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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union, By VIRGINIA VALE SIX-YEAR-OLD Beverly Sue Simmons' motion picture pic-ture career couldn't be more of a surprise to anybody than it is to her. She was getting on fine in first grade in public school when her mother saw an ad in a Los Angeles paper pa-per Universal wanted a child actress ac-tress to play Yvonne de Carlo's daughter in their technicolor "Frontier GaL" Beverly Sue looks a lot like Yvonne. But her mother was working, so she sent the young lady to the studio with her own sis- - x t 'a 1 it - ! I BEVERLY SUE SIMMONS ter, and Miss Simmons won out over SO contestants, though she'd never acted in her life. She used a fountain foun-tain pen for the first time when she wrote her name on her contract and all of a sudden she was In the movies. Nowadays the 'teen age girl comes in for so much comment both from people who are qualified to comment and those who just criticize that everybody ought to see the March of Time's latest, "Teen-Age Girls." It shows what they're doing, wearing, reading; how they talk, how they behave, what they rave over and what they hate. It also shows their serious side, portraying them as the woman wom-an of tomorrow. j At last! All of us who've complained com-plained for years because movie stars look too much like movie stars , when they're shown in getting-up-in-' thc-morning scenes are going to get ! what we've asked for. In "Janie ! Gets Married" Joan Leslie wakes uncombed, without make-up. In response to a request from the Canadian army, Lassie, the collie star, made a personal appearance tour during his recent location trip In Vancouver for Metro's "Son of Lassie." Many sequences were made in the beautiful Banff region of the Canadian Rockies. Vincent Sherman temporarily relinquished re-linquished direction of "Janie Gets Married" to 11-year-old Clare Foley about to appear in a scene with Donald Meek. The sequence required re-quired Meek to play with a yo-yo; Sherman had forgotten how to do It, and Meek never had known. W. "Crime Doctor" begins Its sixth year on the air August 12, but after writing the first four scripts Max Marcin decided he was written out, and wanted to quit. His sponsor urged him to try once more, and he did, in fact, he's written 256 more, or will have, by the 12th of August. It's like eating salted peanuts, the more times he sets up a crime for House Jameson to solve, the more he thinks up. Thanks to Merrill Mueller, NBC correspondent In the Philippines, soldiers there have a new slang expression ex-pression "NBC leave." It means a three-day pass to Manila and began when Mueller arranged for soldiers to come from jungle fighting lines to the capital city for broadcasts to the U. S. This "NBC leave" usually lasted three days, and built up Mueller's popularity considerably. Irene Dunne, vacationing in the East, visited the James Meltons in Connecticut facing the prospect of having Melton carry out his promise to drive her around the countryside in the most ancient automobile in his collection. Incidentally, the Connecticut Con-necticut legislature has approved a bill providing $150,000 for a museum to house historical exhibits and the Melton collection of old cars. Jack Benny reports that after his third USO tour of army camps abroad this summer, his entire group will be intact for the return to the air In the fall. So Mary Livingstone Liv-ingstone has all summer to get ready for the broadcasting ordeal. $ ODDS AMD r.'VAS 20th Century-Fox Century-Fox announces that Jack London's "Cull of the tf'ttd," co-starring Clark Guile and l.orctta Younn, will be re-issued . . . Merle Tracers and his Hrunco Huslers, western musical troupe, have hern tinned hy Columbia to do specialty arts in "Houder Hirer," co-starnnn Charles Starretl and Smiley llurnrtte . . , (reorffe Jesicl has completed hin first picture as a producer, "The Itolly Sis-ters," Sis-ters," arid had his contract extended . . . The "Victor llorue Slune" now rrplares f ibber Metier and Molly . . . 7 he war in Furope, as bnnulcmt by CHS, is related re-lated in "From D-Diiy I lirounh Victory in l.uropc" just published by CHS. |