Show fir Released by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALE UTHEN WHEN the NBC Grand V V Ole Opry program recently recently recently re re- re- re originated from a colorful colorful col col- col- col old showboat as it sailed down the Cumberland nd river from irom Nashville Tenn Term it was the first time a network air- air show had emanated from a moving showboat the first time a group of newspaper and magazine people had ever been on one we were flown there for the event and the first time Announcer Louie Buck h W t P AWN 7 l ii J S S 'S 2 S'S S' S i f 71 RED FOLEY ever had mike fright Red Foley Whitey Ford Minnie Pearl and all the others were having such a big time that I was afraid they'd be carried away and miss a cue said he I was afraid to announce anybody's anybody's anybody's any any- body's next number for tor fear he wouldn't make it to the mike in time n Lon McCallister who hardly knows one musical note from rom another another another an an- other has been driving everybody else on the No Trespassing set nuts Hes He's taking violin lessons in his dressing room between scenes learning to play five time old melodIes melodies melo melo- dies for his next picture Bob Son Sona a of Battle the rest of the cast which is headed by Edward G. G Robinson wished that hed he'd taken up something quiet like training fleas 1 Bulldog Drummond Is returnIng returning return return- ing to the screen his first appearance appear appear- I ance since 1939 when Paramount did Bulldog Drummonds Drummond's Secret I Police PoUce with John Howard as the star That was the seventh of ot a a. I series John Barrymore Barrmore and Ray Milland l had appeared as Drummond Drummond Drummond Drum mond for Paramount and way back In 1929 Ronald Colman had originated the character for lor Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel Del Goldwyn In England John Lodge did him In 1937 1037 Now were we're to have Bulldog Drummond at Bay produced by Venture Pictures Pictures Pic Plc- tures lures a Columbia producing unit two of ot the series serles will be made this year t Time was when the lovely ladies of the films weren't supposed to have a brain beneath their curls I No matter how smart they were press agents pictured them as beau beau- I but sort a of dumb But now the i girls dont don't care who knows that they not only act in pictures but have a financial interest in them Hedy Lamarr became a producer with The Strange Woman Bette Davis is credited with The Stolen Life Ingrid Bergman Is credited as producing Arch of Triumph and Joan Bennett is producing chief chic of Diana Productions Lanny Ross has been identified with Moonlight and Roses since 1928 but after he was demobilized from Crom General MacArthurs MacArthur's special staff stall and returned to broadcasting he wanted to drop the song In came several thousand protests so its it's still his theme song I i i You'll see Joe Yule Mickey I Rooneys Rooney's father as JIggs In I Bringing Up Father for Monogram Mono Mono- gram lie He and George McManus who draws the famous lamous comic strip were both considered for tor the role but McManus l withdrew v for lor personal personal per per- personal reasons 1 As a Broadway star Jack Arthur was originally engaged for a sing sIng- acting ing-acting part in Grand Central Station then he was kept as narrator narrator narrator nar nar- of the show He Is the only stage performer of the hundreds who've worked on the program to win a permanent berth I One of the biggest of all radio acting plums right now Is the Nikki Nik Nih ki Id role on the CBS Eller Ellery Queen show Gertrude Warner is leaving to get married and Nikki will be written out of the script until the middle of July when someone else takes over I ODDS AND EN ENDS ENDS Dennis Dennis OKeefe and Marguerite Chapman have hate been set for lor starring roles in Mr District Attorney the Columbia film based on the popular radio show Judy Iud Canova Canom returns return to ro the air August 31 Bette Uette Dai Dat Davis is s has asked aked her Jans Ions not lot to send her gifts u for lor her birthday but to donate the money to making up I food packages for or Europe's Europe starving children Peggy Ann Gamer Garner gets gels gelsher her first up grown role in Bob Dob Son Battle Samuel is of Goldwyn gath ering a new nero troupe of 01 Girls to follow their appearance in in The Secret Life of 01 Walter Mitty with tour of oJ South America |