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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Releaied by Weitern Newspnper Union.) A STUDIO stage hand stole t V the spotlight from William Wil-liam Powell and Hedy La-marr La-marr when Wendell Willkie I (who recently was elected ! chairman of the board of 20th Century-Fox) visited the stars. I Willkie arrived just in time to watch them doing their first love scenes in "Crossroads," and offered. to change places with Pow ell. The stage hand, Pinky Picciano, I bad a brother who was a petty offloer on the battleship Mississippi I when Wlllkie'i brother Ed was a di-j di-j vision officer on the ship, and en-jtertained en-jtertained Willkie and the cast with anecdotes. Incidentally, in his new 1 position Willkie will not "perform I any executive duties or be actively connected with the operation of the company." Eleanor Powell's spun glass hula skirt is scheduled for a tour of the army camps; so are two other costumesa cos-tumesa pink satin tails and top hat and an abbreviated toreador outfit. out-fit. She's bought the rest of the costumes she wore in "Ship Ahoy," and they'll go along. When Jack Benny takes his Sunday Sun-day night radio show to army camps the member of the cast who has the most fun is Rochester; the soldiers EDDIE ANDERSON (Rochester.) always supply him with a "Jeep," and he has the time of his life riding rid-ing all over camp. "No rougher than the Maxwell," says he. William Holden was the first married mar-ried Hollywood man to join the services; serv-ices; quitting motion pictures at the top of his career, he became a private pri-vate in the army. You'll remember him as the small-time bookkeeper in "The Remarkable Andrew," for his speech for democratlo ideals. He married Brenda Marshall last July; she is working at Warner Brothers' in "The Constant Nymph." Virginia Dale went home to Charlotte, Char-lotte, N. C, for a vacation, and returned re-turned With a husband, one who's probably unique among Hollywood husbands. He's 28, his name is Courtland Shephard, and his business busi-ness is, of all things, commercial shark fishing! There's no sound-effect trickery about it when you hear George or Gracie Allen running up and down stairs. A set of wooden steps 12 of them; count 'em, some time is near the mike, and Ed Lutas, sound-effect sound-effect operator, does the skipping up and down. If it hadn't been for the red polish on her nails, three-year old Fatsy Nash would have played a boy in "I Live on Danger," She was discovered dis-covered when she and her mother were waiting for a bus. Producers William Pine and William Thomas wanted a little boy for the picture, thought she'd do. Then they also discovered the red polish, learned that she was a girl and rewrote the part for her. She was so good that they've optioned her for a featured fea-tured role in the Richard Arlen "Interceptor "In-terceptor Command." It begins to look as if the gentlemen gentle-men have it when correct answers have to be given. During 11 weeks of broadcasting, on Bob Hawk's Friday Fri-day CBS quiz, 14 men have won $4,474 in defense bonds; only 8 women have scored, winning $1,879. For the past three years Alan Bunce has been radio's popular "Young Doctor Malone"; during that time he's picked up many fine points of medicine, so many that he was chosen to play Dr. Walters" Wal-ters" in "Chaplain Jim, U. S. A.," the new Monday through Friday dramatization which is being presented pre-sented in co-operation with the radio ra-dio division of the war department. ODDS AND ENDS Hal Peary, the air's "Great Gildersleeve," has signed at RKO to appear with Fibber McGee and Molly in their next picture . . . And RKO has cast Randolph Scott and Jackie Cooper in lop roles with Pat O'Brien in "Battle Stations," a sfory of three V. S. navy gunners . . . One of creendom's favorite juvenile teams, Mickey Rooney and Freddie Bartholomew, Bartholo-mew, will be reunited in "Yank al Eton" . . . Their last appearance together to-gether was in "Lord Jeff," four years ago . . . "Tish," adapted from Mary Roberts Rinehart's delightful stories, is being screened by Metro, |