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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. DRAW a long breath of relief, re-lief, you lads who secretly secret-ly adore Greer Garson with her marriage to Richard Ney postponed until after the war there may still be a chance for you! At least, at the moment mo-ment there is; one never knows what to be sure of when a Hollywood marriage is concerned. At any rate, as of right now, this one is delayed; seems, according to Lieutenant Ney's announcement, an-nouncement, that there was no place where they could be married until 10 o'clock, when the time came, so they decided to wait. RKO is launching a new series of feature pictures, all about a rookie, using a new comedy team. First will come "Adventures of a Rookie"; after that it'll be a case of "Everywhere "Every-where the army goes, the rookie's sure to go." As a direct result of Margo's acting act-ing on the CBS Caravan Hour she's the first feminine narrator in movies in RKO's "Women at War," one of several short subjects in RKO's :l MARGO "This Is America" series. As a result re-sult of her charm, she was chosen queen of the Army Air Corps in Atlantic At-lantic City. And because she wanted want-ed to so much, Mexican-born Margo recently became an American citizen. Mrs. Albert Wassell, 87-year-old mother of war hero, Lient. Com. Corydon M. Wassell, was invited to come to Hollywood as Paramount's guest, since Cecil B. DeMille is filming film-ing her son's life. Mrs. Wassell refused. re-fused. "There was only one star I ever cared to go that far to see," she wrote her son. "That was Rudolph Ru-dolph Valentino and he's dead." She doesn't go to movies often, but thinks Jimmy Stewart Is the star most like her son as a young man. But it's hardly likely that he can take time off from the army for the role. Seven years ago in November Fred MacMurray made his first picture pic-ture on the Paramount lot, playing opposite Claudctte Colbert in "The Gilded Lily." Remember? He does there he was in an important role, and nervous doesn't half describe the way he felt. Today they're co-starring co-starring in a gay comedy called "No Time for Love"; she's a lady and he's a sandhog. Ed ("Archie") Gardner has turned down Metro's overtures to make a celluloid version of the air's "Duffy's." "Duf-fy's." He's working hard to bring his new radio program up to the top of the list before signing up with Hollywood execs for whom he last worked as a radio director. Joseph Calleia, of "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Is head of the Malta War Relief organisation In this country; coun-try; his parents, who are English and Spanish, live In Malta, and recently he heard that the house in which he was born has been blasted to bits. Normnn Tokar and Jacie Kclk, who play "Henry" and "Homer" respectively in radio's "The Aldrich Family," never feel absolutely sure that they're going to hold their Jobs that's because practically every page boy at NBC covets those roles. ' Dick Powell was working In "Happy "Hap-py Go Lucky," and his wife, Joan Blondcll, was touring the land with the Hollywood Victory Caravan. So, for the first time within anybody's memory, nn extra telephone was ordered or-dered Installed on a movie lot, be- cause the Powells are so devoted to each other that they kept calling each other on long distance, making the one phone on the set unavailable for business calls. ODDS ASP KMX-Culilornia heal qunrleri lor soWiVri horn Clarknillr, Ttnn., M the home 0 llrlrn If oml, radio and nrrren artwa hwd on M77io.i V't Imh" . . . Nadine Connrr flew to Nrw York to ttart rrlimrsalt for hrr ireond $rann ol th Metropolitan oper houtt; the'U hate htr oun radio how from Nrw ) rk . , . i'.dnar l)rrring hat i) f J more mofoiore coot than any other artor , . , llarniit tld Yito i fairly bur man the$ dayt; h play uith Joe Kinrt' orehrttra on th air's "Abie's Irish Rote," and on Sundayt ptat firtt harp uith Tot Tonranini's j orthettra over NUC. |