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Show STAGESCREENADIO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. 'lHE public is cheated be-J- cause Paramount doesn't always shoot Susan Hayward in technicolor; her red hair and reddish-brown eyes that almost match it are something to look at! Visiting in New York when "Reap the Wild Wind" was being released nationally, Susan Su-san was interested in seeing old friends from Brooklyn, her home town, buying clothes, seeing the new plays, rather than being formally introduced in-troduced as a successful young star. She's remarkably pretty without benefit of makeup, except lipstick. Clara Bow was the first Brooklyn ; V ' ' , 1 ' ! ' t ' f. - j v -, (' i ' SUSAN HAYWARD redhead to make motion-picture history; his-tory; Susan Hayward has the looks, talent and personality that should make her the second. Michael Harvey, husky six-footer making his screen debut in "So Proudly We Hail" with Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake, is the third of three "youngsters" who grew up together In Atlanta to hit motion pictures. The others are Evelyn Keyes and Dixie Dunbar. The girls beat Harvey Har-vey to the screen; he stacked up a record in Broadway plays before Hollywood got him. All of a sudden Turkey has become very important to motion-picture makers; three studios have announced an-nounced that they'd do pictures with Turkish backgrounds. Columbia's is "Constantinople," Paramount's "Dateline Istanbul," Republic's either ei-ther "Istanbul" or "Ankara." Marilyn Maxwell, Metro starlet, returned from a five-week Victory Caravan trip for work in "Salute to the Marines" with this advice about how to rate A-l when visiting the 1-As. Be gay, wide awake, peppy and active; be sure your hair is combed, your make-up fresh, your stocking seams straight; be yourself there's only one Hedy Lamarr! Don't wear slacks; be interested in the man, not his uniform; know how to talk; don't dish out a line he probably knows yours better than you do. Thirty-four-year-old Edward Dmy. tryk, director of "Hitler's Children," has had 20 years' experience in pictures. pic-tures. He started as an errand boy in Paramount's laboratory, working after school and vacations, was a projectionist when he entered college, col-lege, and two years later went to Hollywood as a cutter. Three years ago he turned director. Dick Keith, the "Bright Horizon" actor, was so well liked by the fang of another radio serial that letters piled in demanding that he marry the heroine. That was impossible, since he played a character so wealthy that, If the heroine married mar-ried him, she'd have no troubles and there'd be no more serial. The problem was solved by killing him off at the wedding ceremony. Peggy Allenby, actress on Phillips H. Lord's "Counterspy," regrets the realism which Jay Hanna, the director, direc-tor, brings to his work. Arnold Moss playing a Nazi spy, had to slap Peggy, but at rehearsal the sound made by the sound effects man didn't satisfy Hanna. He and Moss went into a huddle, and when the program went on the air Moss really slapped Peggy, and hard! Have you formed the habit of listening lis-tening to "The Man Behind the Gun"? Now broadcast Sunday evenings eve-nings over CBS, It brings us the war storieg that are making American history, gathering them from all branches of the service; William N. Robson, who directs It, traveled some 10,000 miles and often was with the men under actual combat condi-tionj condi-tionj to get background for the dramatizations. ODDS AND ENDS Johnny, the Call Boy, will be glorified in the "Stage Door Canted' film as the only living trade mark . . . Because of his outstanding outstand-ing performance in "The Hard IT ay" Dennis Morgan has been assigned by Jack . Warner to the co-starring role opposite Ann Sheridan in "The Gay Nineties" . . . Horace Brahm, of radio's "We Lore and Learn" is playing nursemaid nurse-maid to file kinds of dogs left with him when their owners went into tlie armed services . . . An army machine gunner wrote Red Skelton, star of the forthcoming "I Dood It," that in his outfit a dud is known as a shell, or bomb, that didn't dood it! |