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Show STAESCREAlDIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE T SEEMS unfortunate that so lovely a title as "Hold Autumn in Your Hand" had to be changed to "The Southerner," South-erner," but perhaps that's a better title for this very realistic realis-tic picture. Directed by Jen Renoir, it is beautifully photographed. pho-tographed. Zachary Scott and Betty Field give excellent performances per-formances as the young farmer and his wife who are willing to endure terrific difficulties in order to live in the country and work for themselves. them-selves. In fact, the whole cast is i . " : I . ' kxy r 1 , I f ' h - - j BETTJf FIELD excellent, and of course the direction is superb. At a preview the only complaints were that the picture was too real, so don't see this one II you go to the movies to laugh. m Lola Lane, who's been absent from the screen for several years, returns in one of the top character roles in RKO's "Deadline at Dawn, supporting sup-porting Bill Williams, Susan Hay-ward Hay-ward and Paul Lukas. With her Lola won screen fame in the "Four Daughters" series; the others aren't interested in making pictures any more, but she couldn't leave the icreen permanently. Six Hollywood beauties two redheads, red-heads, two blondes, two brunettes representing the Goldwyn Girls from "Wonder Man," the new Danny Kaye picture, are making1 a 30-day tonr of military hospitals In the Eighth Service Command area, in Texas and Arkansas. Ralph Edwards is well started on another million dollar E bond drive and what most folks don't know is that he's gone into those drives on b.ls own, not demanding, as many """w another radio star has, that the treasury department underwrite the drive. If you've listened to Edwards' program recently you know about the young G.I. who'll get a plane if audiences buy enough bonds. Joan Fontaine was called to the wardrobe department at Paramount to see a new costume; it turned out to be an elderly woman's. . Wondering Wonder-ing why she ought to be Interested, she looked at the model found it was her mother, who'd secretly got herself a role in 'The Lost Week End." When Andrew Stone produced "The Great Victor Herbert," he gambled on two newcomers to the screen Mary Martin and Susanna Foster. He gave Diana Lynn her first big chance. Now, In "Bedside "Bed-side Manner," he introduces two new discoveries Claudia Drake, - jrtio made her picture debut when he was one, and has done a few pictures since, and Renee Godfrey, a beautiful model. The picture stars Ruth Hussey and John Carroll. $ Dinah Shore and Joan Edwards are all set to embark on concert tours, thanks to their radio popularity. popular-ity. Dinah will have Raymond Scott's orchestra, and cover five cltjps; Joan, who'll play piano solos as well as sing, visits eight between "Hit Parade" programs. It'll be difficult for others to top the party given by the "Can You Top This?" stars to welcome members mem-bers into their One Thousand Club. All listeners whose contributed jokes have hit 1,000 on the laugh meter are eligible for membership, but only members living fairly near New York could be brought to the party. Guests were bidden to a dinner par- ty, and entertained at a vaudeville show, then taken to the broadcast. Eight-year-old Clare Foley was delighted de-lighted when she heard she'd play the role of "Janie's" kid sister in "Janie Gets Married,' which stars Joan Leslie and Robert Hutton. The reason the bannister in her house in the picture is swell for sliding-down sliding-down purposes. ODDS AND EXDSFeter Loire's sifincd to terrify us in iT'nrr.cm pictures pic-tures for another year, . . . Ted de Cor-sia, Cor-sia, "Sftt. Velie on the Kllery Queen shows, svlh the other actors asparagus frown on Zii.i farm. . . . Martha Tilton's heard on Milton Berle's "Let Yourself Go" every W ednesday night, and seen wherever "Crime, Inc.' is being shown. . , . Frank Sinatra, Mervyn LeRoy and Frank Ross have united to make a fea-turette-length picture designed to prih mote religious and racial tolerance; it will include two sings by Sinatra, and be released by KKO. . . . Proceeds will go to a charity active in juvenile work, to be selected by them. m |