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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Releaied by Western Newspaper Union.) BECAUSE Carole Lombard and Clark Gable interested interest-ed themselves in his career, tall, handsome Reed Hadley, who hails from Texas via New York theater and radio acting stopovers, appears to be safely launched in Hollywood. Holly-wood. He first attracted Miss Lombard s attention a few weeks ago, when he appeared with her on a national broadcast In New York. Gable met him at that time also. Both were impressed with young Hadley'f appearance ap-pearance and talents. Gable suggested sug-gested to Director Clarence Brown i that Hadley be tested for the role of a young British officer in "The Uniform," at Metro, in which Gable and Rosalind Russell are co-starring. An important requirement was that the actor- chosen for the role be able to wear a uniform worn by Gable. Ga-ble. The young actor fitted the uniform, uni-form, and the part was his no test was required, just an Interview with Brown. At the same time casting officials grabbed him for "Man From the City," with Robert Sterling, Ster-ling, Paul Kelly and Marsha Hunt Ray Milland "is moving right ahead, and fast. After turning in a 1 1" ' ",' f 'pi. , y, a i i K IvV. fine performance in "I Wanted Wings" he was chosen by Cecil B. De Mille for one of the two male starring roles in "Reap the Wild Wind." It's a tale of the Florida kets a hundred years ago, and ' Milland is a fighting young lawyer law-yer from Charleston, Charles-ton, who smashes a desperate crew of Ray Milland Ishlp wreckers and wins the girl John Wayne has the other stellar ! male role that of a sea captain who ! also wants the girl. And all in Tech-i Tech-i nicolor. Getting a screen test Isn't too easy, and Richard Wallace, director I of Harold Lloyd's first production for RKO, "A Girl, a Guy and a Gob," explained why the other day. He computes the cost of a test at from $1,500 to $3,000. The candidate lis brought to Hollywood, make-up I artists go to work, hairdressers and i wardrobe department heads are called In. An experienced actor Is 1 selected to appear opposite the can-' can-' didate and there are the salaries e of the director, cameraman, electricians, elec-tricians, Bound men, etc. Then the - candidate may be no good! George Raft, who has one of the largest and most expensive ward- mar hp, I robes owned oy Hollywood actors, i is breaking in some $22.50 suits for his role as a power lineman line-man In Warner Bros.' "Manpower." "Manpow-er." That's the picture pic-ture in which Humphrey Hum-phrey Bogart was slated to share honors hon-ors with Raft and Marlene Dietrich, but Raft, who wise-lv wise-lv rpnlizes his limi- KKtfc.Tea a George Raft tations, refused to appear with him. Ida Lupino didn't want the talented Mr. Bogart in "The Gentle People" with her, either. Warners offered him a nice, fat part in "Bad Men of J Missouri" but he would have none 1 of It, and was suspended. I John Loveton, producer of "The f! Court of Missing Heirs," insists that I actors in mob scenes say sane, per-1 per-1 tinent words. He had his lesson long ago; he was part of a mob scene on a radio drama broadcast, and when an unexpected silence fell on J the air his voice boomed out, shouting shout-ing "Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!" " He's never acted since, but as a di-rector di-rector he cracks down on anyone n" who doesn't contribute something 5,1 sensible to those background mur-n" mur-n" murs and mutterings. Paramount believes that a new Jean Harlow, or Clara Bow, has been discovered in the person of "sultry, blonde" Veronica Lake, (to quote a press agent) who is featured fea-tured in "I Wanted Wings." "Not since Greta Garbo leaped to overnight over-night fame in her first picture, "The Torrent," have New York movie critics lavished such acclaim upon a newcomer," to quote another press release. Maybe so, but the low cut of Miss Lake's necklines made such I an impression on a good many peo-1 peo-1 pie that they hadn't a great deal to ' say about her acting. i J ODDS AND ENDS Universal has n taken an option on the screen services I of Baby Sandy t brother who is one week old . . . The March of Time's I latest, "The F. B. .-1 941," shows how i the Federal Bureau of Investigation is i concentrating on the prevention of es- pionage and sabotage in industry . . . Mutual' "The feople't Playhouse," ' heard Tuesdays and Thursdays, pre-u pre-u sents dramatic sketches based on ideas submitted by the public . . . RKO is " screening "Parachute Battalion," with I- Robert Preston, Nancy Kelly and Harry t. Carey . . . You'll see Tommy Harmon, it Alt-American half-back, in "Harmon of Sirhiann" |