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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. ONE of the air's best programs, pro-grams, "Shipmates .Ashore," may soon be broadest broad-est nationally; it's a variety show, done by British Broadcasting Broad-casting company, with an American star and an English ine broadcasting from New York, aid two of the same from London. !t goes to fighting men on the seven leas, and it's thrilling. Gertrude Lawrence went down to New York's ieamen's Church Institute on a biter bit-er Saturday morning recently, to ling and to chat with Burgess Mere- .' h s I GERTRUDE LAWRENCE lith in London; said he: "Tell Paul-itte Paul-itte I got her Christmas present" rried out on a local New York itation, the program's been a great ruccess, and an Important part of lie hands-across-the-sea movement Andrew Stone has cooked op lomething special for his "Sensa-dons "Sensa-dons of 1944" (Eleanor Powell, W. 3. Fields). He's concluded arrange-nents arrange-nents with the state of Colorado to lave a man walk a tight-wire across he Royal Gorge. First off, he want-td want-td to stage the act over Niagara Palls, but authorities on both the U. S. and Canadian sides of the falls lave so far refused to play. Marking the most important Pan-American Pan-American alliance in the motion pic-lure pic-lure industry in recent years, United krtists has arranged to distribute In ill Latin-American countries and in Spain the product of a new Mexican production company, Artistas Aso-liados, Aso-liados, S. A. When NBC was informed that Parks Johnson and Warren Hull of "Vox Pop" would be armchair detectives de-tectives on an Ellery Queen Broad-:ast, Broad-:ast, an NBC executive asked "Who is Parks Johnson? Isn't he in ratio?" ra-tio?" "Vox Pop" was a popular VBC show for nearly five years before be-fore it switched to CBS! Incidentals', Incidental-s', those two Vox Poppers should be lecorated for the swell Job they're loing these days. Did yon hear little Dickie Mono-lan Mono-lan when he covered himself with lory on the CBS "Big Town" prop-am, playing a little blind boy rhose dog was run over by gang-iters? gang-iters? A Warner Bros, scout did, ind promptly arranged to Interview Dickie object, a screen test. To John Charles Thomas falls the llstinctdon of occupying Radio City's !amed Studio 8H, better known as he Toscanlni studio, now that he is broadcasting hit Sunday NBC jrogram from New York for seven (peeks, while making 21 Met Opera ippearances. Barbara Hale, former Chicago jnodel who came to film prominence when she was picked to play opposite Frank Sinatra In "Higher and Hlgh-ir," Hlgh-ir," has been given another good role by RKO the second feminine ad in the Pat O'Brien starrer, 'Marine Raiders." Jimmy Cash, singing star of the 3urns and Allen CBS program, will xiake his picture debut in the Uni-rersal Uni-rersal film tentatively titled "Crosi Ifour Fingers." He gets a break; n original number, "A Dream Kgo," has been written for him. Time was when no Hollywood ictress would admit that she ever if ted a finger around the house; now Ihey pitch in and are proud of it Dorothy Lamour and her mother did Iheir own washing for five monthi a while ago. Jean Arthur, Joan Craw-lord, Craw-lord, Ann Sheridan, Betty Grable rou can go right down the list, and Ind the girls proud of being able to rook, garden, do practically any :hore and take pride in It Claudette Solbert's butler once was one of her prides now she buttles, and very well, too! ODDS AND ENDSIIeretofort confined con-fined to the screen, "The Adwnturet of Charlie Chan" will shortly take to the tirwaves . . . Ruth Howard, daughter of juizmasler Tom Howard, helps write 'Me scripts for "It Pays to Be Ignorant," the comedy-quiz shmc now heard on the CDS "Kate Smith Hour" . . . In years to come the Finttle of Stalingrad will be ttudied in military academies through the medium of a documentary film dilcd hy Paramount, note being shown i in theaters as "The City That Stopped Hitler Heroic Stalinerad" . . . Groucho Marx is a new uncle; his brother Harpo has adopted another child, named it for Alexander JToollcott. |
