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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Releaeed by Weetern Newspaper Union. THE "Bahama Passage" troupe won't soon forget' that picture. They journeyed to Nassau and began work in the middle of May at Salt Cay, a desolate island nearby. near-by. After that they worked on other islands, in caves and finally some of them worked under water. Edward Griffith, Grif-fith, producer and director, hied himself to a submerged wreck and went down in a diving bell to officiate while scenes were made of Madeleine Carroll and Stirling Hay-den Hay-den (we're assured that they didn't use doubles!) diving down 18 feet to the ocean floor. Shooting the under-water scenes was no small task; It took more than a day to set up the heavy Technicolor Techni-color camera Inside the diving bell. Fourteen-year-old Stanley Clements Clem-ents has already retired twice. A 1 ii.jL.k.i2 Major Bowes discovery, dis-covery, he landed an engagement with theater manager in Chicago; homesickness home-sickness ended it, and he went home to New York. A few days later he returned re-turned to Chicago and a strep infection infec-tion sent him home once more. Then he Stanley jand;d jnov ClemenU "Ta" Dar and Handsome," "Accent on Love" and now In Metro's Met-ro's "Down in San Diego." He's won his success in "toughie" roles, but he still has to fight against homesickness! With "The Reluctant Dragon" released re-leased at last, Walt Disney has his next full-length feature production practically completed. It's "Dumbo of the Circus," and stars s baby elephant who becomes the world's greatest circus performer because he can fly. It set a record the entire en-tire picture was wound np in a year and a half, instead of the usual two and one-half to three years devoted de-voted to previous full-length Disney pictures. Have you been listening to Guy Lombardo's new Saturday evening program7 He ana his Royal Canadians Canadi-ans have won no end of popularity contests, so probably prob-ably you've had them on your list of broadcasts that you want to hear since they began this series se-ries on August 2. Guy plans to introduce intro-duce at least one jf ' ?I -'0 Ml new number week- Guy Lombardo ly which he expects to be "the hit of tomorrow." While Paramount's testing to find the right actress for the role of "Maria" in "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Ernest Hemingway, the author, au-thor, cabled from Cuba that he's found the perfect solution. She's a Russian-Spanish girl who looks exactly ex-actly like the heroine. I If Raymond Massey didn't look so much like Abraham Lincoln be wouldn't have to wear a false nose. He wears it in the new DeMille picture, "Reap the Wild Wind." He plays a deep-dyed villain, but he wears the same kind of clothes he's worn when he played Lincoln, and all of us have grown accustomed to thinking of Lincoln when we see him in clothes like that. So he's wearing a pointed extension on his nose, to make him look properly sinister. sin-ister. The announcement that Frank Capra and Robert Riskin, his writing writ-ing partner, would handle the screen version of "Arsenic and Old Lace" for Warner Bros, assured the public pub-lic that the picture will be a good one. The sum of $175,000 was paid for the motion picture rights to this very successful and hilarious stage success, in which Boris Karloff returned re-turned to the stage. t Remember Singin Sam? You should, though he's one of radio's most unpublicized stars. He's been on the air for 14 years, and his recorded re-corded programs are heard on more stations than any other program in America. In fact, it's estimated that he has more listeners than Jack Benny about 8,000,000 a day, the year round; his "Refreshment Time" is heard over 227 stations daily. ODDS AND ENDS Gene Auires signed to appear in the autumn at the two biggest rodeos in New York and in Boston . . . Al I'earce and his gang, who return to the air waves in October, will be starred in a feature film by Republic Studios . . . John Garfield violently vio-lently objected to appearing in "New Orleans Blues," but made up with the studio when he was assigned to "Bridges Are Built at Night".. . . Richard Rich-ard Arlen's starring in a series of three aviation pictures for Paramount release re-lease . . . Maureen O'Sullivan and lohnny Weismuller are housekeeping in tree again, for their new "Tartan" picture. |