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Show 11 STAGEvSCREEN RADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 44 pvR, BROADWAY" opens with a scene on a narrow nar-row ledge, supposedly 40 feet above the real Broadway. A girl, played by Jean Phillips, Phil-lips, is pretending to be crazy, and is about to commit com-mit suicide. A man, played by Macdonald Carey, pretends pre-tends that he' also is crazy, in order to get her off the ledge. In the middle of the scene each discovers that the other is sane. And when Miss Phillips and Mr. Carey met for the first time, on the ledge, with cameras pointed at them, they discovered that they both hail from Sioux City, Iowa, i The story of the men in the army air service who operate the secret bomb sights and actually drop the bombs on targets from giant planes will be filmed by RKO Radio, with the co-operation of the United States ! army, it will be called "Bombardier." "Bom-bardier." Like the elephant, Richard Arlen never forgets. About five years ago he and Mary Carlisle made pictures together, and took daily turns buy- i MART CARLISLE ing the entire cast and crew ice cream. The other day they began work with Jean Parker and Phil Terry in "Torpedo Boat" at Paramount Para-mount When the ice cream man came around Arlen tapped Mary on the shoulder. "It's your turn to buy," said he. "Remember, I bought the last time, five years ago." And Mary remembered, and treated. Thanks to Barbara Stanwyck. Gene Krupa and his orchestra are featured in Samuel Goldwyn's "Ball of Fire." The Krupa band is her favorite one, so when she was asked to select one for her night club sing ing sequences, Krupa got the vote Ever wander where film companies com-panies get their ideas for shorts? Hal Peary, who's radio's "The Great Glldersleevc," did a hiccough rontlne in a recent broadcast. A Columbia Pictures executive heard him, liked the stunt and it will be a "Screen Snapshot." Betty Hutton went to Hollywood, fresh from Broadway's "Panama Hattie," to make her screen debut In "The Fleet's In." Bob Hope booked her for a guest appearance on his radio program probably you heard itr-and first thing she knew, she was on it for keeps! Rudy Vallee will have the second male lead in "The Palm Beach Story," the Preston Sturges picture starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea, with no singing for Vallee. New Orleans Is certainly having Its day In the movies! "Flame ol New Orleans," "Lady From Loulsl ana," "Birth of the Blues," "Blues In the Night," "Louisiana Purchase" Pur-chase" and before long Edna Fer-ber's Fer-ber's new story, "Saratoga Trunk!" One of the war-time campaigns that has spread like wildfire is the "Shaves for the Boys" drive to obtain ob-tain free minor necessities for the boys in the defense training camps. Constance Bennett is head of the movie stars' committee, which includes in-cludes Dorothy Lamour, Joan Fontaine, Fon-taine, Maureen O'Hnra, Joan Blon-dell, Blon-dell, Claire Trevor, Joan Bennett, Linda Darnell and Brenda Joyce. Don Gordon, "Tom Mix Straight Shooters" announcer, says that the greatest compliment ever paid him came from an old couple who sent him $4,000 to invest for them because be-cause he sounded so honest over the air. Back went the money, but he treasures the compliment r ODDS AM) F.ynS-Connie Dot-writ Dot-writ has ashed for her release from that Thursday night radio program, bul will stick through I'M . . . llahe Kuth wilt piny himself in the film of hm Gehrig's lift . . . Mothers of 200 Americans Amer-icans in the RAF will he Warners' gurus uhrn "Captains of tht Clouds" is released . . . Eddie Albert will he starred for the first time in HKO's "Cheyenne" . . . Mertyn l.e Hoy, di reeling "Johnny Eager," has in the cast four players u horn he gave their start in pictures I ana Turner, Edward At nold, Clrnda Farrell and Hmry O'VVif,' . . . F.ros Volusia will dance in Metro' "Rio Rita." |