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Show BY VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. AFTER Laraine Day had l worked up the hard way playing heroine in Westerns, and "Nurse Mary Lamont" in the Doc Kildares, RKO set to work to glamourize her; the was to play the richest girl in the world In "Bride by Mistake," with Alan Marshal. So the hairdressers hairdress-ers and make-up men went to work, and the clothes designers whipped up some very daring costumes. Then the photographers got busy, so that the newspapers could print pictures showing the public what a beautiful LARAINE DAT girl had been hidden by those nurse'i uniforms. When Laraine took the photos home, her mother took one look, and remarked "1 hope, dear, that you had a lady photographer I" If guest btar clicks, give him a contract that's the policy of "The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street," with the signing oi Johnnie Johnston for a nine-week run as the latest demonstration ol the practice. The movie baritone appeared ap-peared for a single guest performance per-formance on July 16, and was promptly signed for nine more. Practically the same thing happened to Victor Dorge. Andre Kustclanetx and Lily Tons, touring the Persian Gulf war the ater, extended their trip for four weeks, to visit the Italian-North African area. Eleanor Steber and Percy Faith's orchestra continue to bold down their CBS Sunday time. $ They credit Hcdy Lamarr with this. Seems her husband. John Loder, playing in "The British Strangler," was to strangle the Lord Mayor of London In a snowstorm. Only the factory supplying movie snow broke down. But when Loder came home and told his wife about it, she suggested that the limestone meal which she feeds the family chickens to make the egg shells hard would make perfect movie snow which it did! Ethel Barrymore, settled in Hollywood Holly-wood to work in "None But the Lonely Heart," sort of startled the community by being an ardent listener lis-tener to the radio's "Information Please" and "Quiz Kids"; heard them on the radio in her dressing room, where she lived, and beat the quizees to the right answers nine times out of ten. Of course, no one can stump her on the league standings stand-ings of the ball clubs, ever. Paper salvagers now have a song to sing. Henry Sylvern, of Mutual's "Screen Test," has composed a theme song for the juvenile cellar searchers, entitled "Paper Commandos." Com-mandos." It will be taught to youngsters young-sters through the medium of recordings. record-ings. One of the young actors in Metro's "Dragon Seed," played a character oat of his own experience. He's Wei Hsueh, who plays a Chinese student leader in an uprising against the Japs - as a college student la Peiping in 1925 he played that role many times. The British Broadcasting Corporation's Corpora-tion's Industrial music project, "Music "Mu-sic While You Work," has celebrated cele-brated its fourth anniversary with its 3,615th program. Eight thousand factories, employing 4,500,000 workers, work-ers, now take "Music While You Work"; an average of 1,000 peopU a year join the course, which is being be-ing eagerly watched by leading industrialists in-dustrialists in the United States. Ellen Drew had quite a day a while ago. First came word that het overseas husband, the former screen-writer, Cy Bartlett, had been promoted from major to lieutenant coloneL Then she was signed bj RKO for top gal in Boris KarlofTi The Isle of the Dead." ODDS AXD1?NDSWhen it urn announced that "Road to Utapiai would be the last of the "Road" pictures star ring Hope, Crosby and Lamour, mort than 75,000 letters of protest poured in to the studio. , . . Waller Huston re urnj to Warner's for hi first picturi j since "Mission to Moscow"; he'll havi a comedy role in "Hillar to Post.'' . . Lively role Stxra Paddon has in "Het Heart in Her Throat" she walki through two brief scenes without speuh ing, then becomts a corpse. . . . Reginald Owen literally lost his hair in "Kitty,' in ujiich he plays opposite I'auleiu Goddard required to play a complete! bald man, he had hit head shaved. |