Show STAR DUST movie radio by VIRG VIRGINIA INIA VALE THE HE great experiment of a fred astaire picture without ginger rogers is now up for p public bublic approval and first reports promise that it will triumph at the box office damsel in distress the effervescent ginger but it has that most blithe of din wits gracie allen alien and her solemn george burns the setting of this giddy tu tuneful neaul story is england where asta astaire ire i as a shy matinee idol becomes romantically entangled with a p peers e e r s daughter aughter played by the ingratiating joan fontaine the story get in the way of the dancing and astaire has never danced with such breathtaking skill before fred astaire when you see him and gracie romping through a carnival engaging in dizzy antics on treadmills tread mills revolving barrels and in front of those crazy mirrors that distort reflections you will wonder why Gra grades cies amazing talent as a dancer has been overlooked so long the long delay in making another feature picture with the dionne quintuple ts has at last been explained by twentieth century fox officials they have been waiting for the little girls to learn english figuring that audiences cant be counted on to study french just in order to understand the little cherubs C waves of dissatisfaction spread through hollywood like an epidemic every once in a while and lately producers have been having their troubles pacifying pouting stars loretta young has decided that she want to make any more pictures with tyrone power for a while not that she like him she does but she thinks that the public tires of seeing the same couple on the screen in picture after picture ginger rogers has served notice on R K 0 that in addition to her salary she wants a share of the profits of pictures she appears in fred astaire and katherine hepburn both share in the profits of theirs dorothy lamour has rebelled against wearing native dress in pictures wallace ford is one of the screen players over whom the first night audience at of mice alice and men alen cheered in new york recently even if the play runs all year however wally figures that his fans out through the country wont forget him for before going into the play he completed the as yet unreleased swing it sailor for grand national and three pictures in england K jack holt is rounding out his twentieth year as an actor and his eighteenth as a mo tion picture star no other performer has enjoyed outstanding popularity m more 0 r e than half as long as he has and hollywood producers will tell you that he is just as popular with them as with the public whether he is is assigned to horses or top hats jack is jack holt always amiable and if a story seems thin he figures it is up to him to give a performance that will build it up some of the young players supporting him in columbian Colum bias under suspicion asked him recently how he got his start and then shuddered a bit as he told them that he rode a horse over a thirty five foot cliff into swirling rapids K I 1 ODDS ANDS ENDS marlene dietrich Dl etrich shed her ter wan and bored manner mann in in a new york night club and joined the crowd she could be as sensational sat ional in comedy as irene dunne is it if she only would but she wont ballroom dancing bores fred astaire until benny goodmun goodman starts playing and then he just cant sit still deity belfy jaynes youthful sensation of the 11 chicago C opera will play alorma ornia old role in student prince kl al C G 41 films it again as a musical when dick powell stopped over in chicago between trains a group ol of aarts funs surprised him by 1 presenting him with their autographed photos 0 western newspaper New union I 1 |