Show I SE CRE EN By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union TESTING'S ESTING'S under way way at Paramount for For Whom the Bell Tolls Charles Charle Laughton Akim and Oscar Homolka have been considered for the therole therole therole role of Pablo but the burning burning burning burn- burn ing question is who'll is-who'll who'll play Maria It calls for beauty but even more for the ability to act We hear that Paulette Goddard I heads the list of ot the girls to be bej beI j I tested seems as if it it would be a superb piece of miscasting If ti she I got the part Ingrid Bermans Berman's our choice choice and and the authors author's I Ginger Rogers has signed for three years more with she's been there for eight years She did Flying Fly ing Down to Rio Hu then and her dancIng dancIng Ing with Fred Astaire in that little I number made them our leading dance team in pictures A She wisely insisted is at last on acting as aswell aswell well and worked up to Kitty Foyle Ginger Ro which she didn didn't t twant Rogers want to do we hear but which proved to be her greatest success She's just finishing Tom Dick and Harry now and they say around the lot that its it's a worthy successor to Kitty Foyle Orson Welles Isn't making any announcements about his second picture for Radio Radio Radio-he he kept mum about Citizen Kane too remember remember remember re re- re- re member and executives were pretty startled when they found Cound out too toolate toolate toolate late what it was all about and it looked as if U they mi might ht have trouble if they released it Instead of a trouble-maker trouble they had one of the best pictures of all time on their hands Welles has bas admitted that he will write produce and direct this new picture and will star In It ft Joseph who guided Deanna Durbin through her successful successful successful success success- ful screen career career has signed a contract contract con con- tract with Metro Metro-Goldwyn Metro Goldwyn Mayer it looks as if it he might do for Kathryn Gr Grayson lyson what he did for Deanna I Hollywood just didn't give a whoop about Victor Mature until he made a highly press press- appearance in the New York Yorks s stage tag e sue success c e s s M Lady in the Dark 4 He doesn't act much r in the play just 4 looks tall dark and handsome Now its it's announced that tha t two F motion picture companies com corn panics want him one Twentieth Cen Cen- tury-Fox tury has bought half his contract Victor Mature from Hal Roach and w will ll feature him in two pictures a year The first will be Bowery Nightingale st co-st starring co-starring with Alice Allee Faye J Old timers among the movie fans tans will remember Raymond Hatton probably they'll also declare that The Whispering Chorus in which he starred for De Mille was one of ot the best pictures ever made 1 I Well Hatton is working for his old boss again in Reap the Wild Wind I W. W V. V S. S Van Dyke the ace director has been on active duty with the I marine corps for the past year car Now hes he's returned return cd to the Metro lot And I what do you you suppose his first assignment assignment assign assign- ment will be The Female of the I Species a a long cry from the Marines Did you happen happe to to hear Man ln on the Street on the Manhattan at Midnight r radio show about a month ago Within 24 hours after the sketch was presented five motion picture studios were after it Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount won out Bing Crosby and Mary l I Martin will co They've just completed Birth of the Blues with C Carolyn Lee and Brian Don- Don levy 7 People who've hC heard Bob Hope rave on the thc r radio about Madeleine Carroll have decided that he must know her well enough to get autographed autographed autographed auto auto- graphed pictures of the blonde star for them She's on loc location in the West Indies so they've been pestering pestering pes pes- him for the photographs He doesn't mind he just got a lot of her pictures autographed them with his own name and had them mailed t ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Morris got lea leave toe from the Nat Navy Department to 0 finish The Thc Smiling Ghost fur Warner Bros before he lie became an all ensign NBC is preparing a new series flay Boy Meets Band lland for its iu sin singer bandleader ger Ted Teel Steele who nho used to be an em NBC page boy bay Though fling Bing Crosby cant can't read a note o of f music music the boys in John Scott Trotters Trotter's band say hes he's a aI aswell aswell I swell conductor Metro ivill push lush Marsha Hunt u up the ladder as a are re suit of her our work in Blossoms in in the I Dust Service men who n want ant to 10 aril and can see stars broadcasting broad casting should s apply to Charles outer osier of the United Service ce Organizations |