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Show W00t SCREENAllio (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) RAY MILLAND would like to keep a controlling hand on the scripts of all pictures in which he appears from now on. Truth came far too close to fiction to suit him a while ago, and he hasn't quite recovered re-covered yet. He'd finished work in "Untamed" "Un-tamed" and gone to Sun Valley Val-ley for a week's rest. Mrs. Milland stayed in Hollywood, as they were expecting the arrival ar-rival of their first child some weeks later. Then he received word that he'd have to race the stork if he wanted to be in Hollywood when it appeared. He started for Boise, Idaho, in a car, also in a blizzard. At Boise he chartered the only plane available, and was grounded at Salt Lake City. He telephoned the hospital, in Hollywood, Holly-wood, and learned that he had a son. In "Untamed" he'd braved a blizzard bliz-zard to reach the bedside of a sick sweetheart. If it's all the same to the scenario writers, he'd rather have less harrowing experiences. Hollywood's most famous mixed foursome Paulette Goddard, Ruby Keeler, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope will probably have difficulty in sticking to picture-making if they all in " 1 " BOB HOPE find themselves in the cast of "Follow "Fol-low Through." They played together togeth-er in a charity match last autumn, and it was then that the idea of teaming them in a picture was suggested. sug-gested. They're all experts, and if they can resist staging a match that the script doesn't call for they'll be doing well. Announcer Del Sharbutt intended to be a musician, but instead has become widely known as announcer for such programs as "Myrt and Marge," "Ask-It-Basket" and Lanny Ross'. The musician in him has come out at last, though; he's written writ-ten two songs of Hit Parade proportions propor-tions within a few weeks "The Kitten With the Big Green Eyes," and "I'd Love To." Ginger Rogers, who has millions of lans now, had only one in 1929; he was John L. Cass, who recorded the sound ol "Primrose Path," in which she co-stars with Joel McCrea. About 10 years ago RCA made a two-reeler called "Campus Sweethearts," in New York, to try out a new wide-film process. Two movie unknowns, Ginger Rogers and Rudy Vallee, were featured. The director didn't care for the song that Ginger had been rehearsing, rehears-ing, but Cass insisted on recording it. "She had everything, including a swell mike voice," he says. "I knew she was star dust and how!" m Want to see what happens to winners win-ners of beauty contests? Claire James, who was runner-up in the Miss America contest last year, is playing a bit in Paramount's "The Ghost Breakers"; she appears in a restaurant scene, wearing a floor-length floor-length dinner dress. Ben Bernie and his lads and lassies, including Dinah Shore and Lew Lehr, are moving. After 60 weeks of Sunday broadcasts they're setting up shop in a Wednesday evening eve-ning half-hour, beginning April 10. Want to bet that for the first few weeks at least half of the troupe will dash to the studio on Sundays? Cecil B. DeMille is back in character char-acter again. Now that he is directing di-recting "The Northwest Mounted Police" and goes straight from the movie studio to the radio, one where he does his Radio Theater broadcasts, broad-casts, he shows up in his "shooting" outfit high boots, riding breeches, and headgear ranging from sombrero som-brero to pith helmet. If you have a harpsichord that you don't want, get in touch with Alec Templeton. Collecting unusual musical instruments is his hobby, and he has no harpsichord and he wants one. There are only 10 of these ancient instruments in the United States, four of them owned by friends of Templton's in Chicago. Chi-cago. They urged him to try one not long ago. he played his favorite satire, "Bach Goes to Town" and now his life wnn't be perfect until he is presented with harpsichord of his own. |