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Show Eefore getting his chance at Paramount studio, Alan Ladd, one of the studio's newest stars, lived a whole week on seventy-five cents his share of radio broadcast earnings earn-ings of a small group that divided the weekly stipend. Alice Faye is back in Hollywood Holly-wood after an absence of more than a year, to appear in "Hello Frisco, Hello." Most of the time, since the birth of her baby, she has spent with her band leader husband, Phil Harris, on tours. Two young actors from whom Hollywood expects much are Van Johnson and Richard Ney. Lucille Ball "discovered" Johnson in a restaurant when he was feeling "lower than a snake's hips" and about ready to return to New York, introduced him to Billy Brady, M-G-M talent scout, who gave him a test, resulting in a role in "The War Against Mrs. Hadley." He now has the title role in "Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant." Ney attracted favorable attention in "Mrs. Miniver." ..,1.,...,,., , ,, , - Bombers In the raw. This lad is out to lick the Nazis and the Japs by collecting cans for the tin salvage drive. lie is preparing cans for collection by tearing off the labels and squeezing the cans for convenience in packing. Tin cans, of course, are wanted only in certain areas accessible to de-tinning plants. Scrap metal, rubber, rags, manila rope, burlap bags and waste fats, however, are wanted in all parts of the country. J4 cnccii Shorts The September War Bond drive in which the film industry has sot for its goal the securing of $1,000,000,000 in bonds and pledges got off to nn excellent start on the' first day when a total of $100 000 -000 in War Bonds were sold. ' Returns Re-turns by the middle of the month indicated that the fabulous goal which the industry set for itself would be reached. The nation, as a whole, should appreciate the tremendous expenditure of money, talent and time, which the members mem-bers of the movie industry, officials, offi-cials, workers and film actors and actresses alike, are giving to this phase of the war effort. That the film folk of Hollywood Holly-wood are meeting the exigencies of the war in a good humored manner man-ner is shown in the way they are cooperating in the conservation of automobile, tires. Cecil B. DeMille is riding to work these days on a motorcycle, with his chauffeur in a sidecar. The chauffeur takes the motorcycle home after depositing the producer at the studio. While the men seem to prefer motorcycles, the actresses are turning either to motorbikes, roller skates, scooters, or, as in the case of Paulette Goddard, to midget autos. For the first time since 1935, when they worked together in "Ah Wilderness," Mickey Rooney, Lionel Lio-nel Barrymore and Director Clarence Clar-ence Brown are working on the same film. This time it's "The Human Hu-man Comey," which M-G-M is producing pro-ducing from the original story by William Saroyan. Since returns from the poll of exhibitors in Canada are now in, the results of the Motion Picture Herald's inquiry as to the exhibit- ors' idea of the ten most promising promis-ing players for future stardom are: Van Heflin, Eddie Bracken, Jane Wyman, John Carroll, Alan Ladd, Lyn Bari, Nancy Kelly, Donna Reed, Betty Hutton and Teresa Wright, in the order named. Satisfied with the acclaim "Wake Island" received, Paramount Para-mount has announced plans for early production of "American Rangers," the story of America's commandos who participated in the daring raid against the Germans at Dieppe. The Rangers got their name, by the way, from the celebrated cele-brated Rogers Rangers, Indian fighters of pre-Revolutionary days. Two more of Hollywood's promising young men, both connected con-nected with Warner Brothers studio stu-dio Craig Stevens and Roland Drew are leaving for service in the army. Craig Stevens celebrated his departure by announcing his engagement to Alexis Smith, lovely love-ly young actress. |