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Show STAGESCREEnMd.O Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE T SEEMS unfortunate that so lovely a title as "Hold Autumn in Your Hand" had to be changed to "The Southerner," South-erner," but perhaps that's a better title for this very realistic realis-tic picture. Directed by Jen Renoir, it is beautifully photographed. pho-tographed. Zachary Scott and Betty Field give excellent performances per-formances as the young farmer and his wife who are willing to endure terrific difficulties in order to live In the country and work for themselves. them-selves. In fact, the whole cast is BETTY FIELD excellent, and of course the direction is superb. At a preview the only complaints were that the picture was too real, so don't see this one if you go to the movies to laugh. Lola Lane, who's been absent from the screen for several years, returns in one of the top character roles in RKO's "Deadline at Dawn," supporting sup-porting Bill Williams, Susan Hay-ward Hay-ward and Paul Lukas. With her Lola won screen fame in the "Four Daughters" series; the others aren't interested in making pictures any more, but she couldn't leave the screen permanently. Six Hollywood beauties two redheads, red-heads, two blondes, two brunettes i representing the Goldwyn Girls from "Wonder Man," the new Danny Kaye picture, are making a 30-day tour of military hospitals in the Eighth Service Command area, in Texas and Arkansas. Ralph Edwards is well started on another million dollar E bond drive and what most folks don't know is that he's gone into those drives on his own, not demanding, as many another radio star has, that the treasury department underwrite the drive.. If you've listened to Edwards' program recently you know about the young G.L who'll get a plane if audiences buy enough bonds. Joan Fontaine was called to the wardrobe department at Paramount to see a new costume; it turned out to be an elderly woman's. Wondering Wonder-ing why she ought to be interested, she looked at the model found it was her mother, who'd secretly got herself a role in "The Lost Week End." When Andrew Stone produced The Great Victor Herbert," he gambled on two newcomers to the screen Mary Martin and Susanna Foster. He gave Diana Lynn her first big chance. Now, in "Bedside "Bed-side Manner," he introduces two new discoveries Clandia Drake, who made her picture debut when she was one, and has done a few pictures since, and Renee Godfrey, a beautiful model. The picture stars Rath Hassey and Jnhn Carroll. Dinah Shore and Joan Edwards are all set to embark on concert tours, thanks to their radio popularity. popular-ity. Dinah will have Raymond Scott's orchestra, and cover five cities; Joan, who'll play piano solos as well as sing, visits eight between "Hit Parade" programs. It'll be difficult for others to top the party given by the "Can You Top This?" stars to welcome members mem-bers into their One Thousand Club. All listeners whose contributed Jokes have hit 1,000 on the laugh meter are eligible for membership, but only members living fairly near New York could be brought to the party. Guests were bidden to a dinner party, par-ty, and entertained at a vaudeville show, then taken to the broadcast. Eight-year-old Clare Foley was delighted de-lighted when she heard she'd play the role of "Janie's" kid sister in "Janie Gets Married," which stars Joan Leslie and Robert Hutton. The reason the bannister in her house in the picture is swell for slidlng-down slidlng-down purposes. ODDS AMD ENDS Pater Lorre'i ginned to terrify us in Warners' pu lures for another year. . . . Ted de. Cor-no, Cor-no, S1. Velie" on the Kllery Ouccn shows, sells the. other arlors aipamgits grown on his farm. . . . Martha 'I iltons heard on Milton H-rles "Let Yourself ' Co" every W ednetdny nifthl, and seen i wherever "Crime, Inc." is beintt shown. . . . Frank Sinatra, Mervyn I.eltoy and Frank Hots have united to make a fea-turette-lenitlh picture deiifftird to pro-mote pro-mote religious and racial tolerance ; it will include two sintts by Sinatra, and be relented by HKO. . . . Proceeds will go to a charily active, in juvenile work, i to be selected by them. |