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NEW YORK’S night clubs
seem to be an excellent
spring board for girls who
want to jump on up into the
movies. Just look at this list
—Grace Moore got her pro
fessional start in one and
Frances Faye stepped from
one into a part in a picture
with Bing Crosby.
Alice Faye, Eleanor Powell, Ar
lene Judge, Grace Bradley, and
Martha Raye all were night club en
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Arlene Judge.
tertainers. Olympe Bradna also ap
peared for a time in one, on her
way from Paris to Hollywood.
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Even though Marlene Dietrich
isn’t under contract to any motion
picture company at the moment no
body needs to worry about her fi
nancial future; she’s signed a radio
^ contract that will pay her $5,000
r a week. Lots of money! But re
-fi cently when she had her pictures
taken by her favorite photographer
at Paramount she had to pay for
them because she” no longer works
there. And that’s the sort of thing
that screen stars mind most aw
fully.
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Shirley Temple has put her hair
up and is losing her teeth—it’s not
unusual for her to report at the
studio, "Well, I lost another tooth
today.” Fortunately she's young
enough not to have it mean tragedy.
In “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”
she has six songs, and you’d hardly
recognize the dear old story, it’s
been so changed to make a good ve
hicle for her. But the change was
worth it; the best box office attrac
tion in pictures is at her best.
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You’ll see Errol Flynn in "The
Singing Cop” also, before long, and
you’ll hear a song that he wrote,
"Tahiti Lullaby,” which is used in
the picture. The man can do any
0- thing!
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Those Walt Disney “Mickey
Mouse” programs have gone so well
that the sponsor has renewed the se
ries for 2G weeks—they’re on NBC’s
Red network on Sundays at five
thirty. But Mickey will have a va
cation during the summer, starting
May 15.
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Andy Donnelly, Jr., who plays
Junior on the “Dick Tracy” pro
grams, sets a good example to the
thousands of youngsters who
wouldn't miss that broadcast for
anything. Though he lives in New
York and goes to school there, he
gets over to Ridgefield, N. J., every
Sunday to go to church with his
family.
Charles Bickford tried his luck in
a stage play and it failed, so now
he’s back in Holly
wood, hoping for
better luck next
time, and making ,a
picture for Repub
lic, “Gangs of New
York,” with another
, ft old-timer, James
C r u z e, directing,
and Nancy Carroll
scheduled to play
the heronie if she’s
willing. Bickford's
return to the screen Charles
will recall the stir- Bickford
ring days of his ear
lier successes as a forceful he-man.
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OI)US AND ENDS—Eddie Cantor
lectured recently at Columbia universi
ty: he gave un excellent talk on “com
edy on the air,” after remarking that
it was ironical for a man who’d never
been through grammar school to be
lecturing at a university . . . Richard
Gordon, who plays Sherlock Holmes on
the uir, loved to play “cops and rob
bers” when he was a kid—-and always
was one of the robbers . . . Deanna
Durbin was given a valuable stamp
collection not long ago, bill knows so
■ time about stamps that she didn’t ap
preciate it—she’d rather collect match
books . . . Mrs. Martin Johnson will
appear on Al Jolson’s broadcast May
third . . . Since Jack Benny was named
America's second best.dressed man he’s
been swamped by mail from men who
want his advice on their clothes . . .
Frank Black’s favorite baton is the tip
of a bamboo fly-casting rod . . . Mary
Carlisle, who is making “Hunted Man”
for paramount, has some now stockings
that have zippers up the back.
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SUMMER SAVAGES
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Agnes Midgley of Salt Lake City worked as
"heaver" (waitress) last summer. She was one of
1,500 savages chosen from among thousands of
applications. Workers arrive by June 15 each
Jear, promptly forgetting that last week they were
ootball captains or campus queens. Overnight
they awaken winter-weary hotels and cabins. But
the park has been open for several weeks.
O UNCLE SAM, its proprietor, Yellow
stone National Park is so-many acres of
woodland. But to last year's 499,242 visitors
the park is also remembered for its 1,500
"savages," mostly college students who
spend their vacations serving park guests.
Many come from prominent families. Sav
ages are notorious for their colorful vocabu
lary. To them visitors arriving in busses
: (driven by "gear-jammers") are "dudes,"
while campers are "sage-brushers." Dish
washers become "pearldivers." Laundresses
are "bubble queens" and a howling baby
is a "lap organ." Most versatile of Yellow
stone's savages is the "pack rat" who does
everything from wheeling grips in a "mollie"
(baggage cart) to lighting cabin fires with
"dope."
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A Senator's daughter, Marjorie Nye of Cooperstown, N. D., |
was a "pillow puncher." So was Marjorie Thacker (right) of 1
Minneapolis. They lived in the girls' dormitory, "Sleepy §
Hollow," and maintained cabins at one of Yellowstone's six
camping centers. The government fee for visitors is $3 per
car. Additional costs, regulated by the government, depend
on accommodations.
Yellowstone offers romance tor savages in "rotten logging as illustrated
by a university of Montana collegian and Miss Carol Dean of North Dakota
university. Savages also enjoy mountain climbing and group activities.
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College science instructors, like Neil Miner (left) show tourists the park and I
are called "90-day wonders." At right is William Kearns, assistant park
naturalist. A small staff of rangers and naturalists is maintained ail year, j
A typical smiling "pack rat" who lives in the
tp "rat's nest" (men's dormitory) was Dale
|K Farringer of North Dakota university. But
P| the most authentic type of savage is Archie
<$5 Martin, Yellowstone's head wrangler in charge
He of saddle trips. Some "dude" riders ask for
|p saddles without the horn (Western type) be
yg cause they "don't exoect "