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Show ' By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. AFTER three days on location, lo-cation, Director Leigh Jason issued an order to the cast of "Nine Girls" that there'd be no more eating between be-tween meals; he was afraid that they'd be unable to get into in-to their clothes before the picture pic-ture was finished. The first day, Jeff Donnell had brought' thres pounds of chocolate cookies, Jinx Falkenburg brought two quart-bottles quart-bottles of chocolate milk, and Leslie Brooks contributed a large box of candy. Evelyn Keyes and Nina Foch brought fruit. Between scenes Anita Louise, Lynn Merrick, Shirley Mills and Marcia Mae Jones helped eat. Then they had lunch, later, tea. The invigorating air was responsible and they gained from one to two pounds each! f Some six years ago, when Connie Haines was singing at New York's Roxy theater under her real name Marie Ja Mais her manager brought a picture talent scout to see her. "She's fair," said the scout, ' i ( -- !"' " 1 ' 4 ' ( ,1 ;' ' 4 i . f t -fcinf - - '' CONNIE HAINES "but I'm afraid she'll never amount to much." Eecently he heard her on the Abbott and Costello program. "Miss Haines," said he, "you're a wonderful picture bet; somebody should have signed you long ago." Losing weight was Willard Parker's Par-ker's trouble. Doing a hot rumba all day for a scene in "What a Woman" he wrecked five stiff-bosomed shirts, lost 10 pounds. "That'l my last shirt," said he. "From now on, far's I'm concerned, we're doing do-ing a remake of 'Sahara.' " Universal has just produced a iea-turette iea-turette on the history of a professional profes-sional model's career; called "Cover "Cov-er Girl," H stars the much-publicized Candy Jones. It shows her being interviewed by Harry Con-over, Con-over, being referred to members of his staff for tips on grooming, wardrobe ward-robe accessories and demeanor, being be-ing sent out on various assignments, finally being selected to pose for a magazine cover. Guy Kibbee, who's checked In at Warner Bros, for his role in "The Horn Blows at Midnight," starring Alexis Smith and Jack Benny, has an impressive title in the picture. He appears in a heavenly sequence of "Chief in Charge of Small Planet Management"! When "Stagecoach" was released in the 1938-39 season, it picked up two Academy awards one for j Thomas Mitchell as the year's best j supporting player, and the picture's j scoring was given the second honor that year. It co-starred Claire Trev- I or and John Wayne, with Mitchell and Andy Devine in supporting roles. Now it's being released again good luck for everyone who missed it the first time. ' significant new series titled "American Story," written by Archibald. Archi-bald. MacLeish and tracing the history, his-tory, development and fulfillment of the literature of the Americas, will be presented by the NBC Inter-American Inter-American University of the Air Saturdays, Sat-urdays, beginning February 5. This is the third permanent scries of the NBC University; others are "Lands of the Free" and "Music of the World." Are you "the undiscovered voice of America"? The Hour of Charm begins its fourth singing contest February Feb-ruary 16; "the ideal girl singer of America" will receive a 13-week contract con-tract at $150 a week, and will sing with the Spitalny all-girl orchestra. The preliminaries will be conducted locally, and the 10 best contestants will go to New York for the finals, to sing once on "The Hour oi Charm." ODDS AND ENDS CDS has engaged en-gaged a notable array of soloists for the "Invitation to Music" programs for the next tliree months . . . Clay Wo-macfe, Wo-macfe, the original uMr. Five by Five' the writers dedicated the song to him; he weighs 312 pounds has been signed by Warners for a comedy role in "Make Your Own Bed" . . . Clifford Odets, actor and playivright, turns director di-rector with "None But the Lonely Heart" as his story and Cary (Srant as his star . . . C. Aubrey Smith, 80, celebrated cele-brated his 52nd year in show business tcith the start of "Sensations of 1944" . . . Dorothy Comingore returns to tht 1 scresn in "The Hairy Ape." j |
