Show I 1 STAR DUST movie M ovie radio il k k aby by VIRGINIA VALE T THE HE millions who have read and loved the adventures of tom sawyer will rejoice that it has been brought to the screen almost intact A few memorable scenes of the clasi clas i sic of boyhood had to be skipped but the important ones are all there the whitewashing of the fence muff potter under suspicion of murder toms startling appearance at his own funeral filmed in technicolor the tones are subdued and pleasant pleasant making the town and all its inhabitants in abitanta abi tants of some sixty years ago look entirely natural there was a great todo to do a year or so ago over david se Selz bic nicks C ks countrywide country wide search for just the right boy to play tom 1 finally tommy kelly son of a worker was found in new york everyone who sees the picture will surely be glad that passed up the precocious actors of hollywood and waited acted until he found tommy lawrence tibbett will come back to the screen if warner brothers have anything to say about it they av X 15 S lawrence tibbett want him for the desert song and he will have time to make a picture soon for grace moore is going in to replace him on the radio H K joan crawford was quite startled recently when she heard an early morning news broadcast announcing that she had left her husband franchot tone and would soon institute divorce proceedings she glanced across the breakfast table and there was franchot Franc bot as usual never mind honey he coun selled they have been trying to ser separate arate us for three years and I 1 dont believe they can do it ever hollywood casting directors deserve a vote of thanks they have pu put t back to work three popular actresses who have been playing hookey from the screen too long zasu pitts wa was s i dragged out of her kitchen where she has been busily writing a cookbook to play opposite V victor or moore in strictly accidental for R ia K 0 joan bennett za zasu pitts itts just returned from a stage tour and very happy to be settling down in her new house in beverly beverl y hills was persuaded to go to texas to film the texan with randolph scott and several hundred long horned cattle in su support port and claire trevor so well ell liked in her ra radio dio serial with edwa edward rd G robinson was cast opposite him in a warner brothers picture ODDS AND ENDS bad ulan of brim 1 stone reviled wallace 13 beeres berys career n under tinder cloud of soso so so itrich mit ci has ins been a pictures lately ile he will ivill follow that ZIP up with a sequel bad man front from arizona 4 1 peter van steeden received ip batory telegrams front from several neav york ichi university sity professors on the fourteenth j 1 anniversary of his radio debut it seems that ant in m 1924 they excused turn hint from his L classes one day so lie he could audition for a radio pi program lie ile has been on the air ever since martha tilton who sings alp ilp mith benny goldmans goodmans Good mans tuesday night fl swing school did the song numbers that ay iy S joyce compton campion appeared to he be dingi singing ng in in the f film bilut the awful truth when you see the he Gold goldwyn ivyn follies you may think j that andrea leeds is singing but your old jl friend virginia verrill of the radio really recorded those song numbers I 1 kl IQ western newspaper union t |