Show J AGE CRE N 0 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union IN N BILLY THE KID Robert Taylors Taylor's new starring vehicle vehicle vehicle cle for Metro there is one scene in which all of the characters have to check their six shooters with the sheriff before attending a mass meeting Each morning morning morning morn morn- ing on the set the assistant director takes up a collection from all the extras and bit players He frisks them them not not of their guns but of their wrist watches Heres Here's the reason The other day Robert Taylor was playing a scene in m the back room of a saloon Also in the scene were Gene Lockhart as the bad man Lon Chaney Chancy Jr Norman Willis Grant Withers and several western type extras With hand on the door about to exit Taylor Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor spoke his line line What What time is isit isit isit it Lockhart was about to make the reply called for by the script when Director David Miller called Cut One of the bearded extras had forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten where he was and automatically automatically automatically cally pulled back his cuff to look at athis athis athis his very modern wrist watch Gone With the Wind Vind started Ona Munson on a career of what she's afraid will develop develop develop de de- de- de into type casting casting cast cast- ing lag the bugaboo of actors She did Belle WatI g in r Gone etc and a then played another shady lady in the picture Wagons 1 r Westward Now she's set for the f same sort of part in Lady From New Ona Munson Orleans a story I laid in the period of the Louisiana Purchase Its It's a relief relief re re- re- re lief to her to do those Big Town broadcasts with Edward G. G Robinson I I I Naturally everything possible is going to be done to put Shirley Temple Tern Tem pIe back at the top r. r u of the star list when i r I she goes to work for for Metro The wealthy 1 t r J I little miss she has more than a million t tin Y in the bank will appear appear ap ape f fY Y pear in the screen i A j t version of Panama t t Hattie a successful successful successful success success- t musical ful now running run running t. t ning on on the New NewYork X J York stage with l lAnn A iAnn i- i i Ann Sothern Elea- Elea Shirley Temple nor Powell Connie Russell and Red Skelton Shirley salary salary salary sal sal- starts her comeback at a ary of 2500 a week The uThe Lady Eve gives Henry I Fonda an opportunity for which hes he's grateful the grateful the chance to wear his own clothes on the screen for the first time in three years cars and to I have his hair cut The only other time its it's been trimmed during those I three years ears was when he got that I prison hair-cut hair for The UThe Grapes of Wrath His roles have called for straight drama with a minimum of comedy corned and the only time he kissed a heroine on the screen was in Chad Hanna In The Lady Eve he wears 14 different outfits outfits everything everything from full dress to silk pajamas pajamas and and indulges indulges indulges in in- in some bits of torrid love- love making As for Barbara k she wears the longest bob ever worn by a star star 16 16 inches she's been growing it for the last five years ever since Stella Dallas She wears 25 stunning costumes and in indulges indulges indulges in- in in slapstick comedy in in her role of a woman card I Horace Heidt has finally escaped his reputation as the man with the trained dog Before his orchestra hit the national networks and Heidt's I name became a synonym for scintillating scintillating lating syncopation Horace had a vaudeville act featuring Lobo an amazing dog Booking agents always always always al al- al- al ways thought of Lobo when Heidt's name was mentioned But that's all allin allin allin in the past now since the smashing success of his Pot pro pro- gram Overcoming unfortunate breaks was nothing new to the band bandleader At the University of California he was well on his way to football fame as a tackle h when he found himself on the bottom of a scrimmage scrimmage scrim scrim- mage up pile-up and was carried off ofT Ithe the field with a broken back Lying in the hospital he decided to organize organize or or- an undergraduate orchestra to help pay his way through college The orchestra gave him hint conducting experience which helped him on his way to the top ranks of radio band- band leading ODDS AND ENDS ENDS burner tiros Uros releases releases re reo I leases Christmas Under Tire ire another Quentin Reynolds commentary short wrt i the rile first was London Can Cun Take Tahe It Ii The proceeds go to war tiar relief Lon Londo London do don raised for the fund The Tho Trial q pf Mary ilary Dugan has hus become come The T Trial of Mary Andrews bw but s but it probably will be the same old trial Rudy I Polices Police's sponsor bought t the rights to Rudy's Hudy's new theme SOIl song Ill Give You a Smile for a Smile and amI presented them heat to toJ J alleo allea as a gift Gene Autry dotty of the movies and radios radio Melody Ranch will appear in a rodeo act at the Fort ForI W Worth rorA stock show in March |