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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Feleased by Western Newspaper Cnion. TACK BENNY'S feeling thai J he hadn't been given adequate ade-quate publicity, and that Boh Hope and Jimmie Durante had, brought up a reminiscence reminis-cence about Hope. Someone said that Hope works at it that, if he sees four soldiers itanding on a street corner he grabi I pianist and does a show for them "Back in 1938," said somebody else, "Bob was doing a summer flll-ir how, and we never could And hirr hen we'd scheduled interviews, be tause he'd be oil somewhere doing I benefit. He did benefits foi thurches, for clubs, for everybodj A'ho wanted him. He thought wt ere crazy to expect him to spend dme on a newspaper interview wher 4e could be working hard, for nntb ing, for someone else." "Columbia Presents Corwin" itepped right to the top with the Irst broadcast; those Tuesday night programs have broken down the re. listance of people who say haughtily lhat they never bother to listen to my broadcasts but music. Of tourse, Norman Corwin long since ;. ' . . . ' - i v M f jv w NORMAN CORWIN nade radio history; he has always tad new ideas, and is a pioneer in adio technique. He has won prac-lcally prac-lcally all possible awards. This teries of dramatic presentations, lone with excellent actors, ought to iring him a special one, and a host f new listeners. i. Marie MacDonald's going through he Hollywood "streamlining" proc-tss proc-tss voice lessons, dramatic coach-rig, coach-rig, dancing lessons, having her hair lone a dozen different ways preparatory pre-paratory to playing a nice part in Sunt Stromberg's "Guest In the Souse." Before going to Hollywood wo years ago she was soloist with Tommy Dorsey's band and specialty lancer and singer at two smart Vew York night clubs. Nobody can say that John Caroline Caro-line isn't versatile. He has the leavy role In Wallace Beery's new 'Gold Town." Movie goers know ilm by his work in "Stagecoach," 'Reunion in France," etc. And he'a recently been touring In Shake-ipearean Shake-ipearean repertoire! if If you had visited a rehearsal of -BS' "Crime Doctor" you would hink you'd stumbled onto a bunch if small boys playing cops and rob-crs. rob-crs. "Take that bang! bang! fou're dead!" you hear, but it's a rrown man saying it. It's all be-tause be-tause of the shortage of blank bul-cts bul-cts and the lack of a reasonable 'acsimile. There are enough car-xidges car-xidges for performances, but not for rehearsals. Connee Boswell, the Blue network longbird, has been appointed head f a nation-wide morale boosting or-nnization or-nnization of people who have "ar-ived" "ar-ived" despite physical handicaps. Tonnec has been ;in infantile paralysis paral-ysis victim since childhood. Twentieth Century Fox did the tountry a service when they bought irreen rights to "Winged Victory," lie army air forces show now play-ng play-ng to packed houses In New York. The cast of 350 goes to Hollywood text month, starts the picture in fane. It's a swell show, amusing, nformative, soul-stlrrlng. The cast Deludes number of men who've nade pictures and done radio work, s well ss Corp. Layne Brltton, a Vrmer make-up man who made ip Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, 3reta Garbo, Walter Pldgeon, acd iven did his stuff on Charlie McCarthy! Mc-Carthy! Fannie Brlce, who once was a rtar in the stage "Ziegfeld Follies." las been signed by Metro for its icrccn version of the Follies. She ill appear in a sketch, "Sweep-itakci." "Sweep-itakci." and will also do her famous Baby Snooks routine. ODDS AM F.SI)$-Radia Uithti-rinni Uithti-rinni arc trying Jo rfivoi rr any oiii-r Mwork announcer beats Milton C.rm' ecord; the cfciV heikler on "Chamber Mimic Society Lotrer Wmin Street" it on nil !.hit year as anntmnrrr . . . Dorothy Shay hat annul uritinully ippearing as giie-il on CHS "Carnii al" me't now a permanent mrmbrr o the ihou, co-Marring Alt Tempteton and Morton Gould . . . "Ami rnnl fifth "Thii I America $rrir, U dedi-fated dedi-fated lo 32(1 uar corretpondentt, 16 of thorn naif oil thrir lite ... II years to Georfe Samlet t tax a pinna rental re-ntal for teletision ; he playt and tings Vi "Action in Arabia." j |