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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. NORMAN POWELL, son of Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, is the proudest little boy in Hollywood. He's wearing wear-ing sergeant's stripes and a decoration. Dick was telling about it on the set of "Riding High," in which he's working with Dorothy Lamour and Victor Moore. Seems Sergeant Ser-geant Elmer Taylor, stationed sta-tioned at Honolulu, who's been a fan of Norman's parents for years, sent the youngster a small set of stripes and a replica of the Purple Heart which the sergeant won. . Joan Crawford has had such an Interesting career, carved out by her own ambition and energy as well as her talent, that we can look for her to take another big step forward now that she has changed studios. Somebody said that Bette Davis f i "V I ' ; . 1 i JOAN CRAWFORD would have to look to her laurels, with Joan right on the ground, and as willing as Bette-is to play unsympathetic un-sympathetic parts if they're good ones. Just give Joan a couple of good pictures and she'll have the box office eating out of her hand, as she did in her palmiest days. Danny Kaye, who will make his film debut In Samuel Goldwyn's "Up in Arms," has accepted an invitation invita-tion from the Entertainment National Nation-al Services Assn., Inc., to make a two-month tour of recreational centers cen-ters in the British Isles and Africa. Assignments for Susan Hayward are stacking up these days. She's booked to play Loretta Young's younger sister when Paramount makes "And Now Tomorrow," a nice role, and Samuel Bronston has arranged to borrow her to play the wife of Jack London In the film based on London's life, which he'll make for United Artists ' release. Michael O'Shea will play Jack London. Lon-don. Sounds incredible, but we're told that Bob Hope's nose, thanks to his wise cracks, has become so famous in England that a promontory near Torquay has been named "Hope's Nose" that the comedian received the news while he was still at work on "Let's Face It.'' George Reeves' nose is sort of, famous, too; it's been broken seven times. He's the young man who was snatched out of Westerns to play opposite Claudette Colbert in "So Proudly We Hail!" As for the nose he was a boxer when he went to Pomona Junior college won the Golden Gloves heavyweight championship cham-pionship of the city for three years and his nose was broken seven times. A perfect piece of casting took place recently when Ralph Willever was given the role of a sailor in NBC's "Just Plain Bill." That was his first job after he was rescued from a torpedoed troopship off Iceland, Ice-land, and was honorably discharged as a result of disability. Lionel Barrymore has inherited a distinction that formerly belonged to Joan Crawford; when she left MGM recently, she'd had a continuons contract con-tract longer than any other player. Barrymore is starting his 18th year with the studio. His next picture, "Three Men in White," will be his 63rd for Metro. Years ago, when Rita Hayworth was still a stock player, she reported report-ed for work one morning to Seymour Felix to dance as one of 40 girls. "This morning," said he, "I want you to think, act and dance like Marilyn Miller." The other day she arrived for work in "Cover Girl" and heard him giving orders to 40 girls. "This morning," said he, "I want you to think, act and dance like Rita Hayworth." ODDS AND ENDS Phil Baker, returning re-turning to New York from California, ashed how long we've been at war with the Nazis said out in California they aren't fighting anybody but the Japs Donald Woods, who has received favorable favor-able notices for his work in the new picture, "Corregidor," is the same Donald Don-ald Woods heard as Dr. Leslie Foster on the Sunday broadcasts of "Those We Love" . . . Though Alan Ladd went into uniform immediately after finishing "China," he's receiving 2,000 fan letters per day . . . Cinny Simms is touring desert army camps again, after receiving receiv-ing thousands of letters from the boys she had visited. |