Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 50

I wiui lieu liiuume uut'3 mil juuk uiuimhik, jvii, 1 no nl i I result, the 1937-38 position was I mas. Dun Brac'atrret. renortd I comnlctft tr.asUr SCREEN RADIO WEEKLY ry rt III iilliSl ill 2 4 la. afc I I 9 I 1 ODAY I saw an actor who li VERYBODY on the Bing Crosbv houi was ex never forgets his lines, By Grace Wilcox Screen and Radio Hollywood Bureau ROMANTIC NOTES: Tyrone Power is seen more often as Janet Gaynor's escort than with any of the other girls. James Stewart is still dancing attendance on Rosalind Russell, despite rumors of a suitor from the East.

She is away at present in England, of course, but will return shortly. Loretta Young seems to be completely heart whole and fancy free at the moment. The Barbara Stanwyck-Bob Taylor courtship seems more serious than ever. I the presence of GOO guests, Tames Blake Rogers and Miss Astrea Kemmler were married recently in St. John's -Episcopal Church.

Among the guests were Billie Burke, Patricia Ziegfeld (one of the bridesmaids), Mary Rogers, sister of the groom, maid of honor; Irene Rich, Fred Stone and family and several other celebrities, including Eddie Grainger, the director. Mrs. Will Rogers, the groom's mother, made her first appearance at a large function since the passing of her husband. Jimmy put over a typical Will Rogers stunt. Changing into their traveling clothes, the happy bride and bridegroom said goodby to their reception guests at the town house, ostensibly on their way to a honeymoon in Sun Valley.

Driving around the neighborhood for 15 minutes, they returned to the town house and took the freight elevator to the bridal suite, calling up their families for a wedding breakfast the next day. "Nobody ever stopped to think we couldn't get a train out after the reception," grinned the Rogers boy. Somebody wrote in asking me for Jack Oakie's diet. I asked Jack about it and he said: "Plenty of meat and potatoes; lots of carrots; pie, plum pudding and gravy. You'll be surprised how fast you gain!" So that's why I didn't send along the daily diet of Jack Oakie, who seems to get a little stouter every day.

tremely nervous at a recent broadcast. They had only to look at the perspiring and highly excited Bob Burns to go up In their scripts and generally fail to carry on, according to program. Bob's wife was in the hospital, where she gave birth to a lovely little girl. Bob was acting like the regulation male parent, indulging in that highly publicized pastime of hall pacing. When Crosby asked him whether he wanted a girl or boy, Burns hoped it would be a girl, so she would never have to be an expectant father.

Walking down Hollywood Boulevard the other day, I couldn't help wishing some of the fans could have been with me; for once, the stars seemed to be out in force. In the course of three blocks I saw George Arliss. complete in gray gloves, gray tweeds, spats and monocle, with a jaunty Alpine feather in his fedora. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard waved from Clark's station wagon; Bob Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck turned off in the general direction of the It Cafe; the Stroud Twins with one of the Brews-ters popped into the Broadway Department Store and Glenda Farrell went into her bank. which is also mine.

Many aviation pictures have been made since "Hell's Angels," but there is still considerable excitement around the lot when one is in progress. "Test Pilot," M-G-M's latest gesture to aviation, has provided the customary number of thrills, and the publicity man became very interested in gathering a few statistics as to what happened to the cast during filming. He learned that Clark Gable had lost seven pounds since the picture started; and with no dieting, either. Victor Fleming has become such an enthusiast he has purchased a new plane. Spencer Tracy gained two pounds, but that was because he was doing a little forced feeding before going into the hospital for an operation.

Spencer said it was because he let Gable do all the work. Myrna Loy wears only one gown; the rest of the time she appears in gingham dresses and looks as neat as a button. Mike Steinore, of the sound department, is having his ears treated. After running some 5,000 feet of film, recording the roar of airplane motors, he complains he wakes up at night to hear planes diving into his house. Over a period of years, when the elder Tyrone Power lived, the Walter Connollys and the Powers were fast friends and when finally Mrs.

Power was left a widow, with Tyrone, the younger, trying to get a toe-hold, both Mr. and Mrs. Connolly (Nedda Harrington) worried about his future as if he were their own son. Mrs. Connolly, however, was always the complete optimist and assured everyone he would one day be he greatest star in pictures.

With both families in Hollywood, Walter is hoping he may one day work in a picture with Tyrone, although so far he has been kept too busy with his own contracts. obeys instructions to the letter and is seldom temperamental. His name is Lightning and there have been actors in his family for three generations. He is the grandson of Strongheart. Hii director, Earl Johnson, has put him through a difficult school of acting, but Lightning has enjoyed every minute of it.

Because he is the strong, silent type, with no great gifts of conversation, Mr. Johnson spoke for him during the interview. "Lightning was given to me by Larry Trimble, when he was still a puppy," related Johnson. "Up until he was a year old, I did nothing with him at all. A pure-bred German shepherd, he was quick as lightning both on his ieet and in his head, hence his name.

On his first birthday, I began trying out a few simple tricks with him. He was taught to lie down on orders, to sit up, to dig in the ground, to jump hurdles, to open doors, to become so receptive he caught my thoughts as well as my directions." Here was my chance to find out what a celebrated dog trainer thinks of a dog's thoughts. I asked him. "It is my firm belief that dogs think," he asserted staunchly. "Of course, their hearts must be affected first; everything about a dog must begin with his affections.

After that, when it becomes a matter of thinking in order to please his master or someone he loves, he undoubtedly goes through some sort of cerebration that passes with me, at least, as thought. "For instance, dogs, horses, in fact all animals, hate to look into pits or over the edges of precipices. In the picture Lightning is now working in 'Blind starring Richard Dix, the script calls for him to look down into an elevator shaft in order to stop Dix, who is supposed to be blind, from falling into it. He worked all right, going straight up to the edge, then pushing Dix away from it by leaping up on his chest, until the dog's caretaker went into the shaft in order to attract his attention, thus causing him to look down. "Here we immediately encountered an obstacle.

Lightning loves his caretaker and when he saw him down in the hole, he set up a barking and whining and crying that broke up the scene. He thought he was in danger and his first thought was to help him. He couldn't keep his mind on my orders when his heart was involved with the man he loves like a brother. At first I didn't get it, but when his caretaker came up out of the shaft and Lightning whined and moaned and licked his face, the whole set-up became clear. He was worried about him." Richard Dix has some 30 dogs in his kennels so Lightning, recognizing the actor as a dog lover, immediately gave him his loyalty and affection.

Dix is almost as effective in helping him get a scene as Johnson, himself, while Lew Landers, the director of the picture, also a dog-lover, gets the best Lightning has to give. The story is one built around the Seeing Eye dogs and Lightning, who has never before had so difficult a part, is eating it up with gusto. At a recent preview I noticed Arline Judge looking as chic and cuto as ever. Her baby is still too young for her to leave, she says, but the screen needs her vivacity and sparkle. Nobody comes along to take her place.

She must have meant it once when she told me she had rather just stay home and play with her son than go to the studio. I CAN'T help thinking George O'Brien is not only a wise man, but a lucky one to boot. The other day I watched him making a Western over at RKO-Radio studios and there was more life in it than in most dramas that go forward out here. In a "gambling hell" that looked most attractive to a tenderfoot, some 100 men were playing roulette, the wheel of fortune, poker, faro and chemin de fer. The sheriff was there and the oily banker, according to the best Western traditions, but there wasn't an ounce of grease paint or makeup anywhere.

In a black shirt, brown ten-gallon hat, blue overalls and the usual cowboy boots with heels, O'Brien, with a sheriff's badge, seemed to be in command of the situation. He was telling a reporter how 10 years ago he made up his mind to leave the "dramer" to other and more heroic men, while he went out on a horse and had a little fun. He has never regretted it, financially, physically or mentally. He has just as much time to read, he says, as any of the glamour men. "Take this new one," he drawled.

"Isn't there something pretty romantic about 'Gun Law'? Of course there is and like having the same hard-riding guys around in every picture." Some of these children have initiative all right. Take Priscilla Lyon, the eight-year-old girl who plays the role of Amy in "Those We Love." She got her first radio job by tackling C. B. De Mille at the CBS Radio Theater. Grabbing him by the coat-tails, she said she wanted to become nd MIHa.

Artwn at tiAr. her to see him after rehearsal. Later he cave her several children's parts to read and she has been on the air practically ever s'nee. HE CBS Columbia Square is going up with great speed ND so, after exactly four years of this page, I bid and changing the appearance of all the Sunset Boulevard section in the vicinity of Vine and Gower Streets, but Pasiano, the pup, is not particularly glad to see its rapid progress. Pasiano appeared out of the clouds and proceeded to worm his way into the hearts of the workmen and builders.

lie has been fed and pampered until his whole soul is filled with ecstasy, but when one of the workers took him home to be a companion for his young son, thus adding to the pampering, Pasiano, while grateful, was not satisfied. He beat his host to wcrk by 15 minutes the next morning! you au revoir, my friends. Thanks for your letters, your encouragement and your friendly interest. I shall spend the greater part of my extended vacation in a cheerful cottage at Las Tunas Beach, where the Santa Monica Mountains meet the blue of the Pacific and I can step from my terrace into the sea. Here I shall stay until the neighbors complain of the dickety-click of my typewriter, for that's the wav I take mv busman's holid.iv..