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Show STAGESCREEN&ADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE MARGARET O'BRIEN has the Technicolor Blues. She's doing a color picture pic-ture for M-G-M, "The Unfinished Unfin-ished Dance," and as a result (1) she can't play tag or hopscotch between scenes with the other children; her face gets so flushed that it shows up beet-red when she returns to work; (2) she can't roller-skate; falls down so often that her bruised knees i - j ' i " t , v ; . . : . v - -r ! -; v -i I i ... s L " ' u : J MARGARET O'BRIEN show up like sunsets. As a result she's become an expert at jacks, so good that few little girls will play with her, and has taken to swimming, with characteristic zeal. In fact, she's become so good at it that she wants to do a picture with Esther Williams. She likes color col-or pictures, but says they're exasperating exas-perating to make! Jack Leonard makes his film debut de-but in "The Guilt of Janet Ames," at Columbia, starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas. A juke box favorite, he was a featured singer with Tommy Dorsey from 1936 to 1940. He spent five years in the army, appeared at one of New York's smart night clubs; then Columbia Co-lumbia signed him up and is launching him on a new career. Want to rent a movie? An article In the December Woman's Home Companion tells you how to go about it provided you do it on a nonprofit non-profit basis. Clubs, schools and churches should find the article most useful. Following that command performance perform-ance before England's king and queen, Ray Milland and his wife plan to do some traveling Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Nice and Rome are on their list. They're due back in Hollywood in December, when he's going to try to talk Paramount into giving him an actor-director contract. Looking ahead to the days when he doesn't want to act any more? It happened at Mahan Hall, at Annapolis. Some 1,500 middies, listening lis-tening to a warm-up speech by Milo Boulton before "We, the People" Peo-ple" was to be broadcast from there, let out a howl when part of Phil Baker's "Take It or Leave It" came through, and they heard Baker say, "And now you have 30 seconds to answer tonight's jackpot jack-pot question, 'What is the name of the Secretary of the Navy?' " Nancy Lauck, daughter of Chet Lauck, who's "Lum" of "Lum and Abner," celebrated her 13th birthday birth-day not long ago, and was given a St. Bernard puppy, her favorite present. She didn't hestitate about naming him called him Kilroy. The audience got a surprise when Paulette Goddard showed up at the Coast CBS studio for "Bachelor Mother," a "Hollywood Players" broadcast. Late shooting on the C. B. DcMille set left her so Utile time that she arrived wearing the tattered dress of a bond slave, her role in "The Uoconquercd." She had to sacrifice those terrifically long fingernails for the part. And on one occasion, when she was wearing a gold brapelet spelling her name, and couldn't get it off, a workman had to lake a saw to it; in 1763 slaves didn't wear gold bracelets! Producer Waller Bunker puts on a special treat for sludio audiences at Fanny Brice's "Baby Snooks Show." He doesn't close the curtains, cur-tains, but allows the audience to watch the last 15 minutes of the music and sound rehearsal. Louise Barclay, who's the actress on "Might to Happiness," spent he; time crawling around on all fours during her first slock engagement The company did fables, and Louise played alternately a fox, a lion and a wolf. ODDS AM) EM)S irhcn Ed "Archie" (ardni-r, oj the "Uujjy's 'iav cm" brtmrltals, is not bitay ul tile mihp he usutilly sits with his icije in im front row. . . . George Montgomery and Dinah Shore hute been building their own home at I.ncino, Calif. in the process George dropped a log on one foot and broke a toe. . . . Arlme Francis hits been on many a radio show "It hat's My amc" uas one of her best; but she's doing what site likes most on her new IBC series, "Afjairs if Ann Scotland," creating a new character. char-acter. . . After hearing all iJmse gun (hots on " -Uli enlures of a 'I in Man" Up:'lh Eric's learning to hnnl |