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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. GEORGE RAFT is back where he started in Universal's "Follow the Boys" he does a Charleston and an Argentine number which he did in his stage debut, de-but, and in almost identical costume. His first professional profes-sional dancing job was in one of the top vaudeville acts, Pilcer and Douglas, in 1922. And one of the things that cinched the job was Raft's resemblance to Valentino, at that time the world's greatest screen attraction. In "Follow the Boys" Raft is co-starred with Zorina, with whom he does the Argentine dance. In those Dr. Kildare movies, when Laraine Day played the doctor's nurse, nothing ever happened to her but more Kildares. She got her break when the writers killed off the nurse, and Laraine made her - , f ' " ' , - ? WriWrm rff ' n ilt'lfi in. n...rt,lir-?ft"fr . ' LARAINE DAY I escape, and scored one success after another. "Mr.) Lucky," "The Story of Dr. Wassell" and now she has landed a real plum. RKO has cast her to star with Alan Marshall in "That Hunter Girl." Versatile John Nesbitt, the storyteller, story-teller, is now turning out an average of one film a- month at Metro, in addition to doing his Sunday spot on the John Charles Thomas show, and his new three-a-week series on CBS. He's won two Academy awards for his work. Cary Grant saw little Arden Black going: to school every morning: when he turned into the studio, and liked her spunk. She was only seven, and had a brace on her leg, but said she didn't mind. So he spoke to Director Di-rector Clifford Odets, in whose "None But the Lonely Heart" Grant is working, and they decided they could use a crippled child in London slum sets and Arden got the job. Paulette Goddard became known for achieving what -others didn't when she became the first of Charlie Chaplin's wives to win real success on the screen. So it's no surprise that she has won a citation for being the first American woman visiting China to entertain U. S. troops. She received it from Col. John A. Feagin: "Her achievement reflects highest credit on herself and the entire entertainment world," said he. Swell idea, that new CBS "Visiting "Visit-ing Hour" on Saturday afternoons, beginning April 29, with Ted Husing as coordinator. There'll be a Hollywood Holly-wood star and a sports celebrity each week as guest stars; they will chat informally with soldiers at army hospitals. Programs for the first 13 weeks will cover most of the large cities from coast to coast, through the facilities of CBS affili-ates. affili-ates. Art Baker, NBC commentator and newscaster, recently learned how convincing he can be. He pleaded on the air for recruits for the Women's Wom-en's Air corps; did it so effectively that his daughter, Jean Ormsby, promptly joined up! Alan Young, Canada's youthful contribution to the ranks of radio comedians, has been signed to take over Eddie Cantor's Wednesday night niche for the summer, beginning begin-ning July 5. Young will be assisted by Bea Wain and Peter Van Steeden's orchestra. Everett Sloane, CBS's "Crime Doctor" and the highest paid actor on radio, ran into an old college chum who assured Sloane that success suc-cess hadn't changed him. "Well, it has a little," replied Sloane. "I'm now 'eccentric' where I used to be impolite, and 'delightfully witty' where I used to be rude!" Sloane, incidentally, appeared on Orson Welles' famous "Man from Mars" broadcast. ODDS A.D ESDS Perry Como's definition of neighbors "People u-ho never notice you till you do something you'd rather they wouldn't notice'1 . . . In ".None but the Lonely Heart" you see Cary Grant with a burned-out cigar; he's really a cigarette smoker, but cigarettes were out of character . . . "Duffy's Tavern," starring Ed Gardner, will continue in business for at least another year . . . And "Second Husband," Hus-band," with Helen Menken, is just starting start-ing on its eighth . . . 1tnf) servicemen have received 41 ,ix5' '-inch packets of the Goldtcyn girls appearing in 'L p in Arms"; pinups wili be reduc1 to pin Doints if this goes on! |