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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. HEARING Jack Benny talk at luncheon about his overseas trig to entertain the armed forces was an experience experi-ence that all of his many fans should have shared. "Nothing "Noth-ing happened to me." That was his theme. "I didn't almost al-most get killed; I wasn't uncomfortable. I'm going back to Hollywood and urge all the actors to duplicate my trip if they can; I saw places I'd never have seen otherwise." other-wise." He said that when he went into hospitals he was at a loss; "I'd say 'Hullo' and a man would say 'Hullo' and I wouldn't know what to say next; I'd think 'Maybe he just doesn't care about meeting me.'" Most of the time he talked about how swell the rest of the troupe were! Joan Davis Is starring in a radio program with Jack Haley and making mak-ing two pictures at the same time "Show Business" at RKO and "Beautiful But Broke" at Universal. ? - '! It JOAN DAVIS How she's going to get from NBC to Universal and back to RKO and still have time to eat and sleep is a problem that's causing quite a bit of worry for everybody but Miss Davis. Screen star Robert Young will play host on the annual Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing show sponsored by a watch company, com-pany, November 25, from four to six (EWT). Headliners signed so far include Alan Reed (FalstafE Openshaw), Lena Horne, Jose Iturbi and Burns and Allen. 1 ij ' Direetor Sidney Lanfield needed six-months-old twins for Paramount's "Let's Face It" (co-starring Bob Hope and Betty Hutton). Out went the call, in came twins, but none suited Lanfield. Finally in came a beautiful single. Lanfield sadly explained ex-plained . that he must use twins; If only this infant were two! "Oh, that's all right," said the mother. "His twin brother's testing at Warners'." War-ners'." Here's a tribute Charles R. Rogers Rog-ers recently signed a seven-year contract con-tract with Pat Starling, whom Henry Clive, the artist, described as "The most perfect Venus in America"; you'll see her in "Song of the Open Road," previously called "It's Great to Be Young." Looks as if somebody some-body didn't know that when a thing is perfect, it can't be any more s or is that quibbling? Charles Laughton signed an odd contract recently one permitting his photograph to be used as a prop in "Dangerous Journey." His wife, Elsa Lanchester, plays a London scrubwoman who takes her husband's hus-band's picture with her on her odys-sey odys-sey to Berlin to kill Hitler. Miss Lanchester Lan-chester thought it would be a fine idea to let her real husband pose for the pictures so Charles got the contract. con-tract. What they do with their radio scripts Jack Carson has his bound; Gertrude Lawrence autographs hers and auctions them 08 at various charity functions; Ginny Simms sends hers to the Ginny Simms fan clubs. Everett ("Crime Doctor") Sloane gives his scripts to acting-ambitions acting-ambitions studio page boys; Charlie Martin has the CBS Playhouse movie stars sign his, and keeps them as souvenirs. Pat Hyatt, pretty blonde member of the Music Maids and Hal, who was seriously injured in an automobile automo-bile accident many weeks ago, will soon be back on the Bing Crosby I program she surprised everybody j recently by hobbling into the NBC studios on crutches during a rehearsal re-hearsal of the Music Hall program. ODDS A!'D ENDS If you see the V. S. navy movie short, "Eagles of the A'auy," showing how fliers are trained, that's the voice of Joe Cotten you'll hear as narrator . . . Linda Darnell has been borrowed from 20th Century-Fox for the leading feminine role in United j Artists' "It Happened Tomorrow" ; which seems to be the last word in "To-morrow" titles . . . Production on the best-selling "The Robe" will Hart in the spring; it will be produced on 1 scale surpassing that of "Ben Hur" . . . Betty Hutton is still receiving mail from men who proposed to her when she was a singer with Vincent I.opei orchestra she averaged five a day. |