| Show s S 10 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union I I VER hear of a slen- slen EVER E dang Well neither has practically everybody else Betty Field has for in Para- Para Paramount's Paramount's Paramount's mounts mount's Victory she's in in- invading invading invading Dorothy Lamour's territory and wearing one Its It's a sort of glorified sarong and the first day after the first batch of photos showing the lady in it was released the studio received 27 requests for the gar gar- garment ment meat Fred Allen and Jack Benny are supposed to be the battlers in Love Thy Neighbor but it seems to tobe be Mary Martin their star co-star who S S 'S is really the vie vic tim thu The famous t A feudists feudi s is battle with words As Asfor Asfor for Mary her schedule includes being caught up upon on a derrick hook r iJ 1 i j in iii F a scene on a aMary aMary Mary l Martin Marlin dock being tossed into the ocean and having to swim with all her clothes on being nearly strangled by Benny in one scene and manhandled by Allen in another She does two dance routines one of which Involves a lot of struggling and another shot finds her hex rolling around the back end of a wildly driven cab Nice work for a girl who can keep audiences happy just by singing X XIn In Hollywood Burgess Meredith working in Second Chorus with withFred withFred withFred Fred Astaire and Paulette God- God Goddard Goddard dard had not yet t r acquired a car Nevertheless a sign on a fence at General Service 1 i studios carried the warning war n i n g. g This place re re- reserved g i served for Mr t Meredith a Ii That vacant En 11 space amid the Burgess Meredith cars belonging to other stars was too much for or Miss 1 Goddard So she filled tilled the vacancy with a brand new motor scooter decorated with ribbons and equipped with a bottle bottle of iodine I n 1 case of accident tel tel- Its It's been quite a while since Brenda Marshall couldn't have any dress that she wanted but the success suc- suc success cess that made that possible also In in her way the other day when she fell in love with a frock and then couldn't have it The dress was designed design cd for or her to wear In Warner Brothers Brothers' East of o the River and she liked It so much that she wanted to have bave It copied for lor her own wardrobe But Bat the production pro pro- production production office turned thumbs s down The reason was that she Is a target for lor cameras wherever she goes The dress might be copied by fash- fash I tion bootleggers and an the style style wouldn't be new when the picture is released r. If the war news in your daily paper and on the radio means a lot lotto lotto lotto to you you'll certainly want to see seethe seethe seethe the new March of Time On For For- Foreign Foreign Foreign eign It shows how U. U S. S newsmen are covering the big big- biggest biggest biggest gest news story In modern modem history- history tells how men like H. H V V. Kalten- Kalten Kaltenborn Kaltenborn Kaltenborn born were forced to leave Germany Germ ny It records the story of this first year of World War II 11 from the viewpoint of the men who report it to the American people and shows why the United States today is the last stronghold of a free press and its citizens the best informed in the world Apparently people who earn cam their livings by appearing in public just cant can't help being superstitious superstitious even even athletes are susceptible as Babe Ruth used to prove when he never went out to left field or returned without kicking second base on the way Burns and an Allen AIJen arc are no exception Burns Durns never approaches the micro micro- microphone microphone phone ne without touching his left toe to the bottom of o Artie Shaws Shaw's music stand Grade Gracie always sits on the right side of o the stage and has bu two chairs one to sit on and the other for lor her script This latter chair Is always alwa's turned so that its back Is to the audience She's s never missed this arrangement In seven years and judging by her success it must be a good one b Dinah Shore lately with the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin street that solemnly spoofing swing program and with the Re Re- will be on the new Eddie Can Can- Cantor Cantor tor program that starts in October A bachelor of arts from Vanderbilt university she's taken her singing seriously since she was ten ten now now she's cashing in on her persever persever- ance A lot of o people people- dont don't want to hear Orchids of Remembrance again unless she sings it because of ot the way she did it recently on West West- se Musical Americana |
