| Show I 1 1 i r 11 t i l t VT 1 STAGE ST GE E 0 y Rp u A VAti t tn In bt Vf New Nt r I I Ion IonIN IN WAIN ISLAND Para Par IN l mount has shown what whal tW u t W war picture ht tt to hr hl lu luthe the rite truth was so dramatic that thoro was n no need to dress dross it up ill with nith a fancy plot plot plot-nn praise ROCS goes to the tho writers V W. lt K H Burnett and Frank Butler r and to Director John Farrow I for tor letting that plot u be ns as s slight Might hl II as possible Narrow it il 1 lv 1 the members of the cast ent di did i RI n R I memorable Job Pretty lII cast I Incidentally lI including Hi Brian Ian lion lion- levy Walter Abel Abd Robert 1 11 Macdonald Macd Carey and nud Albert Albeit l rk her ker lr D Don't Dont nt miss it A word more about Wake Island It was shown sho nt at the Marine Marille base baH with an all audience of 2000 marines who cheered it whole whale 11 1 heartedly That's the surest sun III antee that thai theres there's nothing Ih 1 phoney 1 1 about this very cry swell s picture Whon you see Sll Seven 8 s I Leave keep an eye lye on Mr- Mr Guire it if youre you're ollre interested in material She plays a brat brt SI site IH r 1 I r I Ii II I i i I j k MARCY 1 of Lucille Balls Ball's with n a crush on Victor Mature During filming her part was fattened three times limes so that she finally had two musical numbers of her own and a comedy romance that wasn't In the original script pt f lona Iona Reed Recd who's n a stunt woman as well as an Claire Trevor's stand stand-in hi In The Desperadoes has lias ridden horses that cowpunchers cow punchers wouldn't mount leaped froth from high culls clUTs I risked her neck In dozens of waysl ways ways- l but ut she balked at an all assignment the theother theother other day The Ibe called for tor Claire to smoke a n cigar lona Iona was told to do it and t said ald No tike She cant can't even smoke a 1 cigarette I Porter Hall who plays the thieving ing double crossing heavy in The Desperadoes has just been made madea a deacon in the First Presbyterian church of Hollywood lIes lIe's usually cast as a n villain but hes he's never owned a gun since he served in the thelast thelast thelast last war he doesn't drink or gamble gam gam- ble bee he practically never smokes Yet on the screen he stops at noth noth- ing Paramount has a file of at what do you suppose Cobwebs I Due Duo to priorities its it's impossible now to get the liquid rubber of which movie cobwebs used to be made The studio studio studio stu stu- dio has quite a few murder mysteries mysteries mysteries mys mys- teries like Street of ot Chance coming coming coming com com- ing along So the prop department got busy wove cobwebs out of the material on hand and filed flied them away for Cor reference Charles V. W. Koerner head hrad of 0 RK Radio production has announced that artistic and prestige films of dubious office box-office merit are arc out Well some of or those prestige films were pretty dull Hut But a IL lot of 0 really fine and profitable pictures would never have been made If It that ruling had gone through years ago Wed We'd not have had The Grapes of Wrath or Gone With WUI the Wind Windor or or a Ii good many others that didn't look like money makers before they were released Life LUe masks taken directly from the faces of a group of ot stars along with fashion sketches original charcoal charcoal charcoal char char- coal sketches of sets and other material ma mh- used in preparing a film will comprise a Traveling Educational exhibit soon to ta be sent on tour by Frances Parker lecturer will accompany It Jt and it will wUl be displayed at universities schools civic and educational societies f September 30 marks a u special anniversary anniversary an an- in the National Barn Darn Dance show the show the completion of ten consecutive years on the air broadcasting broad casting 52 weeks a year Other radio radio ra dio dlo programs have come and gone but the Barn Darn Dance goes on forever ODDS AND ENDS Greer ENDS cum nu nuha hat hu signed a term long contract with Metro Mello her fir Ii fiat it picture under the he new arrangement wil will be Madame Curie lame James Cagney Cugney bought a f War Hand Bond entitled him to f two tickets lor for the he Hollywood opening of 0 hit is picture pic pie ture lure Yankee fe Doodle hand Dandy Freddie has hat bought Iwu himself him im self If a m motorcycle e. he 8 rides ide back and forth oth to 0 Columbia for lor Irk in Junior Army terry tarry Elliott announcer an on Job Hob how flow Am I 1 Join air air WOW thaw lies hat landed the narrating nar nor rating on Un Universals Universal's neu nu short ho entitled How ow Canada Tract Trad j Down Doun Nu Noah |
