Show I 1 STAR I 1 DUST J movie e radio air by VIRGINIA VALE SOMETIMES a bad break LJ in hollywood leads to a good one which is just another way of saying that motion picture producers are slow to make up their minds metro goldwyn mayer is going to star willie howard the veteran comic of the stage in a big musical extra extravaganza aganza because he was so funny in a skit in broadway melody of 1938 you never saw the skit no matter how bow carefully you watched the picture because it was cut out when they first saw it the officials of the studio think it was so funny and having to take something out to shorten the picture they sacrificed what howard was sure wb was the he most hilarious skit of his career taking another look at the discarded film officials have decided that it was very funny so funny that they won wont it waste howards talents in the future with the season of big motion pictures only a few weeks old four of the thirty or so pictures Z released have e I 1 U made outstanding hits these are prisoner of zenda with ronald colman and madeline carroll A men and a girl with deanna durbin thin ice with sonja henie and grand nationals some something thing to deanna sing S about with durbin james cagney this last is a grand bit of nonsense in which the pugnacious jimmy sings dances and fights his his way through a delightful story aided and abetted by mona barrie al 11 victor roared into new york recently on his way to london to to make a picture and when victor roars anyone would think the whole boisterous good humored american legion was back in town Ms his high s spirits are arc infectious and his magnetism so overpowering that when he be introduced his friend brian donlevy as the greate st actor in the world everyone agreed for the moment K paramount goes right on announcing one picture after another for frances farmer but miss farmer says that she is coming to new york to do a stage play called the manly art written by luise rain ers husband out at the universal studios where henry mcrae turns out thrilling serials faster than you can say to bs be continued next week they dont have much time to humor temperamental actors but recently they had to give in and waste an hour or so while an actor had a tantrum the actor was a lion mcrae thought he would save the lion from the exhausting hau sting period of posing while hot lights were adjusted and brought in in a stuffed lion as double jealous of this interloper the lion broke loose from his cage rushed on the set and tore the stuffed animal to bits oils ac theater owners an all over the country are begging republic and grand national officials to speed up production on westerns We sterns starring gene autry and tex ritter bitter so that the warbling cowboys will have time to make personal appearance tours the ever growing popularity of these two lads is the sensa sensation t i on of the bookkeeping departments c ever since claudette colbert broke out in she met him in paris as an accomplished figure skater all the other girls have wanted to show oil their proficiency at winter X sports arts ruby keeler I 1 recuperating from her recent illness is planning for her first starring picture at R K 0 the story is called love below freezing a and d claudette the big surprise is is colbert that skiing is the main feature of the picture ODDS AND ENDS Alar narlene lens deitrich ri s ebbro eyebrows tvs that used to extend way out like streamers return to normal in her new neu picture angel and will probably start a new neto fashion jean parker made herself a hat copied copied from one gary cary cooper wore in in the plainsman niman and now a she is tery busy helping friends make copies of it ronald sinclair has drolen entirety entirely satis satisfactory facto r in roles intended for fre freddie die B bartholomew so it is is doubtful that freddie will get uny any altere avith afi li his strike for more money simone simon is going to sing a difficult coloratura aria in her next picture the studio just found out that she used to muke make records in france king bing crosby his friend bube babe hardy to play a dramatic role in his new picture now noto that the team of laurel and hardy have split 9 western newspaper union |