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Show STAGESCREEMiftADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THE motion picture industry indus-try turned out recently to do honor to Harry Carey in celebration of his completing a year of making motion pictures pic-tures "The Shepherd of the Hills," his latest, is his 305th. j He's long been one of the most ' beloved men in Hollywood, because he's one of the most human. Not many people at the celebration knew of one of the nicest things he ever did. The Indians who work on his ranch (he homesteaded it himself) bad never seen the sea; when he learned that, some years ago, he and his wife piled them all into trucks and drove miles to show it to them! Red Skelton was so eager to play one of the three sailors in Metro's r- "Panama Hattie" V "SVn V :; tna'neeamPa'8ned; L went around with I , -V his pockets full of I , 1 ! cigars, and when- I iCmtPl' eVer e met one ' V , : the executives in-: in-: k' Vx volved he'd hand ; llSU-ir s out a cigar and say t I v ? j "Vote for me for ; ,V : 'Panama Hattie.' " j V I Then they pre-i pre-i , A i viewed "Lady De Red Skelton Good," in which Skelton's a sensation. sensa-tion. "Panama Hattie's" producer, Arthur Freed, sent Skelton a box of cigars and a note saying, "Red, you're elected. After 'Lady Be Good' you're the one who deserves the cigars." .1. The producer of the air's "Stepmother" "Step-mother" serial auditioned dozens of aspirants for the role of a two-year old. Then he happened to catch Alice Sherrie Goodkin's baby imitations imita-tions on the Uncle Ezra program and she got the part. Ray Milland and Brian Aherne are starring with Claudette Colbert in "Skylark." Mil- , land was a boy so- f 'JiJJ prano when a child in Wales but in 12 f "fc years of acting in J pictures he's never t v sung a note. Aherne ; never would sing as YJZi ' a child, or even a t j youth and he's al- ' V ' ways having to sing ' before the camera. pi?fjf i In "Skylark" he has ELulLiiii to sing the sea chan- BrIan Aherne tey, "Blow the Man Down," for five minutes and it's during a storm at sea. Well, that's Hollywood for you! Here's RKO Radio's list of 14 new players whom they believe you'll want to keep seeing on the screen; they'll appear in 1941-42 productions: produc-tions: Signe Hasso, Dorothy Com-mingore, Com-mingore, Ruth Warrick, Anne Hunter, Hunt-er, Michel Morgan, Frances Neal, Ginny Simms, Joan Carroll, James Craig, Edmond O'Brien, Joseph Cotton, Cot-ton, Dennis O'Kecfe. Paul Hammond, Ham-mond, Philip Reed. Keep track of I them, if you're interested in seeing how stellar material is developed; I some may hit the heights, others won't. You'll be the real judges! Some of these players might be called stars now, of course; James Craig, who clicked as the young doctor doc-tor in "Kitty Foyle," is to become a star in "Unexpected I'nclc"; Edmond Ed-mond O'Brien bad one of the four stellar roles In "Parachute Battalion." Battal-ion." But it's the public, not the studio, that has the final word in these things; fortunes have been lost in attempts to cram "stars" down the public's throat, when the public ! stayed away from the resulting pictures in droves. Let's hope RKO's choice is a good one! After you girls see Paramount's "The Parson of Panamint" you may all be wearing your hair "a la El-Drew"; El-Drew"; that's the name the actresses ac-tresses in the picture gave the hairdo hair-do which Ellen Drew adapted from the one the studio found was authentic au-thentic for the year 18!)2, in which the picture is laid. Ellen agreed to the necessary pompadour, but added a small curl right in the center cen-ter of her firchead, and the style w;is made oflicial fur the film. Charlie Hugfiles stars in the picture. . Connie Bos ell. of the Bing Crosby Cros-by program, has invented a new game. It's called polo tennis. Connie, Con-nie, who is unable to walk, worked out the idea of having the players ride large tricycles, and everybody who's played is enthusiastic about it. I Ot)lS AU .M)S-Hvn Johnson, of radio't "The Story of lit1 unm,' hn ubundonrd the uiee riw su.''l tiMvi ainrn the broht ner ankle ium uerA un . . . Hofiilind u.u7'i re-lined re-lined that the title her new cih marring incture with LUrk Gahle hai been changed to "They Met in Horn-hay" Horn-hay" formerly it "I nholy I'art-ner" I'art-ner" . . . Soldiert from the nearby I army bae turned out in force for the y'sneak" nre-view of Honuld Colman't latent, 'Sly Lift H ' ilh Caroline," at Kueriide, Calif. . . . . Carrot Saish linked that "J" onto bin name because fans ft ii q way of thinking ht uui a uomnn thimk to all that make-up- |