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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) JUDGE DUDLEY S. VALENTINE VAL-ENTINE of the Los Angeles An-geles Superior court conducted conduct-ed an important trial recently not in court, however, and the judge wore overalls instead in-stead of his judicial robes. The issue at stake wa-whether wa-whether or not he still retained re-tained his skill as a locomotive locomo-tive engineer. The scene was a movie location set, and the stars of "Torrid Zone" comprised com-prised the jury. It seems that years ago the judge was a railway engineer, and when he learned that an old-time locomotive would be run over its own private track on the movie location, the jurist accepted the invitation of the location manager man-ager also a former engineer to put the train through its paces. With Pat O'Brien and Andy De-vine De-vine in the cab. His Honor took the driver's seat, tugged the whistle cord and opened the throttle. He made the two-mile .run In six minutes min-utes flat, cheered on by his two passengers. pas-sengers. If you liked "Topper" and "Topper "Top-per Takes a Trip" you'll probably be delighted with "Turnabout," by the same author. Hal Roach is producing pro-ducing and directing it, and the casi is made up of people famous for their gift for smart, sophisticated comedy. It includes Carole Landis, Mary Astor, Veree Teasdale, Adolphe Menjou, William Gargan, Margaret Roach, John Hubbard, Donald Meek and Polly Ann Young. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has purchased pur-chased the rights to "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and is planning to pro- ...... . . f- K " I ', ' i ROBERT DON AT duce it in England, with Robert Do-nat Do-nat id the dual starring role. Many years ago it was the liorror picture of the year, with John Barrymore playing the lead so magnificently that he scared audiences almost into fits. Los Angeles is noted as being one of the athletic centers of the country, coun-try, but when Ona Munson (the "Belle Watling" of "Gone With the Wind," and the "Lorelei" of radio's "Big Town,") landed out there she couldn't find any women to play squash with her. She is an avid squash fan, so she advertised in a newspaper for feminine partners, and received no replies. But Ona didn't let that stop her. She was determined to play squash and play squash she does, with men. The Men's University Club in Hollywood has an ironclad rule "No Women Allowed." She's an exception. She's admitted, to play', squash but on Sundays only. ODDS AND ENDS--William Powell nnd Myrna Lny will next be co-starred by Metro in "I lve You A pain . . When radio's "Screen Guild Theater" rinus down its curtain the last of this month the motion pirture relief fund tvill have added 1570.000 to its treas ury . . . Binn Crosby may spend this year's vacation in South America . . Miriam Hopkins will appear opposite Melvyn Douglas in "Singapore," far Columbia. Since his current program, "Musical "Mu-sical Americana," took the air Ray mond Paige has received thousands of letters from students requesting auditions and advice about careers Paige's sponsor Westinghouse recently re-cently held auditions for a "Vocal Stock Company," and received enough applications to form hundreds hun-dreds of them. In preparation for bringing Katharine Kath-arine Hepburn back to the screen in "The Philadelphia Story," Metro made a recording of a performance of the play. She has had a long and successful run in It. and it's one ol her best roles. In the screen version ver-sion Robert Taylor will have the male lead. Edgar Bergen wasn't sorry to pack up Charlie McCarthy and go back home to Hollywood. During his recent scries of broadcasts from New York the demand for tickets was overwhelming, and Bergen con fesscd to a friend that he didn't be lieve be'd ever dare come back-said back-said he'd had to refuse tickets to so many people that he was afraid he'd alienated all his friends. Paramount has announced a new picture, "Merchant Marine." with Fred MacMurray in the lead. |