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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE^*
JUDY GARLAND, Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer’s wonder
girl, will be starred in “The
Wizard of Oz” and that is
just the first of many fairy
tale pictures that you may
expect to see in the next
year.
Ever since "Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs” started its record
breaking runs, motion-picture pro
ducers have been wondering if a
fairy taie with human actors
wouldn’t be a good bet. All the
companies are looking for fairy
tales, and as fast as they find them,
all the younger stars from Shirley
Temple to Deanna Durbin will be
put to work in them.
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Considering what has happened to
other operatic songbirds in pictures,
sudden stardom and then a com
plete loss of interest by the studios,
Helen Jepson is very happy that
she plays a fairly small part in
"The Goldwyn Follies.” She thinks
that her career in pictures will prob
ably last a long time if she doesn’t
Helen Jepson
want to be the whole show. She
would like a chance to see some
of the scenes that' were cut out of
“The Follies” though. There was
one where she really looked like
herself, no wig, no special make
up, and her favorite dress. There
was another where Bobby Clark
dropped her kerplunk on the floor.
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Reports of “Merrily We Live” in
which Brian Aherne co-stars with
Constance Bennett were so good that
the Hal Roach studio immediately
wired to New York where he was
vacationing and urged him to re
turn at once. His new picture is
to be “There Goes My Heart” and
when he left a lot of young New
York actresses said that the title
expressed just what they felt.
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“Arsene Lupin Returns” Is a de
lightful and gripping jewel-thief
mystery, played with great skill by
Melvyn Douglas, Warren William,
and Virginia Bruce. William’s part,
though not as large as the others,
is a memorable one, for he plays a
G-man who so relishes seeing his
picture in the papers that he isn’t
worth much to his department,
which cherishes a notion that secret
service should have something se
cret about it.
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After all these weeks of triumph,
Fanny Brice just got around to ex
plaining where she got the idea of
Baby Snooks. It seems that when
Fanny was a little girl she longed to
play Topsy in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
and no one would give her a chance.
Baby Snooks is her idea of a white
' Topsy.
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When Robert Taylor isn’t actually
before the microphone during the
“Good News,” program, he is sitting
just off-stage talking to Barbara
Stanwick. Since she has become a
Robert
Taylor
Barbara
Stanwyck
regular visitor to the broadcasts,
two chairs are placed in this spot
every week.
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ODDS AND ENDS—Unlike most
actors, Bob Burns doesn’t spend his
spare time going to pictures to see
what his competitors are doing. He
saw only three pictures last year, all
sad ones, and he hasn’t seen any yet
this year . . . Andrea Leeds and Janet
Gaynor look so much alike in real
life that they love to stand in front
of a mirror together and make faces,
seeing if the resemblance still holds
true through laughter, tears and
grimaces. It does ... With Margarette
Shanna at the piano, and other cast
members playing drums, xylophone
and trombone, Hie “Arnold Grimm’s
Daughter” company holds a daily
swing concert to relax between re
hearsal and broadcast.
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i As in America’s California and a
few other favored spots, sports lov
| ing residents of Switzerland can live
j in mid-summer heat one day, mid
winter cold the next. Mountain re
treats have long bee.) popular dur
> ing stifling July heat, and an ever
| increasing number of winter sports
jj enthusiasts find skiing, mountain
| climbing and skating quite as pleas
j ant in August as February. Swiss
scientists, in their Alpine scientific
institute, are now studying the ef
fects of lofty elevations on health,
with results that thus far bode well
for the future of mountain sports.
This much is certain, however: Al
though mountain climbing in a heat
ed railroad train is a diversion any
one can afford, only the strong
hearted should venture such a jour
ney afoot.
ROCKY
ROAD TO
PARADISE
Since 1912 visitors to Switzerland’s mighty Jungfraujoch have
gasped at the little electric railroad, five and three-quarter miles
long, which bores its way through solid rock to an incredible
resort near the mountain top. Here, in modern buildings hugging
the sheer cliff, vacationists enjoy winter sports in mid-summer.
FOTO-FEATURE makes the trip from picturesque Interlachen
(left) to the world’s loftiest railroad terminal, 11,340 feet above
sea level. It is truly a “rocky road to paradise” for, although
Jungfrau railway has a smooth roadbed, the rails rest on hard
rock. And Jungfraujoch settlement is a genuine paradise for
snow lovers.
This most unique railway was started in 1896 from plans of a
Zurich engineer. It cost 12 million Swiss francs. Since then
hotels, railroad stations, an observatory and (in 1931) a high
alpine scientific institute have been added as inducement to tour
ists who visit the Interlachen district. All Jungfraujoch buildings
are made of stone and iron to resist the elements.
Jungfrau railway passengers board their train
at Little Scheidegg, 6,770 feet above sea level.
Sports clothes and extra wraps are recommended,
though the railway provides equipment for neglect
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ful tourists. First one and one-quarter miles of
the ascent is in open air, to Eiger glacier, where
the little electric train suddenly dives into a pitch
black tunnel for the rest of the journey.
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First stop is Eigerwand station, 9,406 feet
high, blasted into the mountain. From
apertures the visitor sees Lake Grindel
wald. (Two apertures are ringed in above
K?hen the train proceeds to Eis
low) where travelers can either
or take an elevator to Berghaus.
Here is Europe’s loftiest settle
ment. The buildings, left to right,
are Berghaus, the tourist hotel and
the international scientific institute.
Station Jungfraujoch is inside the
rock. Since this picture was taken
the meteorological observatory
(right) was built, necessitating
blasting which caused startled Euro*
peans to think Switzerland was for*
tifying. The observatory is reached
by elevator from the railroad.