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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union. THE baton Judy Garland carried fourteen years ago in an act which she did with her sisters at a Lancaster Lan-caster theater has been rejuvenated re-juvenated for her starring role in "Ziegfeld Girl." Four - year - old Judy kept the "stick" among her souvenirs of i-jMMihnwirwrwmiiTri(ini "The Gumm Sisters" Sis-ters" era. During "Pigskin Parade," in which she first won screen recognition, recogni-tion, she carried It agaia Now as the drum majorette In the M-G-M musicals musi-cals finale number, it once again comes out of hiding but with a difference. Judy Garland Judy, it's been glamourized. Painted In silver. It has 100 sparkling spar-kling rhinestones studding the head. "I'm sure If it had been as Impressive Impres-sive 14 years ago as It is now, we would have received more than 50 cents apiece for our 'Gumm Sisters' act." chuckled the young star. It's pretty Ellen Drew who gets the feminine lead In "The Night of January 16th" when It finally goes before the cameras. Patricia Morrison was to have had it Casting Cast-ing difficulties for the picture began last February, when Don Ameche refused to have anything to do with It; Robert Preston is now slated for the Ameche role. ' Frank Capra's "Meet John Doe" will be more than just a good picture; pic-ture; Its release celebrates bis 20 years of picture making:. He's made 26 pictures and is one of Hollywood's Holly-wood's few directors who can be depended de-pended on to turn out top-notch ones. Rise Stevens, young American mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera company, who made her first appearance at the White House when she participated In the Inaugural concert con-cert this year, has been signed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Her first picture will be a Technicolor musical; musi-cal; she'll leave for 11 I - V - j Hollywood at the Bse gtcvens end of April, after the completion of her concert and radio season, and begin work in May. She made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1938 (she'd shattered a 55-year-old record, when she was 19, by informing Metropolitan officials of-ficials that she was "not yet ready to accept the greatest opportunity opened to a young artist"). Still in her mid-twenties, she is one of the company's leading mezzo-sopranos, and lovely looking to boot. She's going to offer very, very keen competition com-petition for Jeanette MacDonald. It was aching arms, not art, that lent a new and more sinister note to Humphrey Bogart's performance In Warner Brothers' "High Sierra." Visitors to the set noticed a new and sinister alertness, produced by Bogart's Bo-gart's carrying his arms out from his body as if ready for a quick draw. But "When you have a holster strapped tight under each arm all day, you get tired of the contact and involuntarily hold your arms away from your body," Bogart explained. "But I may as well confess; when I found that it gave a sinister effect, ef-fect, I kept doing it, even without guns." TP Boris Karloff is appearing on the New York stage in a goofy and hilarious murder mystery entitled, "Arsenic and Old Lace." lie's cast as a man who terrifies people be-canse be-canse he looks so much like Boris Karloff of the movies. And even highly sophisticated members of the audience are audibly delighted when they recognize hian. Mr. Karloff, incidentally, gives an excellent performance per-formance as the man who resembles him. Turhan Selahettin Shultavy Bey is a new name in American motion pictures; its owner is a young man of distinguished lineage in Turkey. But when 24-year-old Turham came to this country to seek his fortune he left his dignified and aristocratic past behind him. Which was just as well, for when the cast and crew of "Murder on the Second Floor" had difficulty pronouncing his name they just dubbed him "Bay Rum." ODDS AND ENDS Doris Dudley dyed her blonde hair midnight blue for a role in the Miriam Hopkins stage play "Battle of the Angels"; now the piny has been called 00, and Doris must turn blonde again, fast, for a role in another play, "The Bo Tree" . . . Since the hectic days of July, 1939, Raymond Gram Swing has been broadcasting broad-casting almost every day without misting mist-ing a single program because of illness; recently he took a three weeks' vacation, vaca-tion, and spent most of it in bed, sick . . . It's reported that Dick Powell, who recently left that coffee program, is forming his own orchestra for another radio program. |