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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. BETTY HUTTON picked up a new honor the other day; the committee in charge of Dartmouth's spring party-week party-week asked her to attend as guest of honor, and told her that she'd been elected "the girl we would like to have Dartmouth co-eds resemble if we had co-eds. You'll probably prob-ably refuse the Invitation," they added, add-ed, "so will you kindly send us a dozen autographed pictures of your-elfT" your-elfT" Betty certainly had to refuse; she's booked way ahead for pictures. pic-tures. The latest announcement Is that she'll be teamed with Diana Lynn In "The Well-Groomed Bride." A lot of people talk about doing something for American youth; Raymond Paige has gone ahead and done the young people a tremendous service by organizing the orchestra which you hear on the swell new 1 I RAYMOND PAIGE radio program, "Salute to Youth," heard Tuesday evenings, on NBC. He has been working to assemble that orchestra for the last two years, and has done wonders with his young musicians. There'll be a water ballet, staged by John Murray Anderson, in "Mr. Co-ed," so that Esther Williams can do her stuff. She's the former swimming swim-ming champion who made her movie debut in "Andy Hardy's Double Dou-ble Life," with Mickey Rooney. If you're Interested In the radio actors who appear in the popular "Mr. District Attorney," you'll have ft chance to see three of them In "Journey Into Fear" Stefan Schna-bel, Schna-bel, who plays the ship's purser; Frank Readick, the henpecked husband, hus-band, and Everett Sloane, the Turkish Turk-ish agent. In the radio serial they play practically everything. -T- Jon Hall, who has worn almost as many-sarongs as Dorothy . La-mour La-mour in pictures, gets a chance at a complete wardrobe, from polo outfit out-fit to white tie and tails, in "Lady In the Dark." He plays the movie star, the role Victor Mature did on the stage. Every so often comes the report that a potential successor to Rudolph Ru-dolph Valentino's fame as a romantic roman-tic star has been discovered. The latest candidate is Arturo de Cordova, Cor-dova, already a star in his native Mexico and in Latin America. You'll see him In "For Whom the Bell Tolls," when it's finally released, and C. B. DeMille is holding "Rur-ales" "Rur-ales" up till the public gets to know him. Amos and Andy fans are cheering over the news that their favorites will return to the air this fall In a half-hour show. They'll have famous fa-mous folk as guest stars. Director Robert Z. Leonard has a "baby brigade" working for him in "The Man From Down Under"; there are 80 infants, who work in two shifts, which means that there are always 40 mothers,- eight nurses and half a dozen supervisors from the board of education on hand. One end of the stage had been turned Into a nursery. Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Richard Carlson and Donna Reed find it a bit confusing. Leonard doesn't; he worked with 20 babies when he was making "Stand By for Action." Six years ago Charles Bickford bought a South Sea island. He was telling Laraine Day about it she's Cary Grant's leading lady In "Mr. Lucky," in which Bickford appears and said that it's now in Japanese hands. So she suggested that he raffle it off and buy a war bond with the proceeds. A studio electrician elec-trician won the island, gave it to his daughter as a wedding present ODDS Am ENDSRKO will make a two-reel picture "America' Children," Chil-dren," as a contrast to "Hitler's Children" Chil-dren" intending it mainly for release in foreim countries . . . Alan Reed, who's the "FalstalT of Fred Allen's program, is going to work in "A Tale of Two Sisters" for Metro . . . Igor Gorin, the baritone, has been signed to appear on the June shows of CBS . . . Phil Baker's line on the "Take It or Leave It" program, re the Red Crass "Give that dollar for the Red Cross; it may be the Buck that brings him back alive!" has been entered in the Congressional Record by Congressman Clare Luce. |