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Show stagescreenMdio By VIRGINIA VALE , Released by Western Newspaper Union. A MAN who has met so many motion picture stars that he can't even remember re-member how many he's known told me that Joan Fon- taine is really pretty wonderful. wonder-ful. Vitality, intelligence, J warmth, sensitiveness she I has them all, aaid he. He seems to I be right. A girl who grew up with ' her and her sister, Olivia de Havil-; Havil-; land, told me that Joan always did know what she wanted, and how to get It. Well, when she came to New York after finishing "Frenchman's "French-man's Creek" for Paramount, she wanted a vacation with her hus- t ' .'4 V 4. I ; u . . 1 I ' , - 1 ' t ,.' - - I , I ' J ! f it..- .i..... 1:.;. : -v. -- i atlHl-iv.-. J I JOAN FONTAINE band, Brian Aherne. So she took it, In a quiet corner of Connecticut and sandwiched work as a nurse's aid in with doing the marketing. You'd never have known, if you heard Marlene Dietrich recently on the CBS Playhouse, in "Manpower," that she started for the broadcasting studio in fear and trembling. Back in August, 1942, she appeared on that same program and fans practically prac-tically mobbed her when she got out of a cab in front of the impressive impres-sive building. This time she wore old clothes and the doorman didn't want to let her in! Here's perfect casting: Samuel Goldwyn has engaged Victor Mc-Laglen Mc-Laglen for the role of the pirate known as "The Hook" in his technicolor tech-nicolor production of "Treasure Chest." McLaglen will be a good pirate, even though he will be the , nemesis of Bob Hope, and so involved in-volved in comedy. Hope's cast as a touring actor who gets involved with a boatload of pirates. Lewis E. Lawes, for many years warden of Sing Sing, calls "New Prisons New Men" "the first picture pic-ture I have ever seen which clearly portrays the all around activities of a modern prison in operation." It's the latest of the "This Is America" series. Ruth Brennan, daughter of Walter, Wal-ter, begins her screen career in a small role in Selznick's "Since You Went Away." Not wanting to trade on her father's fame, she used the name of Lynn Winthrop -but the only person she fooled was herself. Her father's been signed by Warner War-ner Bros, for one of the top roles in support of Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and to Have Not." The Blue Network's glamour star, Gertrude Lawrence, is one of the proudest women in America, since the American Red Cross gave her her first stripe for 1,000 hours of service. Everybody who knows how much time and good hard work she gives to aiding the war effort feels that she ought to be the most decorated deco-rated gal in America; she's never too busy or too tired to do whatever she can. "One Man's Family" got its start On the air as a sustaining program on NBC way back in April, 1932. Carlton E. Morse had been writing and producing radio programs like "Chinatown Squad" and "Twisted Tales," but felt that the story of life as It is to the average American would appeal to the public. First thing anybody knew, the public made it a weekly listening habit and it still is. Nancy Kelly would like to spend winters on Broadway, on the stage, and summers in Hollywood, in pictures pic-tures if she manages it, let's hope she'll get better picture assignments than she's had recently. At 17 she was sensational in "Susan and God." on the stage, and the movies grabbed her. To an unprejudiced onlooker it seems that she's capable of far better work than she's done so far. ODDS ASD EDS IS'ote to girls Dick "Henry Aldrich" Jones is thrilled, bill also embarrassed, by all those letters junior misses have been sending him, sealed with pink impressions im-pressions of their lips . . . Latest addi tion to the "Silver Theater" is Madeleine Mad-eleine Lee, uhnm you used to hear as "Amos V Andy's" Miss Blue . . . If ru n Jan i'eerce of "Creat Moments in Mu sic" lets go uith the lull power oj his lunes, listeners fully txpect the stadia walls to be blasted apart . . . Hal Ron, h former United Artists producer, ha.-been ha.-been promoted from major to lieu tenant colonel in the (' S. army. |