Show P. P STAGE S E SCREE Nr RADIO 10 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union T THE HE little town of Brawley J- J Calif woke up one morning morning morning morn morn- ing recently to find a motorized motorized motorized motor motor- battalion of German troops armed to the teeth lining lining lining lin lin- lin- lin ing the streets As the Mexican Mexican Mexican can borders border's only 25 miles away the townsfolk were a bit jittery Then they took another another another an an- other look at the invaders and recognized them as Brawley high school boys drafted by Columbia Pictures to represent a unit ot of the Nazi Afrika Korps In the picture Somewhere In Sahara Humphrey Bogart's starred in it Janice Gilbert GUbert who's twenty has been acting since she was eight has been on the radio since she was ten On The she plays Janice oN ONeill and also an infant Want s sj j f 11 I 6 yi l' l lf f ti JANICE GILBERT and four children But her most famous Juvenile role Is Little Orphan Orphan Orphan Or Or- phan when Annie Annie when she tours army camps entertaining the boys she gets vociferous requests for a session session ses ses- sion with Annie f. The night Ann Ayars Metro starlet starlet star star- let sang for the boys at Fort MacArthur MacArthur Mac Mac- Arthur Calif she got a rousing reception but could have dispensed with part of it Jt Arriving in a pouring pourIng pour pour- Ing tag rain she was escorted to the hall by a new recruit who led her smack into a deep puddle at the stage door Ann fell In to her hips She says that most of what the soldiers saw of her was mud f. Any Hollywood personage who discovers discovers discovers dis dis- dis- dis covers Lupe Velez watching him hi intently In- In Is likely to be uneasy experience experience ence shows that Lupes Lupe's just gatherIng gather gather- lug Ing material for a devastatingly funny funny fun fun- ny impersonation of him Her ImitatIons Imitations Imitations Imi Imi- seldom reach the screen buIn but bu butIn butin In Redhead from Manhattan 1 sh she does several imitations of fellow stars She plays Identical cousins both of whom are revue stars Lionel Barrymore was In hi a dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- spot a while back and i it wasn't one of those things that are part of a scenario when the actor knows hell he'll be rescued Driving home he miscalculated the depth o of flood water near his ranch ant and found himself sitting in his stalled I car In hi water up to his neck Th The be swift current started moving the ca car toward deeper water But neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring farmers came along with chains and hauled the car back onto the highway The car was ruined but the famous Barrymore wasn't wasn damaged When Robert Ryan joined the army he knew that hed he'd have a job when he be came back he has a contract contract contract con con- tract with that assures his return return return re re- turn to the screen at the wars war's end end at nt a salary exceeding the one he be was getting when he left His work in Bombardier and The Sky's the Limit was responsible for the scrapping of the old contract and the writing of the more favorable new one Bob Bob Hopes Hope's set for another of those cross country tours of army navy and marine posts and bases which is good news nC for the men who'll benefit he be gives them a swell show In fact he probably works harder at entertaining servicemen than a at anything else Jack Miller orchestra director for Kate Smith and The Aldrich Family Family Fam Fam- ily can drop oil off to sleep any time He dozed off in the studio before a recent Aldrich Family broadcast so the cast slipped out and sent a page in to wake him and explain that the program was over and all al visitors must leave He spent a frenzied five minutes before he caught up with the truth ODDS AND ENDS The voice which Willy filly Maher MaTler wes uses for Wilbur if on the Tommy Riggs broadcasts is is going into the movies for forthe forthe forthe the second time time as the lead in in the Metro cartoon The Screwy Squirrel I. I After Alter three years years years' cars preparation King Vidor i is nearly ready to begin production of America starring Brian Urian Helmut helmet Dantine the Nazi Nasi o of 01 f Mrs urs Miniver has haJ a leading leadin role in in Warner Bros Bros' To the Last LastMan LastMan Man Man starring Errol Flynn nn New Orleans Orleans' famous French market exactly as it wilt back in in the year car 1885 1881 has been erected as a setting for Saratoga Trunk |