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Show STAGEvSCREENsMDlO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.l ttnpOBACCO ROAD," that J- painfully realistic drama of life among the poor whites that has been running for years and years on Broadway, Broad-way, has reached the screen at last. There's been considerable consid-erable speculation about what would be left of it when it became a picture, since practically practical-ly all of it was highly censorable. Well, just about nothing got by. Most ol the sizzling dialogue of the original version was omitted, of course. The characters have been changed. The result is a rather innocuous in-nocuous movie with a few beautiful beauti-ful camera shots. Dennis Morgan says that the only time he was ever broke, hungry and desperate was the day he became a . full-fledged movie star. Morgan, who is co-starring with Merle Oberon in Warner Bros.' "Affectionately "Af-fectionately Yours," was discovered by Mary Garden when he sang "Don Juan" to her "Carmen." She called the attention atten-tion of movie scouts to the handsome Dennis Morgan and popular young singer. "I signed at a good salary and thought I was sitting on top of the world," he said. "Instead, I found myself, broke and hungry, sitting out in the desert in a broken-down ja-loppy." ja-loppy." He didn't understand that a yearly movie contract provides for a 12-week layoff without pay. He bought an ancient auto and headed West. But his layoff period came first. The days of the glorified bathtub are back. In "Ziegfeld Girl" Lana Turner, as one of the glorified showgirls, show-girls, steps into a marble tub wearing her jewelry, including includ-ing earrings and a -tiara, and apparently apparent-ly nothing else. Though the much-publicized much-publicized episode of the Anna Held milk bath will not be used, the scene with Lana is based on an actual occur- Lana Turner rence, when a slightly tipsy Follies Girl stepped out of her bathrobe and into the tub wearing her hat and jewels. jew-els. But when Miss Turner slips out of the bathrobe there's a flesh colored col-ored bathing suit on her, as well as the jewels. What kind of noise does a planet make when it explodes? That's what a group of serious-minded men in Miami, Fla., want to know. They're bringing "Superman" to the screen at the Fleischer Studios, and in one of the opening scenes a planet explodes only "Superman" in a rocket ship, escapes. Max Fleischer thinks it ought to be very, very loud; Dave Fleischer thinks it ought to be a combination of heavy gunfire, earthquake and an apple breaking in two, much multiplied. Unless somebody thinks up something some-thing more satisfactory, the apple wins. Lurene Tuttle has played, to date, 2,000 different radio roles; she's so much in demand ' that she dashes from one rehearsal directly to another. an-other. Here's her formula for success suc-cess Master your own art; keep your mind open to suggestions never nev-er think you're too good to learn from others. That may be responsible respon-sible for the fact that she's gone on and on, when so many radio stars rise to the top quickly, and then sink out of sight even faster than they rose. Lurene puts over a role with her voice alone; doesn't rely on gestures, make-up or costumes. Paul Schubert is naval expert for the Mutual chain because he plays the accordion. Mrs. Schubert has a nice voice, and when she auditioned for the chain some time ago he went along and played the accordion for her as an accompaniment. That interested in-terested him in radio. A couple of months later he phoned the man who'd handled the audition. "Do you remember me the man who played the accordion?" he asked, and made an appointment for an interview. The appointment revealed re-vealed his extensive study and writing writ-ing experience in connection with naval affairs and presto! he was signed up immediately. ODDS AND ENDS Richard Arlen and Roger Pryor flew their own planes the other day for Paramounl's "Power Dive"; Arlen operates his own 14-plane flying school, and Pryor recently became be-came the first Hollywood leading man to get a commercial rating . . . Marie Blake, Jeanette MacDonald's sister, has a supporting role in "Caught in the Draft" which stars Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour . . . Jean Gabin, the famous French screen star, has signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox . . . "Ready for Romance" is being speeded up so that it will be completed before the star, Deanna Durbin, marries Vaughn Paul in June, |