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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. qHEY do tell us that Alan 1 Ladd's popularity with the bobby-socks brigade has made him Hollywood's No. 1 "locket "lock-et star." Alan, currently star-1 ring in "Two Years Before the Mast," received 7,200 ie-! quests in one week from young fans asking for locket photographs, and i the demand became so heavy that Paramount's fan mail department has made up 100,000 special, small-sized small-sized photos of the star, which can easily be cut into a heart-shape, to 1 fit the lockets favored by his teenage teen-age admirers. Marilyn Maxwell likes her birth-month, birth-month, August; in August she decided, de-cided, while singing with Ted Weems' orchestra, to go to Hollywood Holly-wood and try acting. After six months at the Pasadena Playhouse cr W?&L .Mm ..,.'L,....:,z, f r'-f ti44j MARILYN MAXWELL she got a screen test with Metro, whose trademark is Leo, the August sign of the zodiac. But it was in December that she did her first guest shut with Bing Crosby, leading lead-ing to her present contract. Robert Watson, former stage star who portrays Adolf Hitler in "The ! Hitler Gang," knows his subject I well this is the fifth time he's j played that role. But this time it's different; it's his first completely ! serious characterization of Hitler, j June Duprri, who portrays Cary ' Grant's chief romantic interest in , "None but the Lonely Heart,'! says she never got hrr bg screen break until Producer David Hempstead ordered or-dered her to turn from brunette to blonde for the role. She had her hair bleached, and since then has received many other important offers, of-fers, all calling; for blonde tresses-it tresses-it looks as if she'd become per manent blonde. One of radio's new singing sensations sensa-tions is handsome Larry Douglas, starred on the CBS "Here's to Romance" Ro-mance" Thursday evenings. Though he's been chief vocalist with Carmen Car-men Cavellero's band and has sung in several stage hits, this is his first coast-to-coast radio program. i Fanny Brice "Baby Snooks" to millions of radio listeners has assembled as-sembled a collection of pictures by children all over the world that rates serious consideration. She says that the impish character she created for radio led to her interest in children's pointings, and so to her making this collection. Many of the pictures are from countries now overrun by Hitler. Forty-seven of them have been shown in art galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore and Rochester and recently re-cently in New York City. Chief Willow llird, of the Apache tribe, Is celebrating hi 3?nd year In pictures and his 1000th lilm role by appearing in KKO's "The Girl tush." Itut don't suppose for an In-Mailt In-Mailt that he's playing an Indian he'll be seen a a gold miner! A soldier in Los Angeles Inst his wallet, which contained the furlough money he'd been saving up In order to visit his family for the first time in 11 months. Newspapers printed the story. Imagine the feelings of that GI Joe when he received a check in the mail a check for $100, which he's going to hate to spend, because it bore the autograph of Frank Sinatra! A very special laurel wreath fchould be given lovely Jnnc Fro-man; Fro-man; in "Here's to Romance" and "Stage Door Canteen" broadcasts she inked to be permitted to sit on stage during the show, bocause "making an entrance on crutches looks too dramatic." She's the girl who was seriously injured In the Lisbon Clipper crash, while she was on her way to entertain our men In overseas service. i. i OWLS ASH HSDS-TM on the set of " Wuri. r, Sm" thnl he had ml become a puna, I'vter If nlrtf got r t-riled, t-riled, tripped ! er cable, and sprained an ankle. . . . 7 he Jnbalaires, CMS nelv quartet, met 10 years atn while uork- tnt on tlranbrrry plantation, and ilattrd their musical enrerrt sitting M niters in 1 Florida hnlrl , , , Walter j Ihrl mm star o the "Armstrong TrW I frr n 7W.iv" lh Sflirtuv that (dry j filing, of the mir, uas the toiee of In j Quaker Girt. . . . !H noun o radio's Ion programs go in invasion troop each H-erk. , . . 100 muttered out eri. icemen hat roles in the Fdunrd G. Robinson "Mr. Vinklt Goet in F at" j |