| Show STA rk A fr a Y T at Q fr movie ovie badio B adio A by VIRGINIA VALE IT WILL be a long time before radio and motion picture executives forget the abdication of ex king edward VIII of england the radio speech he made just before he left england was so moving that everybody is trying to arrange a regular program that will have one tenth of its appeal on all sides they have been hearing of how strongly it affected its hearers and the movie people would give practically anything for F a story half as dramatic and thrilling as the one they followed so eagerly in the newspapers of course like to film a picture based on the real story but forbidden wt janet gaynor is going to free lance after being under contract to one company for so long she is now making A star Is born on the lot because she liked her part from the moment she read it so ashes going to go on selecting her own roles with the consent of the companies that happen to be making the pictures janet gaynor and ashes crazy about the idea her worshiping public should be too ir bing Cros bys radio programs always have such a casual air that they sound as it if they were being made up on the spur of the moment As a matter of fact written by the ace man of one of our biggest advertising agencies which all goes to show that it takes experts to make people sound natural ie the new version of seventh heaven is coming along fine with simone simon in the role that made janet gaynor famous overnight and james stewart in charlie farrells place henry king who directed lloyds of london which want to see is wielding the megaphone speaking of lloyds of london brings up the fact that his work in that picture made a star of young tyrone power son of the famous old actor of that name twentieth century fox is giving the young man a stellar part in love Is news with loretta young playing opposite him lie ile had a hard bard time getting started being his fathers son the help think it might be now hes on his way X one of our ace directors returned from england recently after completing a very successful picture and announced that hed never get over one thing that happened to him in hollywood he is accustomed to discussing the rewriting of a scene with the author who is working on the picture and having said author promptly leap to a typewriter and dash off the new version in england he was working with a well known woman writer they would discuss the changes that had to be made then she would get into her car and go to her country home A week or so later she would return with the new version of the scene perfectly written at first the director nearly went mad eventually he wondered why everybody work that way joan crawford and franchot tone are the most recent recruits to the broadway stage that is they are if W I 1 they can find just the right play and aw its rumored that t h a t 6 they have and it if J T the studio will let 0 them have leave of absence it has been K no secret that the ambitious joan wanted to try the stage some day she once danced on it joan and now she wants crawford to act but g she wanted to wait till she felt ready for it and has always insisted that her husband must act with her because e shed lack confidence if he ha and as he made quite a reputation for himself before he went to hollywood the change wont be hard for him |
