Show IRE J 0 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union HE baton Judy Garland T THE JL carried fourteen years ago in an act which she did with her sisters at a Lancaster theater has been rejuvenated for her starring role in Girl year old Judy kept the stick among her souvenirs of The uThe Gumm Sisters Sisters Sis Sis- h- h m era During Pigskin Parade in which she first 1 won von screen recognition recognition tion she carried it again Now as the drum majorette inthe in inthe inthe the M-G-M M musicale musicale musi- musi cale tale finale number it once again comes y a out of hiding hiding but but with a difference nce Judy Garland Like Judy its it's been Painted in silver it has sparkling sparkling sparkling spar spar- kling rhinestones studding the head Im sure if it had been as impressive impressive sive 14 years ago as it is now we would have received more than 50 cents apiece for our Gumm Sisters' Sisters act chuckled the young star Its It's pretty Ellen Drew who gets the feminine lead in The uThe Night of January when it finally goes before the cameras Patricia Morrison was to have had it Casting Casting Casting Cast Cast- ing difficulties for the picture began last February when Don Ameche refused to have anything to do with it Robert Preston is now slated for forthe forthe forthe the Ameche role Frank Capras Capra's Meet l John Doe will be more than just a good picture picture picture pic pic- ture its release celebrates his 20 years of picture making Hes He's made 26 pictures and is one of Hollywood's Hollywoods Hollywoods Hollywood's hollywoods hollywood's Holly Holly- woods wood's few directors who can be depended depended depended de de- de- de on to turn turnout out ut top-notch top ones Rise Stevens young American soprano mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera company who made her first appearance at the White Whit e House when she participated inthe inthe in inthe the Inaugural concert concert con con- r cert this year has been en signed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer yes Her first firstI picture will be u I a Technicolor musical musical musical musi musi- cal shell she'll leave for Hollywood at the Rise Stevens Ste Stevensend end of April after the completion of her concert and radio season and begin work in May May She made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1938 shed she'd shattered a year old record when she was 19 by informing Metropolitan officials officials of of- that she was not yet ready to accept the greatest opportunity opened to a young artist Still in her twenties mid-twenties she is one of the company's leading sopranos mezzo-sopranos and lovely looking to boot She's going to offer very very keen competition competition competition com com- petition for J Jeanette ean te MacDonald It was aching arms not art that lent a new and more sinister note to Humphrey Bogart's performance in Warner Varner Brothers' Brothers High Sierra Visitors to the set noticed a new and sinister alertness produced by Bogart's Bogart's Bogart's Bo Bo- Bo- Bo garts gart's carrying his arms out from his body as if ready for a quick draw But When But When you have a holster strapped tight under each arm all allday allday day you get tired of the contact and involuntarily hold your arms away from your body Bogart explained But I may as well confess when I found that it gave a sinister effect eff ef- ef f feet ct I kept doing it even without guns 1 Boris Karloff is appearing on the New York stage in a goofy and hilarious murder mystery entitled Arsenic and Old Lace Hes He's cast castas as a man who terrifies people because because because be be- cause he looks so much like Boris Karloff of the movies And even highly sophisticated members of the audience are audibly delighted when they recognize him Mr 1 Karloff incidentally gives an excellent performance performance performance per per- as the man who resembles him I Turhan Bey is isa isa isa a new name in American motion pictures its owner is a young man manof manof manof of distinguished lineage in Turkey But when year old came cameto cameto cameto to this country to seek his fortune he left his dignified and aristocratic past behind him Which was just justas as well for when the cast and crew crewe e of Murder on the Second Floor had difficulty pronouncing his name they just dubbed him Bay Rum lam ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Doris Doris Dudley dyed her lIer blonde hair midnight blue for a role in the Miriam Hopkins stage play Hattie Bailie of oj the Angels Angel now nOlo the thc play has been called o off 00 fJ and Doris Dori must turn blonde again fast for a role in another play The TheDo Do Ho Tree Trec Since the hectic days o of f July 1939 Raymond Gram Swing has been broad broad- broadcasting casting ng almost every day without missing a single ingle program because o of f illness recently he took a three weeks weeks' vacation and spent most of it in bed sick Its It's reported that Dick Did Powell owell who recently left that coffee program is b forming his own orchestra orches orches- Ira tra for another wether radio program |