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Show STAGECSCREEtKMDlO Keleased by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE BETTER see "Whistle Stop", starring George Raft, because Jorja Curt-right's Curt-right's in it. Jorja's going to be one of our biggest stars, or I miss my guess. Not just because be-cause her face is very interesting inter-esting as well as very pretty; she has that extra something that's so necessary. She's come up the hard way, has been studying dramatic dra-matic technique since she was JORJA CURTRIGHT seven; when she landed in Hollywood Holly-wood from Texas, she went on ! studying but she needed money, so I she got a job as secretary to Sey-I Sey-I mour Nebenzal, the producer. He I told her to wait till the right role for her came along, and when she typed the script of "Whistle Stop," after four years of waiting, she knew thai role had come. Patricia Roc, young British film ! actress who's starring in "Madon-l "Madon-l na of the Seven Moons," an English Eng-lish film released by Universal, i came to Hollywood last fall to play ia lead in their "Canyon Passage"; i she's gone home now, but wants to come back as soon as possible. Bette Davis has gone before the cameras for scenes to appear in a short for the Salvation Army, which is titled "Marching Forward to a Better World." She's just finished "A Stolen Life," in which Glenn Ford appears opposite her. Rita Hayworth's hairdo in "Gilda" annoys the beauty experts who've been predicting that short hair is back in vogue. The picture annoys a lot of people who wonder how it got past the censors. It's got everything, ev-erything, literally, but the kitchen stove! Patricia Dunlap's not afraid of that big, bad wolf, television, which Is scaring so many radio actors; was a photographer's model before be-fore she entered radio. Few of her listeners have seen her, but many love her as "Janet Ryder" s in "Bachelor's Children." There was more than one disappointed disap-pointed star in Hollywood when Joan Bennett was signed for "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"; practically everybody wanted that role. She'll play oppo- site Gregory Peck and Robert Pres-i Pres-i ton in this Ernest Hemingway story of the African veldt. She recently finished "Scarlet Street," and now starts work in the new picture with Zoltan Korda directing. Amos 'n Andy have received thousands thou-sands of fan messages since they've been on the air, but the one that meant the most was the first one. It happened in the crystal set days, when the team made its air debut on an experimental New Orleans Or-leans station. Programs were broadcast broad-cast whenever the owner of a set made a request. And a woman four blocks away phoned that she'd heard them "just dandy!" Joan Crawford presented Michael Curtiz and Ernie Haller, her "Mildred "Mil-dred Pierce" director and cameraman, camera-man, with gold combination knife-pencils knife-pencils in appreciation of their work. Incidentally, the first flowers she received re-ceived after the Academy award was announced were from Bette Davis; don't believe there's a feud there! Claudette Colbert hasn't made a picture at Metro since she did I "Boom Town," with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr. i ISiow she's going back to appear op-pear op-pear opposite Walter Pidgeon in . "Secret Heart" giving him a i welcome change from Greer Gar- . son! ODDS A0 E!DS Judy Canmn, ulut's pri'ltirr than the movies hal t? b-t hrr he, Uns finally been assianrrl la do a sotihilicfitrd. planwur-girl rale in Iter next fdm for Columbia . . . Kehcttn.nl session (if the CHS "Theater of Ko-mnnce" Ko-mnnce" will soon become a series of edtirnlionnl film shorts, to be used in tenehing dramatic students the art of rtidio acting, . . . And lay Jostyn, IJCs "District Attorney', has been m ited to flii e a series of lectures on that subjec: at Columbia unit ersily . . . I'lans to break ground for the museum to house James Melton's ancient automobiles auto-mobiles are under way. |