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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. MAX MARCIN, one of radio's real celebrities, really just happened into radio. He'd been a top-notch newspaperman, a highly successful suc-cessful playwright ("Cheating ("Cheat-ing Cheaters," "Three Live Ghosts," etc.), and had made his mark in Hollywood. When he was asked to do a radio script he knew little about radio, but he dashed one off, it clicked, and now he's one of our foremost writers and producers of air shows. Listening to "Crime Doctor" on Sunday eve- - v . y lh if Mill 1 MCSK.. j MAX MARCIN nings, you'd have very little idea of what an expert job it Is, just because be-cause Marcin is so skilled. He writes the week's show, then goes into rehearsal, re-hearsal, polishing the sketch till it's perfect. Everybody but Barbara Britton and Ray Milland thinks it's funny. For a scene in "Till We Meet Again" they laid face down in grass that supposedly was growing somewhere some-where in France. The turf was carefully care-fully laid, and they spent several hours stretched out on it, pretending they'd been caught in an air raid. The last bomb burst, Ray and Barbara Bar-bara arose and found they were covered with flea bites! Betty Hutton worked so hard portraying por-traying twins in the Paramount musical, "Here Come the WAVES," In which she is tri-starred with Bing Crosby and Sonny Tufts, that she lost eight pounds. That's a nice record, that Dinah Shore chalked up overseas. She made 130 appearances before our troops; on several occasions she sang to croups of men within two miles of the actual fighting. She ate GI meals throughout the trip. i Gigi Perreau isn't doing so badly for a three-year-old; her role in "Dark Waters," the Benedict Bogeaus' production, is her sixth featured role in major pictures since she made her debut a year ago. She started as little Eve Curie In "Madam Curie," and forged right ahead. A new star may be rising on the Kate Smith program's horizon, if rumors are true. Ted Collins, producer, pro-ducer, who brought to fame "Abbott and Costello," "The Aldrich Family," "It Pays to Be Ignorant," and many other radio favorites, is said to be on the lookout for a new star to be featured on the Kate Smith Sunday Variety hour. A new series of weekly dramatic programs, "Assignment Home," dealing with problems involved in the return to civilian life of members mem-bers of our armed forces, begins Saturday, December 9, on the Columbia Broadcasting system, In collaboration with the army service forces. High-ranking army officials will participate, taking the microphone micro-phone to deliver messages directly to the American people. Father Ambrose Hyland, chaplain at Dannemore prison, is now in Hollywood Hol-lywood helping in plans being made at Metro for filming of "Church of the Good Thief," a story of the chapel he founded at the institution. He has organized the Good Thief Foundation, Inc.7 which will use proceeds pro-ceeds from the picture for the benefit bene-fit of prison inmates. Money paid for the story has bought them a library. li-brary. Carrying a spear for John Barry-more Barry-more in "Richard III" started Allyn Joslyn on his acting career. From the silent Shakespeare role Joslyn leaped to a two-word part in the Theater Guild's "He Who Gets Slapped." He had to say "Very well!" It paid him 10 dollars a week. He's now getting considerably more than that his latest picture, "Bride by Mistake," with Marsha Hunt. ODDS AND ENDS Sandra and Ronnie, Ron-nie, the two Burns children, now nine and ten, got a unique birthday present George Burns and Grade Allen let them appear before the studio audience prior to the broadcast, to do a danco routine. . . . Herbert Marshall does a tuave villain for his role in Paramount's "Her Heart in Her Throat." . . . Poodles Hanneford, the famous circus performer, perform-er, will play a stagecoach driver in Er-rol Er-rol Flynn's "San Antonio." . . . Radio is full of men who began their careers as lawyers among them Lanny Ross, tow an army lieutenant overseas ; Don Ameche, and Michael Romanom of Road of Life" and other radio serials. |