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Show stage5creen.tio By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. ALL the Ameches aren't in -tl. the movies. Dark-eyed Jim, who looks enough like brother Don to be his twin, has made good on his own in radio by landing the master of ceremonies assignment on that new all-musical pro-' pro-' gram, "Here's to Romance," on the Blue Network Sundays. Two movie personalities are featured orchestra leader David Broekman, whose long-time association with Columbia Co-lumbia pictures enabled him to score 60 films, and singer Buddy Clark; his latest picture is "Seven , J WV ; U, ' ' - JIM AMECHE Days' Leave." Jim Ameche was born and educated at Kenosha, Wis., and was introduced to radio by his older brother, Don, who advised him to take an audition for Jack Armstrong All American Boy. Jim landed .the part and since has played the lead in several radio series. Pat O'Brien, back at work In HKO'i "The Iron Major" is still marveling over his trip home after eight weeks of entertaining at army camps overseas. He breakfasted at Trinidad, lunched at Haiti, dined at Miami, breakfasted the next morning morn-ing in New York. He wants to make another army camp tour, but says next time he'll take his wife along; that two-months' separation was too long. So Merle Oberon said she was retiring re-tiring from the screen! As usual after aft-er such announcements, the star has signed a long-term contract; this one's with Metro, and she'll make pictures in Hollywood and In London. Lon-don. Seems as if, when a star wants to retire, the studios realize what they'll be missing and can't wait to make sure of keeping good box-office material. Susan Hayward, who did an army camp tour after she- visited New York when "Reap the Wild Wind" was released nationally, has been given the feminine lead in "The Man in Half Moon Street" by Paramount Para-mount Susan's on her way up, fast! Judy Garland is proudly wearing a pair of silver wings, sent her by the young paratroopers of Fort Ben-ning, Ben-ning, Ga., who recently dubbed her "The Parabelle." You'll see her wearing them for a scene in "Girl Crazy," in which she stars with Mickey Rooney. Joan Thorsen, famous as a model after she appeared on the covers of six national magazines in rapid succession, suc-cession, has been given her first movie role by Metro. She's beautiful beauti-ful and glamorous so she'll portray a Russian girl guerrilla, and will make her screen debut wearing a peasant smock, and with her face blacked up, in "Russia," the Robert Rob-ert Taylor picture. Mayo Methot Mrs. Humphrey Bogart Is on location with her husband hus-band for "Somewhere in Sahara." The other day when they unpacked their lunch kits she spied three kegs, which they used as chairs and a table till the powder man approached. ap-proached. "Sorry, Mr. Bogart," said he, "But I'll have to move these dynamite kegs." Whereupon the Bo-garts Bo-garts moved, fast and without argument. Looks as if Helmut Dantine, who scored so heavily with his Nazi-aviator performance in "Mrs. Miniver," Mini-ver," is headed for stardom. Seems he's turned in another grand performance per-formance in Warner's "The Edge of Darkness," and Jack L. Warner is looking for possible starring material materi-al for him. His fan mail has shown a 300 per cent increase during the past three months. ODDS AND ENDS Allan Napier, British actor in "Appointment "Ap-pointment in Berlin," has a speech that defends the late Nvville Chamberlain tvho was his uncle . . . Jean Arthur't spent more time in Washington, D. C on the screen than any other actress in real life she's been there just a few hours . . . The happiest soldier at my canteen the other night was a lad who'd just led the band on Sammy Kaye's prop-am . . . Bing Crosby's showing up at a Los Angeles broadcasting station before 7:00 a. m. some mornings, making records rec-ords for South American non-commer-I cial distribution . . . Leslie Howard's daughter is with him in "Spitfire." |
