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Show By VIRGINIA VALE j Released by Western Newspaper Union. TWO full years have parsed since actor Douglas Walton, Wal-ton, called up for army service, serv-ice, worked all one night to finish a picture assignment at RKO. Early the next morn-I morn-I ing, with no time in which to ; chance from his costume, he i reported for duty In white tie and tails Now he's back-Lieut. Doug-! Doug-! las Walton, medically discharged- and reporting at RKO to Playtha rnan who gets his in the Dick I Powell-Anne Shirley thriller, Fare-1 Fare-1 well My Lovely." And on his first day 'before the camera, his costume I was white tie and tails! After giving Linda Darnell the biggest big-gest break of her career in "Sunn, mer Storm," then realizing, while critics raved, that they had no fur-ther fur-ther claim on her services, Angelus Pictures is taking no more chances. They've signed up Dona Drake with a contract calling for a starring role a year for four years. Dona's been around the Paramount lot for some -J V f LINDA DARNELL time without ever getting a good break, so finally she won cancellation cancella-tion of her contract so that she could take advantage of the Angelus An-gelus offer. Douglas Sirk, director of "Summer Storm," made a special spe-cial test of Dona, and it was on his recommendation, because he thinks she's potentially a dramatic star, that she got the contract. Norman Price, tenor of the "Mother and Dad" quartet, chose music as a career not too many years ago, but it was a toss-up whether he'd sing or earn a living as a professional swimmer or a baseball player. Norman was a star athlete In his home state of Arkansas; Arkan-sas; he hails from Berryville. Polly Robertson, organist and arranger for the quartet, is another Southerner, South-erner, from Kentucky. . Claude Rains, currently featured In Warner Bros.' "Mr. Skefflngton," starring Bette Davis, is expected back from England by mid-July for his next assignment under a long-term long-term contract. He went to play opposite op-posite Vivien Leigh in "Caesar and Cleopatra." As part of its twentieth anniver-sary anniver-sary celebration Metro has dug into the files and come out with some j bits of interesting information. For instance Glenn Martin, the plane manufacturer, once was a movie actor. He played opposite Frances Marion, the ace film writer and executive. ex-ecutive. He was given the job because be-cause no other leading man could be found, in 1916, who owned an airplane! In a poll of enlisted men embracing embrac-ing the entire Southwest Pacifio area, conducted by the Overseas Motion Picture Service, Humphrey Bogart was voted the year's No. 1 actor, as a result of his performance in "Casablanca." An "Oscar," a facsimile of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel j of New Guinea, is being forwarded I to him' as an expression of the j gratitude the men feel for all that , he has done for them. The well-worn theory that mys-i mys-i tery stories are too exciting fare for j children receives another knockout blow in results from interviews with I youngsters having roles on "Mys- tery Theater." All report that nev- in their lives have they slept : better than on the nights after they have been in on a few choice murders mur-ders m the NBC mystery thriller the more murders, the better. j Sounds difficult' but it worked-when worked-when wriUng "The Little Bit of S" sical to be produced by Metro, Capt. Luther Davis, with ; the army air corps in India, and Marine Capt. John Cleveland, stationed sta-tioned at Quantico. Va., collaborated by mad with Robert Andrews in Hollywood. Vnnin. in Z .""1 S'reet Parn, be-ginning be-ginning m September rr.-.i, i! her I r ' hpT lml P'Vre under ner I'artmtiunt enntmn .I T s S ftj" "h trr modeled l be uS"7 band |