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Show STAGESCREEOADIO ' By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. ED PAWLEY, one of HoUy-wood's HoUy-wood's better known bad men, will get a chance to reform re-form now that "Big Town" is returning to the air. Pawley, who has appeared in "G Man," "Jesse James," and several hundred other pictures, will play the part of the crusading "Steve Wilson," Wil-son," Managing Editor of the Illustrated Illus-trated Press, in the new "Big Town" series, Tuesdays over CBS. This '. j : f j X ED PAWLEY I eason the series will be concerned j with the American press' unceasing battle against subversive influences and fifth column activities. Nancy Kelly sang and danced as a child performer in vaudeville, but only in her latest picture does she get a chance to do it for the cameras. cam-eras. She's the feminine charmer of "Tarzan's Desert Mystery" plays a chorus girl stranded in the Sahara. Looks as if there'd been some drastic changes made in the Tarzan background, but Johnny Weismuller still has the leading role. There's a lot of sentiment attached to the fact that Amos 'n Andy are again appearing on the National Broadcasting company after a two-year two-year absence from its air waves. It was on NBC that they first appeared, ap-peared, and rose to radio fame. James Jordan, 19-year-old son of Fibber McGee and Molly, makes his screen debut as one of the sons of Maj. Frank Cavanaugh in RKO's "The Iron Major," which stars Fat O'Brien. The fact that young Jordan Jor-dan was honorably discharged from the Air Force, in which he had enlisted, gave him the chance to play Phil Cavanaugh who in real life Is a lieutenant in the United States army. United Artists, topping the bids of two other major studios, acquired distribution rights to "Voice in the Wind," which U. A. executives think is a "sleeper" in other words, one of those pictures that are made without with-out hullabaloo and coin a mint. It was made on rented stages by Arthur Ar-thur Ripley and Rudolph Monter with no guarantee of a release, they gambled on their ability to turn out a box office attraction. It's "the story of two gentle people, a man and a woman, whose love beats against the grim events of a world at war." Gloria Holden says a compliment Spencer Tracy paid her has influenced influ-enced her acting career more than any other one thing. Appearing in "Test Pilot," with Tracy and Clark Gable, she played the widow of a pilot killed on the eve of their honeymoon. honey-moon. She finished the scene in which Gable gave her the prize money mon-ey that was to have paid for the honeymoon; Victor Fleming, the director, di-rector, had made her cry steadily for 15 minutes before she went into it, "Honey," said Tracy, "You don't have to ask anybody for anything when you can act like that!" One sure-fire way to make an Australian Aus-tralian mad is to let him hear an American actor use a cockney accent ac-cent when playing an Australian. Alan Carney, one of the best dialect actors in radio, perfected his "Aussie" "Aus-sie" accent by talking to Australian newsmen at their News Service headquarters head-quarters in New York. After the broadcast they phoned him their congratulations. Kate Smith has begun her 14th year on the air with Ted Collins acting act-ing as producer-director; he discovered discov-ered her and guided her to the top. One of the best talent scouts of radio, ra-dio, he discovered and introduced Rudy Vallee, Abbot and Costello, Tommy Riggs and Henny Young-man, Young-man, among others. He insisted that Kate introduce "God Bless America" Ameri-ca" thinks the new "Old Acquaintance" Acquaint-ance" will be a hit. ! ODDS AD FX DS Blue AVdcorfc'j "keepsakes" pays five dollars for each of thoie sentimental mementoes that it uses . . . Mickey Mouse is grouing up; he's fifteen nnc . . . Joe Bnland, uho played the policeman uho helped "Abie's Irish Hose's" "Altic" and "Rose" pet married, is now the moving man uho's trying to eel them moved to 3 new home . . . Julia Sanderson does 101 feel that she can return to radio, tow that her husband and partner, Frank Crumit, is gone; Julia of the 'oiely hatch and cliarmine singing nice will devote her talents to enter-. enter-. .. --. fr. :rcmen but the radio pub-, pub-, Uc hopes that eventually she'll return. |