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Show Stnr Bust k Films in the West What to Call It? k Watch Turns, Rudy! ' liy Virginia Valo THERE was a time when the urgent invitation extended ex-tended to the motion picture industry by Mayor La Guardia of New York to move to that city would have produced at least a ripple of interest in Hollywood. But not now. The motion picture potentates agree with the mayor when he says that New York's a city, that it is the center of the theatrical business and so has more actors than any other town an important fact nowadays, now-adays, when so many people are coaxed from the stage to the screen. , But none of the mayor's arguments argu-ments can offset the fact that the motion picture industry has ah investment in-vestment of millions of dollars in its Hollywood studios, which couldn't possibly be moved to New York or any other city. All previous bets on the best picture pic-ture released in 1939 are off since the new Garbo film, "Ninotchka," (a gay adventure of a Russian So- ; ;? , 1 t::': v.: -m-y::'r-'fr?$ -ym GRETA GARBO viet girl In Paris), made its appearance ap-pearance seems that everybody wants to vote for it. This is Greta Garbo's first venture into sophisticated sophisti-cated romantic comedy. Once again Walter Wanger has changed the title of the picture originally orig-inally known as "Send Another Coffin." Cof-fin." After a time, as reported here, it became "City for Sale." Maybe someone decided that that title wasn't snappy enough to lure customers cus-tomers to the box office in droves, or perhaps there was some other reason for the change after all, "City for Sale" does sound the least bit like a real estate ad. Now it's announced as "Ladies Know Too Much." Meanwhile Tay Garnett is directs ing, and an excellent cast, which includes Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, Ar-nold, Broderick Crawford, Ruth Terry, Ter-ry, Ernest Truex and Janet Beech-er, Beech-er, is going rJ,ght ahead, bent on making a swell picture no matter what it's eventually called. Rudy Vallee had some difficulty when he made his first appearance as major domo of the Charlie McCarthy Mc-Carthy program. When he had his own program, he'd sing a song, then turn around and conduct the orchestra. orches-tra. He was just abaut to do the same thing when he realized that he was a guest, and that the orchestra orches-tra was in the very capable hands of Robert Armbruster. After all. habits formed over a period of 10 years are hard to break. If Ruth Reece, the 10-year-old radio ra-dio star, is one of your favorites you'd better make a note of the fact that she will appear in Monogram's "The Gentleman From Arizona," along with that old-timer, J. Farrell MacDonald, John King and Ruth Barclay. The picture, a Magnacolor film, is the first picture ever to be made entirely in Arizona, and features fea-tures Rex Jr., the only trained Arabian horse in captivity. "Scattergood Barnes," leading citizen cit-izen of Cold River, the hero of the popular series of magazine stories by Clarence Budington Kelland, will extend his stay on the Columbia net- work for another year. He and the other residents of Cold River became be-came CBS stars in 1937, appearing in coast to coast dramatizations five days a week, from 5:45 to 6:00 p. m. eastern standard time. At first the series originated in Hollywood; when it moved to Chicago most of the actors moved with it. It's just 10 years since "Molly Goldberg" first called "Yoo hoo, Mrs. Bloom" to her neighbor, in the very successful serial, "The Goldbergs." Gold-bergs." Mrs. Gertrude Berg, its author, au-thor, had written trunks full of stories sto-ries but never sold a line. Finally she got a radio station to air her serial. It's been going ever since, with Mrs. Berg as author, director, and portrayer of "Molly." ODDS AND ENDS Radio is n longer in its innncy, but some of it itirl stars still think it's news when they letirn to cook . . . Professor Qui2 'ecrived 75,000 questions Inst week jot i new high on the popular Battle of H its . . . Joan lllnndrll doesn't lik hotel coffee: she carries a percolaloi with her on trips, and makes her own Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ' |