| Show star dust A children of stars A break for nancy goodmans goldmans Good mans Cornet I 1 by virginia vale valc SOME Q OME day when you youngsters LJ L J are grown up and see by the papers that ellen powell is going places with this or that young man know how the old timers feel when they read that sue vidor has been going about with buddy armstrong 1 probably say why I 1 remember when that girl was horn born way back in 1938 her mother was a well known movie star joan blondell and her father was a movie star too dick powell and a master of ceremonies on the radio too but of course you dont see them in pictures pictures ures now and it seems like yesterday that sue vidor was playing that tiny little piano and her handsome hand soma young parents were standing there smiling at her her mother was a famed movie actress florence vidor who retired to marry jascha heifetz the violinist sues father is king vidor the director and speaking of the passing ot of time when she started work recently on three loves has nancy janet gaynor also started out on her twelfth year of making e movies few others have stayed at the top tor for so long which reminds me that in tropic holmay holiday the new martha raye bob burns comedy 0 one n e of bobs scenes is a janet gaynor burlesque of the one in A star Is born in which fredric fedi march swam out to sea to his death people who liked the gaynor march hit picture wont care for that having fought with columbia and had her contract bought off grace moore departed for paris where she will start right in making pictures again shell do both a french and an english version of louise and as french pictures are rarely up to the united states standard she probably wont like the result nancy kelly aged seventeen has been booked to play the heroine in splinter fleet and a lot of people in hollywood are asking who she is and where she comes from and why she should be given so important a al NANCY KELLY role in such an expensive picture but at seventeen nancy is a veteran who rates important assignments she acted in the movies made in the east as a child but gave it up 10 years ago because she had reached the awkward age and devoted herself to radio she was going strong a year ago when she got the role of gertrude lawrences laurences Lawren ces daughter in susan and god a successful play that was one of the new york theaters big hits this year nancy was a hit too darryl zanuck saw her performance and bought her run of the play contract so now ashes back in ill the movies again you cant tell these days where a swing musician will bob up when benny goodman and his band were playing an engagement in texas last year ev everybody erody tor for miles around who liked swing music came to dance during the intermission a young man with a cornet in his hand came to goodman and asked to play tor for him goodman took him into an adjoining room jess stacey sat down at the piano and the young man began to toot buddy said goodman when he had finished whatever your narn name e is you can join my band by the way where did you learn to put a horn through its paces im a member of the salvation army band replied henry james chos been a member of Good goodman mans gang ever since Q western newspaper union |
