Show 4 L S E 0 Released by Western Newspaper Union By y VIRGINIA VALE VALET IT T DIDN'T take Myrna Loy long to decide what wha t shed she'd do doas doas doas as a lance free star after she left Metro Practically everybody everybody everybody every every- body wanted her herfor for a picture but she chose the feminine starring role in Genius in the Family The storys story's laid In 1870 and Is all about the courting days of Hiram Stevens Maxim who Invented invented invented In in- vented the machine gun among r J r x r Sf 1 F. F i j Myrna Loy I other things And who do you suppose suppose sup sup- pose plays Hiram None other than Don Ameche But he doesn't invent I I a thing during the picture just plays a charming and resourceful I suitor 1 When the Kate Smith program returns returns returns re re- re- re turns to the air early in September it will be broadcast Fridays at p. p m m. EWT ENT on CBS instead of Sundays and will be on the air 25 minutes instead of a full hour And therell there'll be more songs by Kate Kale Cornel Cornet Wilde expert fencer who plays the swashbuckling Aladdin in Columbia's A Thousand and One I Nights will be built up as the successor successor suc suc- cessor to the late Douglas Fairbanks Fairbanks Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks in roles of that type Hes He's the first to get that buildup build up since Fairbanks Fairbanks Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks died 1 Remember all those models who were taken to Hollywood with much fanfare for Cover Girl Dusty Anderson the only one of the 15 to be given a studio contract gets her first lead playing opposite Warner War ner Baxter In The Paper Doll Mur lur ders E John Reilly the engineer of theair the theair theair air show It Pays to Be Ignorant Ignorant ant works nights and sleeps late mornings At least he did until his bis year three-year-old daughter heard little Johnny the call boy on the Ginny Simms show Now she gets up at the crack of dawn and goes around the house imitating Johnnys Johnny's clarion call advertising the sponsors sponsor's cIgarettes cigarettes cigarettes cigar cIgar- ettes at the top of her lungs 1 Marie McDonald will play her first piano solo before a huge audience audience audi audio ence all the people who go to see Getting Gerties Gertie's Garter Producer Producer Producer Pro Pro- ducer Edward Small heard that Marie had been studying piano with Ray Sinatra cousin of Frank who's one of Hollywoods Hollywood's best known pianists pianists pian pian- and arrangers Small didn't know shed she'd learned little more than the scales so he had her written in for a piano solo The new Fred Waring sho show heard Mondays through Fridays over N NBC C is a novelty In more ways than merely changing the usual network type of morning pro pro- grams Waring has made his program program program pro pro- gram a showcase for returning veterans veterans veterans vet vet- erans who want to make show busi busl business business ness their postwar careers The veterans veterans veterans vet vet- erans apply for an N NBC C Welcome Home Audition provided by the network especially for servicemen Waring scans the results and picks the most promising When Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys and Girls of Grand Ole Opry fame were being flown in a C 47 to a huge war bond rally in hi Tennessee members of the planes plane's crew regretted that they'd miss the show as they had to return So Roy and his bIs band hand got out their instruments and while flying miles an hour at feet gave I their complete performance for the crew Kay Kyser wrote President Truman Truman Tru Tru- man asking for tor a list of the chief executives executive's tunes and was informed in formed that they're Over There I Pack Up Your Troubles the Toreador Toreador Tor eador cador Song from Carmen and Song without Words Kay will present pre sent them in new arrangements on his air l show C 1 ODDS AND ENDS ENDS ENDS-Ellery Ellery Queer show guest armchair detectives who have hate only a mild interest in murder murder- mystery fiction are arc usually the most successful in guessing the correct tola- tola lion tion Barbara Jo 10 Allen the Iera lera era eral l' l ague of 0 radio fame lame has a featured role ralo in Columbia's Snafu Mick Micky Kuhn Killin 11 who u plays Rhett Butlers Butler's son sou in iu Gone With Wilh the Wind Rind has has' been signed to play Dick Tracy racy Jr in series of 0 films based on the popular comic strip Monograms Monogram's Dillinger is breaking records and inspiring in in- I other studios to go in for lor similar similar sim slim ilar films I |