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Show STMECSCREENaRADIO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. JACKIE GLEASON is the first new comedian to hit the networks for the coming fall season; the August 13th debut of the Jackie Gleason end Les Tremayne show establishes es-tablishes him on the air waves. He's no stranger to the air, of course, after starring star-ring in "Hi Neighbor" and "Laughing "Laugh-ing at Murder," and movie fans know him from his 12 pictures, "including "in-cluding "Springtime in the Rock- . - -v"j,-"vs t ; JACKIE GLEASON les." Currently he's starring on the Broadway stage in "Follow the Girls"; when he finishes that stint he begins his new contract with 20th Century-Fox. Gloria De Haven, one of the stars In the new Sinatra musical, "Step Lively," was singing for Galli Curci and Frances Alda when she was 12. They advised her to study for opera, but she took to modeling instead, then began her career in the movies. Played a showgirl in her first picture, pic-ture, will be a chorus girl in "Dr. Eed Adams," a new Dr. Gillespie that will go into production soon. John Bodiak is on his way up, and going fast. "Lifeboat" gave him a boost, and "Marriage Is a Private Affair," with Lana Turner, gave him another. So now he's set to play the coveted male lead, opposite Greer Garson, in Metro's "Valley of Decision." An orange isn't an orange when lt'a been autographed by Chlco Marx, it's a collector's item. Starring Star-ring on Milton Berle's "Let Yourself Your-self Go," Marx did his stunt of playing play-ing the piano with an orange; it's now being cherished by the fan who had him autograph it. Sonja Henie's new picture for International In-ternational is "It's a Pleasure" but In preparation Miss Henie rehearses re-hearses two hours a day, six days a week, with male and female ice ballets, works on her own skating specialties two hours more, then rehearses re-hearses dance steps all afternoon! Four Metro pictures on 16-mm. film are now playing the Normandy beachhead "circuit." They are "A Guy Named Joe," "Meet the People," Peo-ple," "See Here, Private Hargrove" and "Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble" and were being screened shortly after the battle smoke cleared. Dinah Shore's off on a blind date date with the American fighting men overseas. She finished her chores in "Belle of the Yukon," International In-ternational Pictures' new Technicolor Techni-color musical show, made three months' supply of records, and sailed, to return to Hollywood in October. Oc-tober. An empire numbering 500,000,000 people, one-fourth of all the land and people in the world, is the subject of the March of Time's latest film, "British Imperialism 1944." It's the story of what war is doing to the empire, and of how the dominions feel about the mother country today. Joe Julian and Paul Mann, regulars regu-lars on the Norman Corwin CBS series, often alternate roles. Recently, Re-cently, when Corwin wanted the effect ef-fect of a man running up and down stairs, Julian, who was playing the lead, had on rubber heels, so actually actual-ly stepped into Mann's shoes, which he borrowed for the broadcast. Pretty fancy, that accident Danny Kaye had. For a scene in "The Wonder Man," he and Vera-Ellen did an acrobatic dance routine, leaping leap-ing through the top of a paper-covered native drum and aliphling on a tramboline which would bounce them out of the drum. Kaye landed ofT balance, and v.os hurled to the stage, with one leg twisted beneath him. So now they're shooting around him till he's recovered. ODDS AM) F.SDS-Dmna I.mn. soon lfi, lti (i hrniy rnrnrmtir rrilr in "Out oj 7li.! W nrlrl" anil eon Iter first screen kiss frnrn hil'lie llrnrhen. Mae Clark, star of silfnt films, is play-ing play-ing a come-hnrk role unit I'anlrtle Gmhlnrrl in "Kitty.". . . The new jarmal vj CliS't "1 he Doctor Fichu is permanent, per-manent, filing Raymond Masey a chance Let act. . . 1 hose arm hands the huskv males in "The Great John L" are tLcaring are women's garters men's I arm bands just aren't made any more. ... Alter seeing Marie McDonald's uork in advance scenes for "Guest in the House," K illiam Goelz borrotced j her for "It's a I'leasure." |