Show E By r VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union HE E Bennetts of Broadway THE JL and Hollywood Richard Hollywood Richard and his daughters Constance Joan and Barbara have have never appeared together on either stage or screen But thanks to Joans Joan's sense of humor humor humor hu hu- hu- hu mor they'll do it vicariously in Columbia's The Wife Takes a Flyer An old family picture album figures prominently in the script With the consent of the director Richard Wallace Joan filled it with t the e oldest and funniest funnie t photographs of her father and sisters that she could find find and and the glamorous Bennetts Bennetts Bennetts Ben Ben- will appear as as' as asa a a group of sturdy Dutch country folk Joans Joan's the only one to appear personally she stars co-stars with Franchot Tone Edmund OBrien O'Brien has left Radio Radio Radio Ra Ra- dio where hes he's been for the last two years Universal has bought his contract and assigned him to the therole therole therole role opposite Deanna Durbin in Forever Forever Forever For ever Yours Hell He'll play an American American Ameri Ameri- can volunteer flier with the Chinese army rAnn r- r Ann Sheridan whom Paramount discovered as a Texas kindergarten teacher in m 1933 will return to that studio to play Texas Guinan famous night club owner of Broadway in the r y yi 1 i f Vim y F. F r 4 ANN SHERIDAN roaring Twenties greeted patrons patrons patrons pa pa- with Hullo sucker She wanted the role Paramount wanted her for it Warner Varner Bros wanted Fred MacMurray for Princess so a bit of swapping went on now everybody's happy i 1 It isn't often that you can see a government official flitting about the screen in a womans woman's nightgown that's several sizes too large for him but you'll be able to in They All Kissed the Bride unless changes are made The actors actor's Melvyn Douglas Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las occupying an important post with the Office of Civilian Defense He wrote Director Alexander Hall asking that the scene be deleted but its it's part of the plot I Cecil B. B DeMille when he be assembled assembled assembled assem assem- bled edited and produced Land of Liberty for the movie industry re reserved reserved reserved re- re served the right to designate one war charity to receive of the receipts lie He recently gave it to the Queen Wilhelmina Fund for Dutch war relief Appropriate as hes he's a descendant of a family that emigrated emigrated emigrated emi emi- grated from Holland in 1658 In broadcast parlance a shot inthe in inthe inthe the arm is any new situation devised devised devised de de- by a script writer to put new life into a serial Valiant Lady got one recently but it happened also to be a shot in the heart Joan Blaine widowed one week met a ayoung ayoung ayoung young millionaire the next Dorothy Lamour is going back to 1900 when she begins work in Galveston Galveston Gal uGal- veston a spectacular production which will have its climax in the Galveston flood Two of her films Beyond the Blue Horizon and Road to Morocco with Hope and Crosby await release Success story Five years ago writer director producer Charles Martin paid Martha Scott 20 for playing a a. a small role on one of his Five Star Final programs Later he gave her more opportunity and more pay She made good on the stage and on the screen screen and and when she appeared recently on the CBS Playhouse hi m his version of ot Bachelor Bache lor Mother her check was for 2000 r. Heres Here's a bathtub scene that not even DeMille ever ver thought of Its It's in Cairo Jeanette MacDonald takes a bubble bath Ethel Waters Vaters is her maid and they sing Figaro from the Barber of Seville Seville Miss Miss Waters Vaters jiving Miss MacDonald going going go go- going ing operatic t ODDS AND ENDS Ken ENDS Ken Niles Jig Big Town Toun announcer was the first member oj of his hi profession to present movie celebrities ties tics over the air air Eddie Cantor hat has decided de dc tided that for the duration his Tune Time to Smile broadcasts will ui originate exclusive exclusively ly Iy from army camps Gracie Grade Allens Allen's home homo is filling up with toy ducks sent by listeners f s air bird Herman Martha Tilton on the Ransom Ransom Ran som sam Sherman show has lias been named flamed Sweetheart of the the- Auxiliary Fire Fighters Fight Fig Fighters f ers in the Los Angeles area Brian Donlevy oil off four Jour days clays from rr Wake Take ake Island headed waded for fur his Jis tungsten mine and went to work ark |