Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-10-20

Bonita Hume rather startled lot
of people, who felt sure that he'd
never marry again. It wasn't ex-
actly the sort of ceremony that
might have been expected, but Col
mans knowledge of the publicity
that attends any stars wedding no
doubt prompted him in keeping his
application for a license secret, and
having a police judge perform the
ceremony.
Ever since 1920, when he and his
first wife separated, there have been
rum0rs to the effect that the dash
ing hero of eff Were King" was
going to marry someone or other,
although he has never been one of
those young men about Hollywood
who used rumOred romances as
sure-fire way of garnering publicity.
The beautiful Bonita is just the wife
one would select for him-best
wishes to them both!
The fates seem to be agin' Ralph
Bellamy, so far as owning home is
concerned. Last winter the Califor-
MIA floods washed away his $50. 900
home in North Hollywood. This
summer the Connecticut hurricane
washed away the house and much
of the land on his farm in that
state. Looks as if he'd have to buy
him a trailer and settle down in
that.
like Kate Smith; / like her new
radio program Thursday nights,
which keeps her right up there with
the topnotchers. But I do not like
her when l am walked up at the
crack of dawn to receive pale blue
turtle with Greetings From Kate
Smith" across its painted back, ac-
companied by box Of fish food.
Any time the movies need a young
and handsome man to conduct an
orchestra-and really conduct it,
too-they can't do better than to
raid the field of radio and take Mack
lin Marrow. He has been guest con-
ductor Of practically all the big
symphony orchestras but the Bos-
ton and he is undeniably both young
and handsome. What's.more, it was
accidentally, discovered, the other
day, that he screens well.
A friend of his got involved in
making q commercial movie. She
took look at the young men sent
by one Of the model agencies, and
they wouldn't do at all. Then she
remembered him. Unlike many ra-
dio beginners, he was delighted to
do it, just for fun and to oblige a
friend. With that picture serving
as a screen test he should be able
to sign his name to a Hollywood
contract If he ever wants to.
Dorothy Thompson, our most
famous woman news commentator,
has also discovered something
about herself as the camera sees
her. She's on the air now on a
program that includes Phil SpitaI-
ny's orchestra, and the other day a
picture was taken Of him leading
the orchestra, with her at the mi
crophone. 1t couldn't be sent out to
the papers; the dignified Miss
ThOmps0n-Or Mrs. Sinclair Lewis,
just as you ike-l0oked exactly like
q pretty blues singer, instead Of an
important commentator on world
affairs!
Harry Duncan of the radio
Rubes" declares that he can tell
which parts of the country are hav-
ing bad weather by the amount of
fan mail he gets from those sec
tons. During New England's hurri-
cane week the "Rubes" averaged
two hundred letters a day, and he
knew that the storm was really ter
rife when the postman brought four
layer cakes. Thinks all New Eng
land must have been moored to
their radios.
ODDS AND ENDS Charlie Far.
TelPs next stop on his comeback trail
tUiu be The male lead in "TaiIspin,"
tUith Alice Faye Drums" ought 10
go dotcn on your list OF the net0 pic.
lures that you must see Paramount
iUasn't too pleased phen their starLet.
Ellen DretC, told Philadelphia reporters
that she has a Observation-Disclosures.
old son.
Q Western Newspaper Union.