Show 1 S E SCREEN RE EN r RADIO IQ By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union AFTER FTER Veronica Laken Lake JL n made her screen debut in I Wanted Wings there was plenty of comment about what fashion experts call the plunging neckline of her attire Veronicas Veronica's necklines held the time all-time record for plunging for a while they attracted almost as much attention as Dorothy Lamour's sa rungs In This Gun for Hire the blonde bombshell is going to the conscious clothes-conscious public another jolt this time she's going to wear tights The scripts script's to blame blame she's she's cast as an entertainer in a night nightclub nightclub nightclub club who does sleight of hand band tricks and sings and that seems to call for or tights That is it evidently does in Hollywood Telegraphers are going to have more fun than anybody when Eleanor Powell does that new tap dance in Ill Take Manila to most y s 4 4 i iuN uN 1 v i. i A y j. j r ELEANOR POWELL of us it will be just a swell dance but were we're told that wireless operators operators opera opera- tors will read a definite message in inthe inthe inthe the taps Paramount's fixed up a bannister c cycle cle for us not us-not not Barbara Bannister but the thc kind that accompanies stairs In Birth of the Blues six- six year old Carol Carolyn Lee power dives down one smack into Bing Ding Crosby Barbara In The Great Mans Man's Lady Ladr slides down another in crinolines For tiThe The Wizard o of Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- kansas Bob Burns shoots the thc bannister bannister ban ban- nister ulster chutes but Burns of course is different he picks up a splinter on the thc wa way And this it Is felt will definitely end the thc bannister cycle ccle i I- I Richard de managing editor of The March of Time says that filming The Story of the Vatican Vatican Vatican Vati Vati- can was like a vacation Since 1934 he be has been chasing film scoops and more than once hes he's escaped death by a narrow margin At the Vatican I had bad a good crew of technicians technicians technicians tech tech- all our loca locations were in a small area and there were no intrigues intrigues in or subversive movements to be dealt with says he The latest March of ot Time is Sailors With Wings which traces the development of the navys navy's air service and how it operates in partnership partnership part part- with the fleet its it's vital and absorbing one of those pictures that you wont won't want to miss r The manager of an theater on Long Island heard patrons imitating imitating imitating imi imi- tating the voice of the Pathe rooster so often that he finally arranged arranged ar are ar- ar ranged a contest and let them crow for cash and poultry several hundred hundred hun dred persons mounted the stage and crowed like mad r. Glenn Ford almost sailed oft off to distant ports the thc other day as a wa way of getting into the right mood for Martin Eden his next nest picture He lie was just stepping on board a n freighter believing that Its next stop was San Francisco when a production production production tion assistant raced to the he dock and stopped slopped him lie He wanted to sign on onas onas onas as a seaman and see what it was like But five But five minutes later the freighter sailed sailed for for Honolulu ji The radio scoop of the year is the signing of Shirley Temple to do four programs for one of the big watch manufacturers For the first time in her career shell she'll be on the air regularly regularly Friday Friday evenings December December Decem Decem- ber 5 to 26 10 to 1030 Eastern Standard Time on CBS She will do a series of four Christmas programs programs programs pro pro- grams in which she will sing and present Christmas and her salary for the months month's work will be Radio sponsors have been pursuing the young star for years ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Hold Buck Buc tIll iA Dawn Daun i is holding tuck buck other oilier pictures theater hits hit's found bunt it sn so lar that they're extending its run and its it's running neck and lI neck in receipts with Caught ill in in the Draft Paramount's Para arc mounts mount's top tup grosser o oj of the thc year Oscar of I Information r l' irate ne e and a u couple of pictures tai ha been signed to u a term tern contract by Para Iaru mount Ohla Olda will nill on new nelV maps map as Genie Gene Autrey Ohla Olda Jeunette McDonald and I Ed J Jare are arc reunited again lI aill in to I mined Married an nn Angry Milton fling Merle Berie can tell lire fur ir Jokes a minute and ancl keep UP that parr pact lor for 10 hours repeating repealing one III |