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Show Released by Weatern Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE UNIVERSAL has given us something more than a topnotch picture in "The Suspect"; Sus-pect"; we get food for thought right along with abundant entertainment. en-tertainment. A man commits two murders, and has such good reasons for doing so that Vou can't bear to have him punished. pun-ished. You keep rewriting the ending, end-ing, figuring out ways of saving him. Charles Laughton gives one of the Dest performances of his life; Ella Raines is excellent, Molly Lamont :aused men spectators to ask eeaaaaaaaeaaaaaBaaaaaaeaaaaaaeel CHARLES LAUGHTON "Who Is she?" Robert Siodmak's direction di-rection couldn't be Improved upon. It's a picture with murder but no aorror, a picture with charm and beauty. No matter what movies 1945 brings, "The Suspect" will be Dne of the best. Bette Davis is back in Hollywood ifter qufte an absence, to begin ttory conferences on her next pic-aire, pic-aire, "Stolen Life." The picture is let to go before the cameras early n February, with Curtis Bernhardt directing. When Martha Holliday reached lolly wood, after dancing in night ilubs, she was made assistant dance director. She had to give up the fob and go over to RKO to satisfy tier desire to act; she'll act and Jance too in "George White's Scan-Jals," Scan-Jals," starring Joan Davis and Jack Haley. RKO likes to push promising promis-ing newcomers along, and give them a whack at really important roles. Lauritz Melchior, who makes his screen debut in "Thrill of a Romance," Ro-mance," Metro picture starring Van Johnson and Esther Williams, has signed a new contract with the studio. The famous singer has an important singing role in "Brighton Beach." Shortly before the war, when the (J. S. fleet was on maneuvers. Art Linkletter ("House Party," CBS) almost al-most broadcast a unit of the navy into a general court martial. When word came that the fleet was due ,n San Diego harbor, he arranged to broadcast its arrival from a motor mo-tor launch. Fog delayed the fleet ome miles away, and it anchored, but Art didn't know that. He broad-:ast broad-:ast his script and the Admiral, listening in, thought his orders to anchor had been disobeyed, and was ready to court martial all offenders. Art can laugh about it now. Boris Karloff recently completed "The Body Snatcher" and "Isle of the Dead" for RKO, and l booked io go right on scaring us into shivers. The studio has signed him to make three horror pictures dur tug the next two years. When Phil Kramer, NBC comedian, comedi-an, tried out for his first radio show, with Edward G. Robinson in "Big Town," Robinson stopped him and said severely, "Don't clown, young man. Use your natural voice." The only trouble was that Kramer was using his natural voice. He was doing all right in pictures till his vocal chords tightened up, the aftereffect after-effect of an illness; his comedy voice resulted. ' That baby on the "Eddie Cantor Show," "Eddie Cantor Von Zell," is a handsome chap of about 30, who's probably the only male baby Impersonator Im-personator on the air. His name is Billy Gray, and as a pioneer in his profession he deserves rattle, at least. Barry Fitrgerald played his role as Bing Crosby's father in Paramount'! Para-mount'! "Duffy's Tavern" with his hand in a cast; he broke a finger the night before he started work on the picture. That man could give a fine performance even if he bad a broken neckl ODDS ASD ESDS-F.llery Queen, gentleman tleulh of tht CHS teriet bear int. Ai name, hat a new "Mkhi," Barbara Bar-bara Terrell. , . , If hen Lieut. Hoben Taylor uui gueit on th Kate Smith hour, hit ui, Barbara Stanwyck, mvuhed th program from th client1! booth. . . . One of Neu York't bit department de-partment tlorei it featuring e dreu named "Gatlight Cayttiet," named lot the rndm thoie Harring Beatrice Kay and Michael (VShea. . . . Sonfa llemt't highly-trained jeel Ink tin J ihoet . , , A Inn Istild owe played tit charoc ten on radio th'iu itien ha u try int to get hit ifiirl at an trior did it ttell, too, t |