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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) TAXICAB business boomed recently at one of Hollywood's Holly-wood's major studios, unaffected unaf-fected by the rubber shortage. short-age. Richard Carlson and Martha O'Driscoll drove off in one to be married, with Cecil Kellaway at the wheel. That was in New York. Then Burgess Meredith and Louise Phitt rode to a railway station in Newark N. J., in the same cab. Finally Allan Ladd and Bonita Granville took the same cab to Brian Donley's home in a Middle Western city. Same cab mounted on a fixed platform, plat-form, never turning a wheel; it had no wrier! In case you're interested, the pictures pic-tures for which that taxi worked so hard and so faithfully are "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," "Street of Chance," that being the new title for "The Black Curtain," and "The Glass Key." Almost ten years ago Red Skelton played his first vaudeville act in Wooster, Mass. June Earle danced and played "straight man" for him. Tommy Mac was also in the act. . i y t If t l ' ' ! ... V I? j 4 : ft $ f j . v RED SKELTON Now they're together in the new "Maisie" film. June and Mac doing the same skits they did then, and Red Skelton or so he insists telling tne same jokes he told ihen. But he's now earning more than $7 a week for doing it! Basil Rathbone has a new contract con-tract (with Metro, this time) but he'll continue being a villain. In "Crossroads," with William Powell and Hedy Lamarr, he holds the key to Powell's past, Powell being a French diplomat branded as a former for-mer underworld character. Jean Atkinson, stand-in for Madeleine Mad-eleine Carroll for the last six years, has been called Hollywood's composite com-posite woman; she's been stand-in for Fay Wray, Vivien Leigh, Frances Farmer, Claire Trevor and many others, "because she looks like many actresses rolled Into one." She's been a stand-in for ten years, and says that she has no ambitions to be an actress. William Powell took time off from his work to give a farewell party for Richard Barthelmess, before the latter lat-ter left for Norfolk, Va., to serve as a naval lieutenant. Years ago-long ago-long before they knew their present wives those t;o and Ronald Col-man Col-man were bosom companions. With practically all of Hollywood doing some kind of war work, (and really doing it, too; no fooling) Hedy Lamarr got busy right on her own home grounds, when she saved her hairdresser, Eadie Hubner, from serious se-rious burns from an exploding gas stove. Bob Hawk's having to do a lot of explaining. He decided to invest in a restaurant. Found one, signed a lease, and the sign painter went to work. The place was to be called "The Griddle" but the painter made a mistake and Hawk's explaining ex-plaining to friends that he isn't really in the girdle business. Columns could be devoted to Norman Nor-man Corwin. A newspaper man, five years ago he pursued major radio executives with program ideas to revolutionize the airwaves. Only a small independent station in New York would give him a chance. Today To-day he's engaged by four major networks. net-works. He directs the government series, "This Is War," heard every Saturday. Many of his original radio dramas have been broadcast. His recently published broadcast, "We Hold These Truths," celebrating the 150th anniversary of Die Bill of Rights, was heard by 60.000,000 people. peo-ple. He directs radio propaganda for the government. His "Thiss War" is heard round the world. ODDS ASD Y.SDS-The I. S. nnvv likes Metro' luoreeler, "The Untile." so much that the picture will he used lor recruiting pur puses . . . Director George Cukor's directing "Her Cardboard Card-board Lover" lr the third time: once with Lnurette Taylor, once with Jeanne l.agels, now with IS or ma Shearer and Robert Taylor . . . Sidney Chaplin, Charlie's 15-year-old son, when inter-lieued inter-lieued by Vox Vop at his prep uhool, said he wants to act and direct, like his father, lie weighs IIS . . . KKO suspended Lucille Hall from salary for refusing to play the second feminine lead in "Strictly Dynamite," for which they'd lent her to 2lh Century Fox. |
