Show Sg iBy By VIRGINIA VALE Reich cd by Western Newspaper Unions Union JOAN JOAN BENNETTS BENNETT'S young J daughter Diane is hoping that the tires on the family car will wear out fast She's been waging a campaign to drive that car or else to have havea a pony cart of her own The first thing Miss Bennett did after completing work with Franchot Tone in Columbia's Highly Irregular was to buy the pony cart Dianes Diane's offered to drive her mother to the studio each morn morn- ing William Holdens Holden's spending his time between scenes of Meet the Stewarts in studying Chinese When Bill and Brenda Marshall his wife went east recently they left Brenda's year old daughter with the Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese couple that tha t keeps house for them them and and returned to find that the young lady not only had acquired quite a v vocabulary in Chinese but preferred it to English Judy Garlands Garland's sort of pleased because because because be be- cause after singing for more than soldiers on her recent tour of army camps she's found that the song t the boys n liked best st w was I f j. j S r 2 M I Y f e 3 S 3 iM JUDY GARLAND Zing Go the Strings of My Heart Its It's her lucky song she sang it several several several sev sev- eral years ago when she auditioned f for r her her- contract at Metro and ever since then she's chosen it for her personal appearances The Hays as a's office has requested designers designers designers de de- de- de signers of screen clothes to avoid planning costumes which would use a lot of material when the women of America are being instructed to conserve material Veronica Lake will ill be the first star to wear the new conservation garments in inThe inThe inThe The Glass Key shell she'll wear just enough goods to go around Of Ol course Dorothy Lamour reaU really came first with her sarong I Twenty-five Twenty thousand beauty shop owners recently chose Rita Hayworth Hayworth Hayworth Hay- Hay worth as Americas America's No 1 red redhead Jinx Falkenburg as the No 1 brunette brunette brunette bru bru- nette and Evelyn Keyes as the blonde Seems for a year they'd consulted their customers and found that the hair bair styles of these three were the ones most popular You may judge for yourself by seeing Ritas Rita's new picture My Sister Eileen Miss Falkenburg's Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweet heart of the Fleet and Evelyn Keyes' Keyes The Adventures of Martin Eden Eden of of course its it's pure coincidence coincidence dence that they're all Columbia Columb a p pictures pictures pic pic- c- c tures lures When Clarence Nash first quacked like a duck on a Burns and Allen program way back last November nobody had any my idea that the duck might soon become a star member of the cast But Herman has become become be be- come so real to a host of listeners that he gets fan lan mall maU and each week brings letters asking if il hes he's a areal areal areal real duck or just a noise which delights delights delights de de- de- de lights both George and Gracie The Nightingale and the Rose a new one-act one opera commissioned by the National Broadcasting company com com- company pany will have its first performance on April 25 over a wide nation-wide hook hook- up Dr Frank Black NBC general music d tor torill w ill ll conduct the performance per per- per per-I and and Vivian della Chiesa and Felix Knight both well known VIl to radio listeners will sing the leading leading lead lead- ing roles The opera is based on onan onan on an Oscar Wilde fairy tale Henry Segall who won an Oscar for his bIs original story Here Comes Mr Mr- Jordan which was made by Columbia tried vainly for three years to sell it The studio executives executives executives tives who wouldn't buy it must feel like the publishers who turned down VIl Gone With the Wind By the way were we're told that persons have seen the movie about Scarlett OHara twice or more h ODDS AND ENDS The ENDS The first firs movie movia studio to fly a service flag fag is iJ Paramount Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount with 99 stars Three of oJ Ding Crosby's quartet of oJ sons have recovered recoVered ered from the mumps which they had simultaneously the told out was uw Lind Lind- say Clark Gable will next nest be starred by say Metro in Shadow of oJ the Win Wing astory a astory astory story of oJ the army air corps Joan Crawford knits a minimum of oJ two 56 inch woolen scarves for Jor the navy everyday every everyday day between scenes of oJ oHe Ile He reused the Bride Bride Lorry Larry arr ar P Wn playing the IC part of 0 a filling station operator for Jor that same picture didn't have to learn how he hoto-he he worked h his way through high school in a gas station |