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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. HUGHIE GREEN, dropping drop-ping in from London, S brought first-hand news of American film stars overseas, j You may remember Hughie from RKO's "Tom Brown's Schooldays," or one of his American stage appear-; ances; he's now a flying officer offi-cer in the RCAF air transport command. com-mand. You missed something if you didn't hear him on British Broadcasting Broad-casting company's "Atlantic Spotlight"; Spot-light"; one Saturday he was on Lon-1 don's hall of the program, ribbing American radio, and the following Saturday he ribbed British radio ; from New York! He says Jimmle ! Stewart has won the admiration and j respect of army men for his work. Bebe Daniels, whom the British love because she stayed on In London Lon-don to entertain them despite the blitz, staggered everybody when she j BEBE DANIELS went up to within 600 yards of the Bring line in Normandy to Interview American servicemen for "American "Ameri-can Eagle in Britain." I When Albert Dekker showed up on the set of Paramount's "Two Years Before the Mast" with a black eye he offered the oddest excuse yet l "A goose bit me," said he. Seems he went into the poultry house on his San Fernando Valley ranch to examine ex-amine a setting goose. "She didn't like it, and took a peck at me.'' Claudia Morgan had quite a decision de-cision to make, when told that she must give up either her role in a hit play. "Ten Little Indians," or that of Nora Charles in radio's "Adventure "Ad-venture of the Thin Man." The radio show conflicted with curtain time of the play. Time was when an actress would unhesitatingly have chosen the stage, but it was radio that won out this time. Incidentally, snother staee star aDDeared early for an Ellery Queen guest shot and demanded that the air show be put on at once, then left in a huff when it wasn't, the producer frantically phoned around till he located lo-cated Miss Morgan at a friend's home, and she rushed to the studio and filled the gap. Ruth Swanson, who was named "the prettiest dress extra in Hollywood" Holly-wood" three years ago, recently was discharged as ft pilot in the Ferry Command, following an auto Accident. Acci-dent. She'll return to her old love, the movies, in order to play one more role, in Warner Bros. "Of Human Hu-man Bondage." Then she'll go to a new love ft major in the air corps, and give up her screen career for marriage. Ending a radio absence of more than seven years, Ed Wynn will return re-turn to the microphone soon in a whimsical new comedy series. Beginning Be-ginning September 7, "Happy Island" Is-land" will be heard from 7:00 to 7:30 over the Blue Network, with Wynn, Evelyn Knight and Jerry Wayne. First thing they know, Patricia Collinge and Theresa Wright are going go-ing to believe that they're actually I related to each other. They were 1 cinematically related in "The Little 1 Foxes" and "Shadow of a Doubt," i and a third time in "Casanova Brown." The "experts" on "It Pays to Be Ignorant" have to be wrong when a member of the audience is asked to pull a question from the dunce cap for them to answer; just once in two years did they have to be right. The question,1 "Where is the only place in England where the King can't go" couldn't be kicked around. So Harry McNaughton, the only Briton in the gang, correctly replied re-plied "In the House of Commons." After World War I, when John Loder-was in Berlin, and broke, a suit from palmier days won him a Job as a dress extra. ODDS AND ENDSMarjorie Maii abandons comedy rolet in "Gentle Annie," An-nie," in which ihe plays a pioneer woman wom-an of the old West "Pillar to Post" has been held up by Ida Lupino's injury she fell on a slippery floor, had to have a broken bone in her hand reset. . . . "Screen Guild Players" heads the Hooper list of top ten radio programs on the Pacific coast, with "Ellery Queen" I second and "Can You Top This?" 'I third. . . . Dick Powelts happy ubout I. claying a tough detective in "Farewell. , j My Lovely" it's a good dramatic role. , . . . Fibber McGee and Molly have ' signed a new four-year contract with the sponsor who first put them on the air. |