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Show STSSE' SCREEN RADIO By VIRGINIA VALE Beleased by JVestern Newspaper Union. ON COLUMBIA'S "Appointment "Ap-pointment in Berlin" set: George Sanders, pretending to be a traitor for his country's coun-try's sake, is under arrest: the bit player charged with handcuffing him bursts through a door and tries to wrap the steel bracelets around Sanders' wrists. Tries again and again and can't get them to clasp. "You're not putting mittens mit-tens on a baby!" Director Al Green , cries at last. "You act as il you were afraid of hurting Mr. Sanders." I The bit player looks sheepish, and Sanders pulls his sleeves back from his bruised and bleeding wrists. ' "Really, you're being a bit hard on the fellow," says he. "He has tried 1 it the other way, you know." ' Claire Trevor .scored in radio on ' the "Big Town" series with Edward s G. Eobinson several years ago, thereby giving her screen career a - ' i . ! . S' ' wteii, r . CLAIRE TREVOR boost. Now she's a radio regular again, on the "Mayor of the Town" series Wednesday nights with Lionel Earrymore. Two ex-choir singers kept the set ol Paramount's "True to Lite" filled with music. They were Mary Martin Mar-tin and Dick Powell, both" of whom began their musical careers singing hymns in the home-town church. They sang in their dressing rooms and on the set; just couldn t seem to stop. When they weren't singing the music written for the picture they were rehearsing songs for their radio shows. The tunes for the picture pic-ture were written by Johnny Mercer Mer-cer and Hogy Carmichael; ho wonder won-der the stars couldn't stop singing! Looks as if Zasu Pitts is making a swell comeback in "Let's Face It," after concluding her run in her play. "Her First Murder." Zasu deserves de-serves a good picture, after work-lug work-lug in the lamentable one called "Tish." George Reeves spent four years struggling through small roles in big pictures, hoping for the break that would boost him to the top. He got It, opposite Claudette Colbert in "So Proudly We Hail" and wasinduct-ed wasinduct-ed into the army when the picture Was finished. ' Way, way back Universal decided 'o follow its hilarious "My Man Godfrey" God-frey" with "My Girl Godfrey," with Carole Lombard in the title role. . Now it's scheduled again, with Deanna Durbin starring, along with Franchot Tone and Pat O'Brien. You'll have to see "Stars in the Bervice" if you yearn to see what your favorite movie heroes are up to h the armed forces. It will be the 6rst release of the 23rd year of Columbia's Co-lumbia's "Screen Snapshots," and fill present virtually every male star and featured player who is in uniform. It was made by Ralph Staub it's the 5G5th short he's pro-fluced, pro-fluced, directed and photographed. Ray Noble, of the Edgar Bergen-Charlie Bergen-Charlie McCarthy air show, is ex-j-ited over the announcement that Warner Bros, will produce a picture named for Ray's tune, "The Very bought of You"; he wrote it in and it's still popular. It will be spotted in the same manner as As Time Goes By" was spotlighted o successfuUy in "Casablanca," ( The Andrews Sisters will return radio on June 30, when they will 'e guest stars on Morton Gould's Carnival over CBS. Having finished Hollywood chore for Universal Much they didn't want to do y're glad to be coming back, even "jough they've made so much money slready this year that they'll have f give their radio salaries right back to Uncle Sam! ODDS AND ENDS The house ap-PWing ap-PWing 5 fa birthplace of the hero 1 he Story of Dr. Wassell" is really "!e old barn where C. B. De Mille jj,"iea his first picture three decades J" . John Ncsbilt revives his "The !'ng Parade" on the air June 29, J1" m for 13 weeks for Fibber Mc-j Mc-j md Molly . . . Jean Parker offered fr - Bernard to the Army as a war ?' out he was turned down unless he vnT' he a'eig''s 215 P'""ls 11 " o working vacation for Jackie "outer; Kelk of "The Aldrich Family" tie jeriai lakes a vacation this wmmer; he's going to Hollywood to fwte pictures. Bb Crosby's got something broth-l broth-l ng hasn't his brand new house as a swimming pool. The four ng sons of Bing are making the Jl.ot 't. probably will include a ' 1 in their specifications for their lext home. The note read: "Please let Lloyd '"ges die before 12:30" it was r "eel around to 130 men in a desert. iJyr,Were 0n locatin for "Sahara," train ges had t0 catch the 2:30 r. .Irom the nearest station for 7 Angeles. |