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Show stagescreenMdio By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. GAIL RUSSELL hasn't seen her brother George for two and one-half years; he's a bugler in the army, stationed in Alaska. As she's been a movie actress less than a year, he's neVer seen her on the screen, though her third picture, pic-ture, "The Uninvited," is now In the editing stage. So she's sending send-ing him all the glamour art of herself her-self that she can lay her hands on, to prove to him that the spindly-legged spindly-legged junior in Santa Monica high whom he left behind him is really a movie actress hw- Dinah Shore's getting a new daddy dad-dy Charles Winninger of "Show Boat" fame, who'll be her father In the new picture, "Belle of the 1 'f ' ; l . i . . jifii DINAH SHORE Yukon." Dinah will sing, Winninger will play a trombone, and Gypsy Rose Lee will well, she'll be Gypsy Rose Lee. All of the casualties on "Suspense," "Sus-pense," the CBS thriller, aren't confined con-fined to the script. When Orson j Welles guest-starred recently, he broke his dnkle as he entered the Vecho chamber, a box-like compart-Vnent compart-Vnent used to give voices a ghostly Vuality. ytiaiiie May Whitty stepped right lit of her role as Pierre Curie's liother in "Madame Curie" to testi-E- on juvenile delinquency before Jenator Pepper's V. S. senate subcommittee sub-committee on wartime health and education. They say she was just f as delightful there as she is in the J picture, especially when telling of i , her prewar experiences in arranging arrang-ing country vacations for London's j underprivileged children. . Sammy Kaye was the second Hollywood Hol-lywood celebrity to back the "Dance With a WAC" program, which originated origi-nated with film producer Charles R. Rogers. When Rogers was in Palm Springs on location for "Song of the Open Road" he arranged for the male members of his cast and crew to spend an evening dancing with the air WACs stationed at the army's desert transport command base. Mischa Auer's collection of pets is becoming a problem. He had 30 hens ani a rooster, and recently received re-ceived two dogs, a Newfoundland and a Yorkshire terrier. Wally Ford gave him the Newfoundland, which weighs about 200, and he named it " 'v--l Heddy. The terrier was Mary As- tOTs gift; it weighs a scant 2M pounds, and he calls it Tallulah. "Up in Mabel's Room" is his current picture. pic-ture. Joan Davis and Jack Haley of the air waves are dashing from one picture studio to another these days. After Joan's appearance in "Around the World" RKO signed her for two pictures a year, and she's also under un-der contract to Paramount for two. Jack Haley was originally all set for RKO's "Up in Mabel's Room," I but had to drop out because of other J picture assignments. J As chairman of the Malibu ration-'Vto ration-'Vto board, Warner Baxter took over iTthe days of sugar distribution; he stuck through coffee and gasoline, but wanted to resign when he returned re-turned to the screen to star in "Lady of the Dark." He was persuaded to stay, merely appointing a temporary vice chairman, and completed his picture work in time to come back and face the canned goods situation. It's the way things happen tc some people. The other night "Big Town" Director Jerry McGill went over to see his friend Fred Bethel, the "Here's to Romance" director, on broadcast night. He was much impressed with the looks and voice of Marcia Neal and the result ol that chance meeting is that Marcia has a part in McGill's new Broadway Broad-way play, "Compromise." ODDS ASD F.VDS A natinnm comic book publisher is frying to in tcrest Fibber McCce and Si oily in a monthly fentitre strip based on theit amusing experiences . . . Cnss Dtiley teho introduces the song. "He Lorec Me Till the All-Clear Came." in hei new picture, "Ridinit iirn." has re ceifed requests to sing it in fire diljer ent languattcs for overseas broadcast! . . . They're ftildinir Marlene Dietrich'; lefts for a scene in "Kismet" . . . Rasi; Rnthbone brings a bottle of milk tc the Mutual station studio in Hollywood Holly-wood and gives even-body in the cas. a sip just before "The Adventures o. Sherlock Holmes" starts. |