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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. RAW a long breath of re--L' lief, you lads who secretly secret-ly adore Greer Garson with her marriage to Richard Ney postponed until after the war there may still be a chance for you! At least, at the moment mo-ment there is; one never knows what to be sure of when a Hollywood marriage is concerned. ' At any rate, as of right now, this one is delayed; seems, according to Lieutenant Ney's announcement, an-nouncement, that there was no place where they could be married until 10 o'clock, when the time came, so they decided to wait. RKO is launching a new series of feature pictures, all about a rookie, using a new comedy team. First will come "Adventures of a Rookie"; after that it'll be a case of "Everywhere "Every-where the army goes, the rookie's sure to go." As a direct result of Margo's acting act-ing on the CBS Caravan Hour she's the first feminine narrator in movies in RKO's "Women at War," one of several short subjects in RKO's - -i ' , ; 1 i ' ; k ' X i l : U . ; ,1 MARGO "This Is America" series. As a. result re-sult of her charm, she was chosen queen of the Army Air Corps in Atlantic At-lantic City. And because she wanted want-ed to so much, Mexican-born Margo recently became an American citizen. citi-zen. Mrs. Albert Wassell, 87-year-old mother of war hero, Lieut. Com. Corydon M. Wassell, was invited to come to Hollywood as Paramount's guest, since Cecil B. DeMille is filming film-ing her son's life. Mrs. Wassell refused. re-fused. "There was only one star I ever cared to go that far to see," she wrote her son. "That was Rudolph Ru-dolph Valentino and he's dead." She doesn't go to movies often, but thinks Jimmy Stewart is the star most like her son as a young man. But it's hardly likely that he can take time off from the army for the role. Seven years ago in November Fred MacMurray made his first picture pic-ture on the Paramount lot, playing opposite Claudette Colbert in "The Gilded Lily." Remember? He does there he was in an important role, and nervous doesn't half describe the way he felt. Today they're co-starring co-starring in a gay comedy called "No Time for Love"; she's a lady and he's a sandhog, Ed ("Archie") Gardner has turned down Metro's overtures to make a celluloid version of the air's "Duffy's." "Duf-fy's." He's working hard to bring his new radio program up to the top of the list before signing up with Hollywood execs for whom he last worked as a radio director. Joseph Calleia, of "For Whom the Bell Tolls," is head of the Malta War Relief organization in this country; coun-try; his parents, who are English and Spanish, live in Malta, and recently he heard that the house in which he was born has been blasted to bits. Norman Tokar and Jacie Kelk, who play "Henry" and "Homer" respectively in radio's "The Aldrich Family," never feel absolutely sure that they're going to hold their jobs that's because practically every page boy at NBC covets those roles. Dick Powell was working in "Happy "Hap-py Go Lucky," and his wife, Joan Blondell, was touring the land with the Hollywood Victory Caravan. So, for the first time within anybody's memory, an extra telephone was ordered or-dered installed on a movie lot, because be-cause the Powells are so devoted to each other that they kept calling each other on long distance, making the one phone on the set unavailable for business calls. f ODDS AND ENDS California headquarters head-quarters for soldiers from Clurksville, Tenn., is the home of Helen Wood, radio and screen actress heard on "Those We Love" . . . Nadine Conner flew to New York to start rehearsals for her second season at the Metropolitan opera house; she'll have her own radio show from New York . . . Edgar Deering has nluyed more motoicycle cops than any other actor . . . Harpist Ed Vila is a fairly busy man these days; he plays with Joe kines' orchestra on the airs "Abie's Irish Rose," and on Sundays plays first harp with Tos Toscantnis orchestra over NBC. When Bob Burns talks about farming farm-ing on his CBS "Arkansas Traveler-show Traveler-show he isn't joking. Recently he finished the harvesting of 170 tons of lima beans on his San Fernando Val-ley Val-ley farm, and he'd already marketed market-ed 1,200 tons of sugar beets. Alan Reed of Fred Allen's "Star Theater" programs, has turned to piracy-he plays Lynn Fontanne's husband in the Lunt-Fontanne play, "The Pirate." So he has two stand-ins, stand-ins, one in the play and one for radio rehearsals. |