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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THE Hollywood telephone repairman was phoning his report. "Yeah, I fixed it; cord was chewed." Pause. "Yeah, chewed. No, not a dog a lion." Pause. "Sure I said lion." Pause. "Look, I haven't had a drink all day, and I said a lion chewed it. Tm at Jinx Falkenburg's house." He grinned. "Yeah, I knew you'd understand." The cub, a present to Jinx from her brother, Bob, has since then taken to sharpening his teeth on the piano legs. The Columbia Co-lumbia star of "She Has What It Takes" says that's perfectly all right, if he sticks to piano legs. Pola Negri, who years ago was one of the head glamour girls of the silent movies, is returning to the screen In the United Artists film, "HI Diddle Diddle"; she'll play an operatic star, the wife of Adolphe FOLA NEGRI Menjou, a role from which Menjou's real wife, Veree Teasdale, retired because of Illness. Martha Scott has the leading role. Animated sequences se-quences by Leon Schlesinger, the film cartoon creator, will begin and end the picture. m , Nine-year-old John Donat, son of Robert Donat, makes his film debut In "This Land la Mine," starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. ' John breezed through his lines, and between takes sat high on a itepladder, reading a comic strip ' magazine stayed there until Director Direc-tor Jean Renoir called him down from his perch to go to work again. David Nlvea returns to the screen alter a two-year absence in "Spitfire," "Spit-fire," the British-made Goldwyn production pro-duction which will be released by BKO Badio. A major in the British army, he was given leave to co-star with Leslie Howard In this plctnre. After testing Hollywood stars by the dozen King Vidor has selected an unknown for the important role of Brian Donlevy'a wife in Metro's . "America." She's Ann Richards,1 who arrived here from Australia on the last boat to leave after the bombing bomb-ing of Pearl Harbor. Little Margaret O'Brien, who stole the honors in "Journey for Mar-' garet" and did the same thing when the "Screen Guild Players" did a dramatized version of it on the air, won Jack Benny's heart when, asking ask-ing him for an autograph, she said she'd seen him fall into a lake in a 1 picture. "That was with Bob Hope," j said he. And Margaret replied "Bob Hope? Is he a comedian, too?" Red Skclton's been having a awell time, working at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on "Whistling In Brooklyn"; Brook-lyn"; every member of the famous Dodgers, including Manager Duro-cher, Duro-cher, appears in the picture. Five hundred rabid Dodger fans sat in the bleachers for some sequences and what's more, got paid for It! The quickest way to become a tar on your own program is to do! a guest shot on Rudy Vallee's Tours-1 day show. During the past year he's presented Groucho Marx, Billie Burke and Ransom Sherman, among others. Now Marx stars on his own Saturday night program, Sherman recently launched a new series, ana Billle Burke will have two air shows going during the summer. That new "Salute to Youth" program pro-gram has Just about everything radio ra-dio fans can want. There'! William L, White, war correspondent; Ray-1 mond Paige and an all-youth orcbes-, tra; Nadine Conner, Metropolitan Opera star; Berry Kroeger as oar rator, and a guest war worker. With most of the cast in their 'teens or early twenties, the program on NBC Tuesdays is a salute to youth, by youth. ODDS AND ESDS-Ledey ITW, "Bright Horiion" ertrrtt, kti said fgoodhr to her dog, Bttuncrri fee's lined the army as buck prime , . . red Allan will rttum to motion pie-turn pie-turn lAii tummrr , , . They've found another road for Ding Crotby and Bob ' Hope, "Road to L'topia,' to 6e mad 1 thit summer, but probably without Dorothy Lamour . , , After fit years, Phil Baker will return to the mmin in 20th Century Fot't "The Cult lie Left Brhind . . . Ginny Simmt, tier i of "Johnny Pretentt,m hot begun e tour r dWrl rmr cam pi milhin e stay! di'tnnc of Hollywood; the offers tM liftman ihmo and payt oil expnum. |