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Show mm stAge'screen'radio By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.! A STUDIO stage hand stole the spotlight from William Wil-liam Powell and Hedy Lama La-ma rr when Wendell Willkie (who recently was elected chairman of the board of 20th Century-Fox) visited thestars. Willkie arrived just in time to watch them doing their first love scenes In "Crossroads." and offered to change places with Powell. Pow-ell. The stage hand. Pinky Picciano, had a brother who was a petty officer on the battleship Mississippi when Willkie's brother Ed was a division di-vision ofllcer on the ship, and entertained en-tertained Willkie and the cast with anecdotes. Incidentally, In his new position Willkie will not "perform any executive duties or be actively connected with the operation of the company." Eleanor Powell's spun glass hula skirt is scheduled for a tour of the army camps; so are two other costumesa cos-tumesa pink satin tails and top hat and an abbreviated toreador outfit out-fit She's bought the rest of the costumes she wore in "Ship Ahoy," and they'll go along. When Jack Benny takes his Sunday Sun-day night radio show to army camps the member of the cast who has the most fun is Rochester; the soldiers v ' ' i . a ,u EDDIE ANDERSON (Rochester.) always supply him with a "jeep," and he has the time of his life riding rid-ing all over camp. "No rougher than the Maxwell," says he. William Holtlen was the first married mar-ried Hollywood man to join the services; serv-ices; quitting motion pictures at the top of his career, he became a private pri-vate In the army. You'll remember him as the small-lime bookkeeper in "The Remarkable Andrew," for his speech for democratic ideals. He married Brenda Marshall last July; she Is working at Warner Brothers' in "The Constant Nymph." Virginia Dale went home to Charlotte, Char-lotte, N. C, for a vacation, and returned re-turned with a husband, one who's probably unique among Hollywood husbands. He's 28, his name is Courtland Shephard, and his business busi-ness is, of all things, commercial shark fishing! There's no sound-effect trickery about it when you hear George or Gracie Allen running up and down stairs. A set of wooden steps 12 of them; count 'em, some time is near the mike, and Ed Lutas, sound-effect sound-effect operator, does the skipping up and down. If it hadn't been for the red polish on her nails, three-year old Patsy Nash would have played a boy In "I Live on Danger." She was discovered dis-covered when she and her mother were waiting for a bus. Producers William Pine and William Thomas wanted a little boy for the picture, thought she'd do. Then they also discovered the red polish, learned that she was a girl and rewrote the part for her. She was so good that they've optioned her for a featured fea-tured role In the Richard Arlen "Interceptor "In-terceptor Command." It begins to look as if the gentlemen gentle-men have it when correct answers have to be given. During 11 weeks of broadcasting, on Hob Hawk's Friday Fri-day CBS quiz, 14 men have won $4,474 in defense bonds; only 8 women have scored, winning $1,879. For the past three years Alan Bunce has been radio's popular "Young Doctor Malone"; during that time he's picked up many fine points of medicine, so many that he was chosen to play Dr. Walters" Wal-ters" in "Chaplain Jim, U. S. A ," the new Monday through Friday dramatization which is being presented pre-sented in co-operation with the ra- dio division of the war department. ODDS AM) KM)S-llal I'eary, the uir's "(ireat Cildersleeve," has .signed ut ItKO to appear with Fibber MiGve unit Molly in their next picture . . . And RKO has cast Randolph .Scoff und Jackie Cooper in top roles with I'at O'lirien in "Rattle Stations," a story of three I'. S. nry gunners . . . One of screendom's favorite juvenile teams, Mickey Rooney unit Freddie llarlhulth mew, will be. reunited in "Yank ut l.ton" . . . Their last appearance together to-gether was in "Lord Jeff," four years ago . . . Tisi," adapted from Mary Roberts' Rinehart's delightful storiet, is tining screened by Metro. |