Star-Studded Shenanigans In Hollywood 4 JmL k Jjfe - | iHb sL JL sEL jk ife W Jfe jmM f W ... ' Jf 4av -. jaMP- ff J-~ .. ''*’¦? . K H * it: 4 -j Paulette Goddard. Dorothy I.amour and Veronica Lake Poke Fun at Themselves In a Song Culled “A Sweater, a Sarong and a Peek-a-800 Bang” In Paramount's Musical Him - ;-/-iW(ll"!|,|pfcll J Comedy of High Jinks in Hollywood, “Star Spangled Rhythm.” Paramount lot. Victor Moore, in ment for the boys from Eddie's hit of business all his own and \ irtor Moore (;il Top) Fib* to lli* Sailor Son, Eddie Bracken, this role, has his sailor ship. Needless to say, Victor Bing Crosby sings in the smash- 'l*hat Is Hoad of I‘ariunoiint, and llotty Hutton Invents an written He son. Bracken, that he is Moore and Betty Hutton fixed up ing finale. .Bing’s backdrop in Artful Pretense in “Star Spangled Rhythm.” Eddie i? head of studio. This little the plot to get the stars to per- this scene is the Gutzon Borglum lJliill»\ ( Below ) Frod MucMurrav. Lynne Overman, Kay Millaml Ami fantasy works well form. Mount Rushmore Memorial with ami F ranrhot Tono in a Hilarious Skit, (ailed “If until Eddie gets shore leave and papa finds At this point the picture be- the heads of the presidents Mon I'lttvod Cards as \\'onion Ho.” is. he must keep up the pretense. comes a revue, with the plot that’s how big the picture Betty Hutton, telephone opera- skipping in ami out like a mis- Preston Sturges and Cecil B. KI>FA ANT, count thirty top-flight stars. By JOHN V. STI tor on the lot, helps him carry chievous child. PeMille, the famous Paramount Editor. There many more Motion Ploture are probably out his deception which practical- In one skit. Paulette Goddard, directors, have roles in the film, rv. though of appear only ryone some them ly drives the real production boss, Dorothy I.amour and Veronica and though they pven't been things briefly « to dazzle. Others knows, likes to do noygh Walter Abel, almost crazy. Lake rather woefully rib them- seen as actors .'Wore it must be HOLLYWOOD,way. Hut Para- linger for a while, like comets, in a big Some high jinks on the tele- selves in a song called “A admitted th.it they know' how. really gone all out in leaving in 'their blazing paths a mount has phone and on the inter-office Sweater, a Sarong and a Peek-a- “Star Spangled Rhythm” devi- called, twinkling love, laughter a new picture appropri- dash of communications system involve -800 Bang.” while Fred Mac- ates from the usual revue pat- absurd ately enough, “Star Spangled and nonsense. big shots in the studio in Murray, Franchot Tone, Ray tern. in that it has a plot which “ To depart from astronomy for all the Rhythm Victor Moore's plot. This in- Milland and Lynne Overman are knits together all the stars anti of “this the moment. “Star Spangled The arithmetic atom cludes a few good-natured digs a minor panic in a sketch called. the skits in which they appear. is-about a lovable sort in the audience” is notoriously Rhythm” at Paramount's real life heads “If Men Played Cards as Wo- And while the plot may appear able to of gent, the gatekeeper on the inadequate hut he was and resemblances to them, while men Do.” somewhat feeble, the comedy in thinly disguised, must neverthe- Then there is a high-powered it moves so swiftly that all its less be taken as wilfully coinci- hit of rhythm done by “Roches- sins may be forgiven. Some Scene* From Paramount'* “Star Spangled Rhythm,” Hutton, dental. ter” and Katherine Dunham in Victor Moore and Petty W hich Include Bing Crosby in a Stirring Finale and “Rochester” swell songs in which the late unlamented “zoot as his accomplice, tie things up BE BARIN’ TO GO There are some and Katherine Dunham in Some High Stepping. Victor Moore the picture but it reaches its high suit” is displayed in the zenith hilariously and Eddie Bracken is and Hutton (Center) ( oneoct a Plot Which F.nll*t» point when Paramount finds it- of its career. w’inning as the sailor lad home Betty f Hope leave. of Paramount’s Top-Flight Stars. self staging a huge entertain- Bob has a hare-brained on All A Tribe That Just Can't Get Along Without War NATION that believes in tied up in some fashion with their jungle to surprise and but< h» r ceaseless warfare and \v«ird religion, till* l with ghosts their foe 9t A death in battle as a re- and jungle gods. Naturally. the Andokcs ar< r • ligious rite has just been dis- No matter how death comes to always Vit torious, bei ause they an Andoke, whether by covered in the gloomy depths of wound in have Home remarkably tough battle, the Amazonian jungle. From by snake bite in tin- jun- neighbors. Actually, it wo?ild gle childhood to old age the men are from a bolt of lightning, seem that no people could -Ivs.il from drowning a from taught that every man not of m river or near them and survive ur.U sa age (although their tribe is their enemy. plain old not many they could take it. But In the die causei, the lanky, from this Andokes long run the Andokcs, KansomA The tale comes from a believe firmly that some living - says, win most of figlit.s broad - shouldered, slow spoken their human being has caused it. If with Boros, Nonuyas. Kara- ' Texan. Bill Ransome, who left the m „ the cause can't be traced directly . *'A „ju» . v Amarillo, Texas, two decades ago hones. Menimehes, Resigc ros and to anyone then some unknown Witotos. jgfl to see what was hidden down in enemy has brought about the and the mysterious trackless man’s death by magical incanta- 'Hie Andokcs are victorious wastes of the northwestern Ama- tions most of the time because first of hp * and who’s been finding the main business of zon basin To be n venged for w hat has all training since. boy for is to tea< h all out things then* ever happened is a religious duty and a life him the tricks fighting Ransome returned recently therefore the frier is, immediate of jungle from more than two years spent family and local tribe of the de- Then, trio, the Andokcs are bigger physically * with and more powerful -—' ¦ «—»¦> among the Andoke Indians <¦• ased promptly pick out some mmmmmammm neighliois the real reason as to why these other individual or tribe as re- than most of their and so they have a distinct advan- light-skinned and brawny sav- sponsible and take the war path tage ages insist on fighting their The Fierce and Belligerent Andoke Indians Don’t Hate Anybody Seldom do the Andokes, of in single hand-to-hand cor- bats which th* all e neighbors without any provoca- and They Don’t Need Anything But They Make whom there are some lfi.ooo, is rule in th» PHILLIPS' Recently he showed up Constant War Because It Is Their Religion. thousands of jungle battles. TAKE fight tion. in armies or as a nation casually in Manaos, Brazil, to Rather small war parties from They use the hard-wood spear make a report to the govern- fortune will happen to them. half civilize them." small villages, for they have no with a vicious, barbed point pois MILK OF MAGNESIA ment of that country on the They’ve believed this for so many Ransome went on to describe central jungle metropolis, are oned darts shot from blow guns Andokes. To get the material generations that it's going to he some of the amazing beliefs of co’ stantly gliding through the hard-wood war clubs and l-mg for this report he went up the a tremendous job to ever even the Andokes. all of which are gri en gloom of the Amazonian bows which shoot reed arrows Amazon for the nineteenth time. with long, deadly barbed points ¦•Most folks,” drawled Ran- carved from the iron-like wood some, "fight bemuse thfii- re sore of the black palm at Reasons for Rationing Coffee y&rujp^c a (tout something or somebody Queer Ransom* says that he wis or because they want something able to live among the fighting ’em. But D ) yoc wakk it in tin* morning more than merely neutralize ex- that doesn’t belong to YOTT'RK a little riled up monly accepted version is that London in 16.'»2. Andokes because he first of all these who .are just ra- the berries by more tired than when you went cess acidit \ it finish*'* thrjnh by Andokes. over the fact that coffee were first found Charles TI of Kngland tried to dazzled them with sleight-of- about the boss men in the tug tioning limits you to approxi- some monks who. fleeing perse- close the I/ondon coffee houses hand "magic" tricks and second to issl? Tlieri . next turn? you aetmg as a gentle laxative pro- IF country that’s watered by the mately one cup a day. there cution in Arabia, bad taken because they not only brewed a ly because the white man’s weap- too much, or stay up Into motes mild, thorough elimina- eat upper Japura in northwest Brazil might be-some consolation in the refuge in Abyssinia. When their fine cup of coffee but political ons make their possessors re- smoking and drinking, take tion.