Show I 1 STAR I 1 J DUST J ae movie radio sy by VIRGINIA VALE A ACH year the paramount EACH company can be counted on to present a thrilling panorama of american history in the making and this year they offer wells fargo which in many ways tops all previous efforts even last years plainsman for sheer excitement the adventure heroism and romance of developing coast to coast transportation has alt the breathless sweep of fiction doubly stirring because 1 we I know it Is based 0 on n fact joel mccrae and frances france dee are va the principals in in the the interwoven romance and bob burns steps out of character to play a stalwart of the early west bet ter send the children joel mccrae early to see this one they will want to stay all day and learn a lot of american history in a painless and entertaining fashion it greta garbo stole quietly away from hollywood without even saying goodby good by to her closest mends friends and sailed away to sweden to stay indefinitely ner lifer contract with metro goldwyn mayer calls for or only one more picture and it Is like likely 17 that she will make that one in england metro goldwyn mayer want truman bradley narrator on the CBS sunday evening hour from chicago to go into motion pictures but mr Bral bradley dley is reluctant to take a chance so they have arranged what is probably the most comprehensive series of tests ever given a performer for one whole month bradley will make daily film tests in new york flying back to chicago weekly for his sunday evening stint A new c combination om of talent Is putting over the on broadway program heard beard over NBC don johnson known to radio listeners as the comic professor Figgs bottle is writing ing the program and the leading player is alice frost of the big sister cast fredric march and his wife florence eldridge are running into so much excitement on OB their stage tour they are halt half tempted to write a scenario around their adventures recently the company became frantic when one of the leading actors became ill just before a performance that persuasive freddie march who really should have been a salesman talked kay johnson the film player into tackling the role after a brief rehearsal miss johnson was tr traveling avelin with the company to be near her husband john cromwell who directed the play as a sort of vacation from directing spectacular pictures like the prisoner of zenda c anyone in hollywood will tell you that a motion picture star is lucky if he can hold on to his popularity for five years one of the lucky exceptions is richard dix who has just signed one of the biggest contracts of his life after fifteen years of uninterrupted popularity R K 0 plan to make a big western spectacle something on the order richard elchard D of cimarron his biggest success like jack holt another veteran he gets better with age c ethel merman could have signed a motion picture contract any time during the past four years but the popular blues singer preferred to make just one picture every year or so and then rush oft off to new york and forget about it in happy landing however she is so well photographed and her voice so beautifully recorded that she has succumbed to twentieth century fox blandishments blandish ments and will make pictures regularly tor for them from now on ethel whose perfect phrasing has made her many a composers favorite singer thus adds one more chapter to an inspiring career she was a stenographer and a speedy one who used to get occasional engagements gage ments to stag sing at parties taking a chance she went into a small night club at very low salary and within a few weeks had a contract to make warner shorts ODDS AND ENDS sonja hertle has organized sed an ice carnival cona company pany that will tour several cities while thile she maits lor jor the sc scenario enorio of her next pi picture to ie be written jessica drag onette onalie is being tempted ty by motion picture offers again nobody can read trad aliens scripts but the comic hint sel sell his ll 11 is microscopic maurean OS 11 1 hurried u back from england to tn play with normil norma shearer in murie marie antoinette t 3 western nev newspaper shaper union |