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Show STAGESCKEErlMDlO Releiiai'd bv Wpslcrn Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE HEN Lew Ayres an-y an-y nounced that he was a conscientious objector, exhibitors exhib-itors jiiijt didn't want his latest lat-est "Dr. Kildare" picture it had to be re-made without him. But his four years of I war service have won his public back again, and he's slated to return re-turn to the screen in International's Internation-al's "The Dark Mirror" with Olivia de Havilland, playing a psychiatrist psychi-atrist bent on solving a murder. . Jane Russell had asked Howard Hughes to let her have time olf from picture-making from next September Sep-tember to January: she wants to .spend the football season following her husband, Bob Waterfield, around the country. He's quarterback for tlie Cleveland Rams. rfc Vivian Blaine, soon to be seen In "Doll Face," may have to desert 20th Century - Fox temporarily. French Producer - Director Marc . - K ; i ' . ; " ; - h .a I ' ' "' - 1 " i j VIVIAN BLAINE Allegret was so Impressed by her work In "Nob Hill" that he wants to borrow her for the first French J postwar technicolor musical, "La Belle Amour." Vivian is brushing up on her French. Joan Edwards will be the next girl to be glamourized by Hollywood's famous George Hurrell, whose photography pho-tography helped sell the public on Marlcne Dietrich, Ann Sheridan I and Jane Russell. Joan spent six full days under the lights. At 18 June Haver's a movie star, but she's still a fan at heart. Her favorite dance band is Harry James', so imagine her delight when in her fourth picture, "The Dolly Sisters," she was co-starred with Harry's wife, Betty Grable. The first day on the set June exclaimed, ex-claimed, "I'm living for the day I when he visits the set! Then I can ask for an autographed picture!" j I In "A Scandal in Paris" Carole Landis has a song with the line, "I've got a flame that's too hot to handle." The Johnston (Hays) of-i of-i fice objected. So a lyric writer slaved till he'd changed the words ' but kept the meaning. After finishing "Colonel Effingham's Effing-ham's Raid" at 20th Century-Fox Bill Eythe went home to Mars, Pa., for a vacation. While there he was interviewed by Pittsburgh newspapers, newspa-pers, and said his Hollywood home had been sold and he couldn't find another. The interviewer had friends in Hollywood who were going to move, and told Bill. So he found a home he'd never have had il he hadn't gone 2,500 miles away. Capt. Eddie Bickenbacker's to be featured in a new radio series, "The World's Most Famous Flights." It's an unusual program because it lias been transcribed the first j time an outstanding "name" has done this. He's asked the sponsor to turn over all fees that he would receive to the army air forces aid society. One of the most interesting things about the new "Follies of '46," heard on NBC Tuesday evenings, is that all the principals are under , 30. Johnny Desmond, "the G.I.s , Sinatra," Margaret Whiting (who's j engaged to Bill Eythe), Herb . Shriner, a radio favorite before he ( joined the army, and Bandleader Jerry Gray, who was Glenn Miller's Mill-er's arranger they're all In their 20s. 1 Sylvia Sidney took her six-year- 1 old son, Jody, to visit her on "The ' Searching Wind" set. He watched ' as she did a long dialogue scene with Robert Young and when she asked what he thought of her act- ing, replied "All right, but mother, you talk too much." ODDS AND ENDS Barry Fitzgerald says he wants to retire to Ireland eventually event-ually because there they know best how to cook ham and ews. . . . Millions have listened to Andy Russell, singing star of C.HS's "Joan Davis Show" now they can see him in "Stork Club," 'Breakfast in Hollywood" and "Make Mine Music". . . Danny (J'Neil, the "I'owder Box Theater" star, has signed up for a course of boxing lessons; he mr prised his tutor by hi expert foot-1 'ork, the result of years of buck and ' ving dancing. . . . Rockie and David . I Velson, sons of Ozzie and Harriet, re- zently received two movie offers which their parents turned down, " |