Show STAR I 1 5 I 1 DUST TJ S JL 5 movie ra radio 10 J by VIRGINIA VALE I 1 IF T F YOU have read damon JL short stories and roared over them or even if you mark down A slight case of murder as a picture that will make you laugh until you ache all over you may think it improbable and incongruous that four corpses could rouse you to such hilarity but these are characters that would be disposed of without tears in in any picture the inspired casting of the picture is what makes it such tun fun tor for edward G robinson plays a comic gangster instead of the d domineering i swaggering ruthless menace that he has played so often and so well he plays here a blundering who just quite bright ir rudy vallee who from time to time jets gets into battles with news photographers tog raphers turned softhearted soft hearted recently g and helped them get some pictures of bing crosby bing flatly refuses to pose for news pictures before or after his broadcasts he usually wears an old sweater or a shirt open at the neck and he is afraid that too much a attention ry rudy vallee might be called to his informal attire bings love for real maine lobsters was his downfall A friend had shipped some to vallee and he offered to share them with bing only if he would pose for pictures when the presentation took place richard himber gave a party tor for kay thompson lou holtz and the rest of the workers coworkers co on his radio program and ever since the CBS studios have looked like a meeting of the society of amateur magicians himber did card tricks at his party not to be outdone out done lou holtz learned to pick watches out of the air kay thompson is specializing cial izing in those old scarf tricks reone small handkerchief torn to bits turns into yards and yards of varicolored vari colored 1 robert benchley whose short film comedies have bein been such a success will soon be launched on a radio program of his own the stroud twins will stay with the bergen mccarthy ameche program through june 19 and frank morgan has cancelled a vacation trip to europe because fans fahs wrote and urged that he be kept on the metro goldwyn mayer good news hour by the time univ universal ersal gets around to making their first picture starring charlia charlie McCarl mccarthy by shirley temple may be old enough to play the leading role first irene dunne was supposed ased to play the lead then margaret Sulla sullavan varl was mas ten engaged now the latest word is andrea leeds the pretty heroine of the goldwyn fo follies alies is going to have the fun of making the picture k ODDS AND ENDS when janet gaynor moved into a dressing room at the international studio to start work on a new picture the only personal furnishings she brought along were lots and lots of photographs of tyrone power only a few days before tyrone had confided con fidei fidel to leila hyams lliams that she was the only ony motion picture star he hd ever wrote a fan an letter to child labor taws laws stand in the way of bobby breens If reens personal appear ances in w some cities so as not to disappoint fans he stands in the lobby and greeff freeti the customers wherever he is not nos allowed allo ived to ape appear ar on the stage stae wayne morris has named his new police dos dog kid galahad 0 devern union |