Show s NN ADIO By VIRGINIA VALE br by Western Newspaper Union VER hear of a slen slen- E EVER dang dung Well Welt neither has practically everybody else Betty Field has for in Paramount's Paramount's Para Para- mounts mount's Victory she's invading in va ding Dorothy Lamour's territory and wearing one Its It's a sort of glorified sarong and the first day after the first batch of photos showing the lady In It was WS released the studio received 27 requests for lor the gar ment Fred Allen and Jack Denny Benny are arc supposed to be the battlers In Love Thy Neighbor I but It seems tobe to toJ tobe J be Mary Martin their costar star who Is really the vicc vie vic c The famous feudists battle z with words As Asfor Asor 4 F for or Mary her schedule includes being caught up upon on a derrick hook y 0 i j I In a scene on a aMary aMary Mary Martin Marlin dock being tossed Into the ocean and having to swim with all her clothes on being nearly strangled by Benny in one scene and manhandled by Allen In another She does two dance routines one of which Involves a lot of struggling and another shot finds her rolling around the back end of a wildly driven cab Nice work for a girl who can keep audiences happy just by singing I EIn E- E r. r In Hollywood Burgess Meredith working In Second Chorus withFred with withFred withFred Fred Astaire and Paulette Goddard God God- dard had not yet j r acquired a car Nevertheless a sign on a fence at r General Service studios carried the war warning n This place reserved reserved reserved re re- served for Mr w Meredith t That vacant space amid the Burgess Meredith cars carl belonging to other stars was too much mach for lor Miss Mils Goddard So she filled the vacancy with a brand braDd new Dew motor scooter decorated with ribbons and equipped with a bottle boUle of 01 Iodine IodiDe Just In ID case cale of 01 accident Its It's been quite a while since Brenda Marshall couldn't have any dress that she wanted but the success success suc sue cess that made that possible also stood In her way the other day when she fell In love with a frock and then couldn't have it The dress was designed for lor her td 16 t wear In Warner WarDer Brothers' Brothers East of or orthe the River and she liked It so much that she wanted to have It copied I for lor her own wardrobe But tile the production production pro pro- production office turned thumbs thumbs down The reason was waa that she the Is a target I for far cameras wherever she goes coes The dress might be copied by ash fash- I lion Uon bootleggers and the style wouldn't be new Dew when the picture Is released t If It the war news In your daily dally paper and on the radio means a lot lotto lotto lotto to you you'll certainly want to see seethe seethe seethe the new March of ot Time On Foreign For eign It shows how U. U S. S newsmen are covering the biggest big gest Best news story in modern history history- tells how men like H. H V V. Kaltenborn Kalten Kalten- born were forced to leave Germany It records the story of this first year of World War II from tram the viewpoint of the men who report it to the American people and shows why the United States today is the last stronghold of at a free press and its citizens the best informed in the world I Apparently people who earn their livings' livings by appearing in public just cant can't help being superstitious even superstitious even athletes are susceptible as Babe Ruth used to prove when he never went out to left field or returned without kicking second base on the way Burns and aDd Allen are no DO exception Burns never Dever approaches the microphone microphone micro micro- microphone phone without touching his bis left toe to the bottom of Artie Shaws Shaw's music stand Gracie Oracle always sits ells on the right tide side of the stage stace and has two chain chairs one ODe to tit sit on OD and the other for her ber script This latter laUer chair Is always turned to so that its Us back Is to the audience She's Shel never missed this arrangement in seven years and judging by 11 her success It must be a good food OD one t- t Dinah Shore latel lately with the Chamber Music Musie Society of Lower Basin Duin street that solemnly spooling spoofing swing program and with the Re Re- will be on the new Eddie Cantor Can tor program that starts in October A bachelor of arts from rom Vanderbilt university she's shea taken her singing seriously since she was ten ten now now she's he cashing in on her persever ance ante A lot of people dont don't want to hear bear Orchids of Remembrance again unless she he sings it It because of the he way she che did it recently on West West- WestInghouse Musical Americana |