Show S E EBy SCREEN A 10 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union N WAKE ISLAND Paramount Paramount Paramount Para Para- IN mount has shown what a war picture ought to be the truth was so dramatic that there was no need to dress it up with a fancy plot plot and and praise goes to the writers W. W R. R Burnett and Frank Butler and to Director John Farrow for letting that plot be as slight as possible Farrow directed it superbly superb superb- ly the members of the cast did a memorable job Pretty good cast incidentally ly including Brian Donlevy Don Don- levy Walter Abel Robert Preston Macdonald Carey and Albert Dek- Dek I ker kerf Do Dont Don't t miss it i I IA A word more about Wake Island I It was first shown at the Quantico I Marine base with an audience of 2000 marines who cheered it whole whole- I heartedly That's the surest guarantee guarantee guar guar- antee that theres there's nothing phoney I about this very swell picture When you you see Seven Days Days' Leave keep an eye on Marcy McGuire Me- Me MeGuire I Guire if youre you're interested in stellar material She plays a brat sister I fro r MARCY McGUIRE of Lucille Balls Ball's with a crush on Victor Mature During filming her herI I part was fattened three times so that she finally had two musical numbers of her own and a comedy romance that wasn't in the original script lona Iona Reed who's a stunt woman as well as Claire Trevor's stand-in stand in The Desperadoes has ridden horses that cowpunchers wouldn't mount leaped from high cliffs risked her neck in dozens of or ways ways- but she balked at an assignment the theother other da day The script called for Claire to smoke a cigar lona Iona was told to do it and said No She cant can't even cven smoke a cigarette i Porter Hall who plays the thieving thieving thieving ing double crossing heavy in The Desperadoes has just been made madea a deacon in the First Presbyterian church of Hollywood Hes He's usually cast as a villain but hes he's never owned a gun since he served in thelast the thelast thelast last war he doesn't drink or gamble gamble gam gam- gamble ble he practically never smokes Yet on the screen he stops at noth noth- ing Paramount has a file of what do you suppose Cobwebs Due to priorities its it's impossible now to get I the liquid rubber of which movie cobwebs used to be made The studio stu dio has quite a few murder mysteries mysteries mys mys- teries like Street of Chance coming coming com corn ing tog along So the prop department got busy wove cobwebs out of the material on on hand and filed them away for reference Charles W. W Koerner head of Radio production b has s announced that artistic and prestige films of dubious office box-office merit are out Well Yell some o of or those chose prestige films were pretty dull But a lot of really fine and profitable pictures would never have been made if It that ruling had gone gone through years ago Wed We'd not have had The Thc Grapes of or Wrath or Gong Gone With the Win Wind Vied Windor II or Pasteur or a good many others that didn't look liI like e money-makers money before they were released i IO Life masks taken directly from the faces of at a group of stars along with fashion sketches original charcoal charcoal char char- coal sketches of sets and other material material ma ma- used In preparing a film will comprise a Traveling Educational exhibit soon to be sent on tour by I. Frances Parker Porker lecturer will accompany It it and it will be displayed at universities schools civic and educational societies September 30 marks a special anniversary anniversary an an- in the thc National Barn Dance show the show the completion of ten consecutive years on the air broadcasting broadcasting broad broad- casting 52 weeks a year Other radio ra dio lo programs have come and gone cone but the Barn Dance goes on forever ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Greer Carson Canon has ha signed a term long contract with III Metro etro her first firt picture under the new nero arrangement will be Madame Curie James J ame Cagney bought a War ar Bond nond entitled rim him to two tickets for lor the opening of 01 I. I his pic pic pia lure litre ture Yankee Doodle Dandy Freddie Bartholomew has hO bought himself him self ell a motorcycle he rides back and forth t to Columbia for Jar work in in Junior Army Larry Elliott announcer an announcer an- an on ort Bob nob Hawks Hawks' limo How Am I l Doin air show how has landed the narrating nar nor rating assignment on Universals Universal's new short entitled How hose Canada Trades Tracks JIn Naz Nazis |