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Show By VIRGINIA VALE I Released by Western Newspaper Union. THEY do tell us that Alan Ladd's popularity with the bobby-socks brigade has made him Hollywood's No. 1 "locket "lock-et star." Alan, currently starring star-ring in "Two Years Before -the Mast," received 7,200 requests re-quests in one week from young fans asking for locket photographs, and the demand became so heavy thai Paramount's fan mail department has made up 100,000 special, small-sized small-sized photos of the star, which can -easily be cut int4 a heart-shape, ta fit the lockets favored by his teenage teen-age admirers. Marilyn Maxwell likes her birth-month, birth-month, August; in August she decided, de-cided, while singing with Ted "Weems' orchestra, to go to Hollywood Holly-wood and try acting. After six months at the Pasadena Playhouse MARILYN MAXWELL she got a screen test with Metro, "whose trademark is Leo, the Augusi sign of the zodiac. But it was in December that she did her first ,guest shot with Bing Crosby, leading lead-ing to her present contract. Robert Watson, former stage stai who portrays Adolf Hitler In "Th Hitler Gang," knows his subject well this is the fifth time he'i rplayed that role. But this time it'i different; it's his first completely serious characterization of Hitler. June Duprez, who portrays Carj Grant's chief romantic interest ii "None but the Lonely Heart," say he never got her big screen bread until Producer David Hempstead or-dered or-dered her to turn from brunette to blonde for the role. She had her hair bleached, and since then has received many other important offers, of-fers, all calling for blonde tresses-It tresses-It looks as if she'd become a permanent per-manent blonde. One of radio's new singing sensations sensa-tions is handsome Larry Douglas, starred on the CBS "Here's to Romance" Ro-mance" Thursday evenings. Though :he's been chief vocalist with Car men Cavellero's band and has sung In several stage hits, this is his first coast-to-coast radio program. m Fanny Brice-y'Baby Snooks" tc millions of radio listeners has assembled as-sembled a collection of pictures by children all over the world that rates serious consideration. She says thai the impish character she created foi radio led to her interest in children's paintings, and so to her making this collection. Many of the pictures are lrom countries now overrun by Hitler. Forty-seven of them hav teen shown in art galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle. Baltimore and Rochester and recently re-cently in New York City. Chief Willow Bird, of the Apachu Iribe, is celebrating his 32nd yeai in pictures and his 1000th film role by appearing in RKO's "The Girl Rush." But don't suppose for an instant in-stant that he's playing an Indian lie'U be seen as a gold miner! A soldier in Los Angeles lost his wallet, which contained the furlough money he'd been saving up in ordei to visit his family for the first tim In 11 months. Newspapers printed the story. Imagine the feelings oi that GI Joe when he received I check in the mail a check for $100, which he's going to hate to spend, because it bore the autograph oi Frank Sinatra! A very special laurel wreath should be given lovely Jane Fro-man; Fro-man; in "Here's to Romance" and "Stage Door Canteen" broadcasts he asked to be permitted to sit ot tage during the show, becaus "making an entrance on crutches looks too dramatic." She's the giri who was seriously injured in tht Lisbon Clipper crash, while she was on her way to entertain our men ir overseas service. ODDS AND ENDS Told on the sel of "Murder, He Says" that he had jusi become a papa, Peter IT hitney got c cited, tripped over a cable, and sprained an ankle. . . . The Jubalaires, CBS new quartet, met 10 years ago while ivork ing on a strawberry plantation, ana ttarted their musical careers as singini waiters in a Florida hotel ... if altet Abel was star of the "Armstrong Theater Thea-ter of Today" the Saturday that Betty Caine, of the air, was the voice of tht Quaker Girl. ... 25 hours of radio'i top programs go to invasion troops each week. . . . 100 mustered-out servicemen serv-icemen have roles in the Edicard G. Robinson "Mr. Winkle Goes to War." |
