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Show STAGE SCREEN ft ADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE VIRGINIA JOHNSON, who on November 16, was chosen "Photogenic Day" queen on Mutual's "Queen for a Day" broadcast and won a seven-year contract at 20th Century-Fox, has had her option picked up by I the studio, and is ready to go into ! her third picture on the lot. She wag "Emmie," a merry-go-round ticket seller, in "Three Little Girls ) In Blue," has Just finished "The I Shocking Miss Pilgrim," and goes Into "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog." Virginia's taking singing and dramatic dra-matic lessons, being groomed for stardom. Danny O'Neil, CBS "Powder Box Theater" star, was discovered j by Chaplain Hjnlmar Hansen, who j heard him singing In the Blue Jacket Jack-et Choir at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and gave him his DANNY O'NEIL first chance at a solo. Danny will be featured guest artist at an All Irish concert to be held at Boston Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass., on St. Patrick's Day. He'll feature John McCormack's favorite. Bette Davis drove 9,920 miles during dur-ing the four weeks following her marriage to William Grant Sherry, I on a round trip that took her from Hollywood to Mexico, to New Hampshire, and back to Hollywood. A souvenir of Mexico is a dozen solid silver service plates, a gift to her from the governor of Mexico. Mex-ico. She'i completing "A Stolen Life," for which she began testing a year ago. Everything was set for a love j scene between Eleanor Parker and Errol Flynn, for "Escape Me Nev- er." But the electricians got an arc j light too close to the stage sprin- kling system, and Flynn fled the deluge, dragging Miss Parker behind be-hind him. When Tom Harmon, football star and war hero, decided to run for I Mayor of Studio City against Jack Carson and Roy Rogers, the burden of the campaign fell on his wife, Elyse Knox, star of "Joe Palooka. v-uamy. ne mviiea unaeciaea vot- ers home to dinner, and she did the cooking. All she feels really sure about is fried chicken, so that was the bait for the voters. Sheik, the famous movie horse, a palomino, might well carol "Or would you rather be a horse?" He appeared with Betty Mutton in "Incendiary "In-cendiary Blonde," was used by Barbara Bar-bara Britton in "The Virginian," and Ray Milland rides him In Mil-land's Mil-land's first Western role, that of a wagon-train guide, in "California." But don't be fooled Sheik has a double for chases and rough stuff his own colt, Sheila. 1 Frank Sinatra has his bid in for a two-place advance trainer fighter plane; Pianist Skitch Henderson, who taught cadets to fly the training train-ing plane at Fresno, will be his teacher. Just to make sure of him, Sinatra looked Henderson up as soon as he was discharged from the army and arranged for the pianist to begin his postwar radio career as guest artist on the Sinatra show. Sheldon Leonard, "Orville Sharp" of "Meet Me at Parky's," is the first actor to set up a regular commuting com-muting schedule between New York and Hollywood. He has an acting commitment in Manhattan; he's there from Monday to Wednesday of each week, then hops a plane for Hollywood and leaves again when the radio show is over. But just about now he'll be calling it off. ODDS A!SD ENDS-Dinah Short has a new, transparent pink raincnat fter don ha one to match. . . . Danring ii the chief hobby of Johnny Desmond, start of "h'oltiei of 46"; he learned to dance u hen he uwsn't allowed to tint because his voice utit . harming. . . . V.asu. I'ltts returns in "I he I'erfect Marriage". Mar-riage". . . At W arners' they're starring Ihuce Bennett, Joan Crawford's first husband in "Mildred fierce" and is one of Ann Sheridan's love interests in "7 he Sentence." . . . Ray Muer, of "llolidav and Co.," is probably the only performer in radio uho plays the calls, ope; learned uhen he ran auay from home and puned a circus. |