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★ Private Radio Jokes
-ily Virginia Vain
CAROLE LOMBARD and
Clark Gable really ought
to go into the dressmaking
business. They co-operated
on a sports jacket which
Alice Marble, the United
States’ Number One woman
tennis player, will wear when
she steps out on the courts of
Wimbledon, England, to bat
tle for a championship.
Carole designed the jacket, (she’s
Alice Marble’s best friend) and
Clark had his tailor make it. It’s a
knockout. And Alice, tall, blonde
and pretty, will wear it.
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Remember "Dawn Patrol,” In
which Richard Barthelmcss starred,
and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., after
pleading and fighting for the role,
played the second lead so ably that
ERROL FLYNN
he stole the picture and proved him
self a good actor? Well, It’s to be
made again, with Errol Flynn, Pat
ric Knowles and Basil Rathbone in !
the leading roles.
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Claudette Colbert, who recently
got home from that European vaca
tion, likes simple clothes—but listen
to the description of the dress recent
ly designed for her by Travis Ban
ton, one of moviedom’s ace design- J
ers. It’s frilly, it’s frothy; it’s of !
white organza, covered with a print- !
ed pattern of cherries in black. The
skirt is shirred and full, the neck
line is outlined by a flounce, with
wider flounces forming the sleeves.
Sounds anything but simple!
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Alice Brady has had years on the
stage and years in the movies, but
when you hear her on the radio you |
may be sure that she is nervous. |
The microphone simply scares her |
into such a state of nerves that the :
pages of her script have to be past- j
ed on cardboard, to keep them from j
rattling.
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Encouraged by its success In
building Ginger Rogers up as a dra
matic star, RKO is going to try
to do the same thing with Ruby Kee
ler, the dancer who is Mrs. A1 Jol
son in private life. You’ll pee the
first results of the new campaign
in ‘‘Mother Carey’s Chickens.” With
Fay Bainter and Ralph Morgan also
in the cast, the girl will have to act
or be utterly swamped.
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Bob Ripley has discovered, in his
search for “Believe It Or Nots,”
that it is three and two-thirds times
as easy for a man to become an
amazing person as it is for a woman
to do so. He finds that amazing
women are just as interesting as
men, but rarer. The only reason
he can give is that they don’t have
as much chance to distinguish them
selves as men do.
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The first thing any of us know,
someone is going to form an organi
zation to protest
against radio pro
grams which are
awfully amusing
to the audience in
the broadcasting
studio, but pretty
dull to those who
just tune in, and
can’t see what is
going on. Eddie
Cantor is one of
the worst offend
ers. After all, ra
dio is supposed to
Eddie Cantor be heard, not seen.
And I know of
more than one instance in which a
listener, at home, swore never to
buy the sponsor’s product because
it was so annoying to hear the
laughter and not know what was
funny.
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ODDS AND ENDS—Paramount may
follow Metro's example and launch an
air show in the fall, . . Stun Laurel and
his Hussion bride plan a fourth wed
ding ceremony . . . Frank Hluck saves
the stumps from foreign letters, and
gives them to his friends—which keeps
his office filled with both friends anil
stamps . . . Around Hollywood they're
calling “The Adventures of Marco
Polo,” “Mr. Deeds Goes to China” . . .
Gale Page, known to radio but not to
movie fans, has been made a star by
H urner Brothers.
© Western Newspaper Union.
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for the
BRIDE'S
TROUSSEAU
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She'll find a hint of summer in this gaily printed
cotton pique in red and blue on a background of
white, combined with deep blue silk sheer. The hat,
gloves and bag are of the same pique.
Her wedding gown might be of
gleaming silk satin, the color of her
heirloom lace veil. The gown is corded
at the neck and shoulder lines, and her
headdress is made without cutting the
lace.
She'll be flattered by the style and color oi
this one-piece frock, a real accomplishment for
the knitter. It is made with a flare to the skirt,
and is of a new type of yarn combining rayon and
linen that comes in soft "dusty" shades.
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The "picture hat" of 1938 has flat
teringly draped veil of black. It's an
off-the-face affair of conch-shell pink
straw. Black silk belting ribbon is the
trimming.
Accessories...
from Merchandise Mart, Chicago
Here are afternoon gloves of doeskin in
powder blue, with tiny beads embroidered
into a design. The dusty pink bag is a rough
crash, and the rose quarti clip is a flower
pattern, pinned to her dress.
For sports, a
carf in multi-col
ored stripes is an
accent for any
costume, match
ing in color the
oeaked "Sonja
Henie" bag in
oft linen.
For traveling she may wear this beau
tiful ensemble of grege imported
woolen which has a bodice in matching
silk crepe. Olive green crepe lines the
coat and sash, and trims the hat and
bag.
For evening wear she might choose this
lovely gown of white mousseline de soie.
Floating scarfs in two shades of green silk
chiffon form a graceful drapery or a long
cape. Crystal beaded eyelet embroidery is
used for the drop shoulder effect and is
repeated in the skirt.