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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) CAROLYN LEE is only six years, but already she has made more money in the movies than most people are able to save in a lifetime. By spring, when her latest; picture, "Virginia," will have been seen by many people, she should be established as a child star. In "Virginia" she has an important role and speaks almost as much dialogue dia-logue as the stars, Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray. Yet she can't read. Her mother reads Carolyn's lines to the child two or three times, and little Miss Lee commits them to memory. The infant seems to have been shot with luck two years ago; she was in a hotel in Wheeling, W. Va., just a few miles from her home CAROLYN LEE town of Martin's Ferry, Ohio. She toddled up to a man, a stranger and he just happened to be a movie executive. He let her lead him to her mother and a screen test and a bit in "Honeymoon in Bali" resulted. Fibber McGee and Molly have been signed by RKO to co-star In a picture with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy; the picture, a feature film, will be produced by David Hempstead, who produced Ginger Rogers' "Kitty Foyle." Maureen O'Hara, RKO-Radio's star from Ireland who is now at work in the leading feminine role of "They Met in Argentina," recently bade farewell to her mother with the injunction to "bring back a bit of the old sod" and a shamrock. Mrs. Fitzsimmons sailed for Lisbon, but expects to return soon with another an-other gifted daughter. She and Maureen' came to this country two years ago, when Maureen Mau-reen made her Hollywood debut in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." "The Bill of Divorcement" and "Dance, Girl, Dance" followed, and Mrs. Fitzsimmons, who used to be an actress herself, is perfectly satisfied satis-fied with her talented daughter's achievements. How'd you like to act as a target i for tomatoes and like it and even ask for more? That's what George Michclson spent his time at the other oth-er day, and after the fourth shot he was the happiest man in Hollywood. Holly-wood. Michelson is assistant property man on James Roosevelt's "Pot o' Gold," and he had to make the tomato to-mato that James Stewart throws at Charles Winninger. He did it first by filling the thin outside skin with a mess of catsup, chocolate sauce and other little items, and then had somebody throw it at him while a camera turned. After the first three smacks Michelson Mi-chelson shook his head. "Nope," he said. "This won't do. I'll have to put some whipped cream in it." So the whipped cream was added, and once more he took a tomato right between the eyes. This time he could grin he'd made a photogenic photo-genic tomato, one that photographed so well that when it meets up with i Winninger on the screen all of us ! will think It was just the ordinary , garden variety. Fran Allison, singing comedienne on the "Uncle Ezra" air show, can i scratch her forehead and tickle a rib with the same motion, at the , same time and thinks probably 1 she's the only person who can. 1 About a year ago she had a plastic surgeon repair some injuries she'd ! sufTered in an automobile accident, and he fixed up her forehead by building it up with one of her ribs. ODDS ASD ENDS Fred Allen rends nine newspapers every day and clips everything that $erm$ to contain a suggestion for his radio show; then he selects the best items and points up the humor . . . The thousands of Brian Donlevy fans tcha have beg Rod Paramount to give him a romantic role are fining to have their wish granted he'll play the part of a romantic tuo gun gnmliler in "I'ioneer Woman u ith Barbara Stanwyck and Joel MrCrea . . . This year's concert tour takes Nelson T.ddy to twenty citie he'll return to the coat by April 7th, to start on Metro's "The Chocolate Soldier" with Rise Siexens. |