Show Si GE SORE N ADIO By fly VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union THE first actor in Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood history ever to be elected a delegate to a national national national na na- na- na political convention Melvyn Douglas wonders if he will be able to enjoy the honorOf honorOf honor Of course I can always be represented by proxy he said the other day But a chance like this comes only every four years and Id I'd hate to miss it it I Douglas made preparations to be beIn beIn beIn In Chicago July 15 IS for or the big con con- i cave clave But Dut he temporarily forgot that he Is as also an actor involved inthe in inthe I the new Columbia comedy lie He I Stayed for Breakfast Alexander Hall the director Is making every effort to hurry things along and is making all eU the scenes acmes with Douglas first If It you think you'd like to be a motion motion malion mo mo- tion lion picture producer pause and consider what happened at et the Paramount Paramount Para mount studio recently when Joel McCrea Mc Me- Crea withdrew from the mat cast of Arise My Love because of ill In health 1 Because of McCrea's McCrea withdrawal Ray Milland was plucked from the cast f f Virginia to tak take the McCrea assignment op- op t f t i JOEL McCREA I Claudette Colbert 2 That meant that Virginia wouldn't start on time 3 That meant that Franchot Tone who was to have costarred costarred costarred co- co starred In Virginia had to withdraw with with- draw from the cast because he had another commitment and could appear appear ap ape pear in Virginia only If it started on schedule 4 That meant that Fred McMurray stepped into the therole therole therole role for which Milland had been scheduled playing opposite Madeleine Madeleine Madeleine Made Made- leine Carroll but 5 She flew fiew to England recently at the moment of writing theres there's no telling when shell she'll be back Dorothy Lamour traded a according to her studio head of hair for 30 cents cents' worth of calico and it wasn't Just lust a stunt in a movie scenario either Seems she's she beer been wanting to bob those inch 40 tresses which played quite a part in establishing establishing establishing lishing her as a draw at the box box- other officer The studio wanted her to tomake tomake tomake make some more pictures in which she wore a sarong and she was determined de not to So both sides gave in an she had her hair bobbed by Wally Westmore head of the makeup make make- up department and cried a little as most girls do when they hear that first snip of the shears and consented to do three South Seas pictures Moon Over Burma Aloma of the South Seas with Jon Hall and South of Samoa with Ding Bing Crosby A custom h has been been initiated during dun dur I log ing the rehearsals of the Rudy Vallee Vallee Val Val- lee show to mark the scripts with asterisks to denote the laugh al al lowed The reason for this is to clock for timing when the show is actually broadcast Four asterisks are tops In laugh pauses The other night someone In la the cast asked scriptwriter Sid Fields what hat It meant to see five asterisks Instead of the customary four tour Replied Replied Replied Re Re- plied Fields Then you know that you yon have the Fred Allen script by mistake When you see seethe the King fling Crosby picture Rhythm on the River you may be surprised to find that Ken Carpenter Dings Ding's announcer and chime ringer on the air plays a aradIo aradio aradio radio announcer named Ken Car Car- penter peahen It Its It's the result of an acci aed dent Scenarists had bad given rIven Carpenter Carpets Carpen ter ten another name In the picture but John Scott Trotter who's Dings Ding's broadcast band leader and plays a band leader In tn the picture made a along along long film take In 10 which hleb be he called Carpenter by bis real name It was as simpler to change the name than todo to todo todo do the scene over again Arthur Lakes Lake's desire for realism on the Blondie Blondle radio show nearly I disrupted the program recently In one scene he be had to fall down don with the proper accompanying sound effects effects ef usually that just means mean that the sound man makes the noises But Dut Arthur insisted on doing his own fall faU The show was on for the eastern east east- ern broadcast Arthur fell feU wrong rong the script flew fiew in aU all directions and Penny Pen Pen- n ny fly Singleton had hd to rush over with Ith her script and let Arthur read his part from It until his script had been reassembled |