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Show STAGE'-SCREEh!vRADIO Ity VIRGINIA VAI.K GINNY SIMMS, etar of "Johnny Presents," is pretty proud of the fact that she's been made an honorary j member of the Order of the Purple Heart for 1945. Ginny rates it; during a recent "vacation" of one week f;he toured veterans' hospitals In New Mexico and Texas; did a total of B3 Bhows for wounded Kervicemen. As yet she hann't been decorated for giving advice to the men on affairs of the heart, though she does lots of ( ... ... ' . - l. ' ') ' ' " I : ' , " " , ' ' ' i j j GINNY SIMMS It. One lad wrote her that he'd lacked courage to propose to his girl before he sailed for the south Pacific, and asked Ginny to do it. Ginny wrote back "Yes," the girl Baid "Yes" when Ginny relayed the proposal, and the lad was happy. I You'll see 20 ace stunt men as pirates in RKO's "The Spanish Main"; they'll be blown off decks of a sea - robber ship, they'll topple from yardarms, engage in cutlass battles. Thrilling stuff, but just good, clean fun for these men who've risked their lives many a time, doubling for many a star who got the credit for being daring as well as handsome. I Harold Lloyd has turned in such a swell job In his first radio venture, ven-ture, as director-host of the NBC "Comedy Theater" on Sunday nights, that Preston Sturges has signed Lloyd for a picture. There couldn't be better news! Lloyd's fans will be delighted to know that he will still play the shy, bespectacled bespec-tacled man he used to play when be rose to fame. When Luke Cosgrove, snowy-haired snowy-haired character player, reported (for work in "Ministry of Fear," (starring Ray Milland and Marjorie Reynolds,) members of the troupe bought a cake, since it was his birthday. birth-day. But there wasn't room for all the candles; he was 82! i GIs in as many battle areas as could be reached in time saw Samuel Sam-uel Goldwyn's new Bob Hope starring star-ring picture, "The Princess and the Pirate," as their Christmas screen show. The picture was chosen, according ac-cording to the Overseas Motion Picture Pic-ture service of the Army Pictorial Pic-torial service, because of the popularity popu-larity which Hope enjoys as .a result re-sult of his personal appearances in the theaters of war. Sarongs aren't Dorothy Lamour's exclusive property since Nancy Porter Por-ter has done so well In "Isle of Tabu," a Paramount musical parade featurette. Executives were impressed, so watch for a starring role in one of those South Seas musicals for Nancy. One of the first persons Marlene Dietrich saw during one of her camp shows for an American unit in France recently was Sam Jacobs. Sam is the younger brother of comedian come-dian Danny Thomas of the Fanny Brice air show, and spent nearly four months overseas with the Dietrich troupe last spring. Sc Marlene took time out to write Danny Dan-ny a V-mail letter telling him the news. Jennifer Jones is certainly having the kind of career that other girls dream of. She's co-starring with Joseph Cotten in "Love Letters," at Paramount. Next comes "Duel ix the Sun" with Gregory Peck; ther "Cluny Brown" at Fox, an Ernsl Lubitsch production. Walter Greaza, who plays the inspector in-spector in "Crime Doctor" every Sunday, went to the Philadelphia navy yard to act as narrator for s navy training film and underwent the same investigation by the FBI and navy intelligence that he sub jects criminals to on the air. ODDS AND ENDS If hen Frank ) Wilson, chief o the U. S. secret serv ice, made an appearance on "1vsler Theater" to plug war bonds, eight o his operatives came along. . . . I'uu Douglas, announcer for Ed Wynn' "Hanpy Island" is also doing a stin at Fox Movietone News, as sports edi tor. . . . Sleek, streamlined Marie Mc Donald has restored her hair to it natural tilian shade, which makes he a natural lor technicolor, so now si-has si-has a contract with International I'il tures that calls for her to be jeaturei or starred in one picture a year jor fiv years; you 11 see her in the Sonj lienie picture "It's a Pleasure" |