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Show STAGE SCHEEH JlADiO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. ONE of the war's most in- 1 credible ventures, the drive of General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell to retake the Burma road, is shown in this month's "March of Time." It's called "Back Door to Tokyo." You'll see American boys flying the "hump," the world's most dangerous air route; you'll see Merrill's Marauders on the attack and General Chennault with his forces. MOT's ace cameraman, camera-man, Victor Jurgens, has again turned in an outstanding photographic photo-graphic scoop, portraying a military mili-tary feat so gigantic that it's an important historical event. "Days of Glory" isn't a world-beating world-beating picture, but RKO feels pretty sure that it launches a new male star Gregory Peck, who "has ears like Clark Gable, and is too tall and broad-shouldered to be com- ii i.jtt'Ayfttti iMittfr-'iVrfN-VfiaiiliiVfi f..-fl GREGORY PECK fortable in an ordinary chair." Proof of his drawing power is the fact that a wave of excitement ran through the studio when he appeared, ap-peared, and Gmger Rogers asked to have him in one of her pictures. Metro is cooking up another of those pictures m which various episodes epi-sodes will be written by famous authors, with Metro's biggest stars appearing in tach. Called "The Common Sin," it will have Carey Wilson as producer. The first writer signed for a single episode is I. A. R. Wylie. After years of diligently preparing himself for that elusive motion picture break, a young Oakland Junior college graduate got it; he's Greg McClure, 26, and he landed the role of John L. Sullivan in Bing Crosby's production, "The Great John L." He's worked as a salesman, longshoreman, laborer on a railroad, and farmhand; finally he went to dramatic school at night and worked during the day. Because film babies are allowed to work before the camera for only short intervals between long rests, Warner Bros, is saving production time by casting twins for a single role in "Christmas in Connecticut," the Barbara Stanwyck-Dennis Morgan Mor-gan comedy. The twins, just eight months old, are Sandra Lee and Susan Lee Taylor. September will be a busy month for Xavier Cugat, who's heard as "Your Dubonnet Date" maestro over MBS Wednesday nights. He'll make two one-week theater appearances, appear-ances, open at a smart Hollywood night spot, and begin work in Metro's "Week-End at the Waldorf." Wal-dorf." Ever try to remember the names of those fantastic characters Garry Mcore talks about on the Moore-Durante Moore-Durante airshow? They're Twinkle-toes Twinkle-toes Gooch, Rancid Crumknuckle, Elvira Smoop, Arbutus Cronksquod-git, Cronksquod-git, Schmilldwidder Funk, and Farnsnnsendindles Crud! Alan Young, who's heard Wednesday Wednes-day nights on NBC at nine, EWT, crashed radio at 15, in a 15-minute show for which he was paid $2.50 a week. He played dozens of characters, charac-ters, got a raise of 50 cents after 26 weeks, asked for more, and was fired. He formed a vaudeville act with his sister, things went well, then she married. He returned to radio, and real success came quickly quick-ly after that. In addition to bis newly-won singing sing-ing laurels as host of the "Broadway "Broad-way Matinee" airshow, baritone Ronald Graham will probably win some more when his latest film venture, "Ladies in Washington," is released. ODDS AXD EKDSOzzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard sing their own special arrangement of "Sunday, Monday Mon-day and Always" in Paramount's "Take It Big" . . . The new "Glamour Manor," with Cliff Arquette, may become one of those summer air shows that win a permanent place jor themselves; it's a smart combination of comedy and Quizzes . . . Victor Borge returns to the "Basin Street" show for eight weeks in the fall; he's used to contract reneivals had jour consecutive 13-week contracts con-tracts on the Bing Crosby show . . . ".liinwfry of Fear" has one of the tallest tall-est groups of male principals ever in a picture led by Ray MiHand. |