Show S staw con is D baat t casting castin casualty synthetic cynthe tic cobwebs radio buildups build ups by virginia vale WHEN win HEN irene dunne was in new york recently she had what might have been an embarrassing experience she lunched alone in a smart restaurant and when it came time to pay the check she discovered to her horror that she enough money she appealed to the manager asking him if he would cash a check for the amount he ha assured her that he would so she wrote the check and he promptly framed it just one more case where a well known face was worth a fortuned tort fort unel kay francis is looking forward to september when her current motion picture contract expires she is going off for a long vacation in f A P J t KAY FRANCIS europe and nobody can blame her for wanting to be rid of the movies for a while at least bad pictures have affected her box office value but when she fought for roles that she knew would be good she get them now that theatrical producers producer 3 5 go to hollywood when they want to cast new plays it may be that she will return to the stage heres an odd note on the old stage screen battle stage door was a very successful play the movies bought it and made it over ove threw away the story and started from scratch now some of the summer stock companies would like to do the stage version but one of the authors edna ferber wont release it to them because she feels that the film version was so much better than the original next time you see a cobweb on the screen think of the man who is hollywoods Holly woods expert cobweb maker jess wolf his most recent assignment was constructing more than two miles of cobwebs for a castle in warner brothers he has a gadget that squirts a rubber compound in a tiny thread then he weaves the threads into a cobweb pattern p kay kyser with his college of 0 musical knowledge has a grand program with a really new idea ky sers from the middle west where a great deal of the talent seems to come from these days remember him on wednesday nights its becoming more and more evident that radio programs coming from cities and stations outside new york are better than a lot of those broadcast from the big city one reason is that fast talking agents can sell talent that really very good questioned not long ago about the success of a certain singer her agent broke down and confessed all told about how she had been built up pushed ahead how he landed this contract and then that one for her now ashes one of radio celebrities drawing a huge salary for her work on a well known program and a lot ot of girls who sing on local broadcasts made in smaller stations are ever so much better ODDS IND AND ENDS phil baker has another daughter that makes two daughters and two sons claudette colbert spent just an hour in new york after arriving irons from europe and b before ef ore leaving for hollywood irene frene richs radio sponsor has agreed a 9 reed to let her play deanna darbins Durbin Dur bins mother smother sn n that certain dge age on the screen luise rainer want to play i leading role in the great waltz unfit the company showed her franisca francisco cisco gears tests in the part which was a little hard on Fran francisco ciscal 9 0 western newspaper union |