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...will not be out distanced by the Hollywood field. She is less buoyant than Columbia's blonde Grace Moore, but she has more chic. MGM's svelte Jeanette MacDonald may do better in her underwear, but Contralto Swarthout's throat muscles do not wiggle. Over RKO's little Lily Pons, she has the definite advantage of being able to talk English...
Sylvia Scarlett (RKO) reveals the interesting fact that Katharine Hepburn is better looking as a boy than as a woman. Just why, in the plot, she has to become a boy is never clear; it is something about getting over to England with her father, Henry Scarlett (Edmund Gwenn). who wants to start life anew as a lace-smuggler. But once Miss Hepburn has her trousers on, and she and her inept, ingenuous miscreant of a parent have met Gary Grant, a cockney adventurer with smuggled diamonds in his bootheels. Sylvia Scarlett becomes good entertainment...
...Corp. of America's broadcasting chain, were radio addicts; interested in his reason for resigning were cinemaddicts. Mr. Aylesworth attributed his resignation to press of work as chairman of Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Last year Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atla: Corp. and Lehman Bros, bought working control of RKO from RCA (TIME, Oct 21), soon followed this step by installing dapper Leo Spitz as RKO president (TIME Nov. 18). At the same time, RKO's President Aylesworth became RKO's Chairman Aylesworth, and RKO's Chairman David Sarnoff moved out. Observer thought that these moves indicated...
...Person (RKO), Ginger Rogers' first starring picture, presents her as an "agoraphobe."* A cinema star, she fears crowds as a result of having been mobbed during a personal appearance. Secluding herself with a psychiatrist, she goes out only at his urging, and then in heavy disguise. It is on one of her therapeutic excursions that Miss Rogers meets the nephew (George Brent) of a friend of the psychiatrist. After some involved negotiations, she accompanies Brent on his vacation at a mountain snuggery, the theory of all concerned being that in her ugly make-up the cinemactress would be safe...
...waning, cast envious eyes at the Factor lineup. She went West, bought a cosmetic company, gave a great many parties. A second rival group are the Westmores, four brothers of a wig maker once associated with Max Factor, who have exclusive rights to the make-up departments of RKO, Paramount and Warner Bros, and have opened a Hollywood salon. But in the three-cornered battle Factor still wields the most potent weapon, star endorsements...