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Show Released by Western Ne wspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE IT WAS way back in the days when Raoul Walsh was making "The Big Trail." He was telling Director John Ford about his difficulties in finding an unknown to play the lead. Just then a tall, j good looking, hefty fellow loped past them one Marion Michael Mi-chael Morrison, truck driver, former 1 member of the University of South ern California team. "There's your man," said Ford. "Let his hair grow a little and you've an actor." So they tested him, ordered him to . . j ' " - i - ' i. f ; ! - - ' .?', X : i ;'i 1 l ,v , : - :,.. 4 ; , - , r ' ? JOHN WAYNE i let his hair grow, and changed his ! came to John Wayne, who justified Ford's opinion by making a hit in "The Big Trail"; he's now hang-i hang-i lng up new records in "Tall In the Saddle." Virginia Mayo's story is a little ' different. She was touring the coun- i try as ringmistress of a horse act when Samuel Goldwyn caught the 1 act at a New York night club, of- ! fered her a contract, and started j her on a training period. She made I her bow as a Goldwyn Girl in "Up In Arms," then sat waiting for her I second assignment. It was worth ! waiting for the role opposite Bob Hope in "The Princess and the Pi-i Pi-i rate." I Glenn Ford, a Columbia Pictures i etar before he enlisted in the ma- I rines, expects to resume his career ! as soon as he's recovered from j the disability that resulted in his discharge. I j After rehearsing one of the more I dramatic (scenes in "Meet Me in St. Louis" little Margaret O'Brien ! dashed off the stage and ran into j her stand-In. The latter youngster looked at her anxiously. "Why, Margaret," Mar-garet," aid she. "You've been crying! cry-ing! What'! the matter?" "Oh," sobbed Margaret, mopping her j eyes. "Don't worry about it it's just part of my Job!" PreviourRose Queens of the Pasadena Pasa-dena Tournament of Roses have been signed for films only after winning the contest Cheryl Walker, of "Stage Door Canteen," for instance. in-stance. But Producer Frank Ross and Director Mervyn LeRoy took no chances this year; they jumped in and signed all seven of the candidates candi-dates considered in the finals, for i roles in "The Robe," after looking j at newspaper photographs. ; I What with Grace Moore standing on her head and other opera and movie stars really letting them- selves go on his radio program, j "Let Yourself Go," Milton Berle has- ; at last got an air show worthy of his talents. It should lead the popularity popu-larity polls soon. i Every Tuesday night when the "Roy Rogers Show" is broadcast over Mutual, the actors can visualize visual-ize certain members of their listening listen-ing audience with no difficulty at all 36 youngsters, all children of the members of the cast. i Bob Hope has a new feather in his cap; on January 17 he goes to Philadelphia to receive the Poor ! Richard award, a gold medal pre-1 pre-1 scnted annually to the man who has achieved outstanding success in hit field. Hope is the second entertainer in the club's history to receive the award; Will Rogers was the first. National Broadcasting company, alone among American networks, has presented a day-by-day, eyewitness eye-witness account of the disturbances In Athens, since the first shot. Their Guthrie Janssen became the only American radio man in the city when transferred there from Cairo-He's Cairo-He's been using BBC facilities for his broadcasts; they're beamed to London, then relayed to the United States. ODDS AND EKDSCpl. Art Ross, former "March of Games' child star, was one of the GIs who rigged a makeshift make-shift radio transmitter that flashed the first news of the Philippine invasion by American troops. . . . Warner Bros' "Four Men of God" trill he a story of those four chaplains who sacrificed their lives when the transport Don Chester was torpedoed last February, . . . A netcspaper poll chose Iswren Bacall as "Actress of the Year. . . . Alan Jones will have the lead in "Have a Heart" a Universal musical. . . . Fat O'Brien, just back from a -W.OOO-milc entertainment tour for American fighting fight-ing mertt wants to start out again soon. |