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Show stagescreenMdio Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE IT'S good news for jazz lovers lov-ers that Benny Goodman will be back on the air regularly. regu-larly. Beginning July 1, he'll have the 9: 30-10: 00 P. M. spot Monday nights on NBC. The famous sextette will top the ,: A' .X f BENNY GOODMAN i 16 instrumentalists backing up Benny Ben-ny and his clarinet, and two sing- i ers will be featured, a boy and a . . i girl. The boy is 8 feet 4 Art Lund, whose effect on the bobby soxers stopped the show recently when the Goodman band performed at New York's Paramount Theater. . After Hugo Hass spent a couple of months growing a walrus mustache mus-tache for his role in Loew-Le win's "Bel Ami," with George Sanders, he was ordered to shave it off because be-cause it didn't look authentic! Now he pastes one on every morning, to look natural. A lot of people have been trying to get Danny Kaye for the one outside out-side picture he's permitted to do away from the Samuel Goldwyn fold during the next six months, and right now they'd probably like to muzzle Frederic March. Kaye, in "The Secret Life of Walter Mltty," was working on a stage adjoining-the adjoining-the one where March was starring In "The Best Years of Our Lives" and Frederic, who did "The Royal Family" on the screen, suggested that Danny go back to New York and do a musical comedy version of It on the stage. Danny liked the idea. The return of the beloved O'Neills to the air has been so successful that American Broadcasting decided decid-ed to put them on four nights a - " week instead of two, the original schedule. And Columbia Pictures likes the series so much that Virginia Vir-ginia Van Upp has been working on a series of family pictures based on the characters. Michael Fitzmau-rice, Fitzmau-rice, the experienced actor who plays Father Danny O'Neill, the young priest, would have the same role. Incidentally, Michael wanted to be a priest, but the lure of the stage was too strong. Some of you movie fans who have written to Robert Young may see your own missives in his latest picture, pic-ture, "Lady Luck," in which he co-stars co-stars with Barbara Hale and Frank Morgan. One scene in the comedy shows a hotel lobby, complete with clerk's desk and pigeon-holes for mail. And all the letters used in' that scene were sent to Young, from . all over the world, by his fans. Twentieth Century - Fox has named Celeste Holm, a darling of the New York stage, for a top singing sing-ing role In "I Wonder Who's Kissing Kiss-ing Her Now," based on the life of Joe Howard. She'll be seen soon In "Three Little Girls In Blue." Joan Crawford, whose new picture, pic-ture, "The Secret," has Just gonoe Into production at Warners', Is having hav-ing fun. She's on top In her career again, she's being pursued by the Hollywood wolves, she's doing Just what she pleases. When a New " York hat designer showed his collection col-lection in the movie colony, she bought hats like mad "Most of them horribly unbecomingl" commented com-mented a friend. William Wyler, directing Gold-! wyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives," has banned make-up for male actors, Including Dana Andrews An-drews and Frederic March, and asked the girls, including Teresa Wright, to use cosmetics sparingly. She'll use only what she wears for the street. The grease paint ban is part of Wyler's campaign to achieve documentary realism In the film. ODDS AND ENDS Beverly Knberlt of "Life Can He Ceauliu" began her career on xlae, tcreen and radio at lli8 affe of 5, when, wearing Rrcen lace, shs tang "How Ireland Got It$ Name" at a woman's civic club function. . . . 7 ifl suite of Iowa thinks so well of Meredith Mere-dith Wilhon's song "Iowa," official centrnniul ballad, that it's being used for theme music in a movie of the state, , . . Back in the '30s Conrad Nagla turned down three aspirants for roles in one of his pictures, on the ground that they weren't good for talkies they were Bette Davis, Humphrey Bo-' gart and Rosalind Russell, Could 4 have been wrong? |