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, * Casting Casualty
* Synthetic Cobtvebs
* Radio Build-Ups
1-Sly Virginia Vale
TI/IIEN Irene Dunne was
* * in New York recently
she had what might have
been an embarrassing experi
ence. She lunched alone in
a smart restaurant, and when
it came time to pay the
check she discovered, to her
horror, that she hadn’t
enough money.
She appealed to the manager, ask
ing him if he would cash a check for
the amount. He assured her that
he would. So she wrote the check—
and he promptly framed it. Just
one more case where a well known
face was worth a fortune!
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Kay Francis is looking forward to
September, when her current mo
tion picture contract expires. She
is going off for a long vacation in
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KAY FRANCIS
Europe. And nobody can blame her
for wanting to be rid of the movies
for a while, at least. Bad pictures
have affected her box-office value,
but when she fought for roles
that she knew would be good, she
didn't get them. Now that theatrical
producers go to Hollywood when
they want to cast new plays, it may
be that she will return to the stage
when that vacation is over.
Here’s an odd note on the old
stage-screen battle. “Stage Door”
was a very successful play. The
movies bought it and made it over—
threw away the story and started
from scratch. Now some of the
summer stuck companies would like
to do the stage version, but one of
the authors, Edna Ferber, won’t re
lease it to them—because she feels
that the film version was so much
better than the original!
Next time you see a cobweb on
the screen think of the man who is
Hollywood's expert cobweb-maker,
Jess Wolf. His most recent assign
ment was constructing more than
two mile,s of cobwebs for a castle
in Warner Brothers’ “Kidnaped.”
He has a gadget that squirts a rub
ber compound in a tiny thread. Then
he weaves the threads into a cob
web pattern, and sprays them with
gray paint.
Kay Kyser with his College of
Musical Knowledge has a grand pro
gram with a really new idea. Ky
ser’s from the Middle West, where
a great deal of the talent seems
to come from these days. Remem
ber him on Wednesday nights.
W. C. Fields, who's out of movies
for the time being, may return to
the radio program which he desert
ed months ago. He left then be
cause of a disagreement over
scripts. The same reason was giv
en for his movie contract’s being
terminated. Meanwhile Charlie Mc
Carthy has become so popular on
that radio program that one can’t
help wondering if there is a place
for Fields.
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It’s becoming more and more evi
dent that radio programs coming
from cities and stations outside
New York are better than a lot of
those broadcast from the big city.
One reason is that fast-talking
agents can sell talent that isn’t
really very good. Questioned
not long ago about the success of
a certain singer her agent broke
down and confessed all—told about
how she had been built up, pushed
ahead; how he landed this contract
and then that one for her. Now
she’s one of radio celebrities, draw
ing a huge salary for her work on
a well-known program. And a lot
of girls who sing on local broad
casts made in smaller stations are
ever so much better.
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ODDS AMD EMDS—I’hil Baker has
another daughter-, that makes two
daughters and two sons . . . Claudette
Colbert spent just an hour in Mew
) ork after arriving from Europe and
before leaving for Hollywood . . .
Irene Rich s radio sponsor hus agreed
to let her play Deanna Durbin’s mother
m I lint (.ertain Age" on the screen
. . . Euise Rainer didn’t want to play
a leading rule in "The Great Waltz"
until the company showed her Fran
usca Gaul s tests in the part—which
uus a little hard on Francisco!
& Western Newspaper Union.
Husbands Become 'Golf Widowers9
As Ladies Commandeer the Links
ONE are the days when Mother kept din
ner waiting for her golfing husband.
Nowadays Father must shift for himself, be
cause American women golfers hare become
almost as numerous as men. Enthusiastic
professional teachers are now devoting more
than half their time to teaching women the
ancient Scotch game of “pasture pool.”
A comparatively recent development,
golfing for women wins addicts because it's
good reducing exercise. Doctors encourage
it, and wives have found golf a convenient
mutual hobby to share with their husbands.
Today, most American country clubs set
m
aside special days for women golfers, and
numerous are the social activities built
around the club house.
Except during the war years of 1917 and
1918, a National Womens Amateur tourna
ment has been held annually since 1903.
Most of the current leaders (some of whom
are pictured below) can outplay the average
male golfer. Helen Hicks, now on the Wilson
advisory staff, shows in the accompanying
motion pictures how she has perfected re
markable form in driving (left) and putting
(right). If you're a golfer, these action pic
tures may offer some suggestions.
B Glenna Collett}'are (above)
ra is the Hobby Jones o/ women's
■ polf. She has been national £
H champion six times since 1922;
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A bote: June Beebe, one ifll
of the current crop. Hight: flBj
Pamela Barton, uho won
the United States worn- Hj
ens amateur champion• rag
ship and the British worn• gMg
en’s open title in J936t a
record that has not yet
Mrs. Opal S. Hill, once an invalid, ;:i
r_i» three-time winner o/ the U'esl- vM
era amateur title, ^
In 19271 when Bobby Jones and Tommy
Armour were at their peak, the national wom
en's champion was Mrs. Miriam Horn. She
held the honor only one year, another victim
of Glenna Collett Vare.
In 1932 Virginia Van IVie won her firtt
American title after dogging Glenna Collett
Vare’i trail for five yean. Miu Van IVie kept
the title until 1935.
Mary K. Browne, long since out of the na
tional picture, was at her peak in 1924 after
she deserted tennis fin which she was nation
al champion) for the golf links.