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Show STAGED SCREEN RADIO By YlKl'.INIA VAl.K Hl?ds-U by Wc-slnn Newspaper 1'nlon. MAYHK n rose by nny othor n;imo will smell ns swoot, but Jimmy Simms, of Horace Hoult's "Treasure! Chest" troupe, is convinced that that doesn't apply to trombone players. Since com-east com-east with lleidt he's been ; continually coufusej with Ginny Sur.ms - that is. his name has. liur-lng liur-lng his first wook In Now York he lived at a hotol (or a week under the name of 'Vliimy Slmnis" without with-out even knowing it; fouiui out when he paid his bill. He hadn't received his phone calls because the management manage-ment thought "she" didn't want to be disturbed! C'.a Rasenova of "Bachelor's Children" thought that she was hav- . ir.g Just one more photograph taken and that was that But it was printed in ( radio magazine, nd a J - :-,r . . OLGA KASENOYA young man ho saw it promptly be-jan be-jan tryiEg to leam which of his friends also knew her; in New York there's always somebody who knows somebody. The result, just like the movies, was that she married him. Robert Stark. a U. S. coast-guardsman, coast-guardsman, has his post-war plans all set; he'll Join the ranks of the David O. Selznick film players. He was chosen to pose as a model for coast guard posters. Selznick saw a poster, and gave him a screen test. Robert Young will have one ol the year's most romantic and dashing dash-ing roles in Metro's "The Canter-Tiiie Canter-Tiiie Ghost," in which he'll co-star with Charles Laughton and Margaret Mar-garet O'Brien. He'll play an American Ameri-can Ranger in this modernized version ver-sion of the delightful story. Metro seems to be going In for Oscar Vilde stories these days; they're also doing "The Portrait of Dorian Gray." Alan Carney's film debut as Cary Grant's thick-witted bodyguard In "Mr. Lncky" so Impressed EKO executives ex-ecutives that they gave him a starring star-ring contract. Bis second film role will be as co-star with Wally Brown in the company's new comedy series, se-ries, "Adventures of a Rookie." Carney Car-ney did impersonations in vaudeville vaude-ville and night clubs before entering enter-ing pictures. , The potency of radio as a star-builder star-builder Is shown in Beatrice Kay's highly successful theater tour. Her career has been built solely in radio; In her theater tour she's working on a percentage basis, an arrangement arrange-ment reserved for the biggest drawing draw-ing cards. Raya Letz, sister of George Montgomery, Mont-gomery, will make her own bid for screen stardom In "The Girl From Leningrad," which stars Anna Sten and Kent Smith. She'd been Associate Asso-ciate Producer Eugene Frencke's secretary, and watched numerous actresses get tests for the role of a PLed army nurse. When none suited, suit-ed, she asked for a test, and got tht role. Eight years ago, when Phn Spl-talny Spl-talny started his quest for girl musicians, mu-sicians, bis friends told him that there Just weren't enough In the country to form a top-notch orchestra. orches-tra. Over the week-end the "Hour of Charm" conductor auditioned his , 000th one! On the Culver City stage where Atlanta burned in "Gone With the Wind" the fire of love will soon be burning. David Selznick's going to make "Since You Went Away," starring star-ring Claudette Colbert, Shirley Temple, Tem-ple, Joseph Cotten, Monty Woolley and several others, on the stages where he made "Rebecca" and the Civil war drama. ODDS AND ENDS Samuel Gold-soyn Gold-soyn has signed Margaret Dumont for the role of a flighty dowager in "Up in Arms" . . . Frank Sinatra will sing four tongs in "Higher and Higher," starring Michele Morgan and Jack Haley . , . Metro plans to re-make "The Belle of. New York" next spring, with Fred Attain and Judy Garland . . . It's credited cred-ited to Corporal Broderick Crawford "Even my Doberman pinscher outranks me since he's joined dogs for defense; he's a sergeant, and never stops barking bark-ing at me" . . . Alexander Granach, who escaped from Germany a feto jumps tOiead of the Gestapo, made his movie reputation portraying Gestapo agents. |