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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. ED PAWLEY, one of Hollywood's Holly-wood's better known bad men, will get a chance to reform re-form now that "Big Town" is returning to the air. Pawley, who has appeared in "G Man," "Jesse James," and several hundred other pictures, will play the p art of the crusading "Steve Wil--J son," Managing Editor of the Illus- trated Press, in the new "Big Town" scries, Tuesdays over CBS. This MM Ik .nilifcwMiM Ea .&MivUi WBsSBBBSSSSjBBBBsVsssaal ED PAWLEY season the series will be concerned with the American press' unceasing battle against subversive influences and fifth column activities. Nancy Kelly sang and danced as a child performer in vaudeville, but only in her latest picture does she get a chance to do it for the cam. eras. She's the feminine charmer of "Tarzan's Desert Mystery" plays a chorus girl stranded in the Sahara. Looks as if there'd been some drastic changes made in the f Tarzan background, but Johnny Weismuller still has the leading role. There's a lot of sentiment attached to the fact that Amos 'n Andy are again appearing on the National Broadcasting company after a two-year two-year absence from its air waves. It was on NBC that they first ap-pcared, ap-pcared, and rose to radio fame. I James Jordan, 19-year-old son of , Fibber McGce and Molly, makes his screen debut as one of the sons ! of MaJ. Frank Cavanaugh in RKO's "The Iron Major," which stars Pat i O'Brien. The fact that young Jor-j Jor-j dan was honorably discharged from the Air Force, In which he had enlisted, gave him the chance to play Phil Cavanaugh who in real life is a lieutenant in the United States army. United Artists, topping the bids of two other major studios, acquired distribution rights to "Voice in the Wind," which U. A. executives think is a "sleeper" in other words, one of those pictures that are made without with-out hullabaloo and coin a mint It was made on rented stages by Ar-' Ar-' thur Ripley and Rudolph Monter 3 with no guarantee of a release, they gambled on their ability to turn out a box office attraction. It's "the story of two gentle people, a man and a woman, whose love beats against the grim events of a world at war." Gloria Holdcn says a compliment Spencer Tracy paid her has influenced influ-enced her acting career more than any other one thing. Appearing in Test Pilot," with Tracy and Clark Gable, she pbyed the widow of a pilot killed on the eve of their honeymoon. honey-moon. She finished the scene in which Gable gave her the prize money mon-ey that was to have paid for the honeymoon; Victor Fleming, the director, di-rector, had made her cry steadily for IS minutes before she went into it. "Honey," said Tracy, "You don't have to ask anybody for anything when you can act like that!" 1 One sure-fire way to make an Aus tralian mad Is to let him hear an American actor use a cockney accent ac-cent when playing an Australian. Alan Carney, one of the best dialect actors in radio, perfected bis "Aussie" "Aus-sie" accent by talking to Australian newsmen at their News Service headquarters head-quarters In New York. After the broadcast they phoned him their congratulations. ) Kate Smith has begun her 14th year on the air with Ted Collins acting act-ing as producer-director; he discovered discov-ered her and guided her to the top. One of the best talent scouts of radio, ra-dio, he discovered and Introduced Rudy Vallec, Abbot and Costello, Tommy Riggs and Hcnny Young-man, Young-man, among others. He Insisted that Kate Introduce "God Bless America" Ameri-ca" thinks the new "Old Acquaintance" Acquaint-ance" will be a hit. f)DIS An KSDS-ttlut Arfuwit'i Kerpakri'' part fit-p dollar lor turh of ihn tmtimrnlnl mtmtnutrx iih! if uu . . . Slickry Mou is trmint) tin; ' fiflern spue . . . Jo lllnntl, Mho "Abir'i Irhh HnvV ".4iV am ne" frl martini, II nnw th mm inn man nfco'i trying la iel thm mmnt to nrw homt . Julia Sandrrton drt of J rrl that the can rrlurn to radio, low thnt hr hutband and partnrr, frank C.rumit, it fonts Julia n lb Wey Inuth onrf charming unsing ire Mill driolr hrr lalrnti In enter nxtlt ,rr, iremrnblit Ifle radio public pub-lic hopes that a initially iha'U rrtutn. |