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Show STAGED SCREENittADIO Released by Weatern Newipapcr Union. By VIRGINIA VALE THIS is news that a lot of people have been waiting wait-ing for Lanny Ross returns to radio April 1. He'll b heard from 7: 00 to 7: 15E.S.T.I every week night over CBS.I with Evelyn Knight and the' Chittison trio. He's out o the army afier 27 months overseas, during which time he was assigned to MacArthur's headquarters has tour battle stars, the Legion of: Merit and the Philippines Libera- tion ribbon. First thing we knnwj yf&" - A -ri fit J i U W-A LANNY ROSS he'll probably be making pictures again; "Stage Door Canteen" is his last one. A star athlete at Yale, Lanny put himself through law school by singing on the radio, then decided he'd rather be a singer than a lawyer after all. Will George Sanders sprinkle his hair with water and wear Curls In "Bel Ami" or won't he? He says he won't; he'll play one of those awfully virile he-men, and he thinks curls would look sissy. Director Albert Lewis thinks curls would be historically correct, and he's an ex-college ex-college prof and should know. Whatever What-ever happens, Sanders will have a sweeping mustache; he won that argument t Virginia Keilly, a British film actress ac-tress who's Just arrived In Hollywood Holly-wood to work for RKO, gave up her place on a fast ship to a G.I. bride and crossed on a boat that took 14 days during which she found a stowaway, darned the crew'i socks, painted the captain's quarters and weathered a storm without getting sick. You'll see her soon In "Carnival," "Car-nival," a British film. They were playing "If In Hollywood, Holly-wood, guessing what famous historical histori-cal characters would be doing If they were in Hollywood today. Grade Allen won; she said Shakespeare Shake-speare would probably be under contract to Warner Bros., writing melodramas for Humphrey Rogart, the Borgia family would most likely be in charge of the studio commissaries, commis-saries, while Cleopatra would be giving Lamour a run for her money In the sarong field. i An unusual feature of the new office building wiiich Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are erecting in Hollywood is a television test studio. stu-dio. The stars of that Thursday night alrshow are looking way ahead polishing up their video routines rou-tines for the future. A 1 Somewhere there's a colt that's going to be one of the screen's big-name big-name horses. James Warren, RKO's western star, soon to be seen In "Sunset Pass," Is on a trip through Arizona, Texas and Wyoming, Wyo-ming, looking for a colt with distinctive dis-tinctive markings, to bo featured with him in the studio's next Zane Grey western. The colt will have film training at a ranch, and be groomed for stardom. 1 Mrs. LlllUn Fontaine, mother of Joan and of Olivia dc llavlllund, Is going to play a mother again. She was Jane Wynun's mother In "The Lost Weekend," then worked In "The Imperfect Lady," now she's been cast as Pauleltc God-dard's God-dard's mother In "Suddenly It's l Spring." A If Paramount's "The Emperor Waltz" lives up to expectations It , should be one of the year's best ; pictures. Ding Crosby and Joan I Fontaine will co-star in this Technicolor Tech-nicolor musical, and the com-1 com-1 pany will go all out in providing I beautiful settings and lovely mu-I mu-I sic. "Her most glamorous to date" is what the studio says of Joan's 1 role, promising costumes that will make her look her loveliest. ! ODDS A N7 I'. V'S - IMru hut tinned Tnni Shu I in to a l"n lerm rorilnirl ! lull, mink romiilition if hit ml in Till ) the Clmidt Ktl )," 'i" I'h "I ' Jrromr Krrn. . . . Alfred Hithriick hat l 'ID finimifi on hit ! 'Men I ifiel. . , . Mrlrn't offered r.d V nn a rontrnct tn r-fir uith hit tun, Keenun ITynn. . . . 7m firtr finin niKnii'il o Hee Tor-or, Tor-or, currently featured in "Vowi Dr. Midline," unt pfiivinft the lend in a fcrfcfc rW "The lit of Clurk CnUlt". . . . Martha t 'irkeri hat In mocf from her ntth IIoIIuoimI home; uanlt to find home for hertelf, her father, mother, brother and tit ktlteni. |