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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. A FEW years ago a radio producer, an actress and an actor formed a trio to produce pro-duce an act in a series of transcriptions called "Story of Martha Blair." Results: the producer married the actress, ac-tress, who became famous on the stage and screen. The actor made a name for himself in the movies, as well as on the air. The director stepped right ahead also. He's Carlton Alsop, producer of radio's "Abie's Irish Rose," now transcribing 15 quarter-hour programs pro-grams for the Red Cross. She's Martha Scott, who did one of them with the young actor. He's Joseph Cotten, star of the new Hitchcock thriller, "Shadow of a Doubt." Samuel Goldwyn has signed Walter Wal-ter Huston again to play a leading role in "The North Star"; it's his first Goldwyn picture since "Dods- -t t :: i:)y " AinnM ' WALTER HUSTON worth." Huston's been working at Warner Bros, in "Mission to Moscow," Mos-cow," appearing as Ambassador Davies. For six years Cheryl Walker was stand-in for stars; then she was given the romantic lead in Sol Less-er's Less-er's "Stage Door Canteen," and did so well with it that she stepped straight into stardom; CBS paid tribute to her on "Women's Page of the Air" as a result. If you have income-tax trouble you'll enjoy "The Spirit of "43," in which Donald Duck tackles his Income In-come Tax stint. It's the new Walt Disney short, made at the request of Secretary of the Treasury Mor-genthau. Mor-genthau. Five hundred prints will be distributed and shown under the auspices of the War Activities Committee Com-mittee of the motion picture industry. indus-try. When Jean Arthur does kissing scenes the set is closed; she's a bit shy and doesn't like having an audience audi-ence at such times. But she and Joel McCrea exchanged fervent kisses before an audience of 21 men the other day, for "The More the Merrier"; Mer-rier"; they were soldiers, being shown through the studio. Jean Brooks has come up the hard way, via hard-riding westerns and cliff-hanging serials. She scored in a featured role with Abbott and Cos-tello, Cos-tello, in "Buck Privates," and now she's won the feminine lead opposite Dennis O'Keefe in "The Leopard Man." Eddie Cantor receives $10,000 per broadcast; his daughter Marilyn gets $50 a week, but she's the radio industry's first girl staff announcer, and proud as punch of the job. She's on WNEW, a local station in New York; she makes commercial announcements, an-nouncements, introduces band numbers, num-bers, and puts records on the studio timetable and has ruined her father's fa-ther's gag about the cost of supporting support-ing five girls. Jeanette MacDonald has no sympathy sym-pathy for those stars who regard service-camp entertainment tours as a hardship; she thinks they're fun. But at 14 she was dancing in a Broadway revue, taking singing and ballet lessons between times, and modeling fur coats to pay for the extra lessons. She says that an army camp tour is just a vacation by comparison. Since fire destroyed Bing Crosby's home thousands of people have offered of-fered to replace his losses. One offered of-fered a complete collection of Bing's records; an army sergeant said every ev-ery time Bing smoked a pipe in a picture he'd bought one just like it, and offered the singer his choice. A . vaudevillian said he'd break up his trained dog act to replace the spaniel the children lost in the fire. ODDS AND 'ENDS Gary Cooper will sing "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" in "The Story of Dr. Wassell" his next picture . . . Cary Grant has signed a new contract with RKO calling for five pictures over a long-term period . . . Some day one of those press agents who announce that a box-office star will join the W AACs, WAVES or SPARS will gel the shock of his life, when she actually goes through with it . . . Jinx Falkenburg carried a big red broadcloth purse on which is pinned insignia of every branch of the service, given her by service men ; while making "Broadway Daddies" she added six more pins to the collection. Virginia Sale, "Martha" on "Those We Love," seems fated to be surrounded sur-rounded by twins. There are now four sets in her life. They are her own twins, her brother's, her best friend's, and the fictional pair on the radio show. Mark Warnow, musical conductor of the new air show featuring John Charles Thomas, came to this country when he was six from Russia. "All I remember," he says, "is seeing the Statue of Liberty, as the ship came up the harbor." |