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Show STAGE'SCREEN-RADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union. 1 LUCILLE BALL cut a three-storied three-storied wedding cake for her friends and tossed her bouquet to the ladies who attended at-tended the reception she and Desn Arnaz gave before lie-parting lie-parting for Hollywood and more work at the RKO Radio studios. It wasn't exactly a wedding bouquet, since the reception was what might be called delayed. Their elopement startled practically prac-tically everybody; the general opinion opin-ion had been that their romance was one of those things that are cooked up for the sake of sweet publicity. It's reported that even the studio was surprised. You can see the honeymooning couple in "Too Many Girls." These publicity stunts "angles" is the name for them are the bane of a press agent's life. For example, exam-ple, if a movie star is arriving in New York it's up to her press agent to think up something that will sound reasonable enough to land the story of her coming, with photographs, on the front pages of the newspapers. Sometimes the stories are true, of course but it's usually the synthetic syn-thetic ones that get the most space. When Linda Darnell arrived in New York recently she got a fine press reception. She announced to reporters that she was allergic to rabbits, cats, tobacco, horses, feathers feath-ers and baking powder she rides a horse in her latest picture, "Chad Hanna," so that got the name of the picture into the story too. Well, Linda's a beautiful girl, and maybe she really is allergic to cats, horses, baking powder, etc. "Andy Hardy" has reached the age where he has a private secretary; secre-tary; in the new Hardy picture, Mickey Rooney graduates from high "!.. iJMil". "IPUWJ-l i IW(lWLJ.,.,(((MWimWWWSW..Ul.' , " V . i v " K - f i MICKEY ROONEY school and the secretary enters his life. In this picture Kathryn Grayson, Gray-son, a 16-year-old singer, makes her film debut. James Roosevelt's "Pot o' Gold" finally went before the cameras the other day, after seven delays. First the director, George Marshall, was ill; then, when James Stewart could work, Paulette Goddard couldn't. Finally Roosevelt himself was called up by the national defense emergency. emergen-cy. Even now, when the picture has finally got under way, Stewart is doing retakes at another studio, and they have to shoot around him. The other day Henry Fonda jumped off a pullman car while clad in pajamas and a dressing gown, and sat down in a mud puddle, during dur-ing a heavy rain. When he rose he heaved a sigh of relief. A series of seven comedy accidents which he'd suffered for "The Lady Eve" was over, and he was free to go ahead and make love to Barbara Stanwyck according to the script. He'd stumbled over Miss Stanwyck's Stan-wyck's legs twice, crashed into waiters wait-ers carrying trays, fallen over a sofa into a platter of food, been drenched by (1) roast beef gravy and (2) hot coffee, and pulled some heavy portieres por-tieres down on himself. All for the sake of amusing us. Rudy Vallce has emerged as a triple threat man on his Thursday program over the NBC red network. Not only does be sing and lead the orchestra, but he also does a lot of verbal sparring with John Barry-more, Barry-more, who Is now a permanent feature fea-ture of the program. We don't know whether Barrymore has been coaching coach-ing Vallce, but Rudy's histrionio abilities certainly have improved. It takes plenty of ability to stand up to Barrymore, but Vallce seems to have more than held his own. ODDS ASD EnS The nation't handsome ice man is working ax a $hii'i officer in I'artimount's "Xrw York 7rin," ong uilh Mary Martin, Mar-tin, Frerl McMurray, Hob VrcMon and Lynne Overman, led Uarnick won that title in a national contest, and a role in a picture was part of his victory . . . Leslie Howard has written riends that he's in England to stay maybe not for the duration of the uar, but long enough so thai he cant accept commitments here . . . Tweru iieth Century-Fox has signed Diana barrymore, Johns daughter so she and he tcill be working at die same studio. I |