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Show STWESCRENkAt)iO By VIRGINIA VAI.K p,.lfsril by Wnlrrn Ncwsp.iBer Union. IT'S one of the tales that people peo-ple of the entertainment world will be telling years from now that Abbott and Costello story. Last March, when Costello was stricken with rheumatic fever, and doctors doc-tors said that he would never walk again, Abbott was urged to get himself a new partner. part-ner. He refused. He went off the air, stopped all picture work. He and Lou had been partners in pictures pic-tures and radio for 13 years, he was sure that Lou would recover, and he'd wait His faith was justified justi-fied last September, when Lou took 60 steps, one for each year of the birthday anniversary his mother was " - yj i w : L .mil - i,3 Lou Costello and Bud Abbott celebrating. They're back on the air now, start a picture late this month. But Fate again has dealt cruelly with the roly-poly comic, for his infant son, Lou Costello Jr., was drowned in the family swimming pool three hours before his adoring dad went on the air, brushed the tears aside and laughed as loud as he could on a coast-to-coast hookup. "Youth in Crisis," the latest March of Time release, is going to startle a lot of complacent people. Dramatically, movingly, it tells the story of what is happening to our young people because of the disruptions disrup-tions and excitement of war. Dealing Deal-ing with the same problem, RKO Kadio is making "Are These Our Children?" Ruth Clifton, 18-year-old high school girl who originated the famous Moline Plan, has been brought to Hollywood to confer with California officials and to act as technical advisor on the film. When "Vox Pop" transferred from the sidewalks of Houston, Texas, to those of New York, in 1935, Variety, the theatrical paper, predicted that 'This show ought to last indefinitely." indefinite-ly." Recently Parks Johnson celebrated cele-brated "Vox Pop's" 12th birthday, so the prediction may come true. Shirley Temple's Pekingese died recently, while his mistress was playing a comedy scene in David 0. Selznick's "Since You Went Away." She'd had him for eight years. Any girl who's come home to learn that she's lost a childhood pet knows how she felt. At last comes the definite announcement an-nouncement from Columbia Broadcasting Broad-casting System that Fred Allen will return to the air on Sunday, December De-cember 12. It's said that he has staged a marked recovery to good health, and is all ready to resume bis feud with Jack Benny. H you haven't formed the habit ' listening to those delightful sketches done on the Dinah Shore Program by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Roland Young, better do some-ig some-ig about it right away. Many an eSort has been made to do exactly "us sort of thing on the air, and "jany an effort has failed. Comes along on CBS right after the Bing Crosby program on NBC on Thursday Thurs-day evenings. Maurice Murphy's playing a fight- ln8 pilot in Paramount's "Subma- 'e Alert," doing all right, but he "as one deep regret. As a small d he portrayed the star, John Mbert, as a child, in "Flesh and tte Devil," and the leading lady "ten held him on her lap. The lead- 8 lady was Greta Garbo. "And en it happened," says he, "I was Wo young to appreciate it!" Carlton E. Morse, writer and pro-"rs?r pro-"rs?r ' -Love a Mystery" and Man's Family," has signed to tut the latter on the screen. Morse 'I write an original story for the which will be produced by narles Rogers for United Artists re'ease. ODDS AND ENDS Although Sid-?r Sid-?r unfold has never directed her, he oij re to weave a SaH around Dor-,l Dor-,l ' ' Lwnour into each of his pictures; "l '"'est is in "Standing Room Early," ' oufede Goddard and Fred Mac-'ecto?y Mac-'ecto?y ' ' ' Hedy Lamarr has been se-p se-p f. as the army magazine Yank's ondr GiH ol lhe Week lr the SGC' "He . . . Elmo Lincoln, the original Son i '" has a role in "The Bridge of blru" Rey" Amos V Andy have p, JJT new sioi to be a success . . . p " UBrien has been booked to ap-NnV ap-NnV "I1 lhe air'" Kadio Theirter on "ember 20th, in "The Iron Major," |