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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. OLD phonograph records are now being collected for our fighting men. The movement is headed by Kay Kyser, Kate Smith and Gene Autrey, and endorsed by Ginny Simms. Lily Pons, Benny Goodman, Guy Lom-bardo Lom-bardo and practically all the other top notchers in music. Used and broken records will be converted into scrap and sold, and new records bought for U. S. army camps, forts, naval stations and marine ma-rine bases here and overseas. The American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary will do the picking-up. If you've got a man in the service, you know what a fine thing this is. Columbia has two of last season's greatest grid greats, Bruce Smith of Minnesota and Frankle Albert of Stanford, on the lot in films based on their own lives. Two All-Amerl-can teams will figure In each picture. pic-ture. RKO added a potential 26,000,000 customers for its "Sweet and Hot" with the announcement that two highly popular coast-to-coast programs pro-grams will appear In the forthcoming forthcom-ing Tim Whelan musical, which co- i""",M uiaig m "... .. I rhm 'rMnrifcA.L'j a i- -Tl m -it Mam LUCILLE BALL stars Lucille Ball and Victor Mature. Ma-ture. Charles Victor and his "Court of Missing Heirs" program, and Ralph Edwards and the "Truth or Consequences" company have been signed up for the picture. Director Alexander Hall sent a camera crew around the city to photograph pho-tograph kissing shots for a trailer for "They All Kissed the Bride." He was so Impressed by a girl whom the camera caught kissing a young man good-by at a railway station that he offered her a screen test She was Evelyn Scott of Salt Lake City. She accepted, but didn't show up she'd married the man she kissed! Betty Rhodes, one of the top singing sing-ing stars in radio, will be Bing Crosby's Cros-by's leading lady in his next Paramount Para-mount picture, a radio story tentatively tenta-tively titled "Manhattan at Mid-night." Mid-night." She has her own half-hour weekly radio show, singing over a 90-station network. Susan Peters Is the happiest girl In Hollywood. She was just one or a hundred ambitious young actresses, ac-tresses, with a small role in "Tlsh" and then suddenly she had the second feminine role in "Random Harvest," starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson, and a new long-term long-term contract with Metro to boot. A local girl, she'd been trying for two years to get a start in pictures. Recently Jack Holt visited his son Tim on location for "Pirates of the Prairie." Seeing some cowboy extras ex-tras he'd played with, Jack sat down on a bench in front of a saddle shop to talk with them. A shot was made of Tim riding by and later it was discovered that by mistake, Jack appears in his son's picture. Lana Turner is cheering she won the dramatic role of the young wife in Metro's "Marriage Is a Private Affair," based on the book of that name. It's a rich and sympathetic role, the sort that young actresses dream of getting. Amelia Earhart's favorite racing plane, the one in which she broke several national records, is being used by Pat O'Brien in his role of a dare devil pilot for Columbia's "Flight Lieutenant" It had been rented for spectacular film scenes in which O'Brien is supposed to make test dives. It was not until O'Brien saw Miss Earhart's signature signa-ture scratched on the instrument panel that he learned the plane had been hers. ODDS AND ENDS Lucille Manners had terrific "mike fright" until an engineer engi-neer took a microphone to pieces and thawed her how it worked . . . Lionel Darrymore was asked by Rudy Vallee if he would consider taking his brother's broth-er's place on the Vallee radio program, but he refused because of ill health . . . Columbia's "Lucky Legs" revives the "pixilated sisters" Frank Capra introduced intro-duced in "Mr. Deeds" in Adele Rowland Row-land and Elizabeth I'allerson . . . Feodor Chaliapin rn son of the famous Russian Rus-sian basso, has a short but spectacular role, that of Kashkin, in "For Whom tht Bell Tolls." |