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Show Rtlcaud by Wcrtern Ntwipapcr Union. By VIRGINIA VALE ROBERT PAIGE has climbed to success in the movies the hard way; he made nineteen pictures in two and one-half years, none of them strictly Grade A. But the break he finally got was worth that struggle the role opposite op-posite Deanna Durbln in "Can't Help Singing," a technicolor musical musi-cal on which Universal spared no expense. Bob's an extremely likable young man whose greatest cross is ' 0 ROBERT PAIGE the fact that because of stomach ulcers he was turned down flat for I the armed forces. He's doing a whale of a job, entertaining at camps and hospitals, but says he knows every man there is wondering wonder-ing why that big husky he stands six feet two isn't in uniform. He would be if he could) Years ago Henry Gladstone, Mutual Mu-tual network commentator, included in-cluded among his boyish hobbies the two sports of harness racing and dog breeding. Now they're paying dividends. Pathe News has announced an-nounced that Gladstone will be the commentator for two new films, "Harness Racing" and "School for Dogs," both of which are slated for national release this month. Gloria Dea, who plays a clown-dancer clown-dancer in Charles R. Roger's "Delightfully "De-lightfully Dangerous," worked in the daytime; her fiance, Jack Statham, an orchestra leader, worked at night. And they wanted to get married. mar-ried. But they couldn't cope with the time problem. So Rogers held up the picture for 20 minutes recently re-cently while the ceremony was performed, per-formed, with Connie Moore acting as official witness. Hal Walker, assistant director at Paramount for 14 years, was made a director at the urgent request of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. His first picture Is "Road to Utoplca," not yet released, said to be the best of aU their "Road" pictures. Alan Ladd's collecting signatures of movie stars, and he really works hard at it When he started 'Two Years Before the Mast" his little daughter Alana'a Irish nurse handed him her autograph book and firmly requested that he fill it for her. Good nurses are rare so Ladd takes the book along whenever he goes anywhere where he's likely to encounter movie celebrities, and the nurse is hanpy. "Boo flu,.. .ar of Samuel Gold-wyn's Gold-wyn's "Th. Princess and the PI-rate," PI-rate," so far is the only representative representa-tive of the show world to have his statue In "The Living HaU of Washington, Wash-ington, 1M4," a collection or 50 statues of notable men In wartime in the Smithsonian Institution. Sculptor Max Kallsh posed him In what Hope calls "My ladles and gentlemen gesture" with hands clasped. You'll see Fred MacMurray with a luminous face in "Murder, He Says," a face insured by Paramount Para-mount for 11,000,000. Studio technicians techni-cians figured out that they could coat Fred's face with phosphorous mixed with grease paint, ignoring the fact that Peter Whitney was to hurl a blazing torch at the star, missing him but possibly Igniting the phosphorous. Executives got Jittery henct the Insurance. The October Network Hooperat-lngs Hooperat-lngs are pretty Interesting. "When Girl Marries." by Elaine Carrlng-ton, Carrlng-ton, leads the list of the top 10 daytime day-time shows, with "Kate Smith Speaks" next, and "Our Gal, Sun-day" Sun-day" in third place. "Stars Over Hollywood" leads Saturdays. The program having the most women listeners per set is "Songs by Mor-j Mor-j ton Downey"; for the men it's "Cedrlc Foster." OimS ASD ESDS-lfrnry Mcaufh. Ion, Miem-rerili'nf t'.ntlnhman on "It I f'av to U Ifnorant," hai ont. tmbi- I lion, to brat hit wifr golf-tht't u omen's Kmtrrn ihamp. . . . hank : f armim, ITVuern ttnr of iieni fitm, miikr hit film romrburk 4n Culumhia'$ 1 m'lnnijtht un4 f.iery Muhl," Una ay. 1 Morin picturt; farmim'i I9-)im rfiiMffMer, firry, mnhn her linnring debut in th tnmt film. . . . I'nulett GmlHard hat had ' thr mm drnung room fter line ine'i been nt fare moiifil; other Han hat a (hunted with r 1 1 enr inrreatt in pay. . . . Claudettt j Colbert felt m U1 0 enjoyment out 0 I Vmmng her run dreutt. |