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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Releaiod by Western Newspaper Union. 1ETER LORRE enjoys a successful romance for almost al-most the first time in his villainous vil-lainous career in Warner Bros.' "The Constant Nymph"; he marries Brenda Marshall. But he found it hard to get out of character. "When I reached Into my pocket for the ring, to marry Brenda," said he, "I whipped it out like it wai my customary gun and almost tried to shoot her with it!" Very young men who rebel at having hav-ing to trudge along behind lawn mowers these summer days ought to know Paul Whiteman's story. As a youngster he so hated to practice prac-tice on his violin that he smashed a $60 instrument against the music PAUL WIIITEMAN stand. His father made him mow the lawn, at 25 cents a session, till he'd paid for the fiddle. After that his parents gave in and decided that maybe he wasn't cut out for a musical career and he took up the violin in earnest! . Charles Coburn, who long ago established es-tablished himself as one of the better bet-ter actors of the legitimate stage, arrived in New York recently to find a different kind of fame awaiting await-ing him; three of his pictures were running at once "The More the Merrier," "The Constant Nymph" and "Heaven Can Walt." While directing "This Is the Army" Mike Curtlz also Invented new military commands. During a location trip to Fort MacArthur some of the Fort's soldiers were within his camera range for a shot. He grabbed the microphone and yelled, "You men back there by the house! Attention! Take a powder!" When John Warburton decided to return to pictures after an absence of six years, the studios Just weren't interested. Then he was tested and signed for the featured role of Gary Cooper's rival in "Saratoga Trunk," end immediately offers began to pour in; two studios wanted him "right away." Warren William, back at work in "Passage "to Suez," after months of illness, has the farm labor shortage to thank for his present excellent physical condition. When he was released re-leased from the hospital doctors prescribed pre-scribed exercise. Warren had half a dozen acres ot unpicked oranges and could not get help. So he pitched 'in, with the result that he now has his health back, and also had one hundred crates of oranges to send to market ir; Pretty soon those Ameche brothers broth-ers won't know which career Is whose. Don was established on the screen when his younger brother, Jim, tackled radio, using an assumed as-sumed name till he'd made good, then switching back to his own. Now he's master of ceremonies of "Here's to Romance," and Don's to begin an air-series in the fall also as master of ceremonies. Meanwhile there's a prospect that Jim may turn actor if he can find a suitable play. Samuel Goldwyn, who's famous for among other things turning beautiful girls into screen stars, is trying something different with Constance Con-stance Dowling; he's going to let the public discover her. You'll see her in "Up in Arms," with Dinah Shore and Danny Kaye. That's an amusing new program, Arlene Francis' "Blind Date"; six boys in uniform, one by one, talking talk-ing themselves Into the good graces of three girls, whom they can't see; curtains on the stage separate them, but the audience sees all. Three lads win their girls and an evening at a famous night club. ODDS AXD EXUS-As no doubt you've heard by now, James Stewart (the movies' Jimmiej has been promoted, promot-ed, and is now a captain . . . Arthur Allen, who plays "Dan'l Dickey" in KISCs "Snow Villane," has a collection of 145 flatiron holders . , . Joan Cratv-ford's Cratv-ford's checked in at Warner Bros, to start preparations for "ISiiiht Shift" . . . Announcer Ben Grauer has a Central American Indian belt woven in colors that make you blink u hat's more, he wears it , . . Ginny Simms' definition of the Mason-Dixon line (at least, her friends credit it to her), "That's the division between you-all end youse-uys! |