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Show STAGE vSCKEENADIO n u;i;iM y.u 1: tl.i!.-,l tv VMn New .Npap,T llnlon, MAY UK a roso by nny othor namo will smell as swvot, but Jimmy Simms, of llonu-o 1 loidt's "Treasure Chest" troupe, is convinced that that doesn't apply to trombone players. Since coming com-ing east with Heidt he's been continually confused with Ginny Sinuns that is, his name has. During Dur-ing his first week in Now York he lived at a hotel for a week under the name of "Ginny Sinuns" without with-out even knowing it; found out when he paid his hill. He hadn't received his phone calls because the management manage-ment thought "she" didn't want to be disturbed! Olsa Rasenova cf "Bachelor's Children" thought that she was having hav-ing just one more photograph taken and that was that. But it was printed in a radio magazine, and a -31k ' i .:.J OLGA EASEXOVA young man who saw it promptly began be-gan trying to learn which of his friends also knew her; in New York there's always somebody who knows somebody. The result, just like the movies, was that she married him. Robert Stark, 22, a U. S. coast-guardsman, coast-guardsman, has his post-war plans all set; he'll join the ranks of the David O. Selznick film players. He was chosen to pose as a model for coast guard posters, Selznick saw a poster, and gave him a screen test. Robert Young will have one of the year's most romantic and dashing dash-ing roles in Metro's "The Canter-ville Canter-ville Ghost," in which he'll co-star with Charles Laughton and Margaret Mar-garet O'Brien. He'll play an American Ameri-can Ranger in this modernized version ver-sion of the delightful story. Metro seems to be going in for Oscar Wilde stories these days; they're ' also doing "The Portrait of Dorian Gray." Alan Carney's film debut as Cary Grant's thick-witted bodyguard in "Sir. Lucky" so impressed RKO executives ex-ecutives that they gave him a starring star-ring contract. His second film role will be as co-star with Wally Brown In the company's new comedy series, se-ries, "Adventures of a Rookie." Carney Car-ney did impersonations in vaudeville vaude-ville and night clubs before entering enter-ing pictures. The potency of radio as a star-builder star-builder is shown in Beatrice Kay's highly successful theater tour. Her career has been built solely in radio; in her theater tour she's working on a percentage basis, an arrangement arrange-ment reserved for the biggest drawing draw-ing cards. Eaya Letz, sister of George Montgomery, Mont-gomery, will make her own bid for screen stardom in "The Girl From Leningrad," which stars Anna Sten and Kent Smith. She'd been Associate Asso-ciate Producer Eugene Frencke's secretary, and watched numerous actresses get tests for the role of a Eed army nurse. When none suited, suit-ed, she asked for a test, and got the role. Eight years ago, when Phil Spi-Italny Spi-Italny started his quest for girl musicians, mu-sicians, his friends told him that there just weren't enough in the country to form a top-notch orchestra. orches-tra. Over the week-end the "Hour of Charm" conductor auditioned his 6,000th one! On the Culver City stage where Atlanta burned in "Gone With the Wind" the fire of love will soon be burning. David Selznick's going to i make "Since You Went Away," starring star-ring Claudette Colbert, Shirley Tem- 'ple, Joseph Cotten, Monty- Woolley and several others, on the stages where he made "Rebecca" and the ! Civil war drama. ' ODDS AND ENDS Samuel Gold-wyn Gold-wyn has signed Margaret Dumont for ' the role of a flighty dowager in "Up in Arms" . . . Frank Sinatra will sing four songs in "Higher and Higher," starring Michele Morgan and Jack Haley . . . Metro plans lo re-make "The Belle o A'ew York" next spring, with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland . . It's cred- i ited lo Corporal Droderick Crawford "Kven my Doberman pinscher outranks me since he's joined dogs for defense; he's a sergeant, and never stops barking bark-ing at me" . . . Alexander Granach, who escaped from Germany a few jumps ahead of the Gestapo, made his movit reputation portraying Gestapo agents. |