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Show By VIRGINIA VALE v' (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) V7"OU'LL see a much slim-A slim-A mer Edward Arnold than usual in "Nothing But the Truth" slimmer by 35 pounds, as a matter of fact. The reducing wasn't intentional; inten-tional; Arnold barked his shin in a plane, developed blood poisoning, and off went the 35 pounds. Ai all the action of the picture pic-ture takes place during $4 hours, he had to be careful not to gain even a few ounces while It was being made. He's to have the top role in "The Devil and Daniel Webster" next as a result of an accident suffered by Thomas Mitchell. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope were to take the "Road to Moscow" In their next "Road" picture, but current cur-rent events made it seem advisable to change the title, so instead they'll take the "Road to Morocco." Ellen Drew's good work In "The Parson of Panamint" caused her studio to buy "The Silver Queen" as a future starring vehicle for her. She'll play a New York girl of wealth in the 1880s the girl's father y 1 r rr rrir-innp'iiii, i q tiA v.v JtlaV 1 a j - . u ELLEN DREW loses his fortune in gambling, and the girl becomes a spectacular professional pro-fessional gambler in the mining camps of the old West. Her latest film to be released is "Reaching for the Sun," in which she is co-starred co-starred with Joel McCrea and Eddie Ed-die Brackea , ... , . Bill Boyd breaks the long term screen characterization record with his present Hopalong Cassidy portrayal por-trayal In "Secret of the Wastelands" it's his thirty-seventh appearance in the part and he's been at it for seven years. r Ginny Simms, whom you've heard on the air as the ginger with Kay Kyser's band, has signed a long-term long-term contract with RKO. She'll go right on appearing with the "College "Col-lege of Musical Knowledge," pausing paus-ing to make pictures when she's summoned. ' Jean Arthur is practically certain to play the lead in "Miss Susie Sla-gle's," Sla-gle's," Paramount's version of the very popular book of two years ago. She should be excellent as the charming little Southern woman with a flock of medical students as paying guests in her home. The, man who gave Bette Davis her first job in a theater is in the movies himself; he's Harold Winston, Win-ston, dialogue director on Frank Capra's pictures. He was directing at the Cape Playhouse at Cape Cod, Mass., and she was just out of dramatic dra-matic school when she asked for a job. He didn't have one for her, but 'she said she'd usher for the chance to work in a theater. After several weeks the star of the company, com-pany, Marguerite Churchill, had to leave for Hollywood, suddenly, and Bette took her place. "Look Who's Talking" Is before the cameras with a listener audience audi-ence of nearly 100,900,000 radio fans waiting for it to reach the screen. It stars Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee and MoU ly. Lucille Ball, who's very rood In Harold Lloyd's "A Girl, A Guy and A Gob," has a major role; Lee Bon-nell Bon-nell plays opposite her. Metro has a new singer on its list Anne Rooney, who is sixteen, five feet tall, and has been gathering experience ex-perience as an entertainer since she was two. At five she was guest star with Al Pearce and his Radio Gang; three years later she did a year in vaudeville with her sister and parents. par-ents. She's also done a stint in little lit-tle theater productions. ODDS ASD ENDS Dennis Morgan has the lead in Warner Bros.' "CarnU vol in Rio" . . . Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have signed with 20th Century-Fox Century-Fox for 9 pictures . . . Al Pearce't announcer. an-nouncer. Wen NUes, will play himself in Republic's picture, "Puddin' Head" . . . The Rudy Vallee-ohn Barrymore 'program will remain on the air all summer . . . NBCs Ted Steele, singer, bandmaster and master of ceremonies, was an NBC page boy only two years ago . . . Alice Faye and Don Ameche are to do "Honeymoon in Havana" for 20lh Century-Fox . . . Alexis Smith plays opposite Errol Flynn in "Dive Bomber." |