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* Coy Beauty Queen
* Summer Football
* Ginger’s Mu's Career
-16v Virginia Vale
'T'lMES certainly have
A changed. Miss Vera Dick
ens of Lynchburg, Va., was
May Queen at Randolph-Ma
con college, and as a result
pictures of her appeared in
the news reels.
Whereupon Metro offered her a
screen test, and possibly a contract.
But she wasn’t at all sure that
she’d accept; said that she wasn't
particularly interested in a movie
career.
At Universal they’re sort of out
on a limb. When they sold the
“Madame Curie” story rights to
Metro, they made a deal which
ROBERT MONTGOMERY
gave them the services of Robert
Montgomery, James Stewart and
Robert Young, when they had the
right stories for these three young
men. And time passes, and they
don’t seem to have yet found the
right stories.
Maybe you think it’s summer, but
the football season is already under
way in Hollywood. Paramount is
filming its yearly football picture,
“Touchdown, Army,” with prac
tically the same cast that last year
did “Hold ’Em, Navy.” Taking
one college a year, they can keep
going forever at that rate.
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Paulette Goddard is taking her
career seriously at the moment. She
plans to go to the Cape Playhouse,
on Cape Cod, in time to appear in
“French Without Tears,” and it’s
said that Charlie Chaplin will coach
her. And of course, if the plan
should be a great success and be
done in New York, with her still in
the cast, she wouldn’t be at all
annoyed.
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Virginia Payne, the star of the
popular radio serial, “Ma Perkins,”
has all plans made for her vaca
tion. She wants to go to Alaska and
(she wants Mrs. Patia Power, Tyrone
Power’s mother, to go with her. Mrs.
Power has agreed to go. The only
difficulty is that Miss Payne, after
elaborately making plans, may
have to stay home. She’s not like
those lucky radio stars who write
their own material, and can just
write themselves out of a sketch
for a few weeks when they want
to go away.
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Ginger Rogers’ mother has
stepped out. She was a newspaper
woman way back
in the Texas days
when Ginger was
just a youngster
who did the
Charleston awful
ly well. She has
always stood be
hind her talented
daughter, helping
her along and
encouraging her.
Now, she feels
that it’s time for
her to make a
life for herself.
Ginger doesn’t
Mrs. Lila Rogers
need her now, she says. So she
packed up and went to New York,
with a play, “Funny Man,” that
needed a producer. She also, though
that wasn’t generally known, was
on a hunt for new talent for the |
screen.
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There are a lot of radio stars
who believe that it’s the second
profession that you follow, not the
first one, that brings success.
Jack Benny began as a violinist.
Burns and Allen were tap dancers.
Lum and Abner were blackface
comedians before they adopted the
characters of rural storekeepers.
Phil Baker was a musician, and
Fred Allen was a juggler way back
in the beginning.
OL)lJS AND ENDS—Jeun Arthur
hits been shopping for a collar for a
Cut, and then huving to explain to the
salespeople that she really wants it for \
a baby lynx—the “Wild Bill Uickok”
company brought the lynx back from
Utah, and Jean wants to keep it for a
pel . , . Lionel Barrymore spends his
span- time in the studio designing a
yuchl compass . . . And James Stewurl
has u 16 mm. movie camera, with which
lie's been snapping everybody in “You
( an'i Take It With You” . . . John Beal
is breaking in u new meerschaum pipe,
the gift of Edward Robinson.
© Western Newspaper Union.
ios Bookmobiles' I
Forty-five million Americans are with
out library service. In Ohio, assisted by
ft PA, community libraries are fighting
this situation with branch stations. One
is in a eh cken coop, others in schools,
private homes and general stores, where
30 to 40 books are left periodically for
the community s enjoyment.
Put ti. '■ mo t unusual method is "book
mo' ile" distribution, now
use .' by 1 l Ohio libraries
and soon to be adopted by
Aicrs. Ohio did not in
v-:U the I ookmobile: this
device dates back to
Hagerstown, 'hi., where
tie ff'cs.hington county
library bean using it in
r od.'
I PA workers handling
bock distribution are
amazed to hear full-grown
i en end women ask for
’lather Grose stories, neg
lected in their childhood because library
books have never before been available. I
Although Ohio leads the nation in li
brary activity, 1.600,000 residents of the
state still have no library facilities.
It's a great day at rural schools in
C.lark county tvhen the If order public
library bookmobile from Springfield ar
rives with 3,000 volumes.
The bookmobile at the left came from the library
above, just as Mohamet came to the mountain be
cause the mountain wouldn’t come to him. This
library’s circulation has increased greatly.
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Art intricate card index system is used to check books in and
out, “Customers” of the bookmobiles come from every walk of i
life, but few arc the youngsters who fail to take advantage of this I
unique educational venture.
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The W arder library at
Springfield sends its *
bookmobile to 63 schools *
Innd villages in Clark
county on regular sched
ule. Right: an interior |
view of the library-on- £
Mother Goose gets a thorough scrutiny from these
happy young visitors to the bookmobile.
Drivers of bookmobiles must know how to check books in and out. \
This bookmobile comes from the Circletille library and serves 33 places
in Pickaway county. The driver is paid by If PA. He is one of several
hundred Ohians engaged in library extension work.
The bookmobiles solicit patronage
from everyone above “cradle age.”
Five miles north of Pomeroy, the Meigs county extension service operates a
library in a Laurel Cliff chicken coop. Earl Brown, at the door, is librarian.
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Mrs. Molly Cunningham of Jackson county
tells her patron about Tom Sawyer. Right: This
home seldom saw books before.
Pupils of Athens county schools are permitted plenty of time to browse dur
ing the visits of the Nelsonville public library bookmobile. Storybook treasures
are brought them by a modern literary argosy, a rolling fund of education.