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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. OLD phonograph records are now being collected for our fighting men. The movement is headed by Kay Kyser, Kate Smith and Gene Autrey, and endorsed by Ginny Simms. Lily Pons, Benny Goodman, Guy Lom-bardo Lom-bardo and practically all the other top notchers in music. Usd and broken records will be converted into scrap and sold, and new records bought for U. S. army camps, forts, naval stations and marine ma-rine bases here and overseas. The American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary will do the picking-up. If you've got a man in the service, you know what a fine thing this is. Colombia has two of last season's greatest grid greats, Bruce Smith of Minnesota and Frankie Albert of Stanford, on the lot in Bims based on their own lives. Two All-American teams will figure in each picture. pic-ture. EKO added a potential 26,000,000 customers for its "Sweet and Hot" with the announcement that two highly popular coast-to-coast programs pro-grams will appear in the forthcoming forthcom-ing Tim Whelan musical, which co- LUCILLE BALL stars Lucille Ball and Victor Mature. Ma-ture. Charles Victor and his "Court of Missing Heirs" program, and Ralph Edwards and the "Truth or Consequences" company have been signed up for the picture. Director Alexander Hall sent a camera crew around the city to photograph pho-tograph kissing shots for a trailer tor "They All Kissed the Bride." He was so impressed by a girl whom the camera caught kissing a young man good-by at a railway station that he offered her a screen test 5he was Evelyn Scott, of Salt Lake City. She accepted, but didn't show up she'd married the man she kissed! Betty Rhodes, one of the top singing sing-ing stars in radio, will be Bing Crosby's Cros-by's leading lady in his next Paramount Para-mount picture, a radio story tentatively tenta-tively titled "Manhattan at Midnight." Mid-night." She has her own half-hour weekly radio show, singing over a 90-station network. Susan Peters is the happiest girt in Hollywood. She was just one of ft hundred ambitious young actresses, ac-tresses, with a small role in "Tish" and then suddenly she had the second feminine role in "Random Harvest," starring Ronald Colman ind Greer Garson, and a new long-term long-term contract with Metro to boot. A local girl, she'd been trying for two years to get a start in pictures. , Recently Jack Holt visited his son Tim on location for "Pirates of the Prairie." Seeing some cowboy extras ex-tras he'd played with, Jack sat down mi a bench in front of a saddle shop to talk with them. A shot was made of Tim riding by and later it was discovered that, by mistake, Jack appears in his son's picture. Lana Turner is cheering she won the dramatic role of the young wife in Metro's "Marriage Is a Private Affair," based on the book of that name. It's a rich and sympathetic role, the sort that, young actresses dream of getting. Amelia Earhart's favorite racing plane, the one in which she broke several national records, is being used by Pat O'Brien in his role of I iare - devil pilot for -Columbia's "Flight Lieutenant It had been rented for spectacular film scenes in which O'Brien is supposed to make test dives. It was not until O'Brien saw Miss Earhart's signature signa-ture scratched on the instrument panel that he learned the plane had been hers. ODDS AND fTLuciUe M had terrific mike fright" unti e . er toofc a microphone to piece, Jd showed her how it worked . . . Lionel Barrymore wa, asked by Rudy Vauti if he would consider taking hi, broth. V ' P. Wee radio program but ho refused because of ill health "??T LUC revived 'the' rot ZtT1 .6"'u AeBeU Tolls ' ' fa fo' |