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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) TAXI CAB business boomed recently at one of Hollywood's Holly-wood's major studios, unaffected unaf-fected by the rubber shortage. short-age. Richard Carlson and Martha O'Driscoll drove off in one to be married, with Cecil Kellaway at the wheel. That was in New York. Then Burgess Meredith and Louise Piatt rode to a railway station in Newark N. J., in the same cab. Finally Allan Ladd and Bonita Granville took the same cab to Brian Donley's home in a Middle Western city. Same cab mounted on a fixed platform, plat-form, never turning a wheel; it had no wheeie! In case you're interested, the pictures pic-tures for which that taxi worked so hard and so faithfully are "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," "Street of Chance," that being the new title for "The Black Curtain," and "The Glass Key." Almost ten years ago Red Skelton played his first vaudeville act in Wooster, Mass. June Earle danced and played "straight man" for him. "Tommy Mac was also in the act. i v.. .;" !!. - iv s-fe:'-w Mmmx it RED SKELTON Now they're together in the new "Maisie" film. June and Mac doing the same skits they did then, and Red Skelton or so he insists telling the same jokes he told then. But he's now earning more than $7 a week for doing it! Basil Rathbone has a new contract con-tract (with Metro, this time) but he'll continue being a villain. In "Crossroads," with William Powell and Hedy Lamarr, he holds the key to Powell's past, Powell being a French diplomat branded as a former for-mer underworld character. Jean Atkinson, stand-in for Madeleine Mad-eleine Carroll for the last six years, has been called Hollywood's composite com-posite woman; she's been stand-in for Fay Wray, Vivien Leigh, Frances Farmer, Claire Trevor and many others, "because she looks like many actresses rolled into one." She's been a stand-in for ten years, and says that she has no ambitions to be an actress. William Powell took time off from his work to give a farewell party for Richard Barthelmess, before the latter lat-ter left for Norfolk, Va., to serve as a naval lieutenant. Years ago long before they knew their present, wives those two and Ronald Col-man Col-man were bosom companions. With practically all of Hollywood doing some kind of war work, (and really doing it, too; no fooling) Hedy Lamarr got busy right on her own home grounds, when she saved her hairdresser, Eadie Hubner, from serious se-rious burns from an exploding gas stove. Bob Hawk's having to do a lot of explaining. He decided to invest in a restaurant. Found one, signed a lease, and the sign painter went to work. The place was to be called "The Griddle" but the painter made a mistake and Hawk's explaining ex-plaining to friends that he isn't really in the girdle business. Columns could be devoted to Norman Nor-man Corwin. A newspaper, man, five years ago he pursued major radio executives with program ideas to revolutionize the airwaves. Only a small independent station in New York would give him a chance. Today To-day he's engaged by four major networks. net-works. He directs the government series, "This Is War," heard every Saturday. Many of his original radio dramas have been broadcast. His recently published broadcast, "We Hold These Truths," celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, was heard by 60,000,000 people. peo-ple. He directs radio propaganda for the government. His "This Is War" is heard round the world. ODDS AND ENDS The V. S. navy lilces Metro's tivo-reelcr, "The. Battle" so much that Uie picture will be used for recruiting purposes . . . Director George Cukors directing "Her Cardboard Card-board Lover" jor the third lime; once with Laurelte Taylor, once with Jeanne Vrges, now with Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor . . . Sidney Chaplin, Charlie's 15-year-old son, when interviewed inter-viewed by Vox Pop at his prep school, said he wants to act and direct, like his father. He weighs 175 .. . RKO suspended Lucille Ball from salary for refus'uig to play the second feminine lead m "Strictly Dynamite," for which they'd lent her to 20lh Century-Fox. |