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Show STAGE SCREEN: RADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union. DON WILSON, the plump and genial radio announcer, an-nouncer, has turned actor with a vengeance. He led up to it gently by using his voice, but not his poundage (he tips the scales at 300) in "Buck Benny Rides Again." You'll see him in person in "The Round-Up," in the role of "Slim," made famous by the late Macklyn Arbuckle. And who knows, he may like acting so well that he'll never want to return to announcing. announc-ing. The chief difficulty so far has been finding a horse that would hold him, but he's promised to take care of that by producing one that he rides frequently seems that, though hefty, he's an expert horseman. Right off the griddle Is the report that Professor Quis Is all set to sign a deal with one of the major movie companies for a series of shorts centering around the Professor's radio ra-dio specialty of questions and answers. an-swers. Perhaps he's been inspired to do it by the success of those "Information Please" shorts. Gone are the days when a hero had to be perfect every minute that he was on the rcreen. In Para-mount's Para-mount's "Road to Singapore" Bing Crosby is a shiftless shift-less sort of guy, aided and abetted in a career of Idleness Idle-ness by Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope. Three other matinee idols have forgotten the maxims max-ims of their copybooks, copy-books, so far as I at '. - r I 4 'i'jT new pictures are B, Crofjb concerned. Robert Montgomery gets himself hanged In "The Earl of Chicago"; George Brent portrays a fugitive from Justice Jus-tice in "Till We Meet Again"; and Tyrone Power, believe it or not, is a gangster in his latest. Judy Garland is on her way up, and rapidly. This year It was quite a distinction for anyone who wasn't In the cast of "Gone With the Wind" to win one of the annual awards of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. Little Judy got a special spe-cial one for work as "an outstanding outstand-ing Juvenile." Janice Logan looked so attractive In the brief costume that she wore when -working in "Dr. Cyclops," the forthcoming Paramount technicolor picture, that the Art Students league voted her "The Best Undressed Woman of the Year." (That's the llliglpl j JANICE LOGAN trick picture in which the members of the cast are reduced to one-fifth their natural size.) So now Miss Logan must be all-round champion so far as clothes are concerned. When she was a senior at swanky Sarah Lawrence college she was voted the School's Best Dressed Student. According to Joan Bennett, one of the greatest predicaments well-dressed well-dressed women fear is putting on a new outfit and then finding someone else wearing one just like it. That's what happened to her not long ago when she appeared to take part in a Bing Crosby broadcast. She was wearing a nifty new hat. She glanced around, and saw one exactly exact-ly like it on the head of Sabu, the young Indian movie actor he'd just put on his native turban. ODDS AMD ENDS . . Douglass Montgomery will make a Star Theater appearance March 27lh with Florence Reed and Helen Claire in "Double i Door" . . . Basil Ralhbone had to pet i a black cat for a cene in "Destiny" the mangled thumb that resulted has just healed . . . Have you listened to the new Westinghuuse program, "Musical "Mu-sical Americana", recently? It's even belter than it was in the beginning . . . Joel McCrea had a perfect vacation not long ago according to his ideas; he stayed on a ranch where he worked as a cowhand, branding cattle and living in tents with the cowbovs. |