Show STAR DUST movie radio bajio by VIRGINIA VALE influenced to a great extent X by thousands of letters from fans norma shearer has definitely decided to make more pictures from new york where she went to visit helen hayes she telephoned the studio that she would come back soon ready to begin preparatory work on marie antoinette she chose this story in preference to any other because she had discussed every detail of its production with her husband before his death actual date of production depends on charles laughton because she is determined to have him in the cast and he is under contract to make several pictures in england it is good to know that we will be seeing norma on the screen again c the most encouraging and sympathetic P aphetic audience any girl eve ever had while making a film test was alice marbles when she tried out recently carole lombard was right there on the sidelines making suggestions gest ions and cheering some people might think that alice marble won enough glory ii in tennis tournaments for wr one young girl but carole carole thinks it lombard would be nicer for her to get in the big earnings that come with glory in pictures radio favorites are moving en masse to hollywood harriet hilliard is back at K R K 0 milton eerie berle will be there soon and very costly it will be for him too because he will have to pay all the expenses I 1 of bringing el his radio troupe west and soon fred allen alien will move his broadcasting activities to hollywood X those august personages at national broadcasting company comp anys s artists service have put a new artist under contract and they are fairly swamped with mail asking about her she is minnie the singing mouse who appeared on the national barn dance program and who will probably be star of a program of her own soon paramount is going to defy the fates and attempt to make a picture that has long been a j jinx finx in in their studio they started d it last year with marlene mariene dietrich and when it was about half finished she walked out and declared that she would have none of it so paramount engaged margaret sullavan sulla van to replace her and then little sullavan tripped over a cable and fractured her arm paramount still likes the story once called hotel imperial and then 1 I loved a sol dier and also they like very much a young viennese actress named gaal george cukor who will direct gone with the wind is determined to cast some 7 4 girl who is not very well known in pictures in the lead one faction at the studio wants tallulah I 1 bankhead whose tests have shown her to be a brilliant actress but too old for the early part of the story others want margarct et margaret sullavan sullavan sulla van but by far the most promising candidate is is a very young and vivid acar actress ess on the new york stage named louise platt plait ODDS und ENDS the MCM M ill C M 31 studio Is busily pairing oll off their stars but just pro professionally jessi 0 nally trying tring to achieve a combination as i sure at the box bov office as gary cooper und and jean arthur have proved to be they are going to try jean harlow ih robert taylor joan Cratt Cr auford lord with willians william porcell both warner brothers and paramount paramon i t are trying to get noel coward and ge gertrude r trude lawrence to do their nine short plays that are broad ivans biggest hits as screen shorts hut a radio sponsor is topping their very every bid portland cloffa always maneuvers an invitation to spend sunday away ra from home because that is the day her husband j fred allen alien writes his radio script and he tike like id 0 o he be disturbed 0 western newspaper valon union |