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Show STACESCREENi RADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE j LITTLE Sue Simmons goes into violent action in her very first picture shoots a rattlesnake in Universal's "Frontier Gal"; when a child actress begins this way there's no telling what she'll do when she's grown up. The ' picture sort of pokes fun at the usual type of Western. Rod Cameron has three fights, twe with men and one with Yvonne de ; Carlo. Yvonne slapped him 300 times, by actual count, as hard as , she could, but you'll see only 30 wal- lops; they shot the fight 10 times. Cameron lost 10 pounds before the picture was finished, though he's a : husky guy; he worked as a sand j hog under the Hudson river, as a 1 construction laborer and as an en-1 gineer before he went into the movies. Back in the early days of the movies, Elaine Williams' mother was offered a contract by the Es-sanay Es-sanay company; had to turn it down because she was only 15. So 5' ' s - " ELAINE WILLIAMS when Elaine was 15 she stepped out, and won the title of Miss Wisconsin. She sang with bands, got her radio start at WHBY in Appleton,- Wis., : her home town. . Eventually she reached New York where she's been on "Crime Doctor" for a year. Twentieth Century - Fox. wanted Jack Smith, who's heard on CBS Mondays through Fridays from coast to coast. Wanted him badly enough to offer him a contract calling call-ing for $2,000 a week. Smith turned It down said he'd rather remain in the East It's hard on Loren Tindall; like most navy veterans, he'd like to get out of uniform, but he's been discharged dis-charged for a year now, and RKO's given him one naval picture" after another; three of them altogether. He's playing his third in "Till the End of Time," produced by Dore Senary. In "Over 21," with Irene Dunne, he was a navy lieutenant; he was a submarine crewman in "Out of the Depths." "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" stands between the Robert Taylors and the long vacation they'd planned to take as soon as he was discharged. Taylor and the armed forces parted company six months sooner than he'd expected, and Barbara Bar-bara Stanwyck's working in the picture. pic-ture. She says he looks wonderful. Metro's losing no time on that picture based on the life of Jerome Kern. Judy Garland' and Robert Walker will be starred. Van Hefiin has the role of Kern's confidant, Angela Lansbury's an English comedy com-edy star. Connie Haines, singer on the Abbott Ab-bott and Costello programs over NBC, recently went out in the har-hor har-hor to sing for the avengers of Bataan, the famed 30th division. Unlike Un-like some singers who've stopped since the war ended, Connie goes right on singing for the servicemen. Once a week she goes to Terminal island, San Pedro, to greet returning return-ing troop ships. Elyse Knox has been set for the feminine lead in Monogram's "Joe Palooka, Champ." This marks her return to the screen after a year's leave of absence during which her daughter, Sharon Kristan Harmon, was born. The baby's father, Capt. Tommy Harmon, famous football player, has returned to Hollywood to continue his radio sports commentaries. com-mentaries. Richard Quine, Metro contract player and husband of Susan Peters, has doffed his coast guard ' uniform and been assigned the romantic ro-mantic lead in the forthcoming "But Not Goodbye." ODDS AXD EA'DS you erer hear Susan Allen sinning sinn-ing "Ao Can Do" on Sammy Karc's "Sunday Serenade" you'll find thai .the's putting her heart into it her father wrote it. . . . Jackie Cooper's wife, June Home, has been given a role in Warner Bros.' "The Verdict," star-ring star-ring Sydney Greenstreet. . . . Helen Walker, one of the stars of Paramount't "People Are Funny" has almost as many freckles as Katherine Hepburn ' and Myrna Ijoy, Hollywood's most be- j freckled stars. . . . Ronald Reagen gels I the lead in Warner's "Stallion Road" |