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Title Role In “Manon"

SINGER'S NEW HOME

Gladys Swarthout In Beverly Hills

When Gladys Swarthout made Upon completion of her current

her professional début, as the starring production tentatively sololat in a Kansas City church. titled "Interlude" in which Cary in her early toens, she nover Grant is her leading man; Grace | dreamed i me day sho'd have a Moore is to appear in the title rule home of her own in Beverly. Ells. of "Manon" at the Metropolitan Calif. Opera in New York and she has commisioned Robert Kalloch. Columbia Studios stylist, to design the featured costume for the prin- dipal. aria.

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After varled and arduous ex- perience in Chicago and Europe. sho reached the Metropolitan Opera, New York. In 1929-And stayed. During her six years there she has been one of the Met's most valued performers. famed for ther rich velvety voice. sin dark beauty, and stylish

This gown of the Louis XVI per- fod is fashioned of thirty yards of lustrous, white satin over petti coats of matching taffets.” The skirt is lined with pink satin which | acting. folds back in front to reveal á Gladys was a sure bet for Holly- matching panel heavily embroider- | wood when the screen began to

·ed in crystal and silver beading.

the

anr, and after Rose of Festoons of silver ince and Rancho soon found herself in- miniature · bouquets of baby pink | stálfed in this gracious Spanish- roses and forget-me-nots orna-style home. She has simple out- ment the skirt and bodies and the door saates, and running her own sleeves are of silver lace rùnles.

household has always been favourite hobby. So she is enjoy- loganit only a new career, but the comforts of a new home. Her latest flim is Champagne Walts with Fred MacMurray.

Kalloch, who first gained: Inter- national fame as a designer as a result of his costumes worn by Miss "The Trail Of The Lonesome Moore in "One Night of Love,” re-

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cently returned... to Columbia Studios after an absence of a year and a half during which time he Was *associated with Madame Frances of New York.

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"THE BIG GAME”

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ROMANCE FOR TWO

May Robsoni has a new "boy triena!” It became known in Hollywood recently.

John Smithson të the gentleman's name and he lives about two blocks from Miss Robson's re- sidence in Beverly Hills.

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ANSWER TO A PRAYER

Film Magnate Is Grateful

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With all the colour, action and excitement typical of college foot- ball and its background, "The Big Game," RKO Radio's gridiron story by Francia Wallace, opena to-day at the Alhambra Theatre,

"Hollywood is the answer to a with a notable roster of cinema

dance producer's prayer!" Leon favourites, along with a cast of

Wishing to make the acquaint-Leonido, vice-president of Radio All-American gridiron gladiators ance of the noted stage and screen City Music Hall in charge of all to provide vivid realism.

star. Smithson dipped into his the lavish stage presentations in Concerning the gridiron career allowance and purchased Miss that famous New York theatre, so of coal miner's son attending Robson a large basket of nowers,

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expressed himself at Columbia college under the sponsorship of a He delivered them personally to Studios, where he was interview- sportsman who makes a fortune her home but was disappointed tong dancera for several spectacular by backing the lad's serisational

playing, the stery is said to be learn of her absence for she was at numbers he is to produce for Grace! Columbia Studios numing in "Wo Moore's current singing picture. man In Distress." in which she 18 | "Interlude." featured with Irene Hervey and Dean Jagger.

replete with dramatic action, comedy, and romance). E."

Philly Huston, brilliant Broad- way stage actor, is cast as the football protege whose reputation suddenly becomes tarnished when his sweetheart's father, a sports writer, leads a crusade against racketeering in college football. Nevertheless, gamblers move into the college town to make "killing on the big game of the season. Huston is abducted and held captive by..gambling "big shota" who 'hase wagered thou- sands of dollars against his eleven

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How his sweetheart, a gambling brother, a high powered press agent and a repentant 'teammate join forces to foil the racketeers, rave the football game and clear the boy's name, precipitate an action-laden climax.

the cast in- Besides Huston, cludes pretty June Travis, as his sweetheart, Bruce Cabot as his sporting sponsor, and Andy Devine. Frank M. Thomas, John Arledge, Guina Williams, Eddie Nugent and Barbara Pepper.

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The next day, however, Smithson received a personal note of thanks and an invitation to have dinner with Miss Robson just as soon as she finishes work on the produc- tion.

John Smithson is 12 years old.

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THINGS ARE

LOOKING UP

Leonidon was, brought to Holly- wood under contract to collaborate with Everett Riadn, associate pro- co-directors Robert ducer, and

Riskin and Harry Lachman on the staging of spectacular dance back- grounds for several of the star's singing numbers.

QUALITY AND VARIETY "I have been producing spectacles and elaborate dance ensembles for

years," said Leonidoff, "but no-

where have I encountered the quantity, quality and variety of really fine dancers for ensemble

work

If high-school life fell into the pleasant lines suggested by "Things are Looking Up." the girls would

To the Hollywood directors I sup- welcome such a teacher as Cicely Fytte, who came from a circus to pose that seems quite natural be- Cause they have everything of teach them. End of term reports,

and talent in beauty

auch however, would be sorry reading abundance, but this is my first ex- for parents. When pupils are able perience in the studios and I am to prove that they are more con- versant with any subject than delighted with the material with their teacher, something is evident- But in the circus ring ly wrong. Cicely was quite at the top of the class. Cicely Courtneidge is the star, supported by Max Miller and William. Gargan.

which I can work.”

Mr. Leonidoff is being assisted in his special dance creations for Interlude" by Alda Broadbent, a Los Angeles girl, who worked with him in the Roxy Theatre. New York, and in Canada. Miss Broad-

The roster of famous football stars includes Bobby Wilson, Frank Alustiza "Bones" Hamilton, Wi- **Things are Looking Up" is a

at the Hollywood Bowl last year Ham Shakespeare, Gomer Janes, school story of an unusual type, bent produced an Oriental ballet "King Kong" Klein. Jay Ber-rt scintillates with joy and merri- and has been associated with the ment and provides first-rate enter-Metropolitan Opera House in New tainment Versatile Cicely Court- George Nicholls, Jr., directed neidge, wise-cracking Max Miller "The Big Charie," 巍 Pandro and the popalar William Gargan 8. Berman production for RKO all the chief roles with a thorough Radio.

understanding of the bright story of a circus rider who for a time

wanger, "Chuck" Bennis.

"KELLY THE SECOND"

acted as mistress. In a kiris' high school. The many pitfalls in that Two of the screen's foremost position are avoided, with resource comediennes met for the first time and audacity, and by strange when they were cast for feature freaks of fortune the subterfuge roles in the Hal Roach-M-G-M is not detected by the school au- full-length comedy production, thorities. Were the pupils also 'de "Kelly the Second," which opens ceived?". to-day at the King's Theatre. They are: Patsy Kelly and Pert Kelton, both stars in their own right with tremendous individual an followings throughout the world.

"So you're the Patsy Kelly Fre laughed at on the screen so many times and whom I have heard so much about responded Miss Kelton to the introduction by Gus Meins, director of the picture. "And this is the Pert Kelton who

"Movie actresses wanted. Only experienced typists need äpply."

That want-ad didn't appear in any Hollywood newspaper, but it would have been appropriate re- cently for in selecting players for classroom scenes in Columbia's "More Than A Secretary," with Jean and George Brent heading the cast, only those screen players with such talents were considered. Jean Arthur's current role is that of an instructor in a girls secretari was responsible for me going to al school and Director Alfred E. see five performances of Five Green was determined that only O'Clock Girl' when it was the hit real, typists, or student typists, show of Broadway, was Miss would be used in order to lend au- Kelly's acknowledgment of the thenticity to the scenes.

Introduction.

"I've heard once workers in Both the Key, as the Hal theatre audiences make loud Roach comedienne terma herself, critisism of screen typists," said and Miss Kelton are. Irish as Green, "and I'm taking precautions Paddy's plg. Both were musical; against that accusation about this comedy stars on the stage before, they transferred their talents to picture

pictures. Pert thinks Patsy is the greatest comedienne on the screen to-day and Patsy holds the same beller about Pert.

Lionel Stander. Dorothea Kent, Reginald Denny, Ruth Donnolly and others are members of the supporting cast of the film.

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CARRILLO'S NEW RESTAURANT

Leo Carrillo, who recently bulls a big apartment house in Santa' California, has just Monica, launched a new really venture in Hollywood, it was disclosed re- cently..

The new enterprise of the actor, From sawdust ring to school desk is rather a change, but it is suc- currently filming in Columbia's "I cessfully managed by Cicely Fytte | Promise To Pay" with Chester in Things are Looking Up." This Morris and Helen Mack, is to be new Cicely Coutneidge picture is known as "Carrillo's Corral," and full of very strange happenings will consist of a group of unique happenings all for the best. The structures on Vine Street near accomplished and lively come Holywood Boulevard, dienne is assisted by William Gaz-ı gan in her double role, and by the inimitable Max Miller in the circus of which she is proprietor. entrancing picture.

Kiss by

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These will include several novel shops and a unique out-door, kit- chen in which guests may cook their own" harbeque dinners or blend their own salads.

Moonlighter temptat

Portrait of a Rebel.” co-starring Katharine Hepb “and Harberi, Marshall, one of the love scenek is played in the made moonlight of a beautiful English garden, in real life," the moon probably would have been aidden behind a cloud fustus Miss Hepburn Craised her lips for her lover's kiss. But for an ideal love scene Director Mark Sandrich mäde sure that the Man in the Moon turned his met How glow right into the star's shining oyes and traced her tremihilág, but willing. Bes with pale allver

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