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Show By VIRGINIA VALE i Reiea.,d by Western N.w.paper Cnlon. ! rARRY PARKS, young Co lumbia Pictures' leading man, and eight other lads who are making their first bid for screen fame have taken tak-en over the 26-room house ! once owned and occupied by i the late Thomas Meighan. Larry, who heads the group, has an important role in the ! Astaire-Hayworth musical. "You : Were Never Lovelier." He says it ! cost only $14.75 to furnish .the house i -it cost Meighan more than $9,000! ' They've thrown four rooms together and built a theater in which they rehearse parts for pictures coming up There is a large portrait of Tom i Meighan over the living room flre-: flre-: place-they picked it up in a Holly-wood Holly-wood prop house. The sponsors who, seven years ago, were farsighted enough to see the potentialities of an obscure radio couple and build them into the 'famed Fibber McGee and Molly, I give radio another Innovation this S summer; they're substituting a ( AWflHMmmmeil John Nesbitt and Meredith WUIson Metro news commentator and a musician mu-sician in a half-hour replacement program while Fibber and Molly vacation. The commentator is John Nesbitt, the musician, Meredith Willson. The program combines music mu-sic with snatches of history, literature litera-ture and current events. -I' Walt Disney, whose "Bambi" will soon be released through RKO, has acquired the screen rights to Major Alexander P. de Seversky's "Victory "Vic-tory Through Air Power," and will make it into a feature picture for exhibition sometime this fall. Imagine Charles Boyer producing and acting in something called "Flesh and Fantasy." It will be his first production for Universal; he'll star in one episode, Edward G. Robinson in another, and let's hope they change the title! Capt. Hewitt Wheless, the army flier who was cited by the President for his exploits in the Pacific war, will play himself in a short subject, "Beyond the Line of Duty," which Warner Brothers will produce for the army air corps. This shortage of leading men has proved too much for Harold Lloyd. He's produced two pictures for RKO, "A Girl, a Guy and a Gob" and "My Favorite Spy" and has left the studio. His next picture would have been "Butterflngers," a football comedy. Samuel Goldwyn will select six of the loveliest and most talented sec-j sec-j retaries of Washington, D. C, for ! roles in "They Got Me Covered," co-I co-I starring Bob Hope and Dorothy La-, La-, mour. The story brings out the part i that Washington secretaries play in ! helping to run the government; it's said that they arrive in Washington 3t a rate of 0,000 dailyl T.'ie biggest all-star lineup ever gathered for a summer radio show i is the one thai Bob Hawk's sponsors , have hooked for Friday nights; It's j a 60 minute show featuring Xavier Cult's orchestra, Connie Boswell j atid Murgo, Lanny Ross and a new I corred;an, Herb Shriner. j Richard Denning, male lead In ; "Beyond the Blue Horizon," has ' eid mar:y o: Slmdom's stars in his ( arms. He made the test with Veron-1 Veron-1 ica Lake which won her her role in j "i Wanted Wmgs." Paulette God-! God-! tiard got her Paramount contract ; afier niakin? a test with him; Ellen Drew's test set her for "If I Were King". Mary Martin's put her into The Great Victor Herbert," her firn film r. e. A closeup of his chest substituted for one of Bob Hope's; h back did the same for Bob Ti 1 NuW he's 6ettinS a chance. u ot him, in the Lamour picture. fOIS Aw ENHS - Paramount r un, to pr,t the Quiz Kids in M. j r film, following the completion ol that r?W Sef'n' " hort "bi ' ' Con ;,.,- i , 'n nn Amprica'$ ' S TiP' in "Udi' Day ha, bolUchrd a'rno i eMon, moil turrpujul |