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Show ST5GECSCREENAD!0 Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE TAKE it from Charles Drake and Lois Collier "Don't come to Hollywood as a contest winner!" Teamed as romantic leads in David L. Loew's "A Night in Casablanca," Casablan-ca," both learned that a loving lov-ing cup is just something to hold flowers. Drake won a personality person-ality contest in New London, kicked around Hollywood for five years before be-fore he got anywhere. Lois won a beauty contest, but movie moguls ignored her till she'd made a name on the radio and the stage. Linda Darnell won a contest, went home to school for a year, then tackled Hollywood successfully. Ann Sheridan Sheri-dan fought her way through menial acting jobs before a press agent dubbed her "The Oomph Girl." Natalie Wood, six-year-old International Inter-national Picture starlet, will never forget "Tomorrow is Forever," in which she made her screen debut; she went to New York for the pre- k J " NATALIE WOOD miere her first trip on a train; her first glimpse of snow. But she is looking forward to getting home, because a new baby was expected soon after her return, and Natalie is hoping it'll be a baby brother. Six ravishing beauties are needed need-ed for "Bel Ami," which will star George Sanders. But they must fit into the 1880 period of the story. Reproductions of lovely ladles pictured pic-tured by Renoir, Manet, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec will be used as a guide in choosing the gals. Joan Edwards, who sings the nation's na-tion's top tunes on the "Hit Parade" each Saturday night, is booked to star in Republic's forthcoming picture, pic-ture, "Hit Parade of 1947," which will be one of the most expensively produced films made by the company com-pany this year. The "Green Room Award" on the Andrews Sister's "N-K Musical Showroom" over CBS Wednesday nights has become so popular that the girls will star in a movie to be called "The Green Room," with their guest stars. Leo Gorcey, as Bob Burns' stooge on Bob's Thursday night program, is a dim-witted oaf, but he's quite different in real life. One of the original "Dead End Kids," Gorcey has just finished his 46th picture, and is under contract to make four movies per year. A shrewd business busi-ness man, knowing a lot about show business, he acted as associate producer pro-ducer and writer on his last picture. Kate Smith, who celebrates her 15th anniversary on the air May 1, has broadcast all her programs on CBS. As the first lady of the air, she's won a staggering list of awards. Her war bond sales topped the $200,000,000 mark, and In a one-week one-week air campaign she brought 25,000 other Smiths to blood plasma stations. Ted Collins says she made more than 6,300 personal appearances appear-ances for worthy causes. We've had a lot of nice ghosts in the movies Cary Grant and Constance Bennett in the "Topper" films, Spencer Tracy In "A Guy Named Joe," Robert Montgomery in "Here Comes Mr. Jordan." Edward Ed-ward Everett Horton Joins the ranks in "The Ghost Goes Wild." Drew Miller, former master sergeant ser-geant in the U. S. air force, got a bit role in "Till the End of Time" because of Producer Dore Schary'i insistence on using war veterans In bit roles. Then Miller got a factory Job pressing phonograph records. After seeing how he made his small role stand out, RKO tracked him down, signed him up, and plans a romantic build-up for him. OUDS AM) ENDS A iym,,hony orchestra fif 115 pieces will perform in Warner Bros.' "Humorestne" starring Joan Crawford ami John (iarfield. . . . Orson Welles Ust 2(1 pounds in 20 days, then had to put it hack on in a week for a one-minute scene which had been added to " I omorrow Is h orever". . . Sonja tleniet who owns one of the largest larg-est collection of emeralds in the world, consented to their being ued in one of :he hnuHnir sequences of "The Countess of Monte Crista.". . . James Ilurke rew such a fine crop of whiskers for I'arumount's "Easy Come, Easy Go" that he was kept on for "California," |