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Show Released by Western Newspaper Vnlon. By VIRGINIA VALE LITTLE Sue Simmons goes into violent action in her very first picture shoots a rattlesnake in Universal'sl "Frontier Gal"; when a child actress begins this way there's no telling what she'll do when she's grown up. The j picture sort of pokes fun at i the usual type of Western. Rod Cameron has three fights, twe with men and one with Yvonne de Carlo. Yvonne slapped him 30C times, by actual count, as hard as she could, but you'll see only 30 wallops; wal-lops; they shot the fight 10 times. Cameron lost 10 pounds before the picture was finished, thouRh he's a' husky guy; he worked as a sand hog under the Hudson river, as a construction laborer and as an en glneer before he went into the movies. Back in the early days of the movies, Elaine Williams' mother was offered a contract by the Es-sanay Es-sanay company; had to turn it down because she was only 15. Sc I I.': J,' 1 JIIaiW . ), M " ELAINE WILLIAMS when Elaine was 15 she stepped out, and won the title of Miss Wisconsin. She sang with bands, got her radio start at WHBY in Appleton. Wis., her home town. Eventually she reached New York where she's teen on "Crime Doctor" for a year. Twentieth Century - Fox wanted Jack Smith, who's heord on CBS Mondays through Fridays from coast to coast. Wanted him badly enough to offer him a contract calling call-ing for $2,000 a week. Smith turned it down said he'd rather remain in the East It's hard on Loren Tlndall; like most navy veterans, he'd like to get out of uniform, but he's been discharged dis-charged for a year now, and RKO's given blm one naval picture after another; three of them altogether. He's playing hit third In "Till the End of Time," produced by Dore Schary. In "Over 21," with Irene Dunne, be waa a navy lieutenant; he was a submarine crewman In "Out of the Depths." "The Strange Love of Martha Ivcrs" stands between the Robert Taylors and the long vacation they'd planned to take as soon as he was discharged. Taylor and the armed forces parted company six months sooner than he'd expected, and Barbara Bar-bara Stanwyck's working in the picture. pic-ture. She says he looks wonderful. Metro's losing no time on that picture based on the life of Jerome Kern. Judy Garland and Robert Walker will be starred. Van Hcflin has the role of Kern's confidant, Angela Lansbury's an English comedy com-edy star. Connie Haines, singer on the Abbott Ab-bott and Cofttello programs over NBC, recently went out In the harbor har-bor to sing for the avengers ol Bataan, the famed 30th division. I'd like some singers who've stopped since the war ended, Connie gort right on sinning; for the servicemen Onre a wrrk she goes to Terminal Island, San I'rdro, to greet returning return-ing troop ships. Elyse Knox has been set for the feminine lead in Monogram's "Joe Palooka, Champ." This marks hot return to the screen after a ycor'i leave of absence during which her daughter, Sharon Krlstan Harmon, was born. The baby's father, Cnpt Tommy Harmon, famous footbut player, has returned to Hollywood to continue his radio sports com mcntarics. Richard Quine. Metro contract player and husband of Susar Peters, has doffed his coast guard uniform and been assigned the ro mantle lead in the forthcoming "Bui Not Goodbye." OimS AM) IM)S If you etrr hear Susan Allrn ling ' ing "So Can Iht" on Sammy Kaye'i "Sunday SrrrnnnV," you' find tlw fcr'l nulling htr heart in In il-hn fathrr urotr if, , , , Jarki Cixiirr'i M ic. June llnrnr, hai bren gt'i en roll in U unrr lltnt.' "Th I rrdirl," if.ir ring Sulnry Gren.fref. . , , Mer Valhrr, one n lh Hurt Varamount'i 'I'mplf Art Funny," hni ulmoit a many rerUn al fYnfftrrinw llrpbun and Mrrne .oy, Holly u-aWi moif be Irrtklrd lnr. , , . Ronald Hmftn get tht trad in W arner'i 'Statlinn foe'i |