Show ca TH A ITS STAR BUST 71 U ST t l t u a 5 movie 7 radio 0 J A by VIRGINIA VALE FIVE EIVE small boys have just JL about disrupted hollywood they are the youngsters who played on the stage in new york in dead end and who now are in hollywood playing the same roles in the picture e they dont like hollywood they think acting in movies is pretty silly and their complete lack of reverence for glamorous stars frequently makes the girls furious or tearful one of them will go up to a famous star and out of kindness let us call her miss X and say politely Is it true that you get paid laid two thousand dollars a week at her nod of assent the little tough will look her over critically from head to foot and say but why this Is my affair a twentieth century fox picture has barbara and robert N w taylor as its stars which is enough to cause a stampede at the box office any time but in addition this has some gripping historical scenes it must be thrilling enough to the old folks who can remember T teddy e d d y barbara roosevelt and ad miral dewey to see them represented on the screen scree n but for those to whom these two great historical figures are just a legend it is downright throat choking barbara as usual gives a beautifully sincere and moving performance if you like navy pictures with lots of gold braid humming engines wonderful marine views and terrific drama there is wings over honolulu for you it is a universal picture with wendy barrie ray 51 milland illand and bill gar gargan garan 0 an and it is so exciting that I 1 just had to stay and see it a second time incidentally bill gargan is now making a picture on the universal lot called reporter missing and he has been taking the thrills of t the he P picture so seriously that when a burglar alarm salesman wa walked lk ed into his house he found bill a willing customer bill had an electric eye also installed so that anyone entering the house in the dark late at night would pass it and set gongs and bells to ringing an alarm any week now don wilson may have to break down and sing a few songs on the jack benny radio program when jack had to bow out of his usual sunday night radio appearance because of flu wilson subbed dubbed for him and threatened to sing phil harris kenny baker and the rest implored him no not A to and a few days later protests by the bushel poured in from detroit listeners they realize it was all kidding and they resented it they remember you see that don wilson used to sing with a vocal trio at a detroit station and they know that he has a glorious voice voice ir gracie allen alien has a perfectly wonderful idea for raising a lot of money for charity she wants to send her husband george G e 0 r g e burns and his brid bridge ge playing cronies A tony martin bert wheeler d and benny rubin on I 1 jowl a tour of the country X 71 to stage brid bridge 9 e games in public 1 S she he maintains that they play the worst gracie allen alien the loudest and the funniest bridge and that everyone ought to have a chance to see and hear them ODDS AND ENDS folks who scribble on the tablecloths in the paramount studio restaurant are now fitted fined thirty five cents jack bennys bennas debt ran so high that iliac mary livingstone gave him a few old tablecloths from home to use on his table at the studio when tiei dick foran was given ghen a new contract and told that he was going geini to graduate front from westa vest erns into big spectacular expensive productions duct ions he asked wistfully il if he make a western now and then dont you want to be a big important star of the best pictures he was asked no he said 1 I want to ride my horse big hoy boy williams Ifill lams shudders when he thinks of the jeering fan an mail he is going to get soon he had to eat IS 18 cream puffs for or a scene oon ene in lets talk of love Q western newspaper union |