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Show mm stage;screenMdio Released by Wftitern Newptr Union. By VIRGINIA VAI.K 7 ACIIAKY SCOTT'S yrand-- fath'.T, a thrifty tarly-Ttxas tarly-Ttxas se ttler, saved not only the first silver dollar he earned, but the first two, and they brought hirn luck. Scott, who inherited the lucky silver sil-ver dollars and had them converted into cuff links, evidently evi-dently didn't have them on ' ' ' - - . Li '' ; ZACI1ARY BCOTT the day he was riding an old mare for a scene in "Cheyenne" and pretending pre-tending that he knew nothing about riding. Or maybe the luck brought by the dollars has worn out Anyway, Any-way, he acquired a dislocated sacroiliac. sac-roiliac. Grandpa didn't even know he had one! Scott is taking no chances now; if you look sharp you'll see that he's wearing those silver dollars in Warner Bros. "Stallion Road." Lou Costello has a hobby, followed between broadcasts of the Tuesday 1 NBC Abbott and Costello show and picture-making. It's collecting historic his-toric and unusual sheriffs' badges. Recently he received one of his best, sent him by the High Sheriff ol Nottingham, England. That brings I the collection up to 100, and he's on j the lookout for at least that many more. Nita Hunter, a 15-year-old singer who was bora In St. Louis, Mo., has been set by co-producers Buddy Rogers and Ralph Cohn to play the title role In Comet's musical, "Miss Television." David Bmce and Cleatus Caldwell are the picture's romantic leads. Nita plays a twice-divorced twice-divorced singer. Then, when Director Direc-tor Reginald LeBorg finishes, she marches off to the schoolroom! Jerry Fairbanks, Paramount shorts producer, is lining up the shooting of Elliott Murphy's "Mr. Winkle" s Hobday" in Technicolor, just as it's being presented. It's an Aquaretta a combination of musical musi-cal comedy, revue, water show and operetta appearing where Billy Rose staged his Aquacade during the New York World's fair. June Earing, the swimming star, is being be-ing eyed by the movies' talent scouts, who consider her a rival of Esther Williams; she's a former national na-tional and metropolitan AAU 100-yards 100-yards backstroke champion. Bill Slater, master of ceremonies of "Right Down Your Alley," is getting get-ting letters from bowling clubs all over the country offering to pay their own way to New York if he'll get them on the program. Unfortunately, Unfortu-nately, Bill picks his contestants from those who are relaxing at a New York bowling alley on Sundays; Sun-days; like the other quiz shows, this one is strictly on the level. There's been a lot of talk about how "Aunt Cissie" Bartholomew felt about Freddie's marriage; after all, she brought him up and promoted promot-ed his movie career "made him what he is today." Well, now "Aunt Cissie" is promoting a, career of , her own; she's signed for a supporting support-ing career in Paramount's "I Cov-t;r Cov-t;r the Big Town." ' Professor Quiz is still sorting questions listeners have sent him; during his first seven years on the air, he requested questions from his listeners so his hotel room is filled with files, and in his spare moments mo-ments Quiz digs around in them for the queries we hear on the air. His staff checks the authenticity of every ev-ery question before he uses it. All-American football player Tom Harmon has been signed for a role in "Gentleman Joe Palooka," now before Monogram's cameras. This is Harmon's first picture since he starred in "Harmon of Michigan." His wife, Elyse Knox, has the feminine fem-inine lead. ODDS AND ENDS Golfer lling Crosby has been nominated by Ohio Governor Frank Lausche to serve on the committee sponsoring the National Caddy Tournament August 19 at Co-htm Co-htm hits. . . . Eighteen years ago an advertising ad-vertising siogan from Hollywood thrilled movie-goers llGarbo Talks!" . . . Maybe Johnnie ffeismttller is getting get-ting tired of being "Tarznn" but he's tignrd a contract to do three more jungle jun-gle thrillers, one a year. ... To those of us who'd tvalk a mile to see Mildred Nnttvick appear on the stage or in a picture, it's elegant news that she'll be teen as "Amelia" in the motion picture of 'The Late George Aplcy." |
