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Show STAGE " SCREEN .RADIO lly YltU.IMA V.M.1-: (Kelc-tisetl ty Wt'atern Nrwap.il't-r llnloii.l '"I'MIK motion pioturo iiulus-I iiulus-I try tunit'il out recently to do honor to Harry Carey in celebration of his completing ii year of making motion pictures pic-tures "The Shepherd of the Hills," his latest, is his :il).r.th. He's lonj been one of the most beloved men in Hollywood, because he's one of the most human. Not many people nt the celebration knrw of one of the nicest things he ever did. The Indians who work on his ranch (he hoinestended j it himself) luiii never seen the sea; when he learned Unit, some years ago, he and his wife piled them all into tt vu ks and drove miles to show It to them! Ked Skelton was so eager to play one of the three sailors in Metro's I if" . " i a. ... m "Panama Hallie" that he campaign'.! ; went around with his pockets full of cigars, und whenever when-ever he met one of the executives involved in-volved he'd hand out a ciar and -say "Vote for me for 'Panama HaUie. " Then they previewed pre-viewed "Ladv lie Ked Skelton Good." in which Skeltnn's a sensation. sensa-tion. "Panama Hattie's" producer. Arthur Freed, sent Skelton a box of cigars nnd a note saying, "Red, ' you're elected. After 'Lady lie Good' you're the one who deserves the cigars." The producer of the air's "Stepmother" "Step-mother" serial autlltiuned dozens of aspirants for the role of two-year old. Then he happened to eaten Alice Sherrie Goodkin's baby imitations imita-tions on the I'nele Fira program and she got the part. Ray Milland and Brian Aherne are starring with Claudette Culbert in "Skylark." Mil- land was a boy soprano so-prano when a child in Wales but in 12 years of acting in pictures he's never sung a note. Aherne never would sing as a child, or even a youth and he's always al-ways having to sing before the camera. In "Skylark" he has to sing the sea chan- RrilB Ah tcy, "Blow the Man Down." for five minutes and It's during a storm at sea. Well, that's Hollywood for you! Here's RKO Radio's list of 14 new-players new-players whom they believe you'll want to keep seeing on the screen; they'll appear in 1511-12 productions: produc-tions: Sisne Hasso, Dorothy Com-mir.gore, Com-mir.gore, Ruth Warrick. Anne Hunter, Hunt-er, Michel Morgan. Frances Neal. ' Ginny Simms. Joan Carroll, James Craig. Edmond O'Brien. Joseph Cot- . ton. Dennis O'Keefe. Paul Ham- : mond, Philip Reed. Keep track of them, if you're interested in seeing how stellar material is developed; j some may hit the heights, others : won't You'll be the real judges! i Some of these players might be 1 called stars now, of course; James Craig, who clicked as the young doctor doc-tor in "Kitty Foyle," is to become a star In "Unexpected I'nele"; Edmond Ed-mond O'Brien had one of the four stellar roles in "Parachute Battalion." Battal-ion." But it's the public, not the studio, that has the final word in these things; fortunes have been lost In attempts to cram "stars" down the public's throat, when the public stayed away from the resulting pictures In droves. Let's hope RKO's choice is a good one! After you girls see Paramount's "The Parson of Panamint" you may all be wearing your hair "a la El-Drew"; El-Drew"; that's the name the actresses ac-tresses in the picture gave the hairdo hair-do which Ellen Drew adapted from the one the studio found was authentic au-thentic for the year 1892, in which the picture is laid. Ellen agreed to the necessary pompadour, but added a small curl right in the center cen-ter of her forehead, and the style was made official for the film. Charlie Ruggles stars in the picture. Connie Boswell. of the Bing Crosby Cros-by program, has invented a new game. It's called polo tennis. Connie, Con-nie, who is unable to walk, w-orked out the idea of having the players ride large tricycles, and everybody who's played is enthusiastic about it. ODDS AD F.M)SBess Johnson, of radio's "The Story of lless Johnson,' has ubandonrd the wheel chair she's used since she broke her ankle some weeks ana . . . Rosalind Russell's relieved re-lieved that the title of her new co-starring co-starring picture with Clark Gable has been changed to "I hey Met in Rtnn-bay" Rtnn-bay" formerly it was "I nholy Partners" Part-ners" . . . Soldiers from the nearby army base turned out in force for the "sneak" pre-iiew of Ronald Coltnan's latest, "My Life With Caroline," at Riverside, Calif. ... 7. Carrol S'aish tacked that "J" onto his name because fans had a way of thinking he was a woman thanks to all that make-up. |