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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. FRED ALLEN and Portland Hoffa aren't going to have to worry about meat rationing ration-ing if the public does as well by them this year as it did last. The star of the Sunday night oil program received gifts of meat from two governorsa gover-norsa smoked ham from the governor of Tennessee, a turkey tur-key from Governor Johnson of Kentucky, another ham from the University of Missouri, a roast pig from Iowa State college, a barrel of oysters from Johns Hopkins, and hundreds of other gifts, ranging from a bucket of West Virginia coal to a bottle of laughing gas! Joel McCrea's a life member of the Officers' Club of Gardner Field, Calif. Recently, when buying cattle in that vicinity, with the thermometer thermom-eter at 110, he visited the camp and learned that the men were trying to raise money for a swimming pool. A Bing Crosby golf match had A A' .s : V - ; JOEL McCREA raised part of it, a Victory Committee Commit-tee .show had helped, but they still-lacked still-lacked $2,000. McCrea said he couldn't sing, dance or play golf to raise money, but he could write a check and did. You'll be seeing him soon in "Great Without Glory." Harry Carey's been in dozens of range wars in the movies; now he'd like to take part in one. Cattle thieves have been butchering beef belonging to a neighboring rancher and selling it to the black market; the neighbor, like Carey, raises cattle cat-tle for the government. So, though Harry is busy in "Air Force" at Warner Bros., he's been oiling a couple of six shooters and planning action. Fred MacMurray's added himself to the list of Hollywood farmers; he's the owner of 800 acres in northern north-ern California, which will be used for farming and cattle raising. He's slated to do "Above Suspicion" with Joan Crawford, for Metro, as the one outside picture Paramount lets him make each year. The story of a professor and his wife who act as British agents on the continent, it had been intended for Powell and Loy. Director Richard Wallace just doesn't like plane crashes, since he was a near-victim in one in 1935 that cost five lives. So you won't be seeing the crackup scenes in "A Night to Remember," with Brian Aherne and Loretta Young, that the author put in. One of the best of our radio shows isn't heard in this country except by the studio audience. It's "Mail Call," the war department's service show which is recorded and short-waved short-waved from CBS' Hollywood studios to service men in all parts of the world. A recent program, staged before an audience of service men, included Amos 'n' Andy, Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea and Betty Jaue Rhodes. In 1918 Leo McCarey wrote a song entitled "Keep Up Your Chin," but the Armistice was signed the day it was accepted for publication, and war songs were out. Now along comes another war, and the song's part of the musical score of "Once Upon a Honeymoon." It sounds almost too pat. Dick Davis, playing a Norwegian in Warner's War-ner's "Edge of Darkness," heaved a Nazi storm trooper over his head, cracked the heads of two others together, to-gether, fought through a mob of them, raced 50 yards and dove off a pier. When he swam back to the beach Director Lewis Milestone called to him: "Your wife phoned that your draft board has classified you; you're 4-F physically unfit!" ODDS (AD F.NDSDeanna Durbin will sing "Rockabye Baby" with Chinese Chi-nese lyrics in "Forever Yours" . . . Brenda Marshall and her husband, William Wil-liam Holden, are giving their Rhodes-inn Rhodes-inn Lion dog to the government for army service . . . Jane Wyatt spent two days in a Los Angeles hospital learning learn-ing nursing technique for her role in RKO's "Army Surgeon" . . . We hear that Melvyn Douglas, turned down tu ice by the armv, will try again when ne'j finished "Three Hearts for Julia" . . . Gregory Ratoff is bringing Mae Bltsch bach to pictures : she has been cast in "Something to Shout About." |