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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Weitern Newipaper Union. ONE of the air's best pro-grams, pro-grams, "Shipmates Ashore," may soon be broadcast broad-cast nationally; it's a variety show, done by British Broadcasting Broad-casting company, with an American star and an English one broadcasting from New York, and two of the same from London. It goes to fighting men on the seven seas, and it's thrilling. Gertrude Lawrerice went down to New York's Seamen's Church Institute on a bitter bit-ter Saturday morning recently, to sing and to chat with Burgess Mere- GERTRUDE LAWRENCE dith in London; said he: "Tell Paul-ette Paul-ette I got her Christmas present" Tried out on a local New York station, the program's been a great success, and an important part of the hands-across-the-sea movement Andrew Stone has cooked np something special for his "Sensations "Sensa-tions of 1944" (Eleanor Powell, W. C. Fields). He's concluded arrangements arrange-ments with the state of Colorado to have a man walk a tight-wire across the Royal Gorge. First off, he want ed to stage the act over Niagara Falls, but authorities on both the TJ. S. and Canadian sides of the falls have so far refused to play. Marking the most important Pan-American Pan-American alliance in the motion picture pic-ture industry in recent years, United Artists has arranged to distribute in all Latin-American countries and in Spain the product of a new Mexican production company, Artistas Aso-ciados, Aso-ciados, S. A.' When NBC was Informed that Parks Johnson and Warren Hull of "Vox'Pop" would be armchair detectives de-tectives on an Ellery Queen Broadcast, Broad-cast, an NBC executive asked "Who is Parks Johnson? Isn't he In radio?" ra-dio?" "Vox Pop" was a popular NBC show for nearly five years before be-fore it switched to CBS1 Incidentally, Incidental-ly, those two Vox Poppers should be decorated for the swell job they're doing these days. Mi Did you bear little Dickie Mono-han Mono-han when he covered himself with (lory on the CBS "Big Town" program, pro-gram, playing a little blind boy whose dog was run ever by gangsters? gang-sters? A Warner Bros, scout did, and promptly arranged to interview Dickie object, a screen test ' To John Charles Thomas falls the distinction of occupying Radio City's famed Studio SB, better known as the Toscaninl studio, now that he is broadcasting his Sunday NBC program from New York for seven weeks, while making 21 Met Opera appearances. Barbara Hale, former Chicago model who came to film prominence when she was picked to play opposite Frank Sinatra in "Higher and Higher," High-er," has been given another good role by RKO the second feminine lead in the Pat O'Brien starrer, "Marine Raiders." Jimmy Cosh, singing star of the Burns and Allen CBS program, will make his picture debut in the Universal Uni-versal film tentatively titled "Cross Your Fingers." He gets a break; an original number, "A Dream Ago," has been written tor him. Time was when no Hollywood actress would admit that she ever lifted a finger around the house; now they pitch in and are proud of Jt Dorothy Lamour and her mother did their own washing for Ave months a while ago. Jean Arthur, Joan Crawford, Craw-ford, Ann Sheridan, Betty Grable you can go right down the list, and find the girls proud of being able to cook, garden, do practically any chore and take pride in it Claudette Colbert's butler once was one of her prides now she buttles, and very well, tool. ODDS AXD ESDS-Ilrrr to fort con-fintd con-fintd to ih K-rren, "Tht Aiitnturtt of Charlii Chan" wilt inoriv Ink to tho inrar! . . , Ruth lloutrd, Jaunhttt of quiimtrr Tom Uouwd, hrlpi writ tho tcriplt for "It I'ayt to B Ifnortnt," tk eomrdy-quit thow note hrvd on tho CBS "Kale Smith Hour" ...In ynri to comt tho flail o Stalintrod witl bo ttudifd in military oradrmitt throuth tho medium of iontmmtatj film oditod by Porommuit, now bint iAowh In lAMfrrs ei mTho City That Stopped HitltrHtrok StalintrotT , . . Croucfo Mars (i a nm unclt; hit brothor Hvpo km adopted mothor child, named it for AUamndtr Toallcott. |