The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-02-03

lem children, and thanks to Sonia q
staggering number of thousands
of dollars was raised.
Sonia expresses her gratitude for
all these honors in neat little
phrases, but she doesn't get the
least bit cocky about it. She seems
as completely unspoiled, as COM
pletely oblivious to her unique posi-
ton in the entertainment world as
Shirley Temple does.
Oracle Allen, long radios queen OF
nonsense, Is at last to get the rec
ognition she deserves from Para
mount pictures. They are having
the author of PhiIo Vance murder
mysteries write teThe Oracle Allen
Murder Mystery" She will be. the
star, and no less a celebrity than
John Barrymore win portray PhiIo
| Vance.
When Jack Benny first started
talking about that rattletrap old car
on his radio program, it was just
the figment of a script writer's
imagination. BY the time radio au-
diences developed a hilarious at
tachment for his wheezy old motor,
Jack began to wish that he really
had one, SO he and Mary Living
stone made the rounds of used-car
lots and found just the car of their
dreams. II is a 1921 model and cost.
thirty-fve dollars.
X
That Compromised return of
Gloria Swanson to the screen is
postponed indefinitely again. Column
bia pictures, which had planned to
have her play the lead In "Holi-
day." have decided instead to give
the leading role to Katherine Hep
burn. Joan Bennett and Cary Grant
will be featured with her, so ii prom
Uses to be one of those knockout
pictures that Columbia turns out
with unfailing regularity whenever
they borrow ranking stars from
other studios.
X
Radio stars are much more
thrifty than the early motion-picture
stars. Most of them invest their
earnings in businesses that are not
so dependent on youth and enter
tainment whims of the public. Jack
Fulton, tenor of Poetic Melodies"
has bought half-interest In a. Fifth
avenue haberdashery Eti4ei Gwen
of Edgar Guests ut Can Be Done"
program, owns dog and cat hos
pital in Milwaukee and is presi-
dent of dog biscuit company. Tru-
man Bradley, commentator on the
Sunday evening hour, is president
of cosmetic firm.
Three young men whose youthful
ambitions were strictly serious have
become radios great comic trio.
Lanny Ross and Charles Butter
worth studied law, and Walter o.
Keefe started out as newspaper
man. II was Walters adaptation
and revival OF 1.-THE Man on the
Flying Trapeze" that flung him into
night club entertaining and from
there to radio.
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ODDS AND ENDS--On his return from
a concert tour OF 80 cifies. igor CORN loiu
get his final American citizenship papers
=. III all his iriumphs Ken Murray is most
proud Of being asked 10 be master OF oere-
monies at The Presidents birthday ball in
Washington Harners have changed
their minds again about rsho is to be the
neto Torchy Blame Nolo il is Lola Lane
Uio t0iH play the role :. Of all the stars
in Hollywood Hotel" ID il benny Good
man nho gets The most rotous response
| from the audience 49, Alice brady Is
headed for more big dramatic roles since
In Old Chicago" bur first she wiu do
another comedy Good Bye Broadlooy-
Tor Universal. Tommy Riggs Of The HaIies
l. pTosfam niH appear in a supporting 4yqle
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