rubes" declares that he can tell which parts of the country are having hav-ing bad weather by the amount of fan mail he gets from those sections. sec-tions. During New England's hurricane hurri-cane week the "Rubes" averaged two hundred letters a day, and he knew that the storm was really terrific ter-rific when the postman brought four layer cakes. Thinks all New England Eng-land must have been moored1 to their radios. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Charlie Far-rell't Far-rell't next stop on his come-back trail will be the male lead in "Tailspin," with Alice Fuye . . . "Drums" ought to go down on your list of tlin new pic-j pic-j lures that you must see . . . Paramount i wasn't too pleased whrn their starlet. V'.llen itrew, told I'hiludrlphiit reporters that she has a three-and-one-halj-year old son. IV Western Newspaper Union. |