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Show STAGESCREENsDADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE SUCCESS is nothing new to Joan Davis; when she was 7 she was headlining an act in vaudeville. But it's hard work, talent and an uncanny sense of timing that have landed her where she is now doing "The Joan Davis Show" on CBS Monday evenings, and making two pictures a year for RKO. In 1941 she asked for her release from a contract with Columbia Pictures, to free-lance and "free-lanced" ! ' . V - 7 : ; " ' J j : . f , - " i r If 'n I nil 1 ' t j:,wf,?iummauaM JOAN DAVIS herself onto the Rudy Vallee show, ior guest shots at first; later, when "Vallee entered the service, Joan "took over. Incidentally, when Joan's "sister" Is featured with her on the air, the sister is really Joan's daughter, daugh-ter, Beverly, aged 12. ! j Clark Gable is back on the "China i Seas," where he was ten years ago. ! For "The Big Shore Leave," in which he stars with Greer Garson, the old Merchant Marine freighter was renamed the "Minnie Tolbert" and fixed up a bit. But when Gable saw her he whooped "That's not 'Minnie,' that's the old 'China.' " The same ship on whose deck Gable first kissed Jean Harlow, while a brunette newcomer looked on. The newcomer has done all right in pictures, pic-tures, too, by the way her name Is ; Rosalind Russell. In five weeks and three days of personal appearances Bud Abbott 1 and Lou Costello, vacationing while "Mystery in the Air" replaces them Thursday nights on NBC, netted 1 $75,000 for the Lou Costello Jr. Youth Foundation. They'll return to the air In October. -i When Esther Williams reported for work on Metro's "The Hoodlum Saint," the make-up girl took one look at her and went to work with turpentine. It wasn't a new skin treatment Ksther'd been painting her porch furniture the afternoon before. A good assistant director has his wits about him all the time. Re-' Re-' cently at Paramount a scene for "Calcutta" was in progress when an arc light placed' near the celling touched off part of the automatic sprinkler system. One hundred extras ex-tras and the entire crew scrambled for cover, but Herbie Coleman had only one worry. "Don't let Alan Ladd get wet!" he shouted. "We haven't a change of clothes for him!" "County Fair," the Jack Bailey show, joins the small, select list of radio's summer replacements that 1 have been so successful that they've I been kept on. "Jimmy Carroll j Sings" is another. Jimmy may act j os master of ceremonies in addition i to singing. I Jerry Wayne, star of his own radio ra-dio show hcnrd on Fridays over CBS, has worked up a little act with I a few stage and radio pcrsonall- ! tics, to tour the army hospitals n round New York. It's a two-act musical comedy and the boys say ' It's swell. I . -- ; Bnshful Oswald, heard on the j NBC "Grand Ole Opry," is prob- j ably best known for his wild and raucous laugh. Oswald's two chil- I dren now delight their playmates with a good Imitation of their father's trademark his three-year-old daughter is practically perfect per-fect at it. Philip Terry showed up on the set of "To Each His- Own" with a bad limp. While talking to Walter Pidg-eon, Pidg-eon, he rested his knee on a chair and promptly put it out of joint. So in some of his scenes with Olivia de Havilland and Mary Anderson you'll see Terry sitting down, though originally orig-inally it was planned to have him stand. ODDS AD ESDSXavier Cugat will not only appear with hi orchestra in Metro's "Ilttliday in Mexico" he'll turn crooner at well. . . . "Truth or Consequences" Ralph Edwards, who'i been living in Bebe Daniels' home in Santa Monica, is moving into Groucha Marx's this fall. . . . Fred Allen brings his Allen Art flayers back to the air Sunday evening, Oct. 7th, immediately following Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. . . . He'll also have Minerva Pious, and Al Goodman's orchestra. . . . The furore over Lauren Racall may have been the cause; anyway, there was a "command performance" of "To Have and Have l'ot" at Windsor castle. |