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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (RtliaHd by Western Newspaper Union.) WHEN it was decided that the new Garbo picture would get under way on Friday Fri-day the thirteenth, the assistant assist-ant director called the cast together to see if anybody's superstitions would get in the way. Melvyn Douglai said that Friday Fri-day wai a lucky day tor him, and pi m the tact that It waa the thirteenth would make It so much the better. Ruth Gordon, Gor-don, who gave up a number of summer stock engagements to take this one In pictures, declared that she deliberately deliberate-ly walks under ladders, lad-ders, and loves black cats. Roland Young said that he'd bring along Greta Garbo ono of his china penguins, to break the evil speU of the Jinx. As for Miss Garbo, she said nothing Just showed up on time. Janet Blair used to be the featured fea-tured vocalist with the late Hal Kemp's orchestra; now she has a Columbia contract and one of the top feminine roles In "Three Girls About Town." She'll play the younger young-er sister ot Joan Blondcll. David Niven not only went back to England to serve his country, but H?1 Ed: he s been made a major. Bing Crosby had a letter from him In which he mentioned the promotion. pro-motion. He heads a squadron of defense troops which is stationed sta-tioned on the English Eng-lish coast opposite France. In his letter let-ter he said that no less than 20 invading invad-ing Nazi bombing planes had been David Niven knocked down above nu sector uie previous night. The March of Time's newest release, re-lease, "New England's Eight Million Mil-lion Yankees," shows how the six northeastern states are making themselves invasion-proof. It is the first of a series of regional films, and will be followed by releases on the Midwest, Texas, and other sections sec-tions of the country. Penny Singleton, who'a been "Blondie" on the screen and on the air for so long, Is bard at work now in her first film musical. It's called "Cowboy Joe" temporarily, and Glenn Ford playa opposite her. She'd made a name for herself as a singer and dancer on the Broadway stage before she went to Bollywood, and her nine "Blondie" comedies have made one for her in Hollywood. The office of Helnrlch Himmler, chief of Nazi SS men, is as authentic authen-tic a reproduction in Warner Bros.' "Underground" as following actual photographs could make It Himmler Himm-ler does not permit photos of his office of-fice to be released; however, Kurt Schmidt, technical adviser on "Underground," "Un-derground," made some when he was in favor with the SS head, and smuggled them out of the country when he escaped two years ago. The film shows Himmler' s dreaded office for the first time. Bab Hodc. who soared to film pop- ularity with the song "Thanks for the Memory," will have another opportunity op-portunity to warble an outstanding number, when he sings "You Can't Brush Me Off" In "Louisiana Purchase," Pur-chase," which Paramount will produce. pro-duce. Lately he's been content merely to be one of the funniest men on the screen. His "Caught In the 9 Draft" is hilarious, though the script 5 writers dug up some of the oldest jokea in existence for It. Eddie 3 Bracken hangs up a few laurels for B himself in this one too. With the exception of a few minor weekly cast additions, all the regular regu-lar roles on the new "Hap Hazard" radio series, the summer replace-' replace-' ment for "Fibber McGee and Mol- J ly," have been assigned. It stars Ransom Sherman, and features the I singing of Edna O'Dell and Billy Mills' orchestra. Nowadays people I in radio have begun to take these summer replacement shows seriously. seri-ously. The "Blondie" program started start-ed as one three years ago now it tops all CBS half-hour shows in popularity, pop-ularity, according to. the latest Crosley report. ODDS AND ENDSOna Munson wound up work in "Wild Geese Calling" Call-ing" at 20th Century-Fox, got a vacation vaca-tion from radio when Edward G. Robinson's Rob-inson's "Big Town" show left the air for the summer, and headed for Santa Barbara and a rest . . . Ruth Hussey j and Robert Young will be teamed in 1 "Married Bachelors," a comedy of a young married couple who are always just Uoo jumps ahead of the sheriff ... Jane ifyatl has the feminine lead oppo-site oppo-site Dennis WKeefe in RKO's "Week th End for Three" . . . Myrna Loy and m William Powell will be at it again before be-fore long, in "The Shadow of the Thin Man," |