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Show stagecreenMdio By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) RITA HAYWORTH, whose rise to movie heights makes one of Hollywood's most spectacular success stories, has drawn the co-starring co-starring role opposite Fred Astaire in Columbia's "He's My Li l t, Mit tur2jd . Uncle" because sha really deserves it This Is a really important im-portant picture; tha songs are by Cole Porter, the dance sequences se-quences will be directed di-rected by Robert Alton, Al-ton, who did the : dance routines for three of Broadway'i most popular current cur-rent musicals. Rita's Eita Hayworth a member of the internationally in-ternationally known Canslno family; has danced all her life. Did you happen to listen to Blng Crosby's radio program the night J. Carrol Nalsh appeared on it? It you did, you'll remember that Naish sang an Irish ballad. Until then nobody in Hollywood knew that he had a good baritone voice, and had sung on the stage. William C. Thomas of the Pine-Thomas organization, organi-zation, producing aviation pictures for Paramount, listened, and learned. Naish was already booked for a role in "Forced Landing" now he's scheduled to sing a song as well as act. Ella Neal established something of a record recently when she appeared ap-peared in three pictures In three days. On Wednesday she was Jon Hall's handmaiden In "Aloma of the South Seas"; Thursday morning, for "Buy Me That Town," she was a mother at her baby's christening; Friday, she played a Mexican bride In "Hold Back the Dawn" for that one she had to say something in Spanish, which she doesn't understand; under-stand; she's still wondering what it meant. If you enjoyed "The Cat and the Canary," made two years ago, you'll look fnrwarH with good reason to "Nothing But the Truth," in which the same stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard-appear. It' s in the hands of the same director, Elliott Elli-ott Nugent. It's the hilarious story of a stock broker who ViAtc sin nnn that ho won't tell a lie for 24 Bob Hope hours, and the cast includes such capable actors as Edward Ed-ward Arnold, Grant Mitchell, Rose Hobart, Helen Vinson, Leon Belasco and Leif Erikson. It looks as if Gloria Swanson would really return to the screen in "Father Takes a Wife" with Adolphe Menjou, Desi Arnaz and John Howard. How-ard. Mr. Menjou, famous for his wardrobe, and Miss Swanson, equally equal-ly famous for hers, have been having hav-ing wardrobe tests at RKO; she has a reputation in New York for being able to wear just anything at all and look smart in it. Joan Crawford's New York fans, who troop around at her heels whenever when-ever she's in town, recently presented present-ed her with a rather staggering birthday gift a birthday card more than two feet square, which they'd had autographed by dozens of famous fa-mous theatrical people. The public apparently spends a lot of time and thought on trying to beat the quiz shows; the newest wrinkle bobbed up recently in connection with Ben Bernie's program. For two weeks he was besieged with requests for tickets to the repeat show. Here's the reason: 'The final contestants vying for the prize of $100 are selected by their ability to guess from a recording how many shots are fired out of a machine gun in so many seconds. One night on the first show, the number of shots fired was 52. On the repeat show, all the contestants promptly guessed 49, 50 and 51. But they were fooled Bernie had 93 shots fired the second time, by letting let-ting the record run longer. Because a singer on the "Uncle Ezra" program got a chance to make a movie with Shirley Temple, the announcer on the same program gets a chance to be a network singer. sing-er. The first singer is Bob Nolan, the announcer is Cy Harrice. ODDS AMD ENDS Clark Gable's next for Metro "Honky Tortk" in which Lana Turner will appear opposite oppo-site him, turns him into a confidence man and swindler who becomes a power in a town in the Yukon . . . RK.0 will introduce a new romantic team in "Lady Scarf ace" they're Frances Neal and Dennis O'Keefe, and the story's a comedy with a gangland background . . . Wendy Barrie and George Sanders will be teamed in "The Guy Falcon," mystery picture to be made by RKO; Michael Arle.n (remember "The Green Hat"?) is the author . . . George Brent and Basil Rathbone nare the leads in "G-Man Versus Scotland Yard " |