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Show STkESCREENMClO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHEN Jose Iturbi heard that Morton Gould and Alec Templeton were to appear ap-pear on 'the same radio program pro-gram he said "You may rest assured that you will hear every type of music from Bach to boogie and Wagner to woogie! " Which is about what happens on the "Carnival" program each Wednesday night. Gould, corn-poser, corn-poser, conductor, pianist and arranger, arrang-er, has written music that has been played by orchestras from that of Toseanini to that of Glenn Miller. Templeton appears with leading symphony orchestras, and also plays boogie - woogie piano. Musically there's practically nothing they can't do but their weakness is improvisations! im-provisations! Dick Jones, the new "Henry Al-drich," Al-drich," has entered Hackley school at Tarrytown, N. Y., and whenever ' t 4J , j V i " :zjJm , -'' DICK JONES a phone call comes there for Dick the other boys call out, as "Mrs. Aldrich" does on theair "Hen-reee! HENRY ALDRICH!" Hollywood has plenty of "technical experts," but when Samuel Brons-ton, Brons-ton, producing "Jack London" for United Artists, wanted a man who knew all about seals and how they are caught he had to search the San Pedro waterfront. Sven Hugo Borg, Swedish actor who was Greta Garbo's interpreter when she first landed in Hollywood, went along to help. P. S. They got their man. , Following sneak previews of "Lady in the Dark," in which he co-stars with Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland was given a new seven-year contract, without options, by Paramount. Para-mount. "Holy Matrimony" brings us Monte Wooley and Gracie Fields in such a good picture that 20th Century-Fox executives ought to do nothing else but try to find another suitable, story for them. It's based on Arnold Bennett's "Buried Alive." Miss Fields made a tour of British, North African and Sicilian army and navy camps during the summer; she'll have her own radio program this fall. For the first time In her screen career Joan Fontaine will do an imitation, imi-tation, in "Frenchman's Creek." But nobody will be able to tell whether It's a good one or not, for the lady whom the talented Joan imitates is Nell Gwynn! Parks Johnson and Warren Hull have been a bit dazed since they staged a "Vox Pop" from the Lau-rinburg-Maxton Air Base, Maxton, N. C, where airborne troops are trained. They learned that the individual in-dividual airborne soldier carries almost as many items as a department depart-ment store, and learns how to do more things than any motion picture actor ever dreamed of. Gracie Allen returns to the Metre lot after a two-year absence to play a comedy role in "Two Sisters and a Sailor," and also to introduce on the screen the "One Fiugcr Piano Concerto" which she played at Carnegie Car-negie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. For every screen scrape he gets into John Garfield uses the flat black automatic pistol he first used in "Blackwell's Island," made when he arrived in Hollywood. He has "killed" ten men with it "It's my character gun," says he. "It's the right type for me." Latest use is in "The Fallen Sparrow," the RKO drama of espionage, in which he makes love to Maureen O'Hara, Martha O'Driscoll and Patricia Morison, and goes gunning for Walter Wal-ter Slezak. The gun works just as well whether he's the villain or the hero. ODDS ASD F.M PS Harry Conn er's Cover Girls nre aiming to blanket the movie lots: fire have icon movie contracts con-tracts and three others have screen commitments . . . One of the "Crime Doctor" regulars, Walter Grca:a, now doubling into Klnicr Rice's play, "A iVeic Life," has rcceiied movie oilers from three studios , . , L'nited Artists' 'The Girl From Leningrad" has had a change of title; it's now "Russian Girl" . . . When Jean Arthur reported for her guest appearance on the first Charlie McCarthy shotv this fall, Charlie gave her a necklace of hear claws tvhich he hud bought her in A cwjoundland. |