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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WHEN you see "Men of Boys Town" (Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney), watch three very young men who have important roles; it's more than likely that, when they grow up, they'll be tops among leading men. Metro thinks so. They are Darryl Hickman, aged eight; Bobs Watson, who's nine, and Larry Nunn, Just thirteen. Vou probably prob-ably saw Darryl as "Winfleld Joad" in "Grapes of Wrath." Norman Tau-rog Tau-rog thinks he's one of the finest child actors he ever directed. Bobs has seven brothers and sisters who have film careers. Says Taurog, "Whenever I have needed a regular regu-lar kid, I have found that I could depend on the Watsons." Bobs got his break because none of the other Watsons fitted the role. As for Larry, he'd made a name for himself in radio before he tackled tack-led Hollywood, two yean ago; "Strike Up tht Band" wai hii first picture. . For more than a year there's been discussion at Warner Bros, about filming the lire or George M. Cohan, and at last a deal has been arranged with the famous song and dance man. James Cag-ney Cag-ney will play the lead, probably getting get-ting to work on it some time this summer, sum-mer, after he returns re-turns from vacationing vaca-tioning at. his place at Martha's Vine- James Cagney yard, Mass. Mr. Cohan will supervise super-vise the production. Scenario trouble has delayed work on "Babes on Broadway," In which Shirley Temple waa to start her come-back, so her first picture will be "Laiybones." It's a story of the San Pedro fishing fleet, and Shirley will be seen as Wallace Beery's motherless daughter. American people have more than a generous sense of humor; they have generous hearts as welL It's proved every Sunday on the "Dou-ble "Dou-ble or Nothing" radio program. Walter Wal-ter Compton, master of ceremonies, asks each guest the name of his favorite charity; if the contestant can't answer his questions, the prize money is given to some charitable Institution. Leading figures of grand opera, the theater, the sports world and big business have tried their luck on the program, and many have given their winnings to less fortunate per- sons. Martha Raye and Frank Dor-rest, Dor-rest, the program's popular tenor, gave theirs to the Red Cross. Lyle Talbot had a question from a woman who wanted to buy her blind son a Seeing Eye dog; he gave her his winnings, and the listening audience subscribed the remainder. Frederick Freder-ick Jagel of the Metropolitan Opera sent his to the Hundred Neediest Cases. Penny Singleton was selected America's Number One Blonde by .l(U ,i,"WH i Vftf fw ; Iff f Jx& beauty shop owners and operators at the International Beauty Show held in New York recently. re-cently. The pretty screen and radio star won out over Madeline Carroll and Alice Faye, who were runners-up; it was said that during dur-ing the past year she'd done more than anyone else . mob-a Amprican Penny Singleton men blonde-conscious. As "Blondie on the screen and the air she's inspired in-spired many another young wife and mother, who've appreciated her quite as much as the men did. Rita Hayworth returns to her home lot, Columbia, to ply opposite Fred Astalre, and dance with Mm in a musical. "He's My Uncle"-Bhe' just finishing a dancing role in "Blood and Sand," with Tyrone Power. The talented Rita may be Just the dancing partner needed for Astaire since he and Ginger Rogers narted company on the screen. For almost four years Bess Johnson John-son has been managing the mythical orphanage around which the story of "Hilltop House" gravitated. Now the serial has come to and end, and she's to be starred in a new one, titled ti-tled "The Story of Bess Johnson." Same time, same stations. ODDS ASD ENDS-fhUf nuking "Dr lekyll and Mr. Hyde Spencer Tracv'i been looking ahead to vacationing vaca-tioning in N rk with hi, ton, Johnny . . - After waiting about a year. Paramount will film Susie Slagle," the popular novel . . . Orela Garbo it tlated to go back to work May i. " modern American comedy About 3,000 enthusiastic fans greet-VdGlen greet-VdGlen Miller, CBS band leader, when he arrived in Lot Angeles; Wm tically mobbed him . . . Conrad master of ceremonies for tha CBi 6ii-wr 6ii-wr Theater," twore off on cigarette smoking from Ap Veors to St. Pat-rick't Pat-rick't day but didn't quite make it. |