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Show STSGESCREEffeUADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE JUST before Alan Young headed for Hollywood and lis first motion picture he unintentionally un-intentionally entertained a miscellaneous gathering of New Yorkers. They were watching the skaters at the Radio City rink. Alan was brushing up on his skating. He put on his skates, started jut, and slid not on the skates juite a distance. The housing shortage short-age has separated the Young 'amily temporarily; Mrs. Mary Anne Young and the children fled to Seattle when they couldn't find a lome in New York, and she's been attending Washington State college, completing studies interrupted by marriage. Bob Crosby was getting along fine as a singing cowboy movie star before be-fore he joined the marines, and it ;x.;7 t " 7? J s 7 . -, $ V '"'iWs 7 f 7 -y 7 s i - o i I - V x n i BOB CROSBY looks as if he'd pick up that career again before long, now that he's discharged. dis-charged. Meanwhile he's returning to radio, on CBS Sunday nights at 10:00 (EST). When a New York subway accident acci-dent takes place in Hollywood it's worth mentioning. Eddie Bracken, Virginia Welles, Spike Jones and his City Slickers, Director William Russell and 50 extras and crew members just escaped serious injury in-jury when a New York subway car split during a scene for Para-mount's Para-mount's "Ladies' Man"; seven people peo-ple were treated at the studio hospital hos-pital for minor cuts and bruises. Joe Kirkwood Jr., winner of Monogram's search for a young man to play the lead in "Joe Palooka, Champ," tried his luck in Hollywood Holly-wood last April and gave up; he signed with Warner Bros., worked in "Night and Day" and "The Ghost of Berchtesgaden," and returned re-turned to being a golf professional. (He's the son of the famous joe Kirkwood, Australian trick-shot pro.) Now Monogram's signed him. From President Truman's speech about the atomic bomb, Metro picked' "The Beginning or the End" as the title for its atomic energy picture. We hear that Donna Reed had a hand In planting the idea for the movie. She'd studied with Dr. Edward Tompkins at the University Univer-sity of Iowa; she wrote him when his work on the bomb was disclosed, ensuing correspondence led. to the suggestion that an atomic energy picture be made. Donna's husband, Tony Owen, and agent, took the correspondence cor-respondence to Metro's Producer Sam Marx result, "The Beginning Begin-ning or the End." Johnny Weissmuller and Eustcr Crabbe, male leads of "Swamp Fire," have cooked up plans to go right on swimming. Weissmuller is assembling a troupe to leave shortly short-ly on a tour of Central and South America; Crabbe and his swimming stars tour this country next summer. sum-mer. Alfred Hitchcock brought Peter Von Zerneck, New York stage actor, to Hollywood for a role in "Notorious." During a two-day layoff lay-off Von Zerneck drove to San Juan Capistrano to visit the mission and bought 20 acres of land before he left. Says he'll hold onto It, just as an investment. Meanwhile William Wil-liam Gargan of "The Bells of St. Mary's," has sold his San Jacinto ranch. Bonnie Blair left the New York stage for the RKO studio; shs makes her screen debut in a barroom bar-room sequence in "Badman's Territory." Terri-tory." As a dance hall girl she save Randolph Scott from ambush, 10 eflectively that RKO plans to continue con-tinue using her. ODDS ASD EVDS Only Broadumy finite players are used on the CBS "Grand Central Station," except fur lndfl"ine fierce, radio actress; she cries like a baby so perjiclly that the rule is broken lor her. .' . . If hrn f.o-htmhia f.o-htmhia screens the radio thriller, "Xiphl Editor," Jnnis Carter will play the jrmimne lead. . . . Although liar-bara liar-bara Slnnuyck has been a motion picture pic-ture star for nine years, fans will see her in technicolor for the first time in "California.". . . Six different languages are spoken in Paramount "Calcutta" starring Alan Iidd, Gail Russell and WillUm Bendix. |
