Show 1 y By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union THE HE nations nation's largest radio JL stock company is behind the weekly production of the new program Three Thirds of a Nation heard Wednesday evenings on the Blue network Produced in cooperation cooperation co co- co operation with the Hollywood Victory committee clearing clearinghouse house for tor war time appearances o of the Associated Actors and Artists of ot America the thc program has haJ si lt Its disposal the resident membership of all Southern California Castings weekly draw from a reservoir of more than screen screen stage and radio actors all volunteers The Tone family Franchot and Jean will soon be bc working at the same studio Franchot has signed a term agreement with Paramount it calls for four pictures during the next two years Jean Wallace Tone a Louisiana Purchase beauty is already there Ann Harding is returning to the screen in Metros Metro's Odor of Violets a mystery drama soon to go into r 1 v E il I ANN HARDING production Edward Arnold has the principal male role Donna Reed one of Metros Metro's abundant crop of starlets is also in the cast r.- r. You may not recognize Chester Conklin at once in I Married a Witch playing a bartender at a country club who's in much of the opening action he appears without that famous walrus mustache r. An evening gown that Priscilla Lane wears in Silver Sliver Queen is going to be melted down and given given en to the Ambulance corps when she's through with it Its It's a 17 pound silver dress and will eventually eventually eventually ally become wiring and dental plates for soldiers The diamonds that Marlene Dietrich wore in The Lady Is Willing Willing Willing Will Will- ing are facing the camera again agam this time in Ellery Queen Across the Atlantic II The picture teams Margaret Lindsay and William Gar- Gar gan The story requires a collection collection collection tion of Jewels that are stolen so Jam James s Hogan the director got busy and ind rented them Miss Mass Dietrich got got a break she break she just borrowed the gems Those childrens children's giggles you will hear in Walt Disney's Bambi are the sounds of youngsters filled up with ice cream enjoying some old Mickey Mouse shorts Disney wanted wanted want want- ed spontaneous laughter and that's how he got it In all the movie studios Adolphe I is known kno as the script girls girl's pet He lIe keeps track for himself of all the tricky little details which the girls have to watch For example in Syncopation I and George Gcorge Bancroft do a lot of smoking which means that lengths of cigars and ash must be matched in scenes which may be filmed weeks apart I carries a pocket rule measures cigar and ash at the beginning of each scene and calls his bis results to the script girl Claudette Colbert has signed a year three-year contract calling for one picture a year with Her first assignment will be the leading role in the screen version of Pearl Bucks Buck's China Sky Sky shell shell she'll play an American doctor Stepping into the title role of the Bulldog Drummond series back backon on the air after an absence of several several sev sev- eral months Santos Ortega follows in illustrious footsteps George Coulouris Coulouris Coulouris Cou- Cou louris the last incumbent is on tour with that very successful play Watch on the Rhine E E. E E. E Mathews was the first actor to assume assume assume as as- sume the role and John Barrymore Ronald Colman and John Howard did it on the screen ODDS AND Robert ENDS Preston learned to be a proficient machine gunner gun tier ner chile on location with Wake Island Victor of 01 Powder Town has invented a 40 foot loot tank and submitted it to the war ivar depart department ment hes he's a veteran of 01 the Doer and the last IT World arid a ivar war ar A new adventure strip about a it war or correspondent it will til be bused on the real life adventures o of 01 f William Willam L. L Shirer during his hu h days dus a as a aBerlin Berlin radio operator Joan Edwards of Your lit Hit Parade has won wan the pool three weeks running in m guessing the theten theten theten ten hit numbers No Ao unusual pets for Mary Martin She Site keeps heeps lay lain laying inn hens |