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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Btleaied by Western Newspaper Union. THAT Bob Hope is quite a man. Though he was half a continent away, Columbia Pictures had to reshoot an entire en-tire scene for "The Impatient Years" because he stole it from Jean Arthur and Lee Bowman. Cameras whirred while Jean and Lee went through tender farewell near a railroad station newsstand. They did a swell Job. But wnen Director Irving Cum-mlngs Cum-mlngs icreened the rushes next day, there on a magazine cover was Mr. Hope, perfectly In focus, with a wide i grin splitting his face. Naturally the I mood of the scene was completely ruined! 1 If Warner Bros, stick to the facts during the making of "Night and Day," the Cole Porter life-story, they'll have to hire Xavier Cugat i and his Latin-Americanos, who work ! for Metro, for the film. One after-! after-! noon some years back the boys : were rehearsing at the Waldorf, j when Cole Porter walked In with a ! fox-trot he had just written. He asked Cugat to have them play it j It was "Begin the Beguine." ! After being under contract to War-! War-! ners' for more than a year without I making a picture, Joan Crawford is j set for her first starring picture for I them. It's "Mildred Pierce," a story JOAN CRAWFORD involving a divorced woman and her grown daughter. Miss Crawford recently re-cently worked in a scene in "Hollywood "Holly-wood Canteen," playing herself; she danced a jitterbug number with Dane Clark. Shortly before her variety hour left the air last month, Kate Smith got a taste of working on Sundays, when she was a guest on four Sunday Sun-day shows "We the People," "Silver "Sil-ver Theater," "Bandwagon" and "Hall of Fame." When she returns to the air in September she'll be heard from seven to eight, EWT, Sunday evenings it will be the first Sunday series in her entire 13-year radio career. Pat O'Brien, costar of "Marine Raiders," has been asked to make a recording of a "Knute Rockne" pep talk adapted to war instead of football, for use in the official training train-ing schedule of every marine going through the San Diego boot camp. The request came after O'Brien, In San Diego for the filming of the picture, pic-ture, was a guest on the marines' "Halls of Montezuma" radio program, pro-gram, and as "Rock" gave his boys a pep talk. Commanding officer Col. George Hall had the idea of having Pat record the talk as a permanent per-manent feature of training. Of all the roles which Jay Jostyn, "Mr. District Attorney," has enacted, en-acted, one of his favorites is that of a virile sea captain. He played it on a midwestern station many years ago, on a series based on the adventures of sea-faring men, and it was very, very salty. And Jay, who at that time had never been on anything larger than a row-boat, had a wonderful time. Eddie Cantor, who's spent the last two months iu New York broadcasting broadcast-ing from nearby hospitals and serv-Ice serv-Ice headquarters, is on his way back to Hollywood; en route Eddie will play his self-named "Purple Heart" circuit of rehabilitation hospitals. Many howls provided by Harry Savoy come during his ad-lib warm-ups before the broadcasts (NBC, Thursday nights). Recently he walked on stage, was introduced by Jimmy Wellington, and asked the audience to take out their handker-chiefs handker-chiefs and wave them at him. "Thanks," said the Crown Prince of Confusion, "that's the first clean laundry I've seen in months " ODDS AND Ems-Special foo,ge R ; I- KZs.eri.Cllia Picture, BU'h,p Blue,' um be ymed Rocky Mount N. C, hi, home town. . . . Flower Parry, ex-wife of Jackie Loogan, returns to the screen in an important role in "Hollywood Can. vr ' ; 0S atl the mm i New rorft, soldiers, sailors and marines re-ceivms re-ceivms free tickets at New York', "99 -oB r(,cen'h. most wanted to see Back Home in Indiana" A ,n,7,,0I by' Porter, 'Don't Fence ond hi. Sons of the Pioneer, for their 'P'cal appearance in the all-stor musi-VI musi-VI 'xtravatantarilollvwood Canteen' |