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Show Released by Western Newpapr Unlou. By VIRGINIA VALE I T'S good news for jazz lov-A lov-A ers that Benny Goodman will be back on the air regularly. regu-larly. Beginning July 1, he'll have the 9: 30-10: 00 P. M. spot Monday nights on NBC. The famous sextette will top the BENNY GOODMAN 16 instrumentalists backing up Benny Ben-ny and his clarinet, and two singers sing-ers will be featured, a boy and a girl. The boy Is 6 feet 4 Art Lund, whose effect on the bobby soxers stopped the show recently when the Goodman band performed at New York's Paramount Theater. T After Hugo Hass spent a couple of months growing a walrus mustache mus-tache for his role in Loew-Lewin's "Bel Ami," with George Sanders, J he was ordered to shave it off because be-cause it didn't look authentic! Now he pastes one on every morning, to look natural. A lot of people have been trying to get Danny Kaye for the one outside out-side picture he's permitted to do away from the Samuel Goldwyn fold during the next six months, and right now they'd probably like to muzzle Frederic March. Kaye, in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," was working on a stage adjoining the one where March was starring In "The Best Years of Our Lives" and Frederic, who did "The Royal Family" on the screen, suggested that Danny go back to New York and do a musical comedy version of It on the stage. Danny liked the idea. The return of the beloved O'Neills to the air has been so successful that American Broadcasting decid- ed to put them on four nights a week instead of two, the original schedule. And Columbia Pictures likes the series so much that Virginia Vir-ginia Van Upp has been working on j a series of family pictures based on the characters. Michael Fitzmau-rice, Fitzmau-rice, the experienced actor who plays Father Danny O'Neill, the young priest, would have the same role. Incidentally, Michael wanted to be a priest, but the lure of the stage was too strong. Some of you movie fans who have written to Robert Young may see your own missives in his latest pic- I i ture, "Lady Luck." in which he CO- stars with Barbara Hale and Frank ! Morgan. One scene in the comedy shows a hotel lobby, complete with j ! clerk's desk and pigeon-holes for ! mail. And all the letters used in that scene were sent to Young, from all over the world, by his fans. Twentieth Century - Fox has named Celeste Holm, a darling of j the New York stage, for a top singing sing-ing role in "I Wonder Who's Kiss- ! ing Her Now," based on the life of i Joe Howard. She'll be seen soon in ; Three Little Girls in Blue." Joan Crawford, whose new pic- j ture. The Secret," has just gone into production at Warners', is hav- ! ing fun. She's on top in her career j again, she's being pursued by the ' Hollywood wolves, she's doing just j what she pleases. When a New York hat designer showed his col- j lection In the movie colony, she bought hats like mad "Most of I them horribly unbecoming!" com- j 1 mented a friend. i. William Wyler. directing Gold- i wyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives," has banned make-up for male actors, including Dana Andrews An-drews and Frederic March, and asked the girls, including Teresa Wright, to use cosmetics sparingly. She'll use only what she wears for the street. The grease paint ban is part of Wyler's campaign to achieve documentary realism in the film. ODDS AXD ENDS Beverly RoberU of "Life Can Be Beautiful" began her career on stage, screen and radio at the age of .5, when, wearing green lace, she sang "How Ireland Got Its Name" at a woman's civic club function. . . . The suite of louia thinks so well of Meredith Mere-dith Villson's song "Iowa," official centennial ballad, that it's being used lor theme music in a movie of the slate. Hack in the '30s Conrad Nagle turned down three aspirants for roles in one of his pictures, on the ground that they weren't good for talkies they were Bette Davis, Humplirey Bo-uarl Bo-uarl and Rosalind Russell. Could fc have been wrong? |