Show TAGE SCREEN E By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union IF F YOU happen to b be anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where near where One me of the Vox Pop programs is being broadcast spare no effort to attend it you'll it-you'll you'll have a lot lotof lotof lotof of fun maybe make some money and see one of our better better better bet bet- ter radio programs in action Maybe you'll have the pleasure pleas pleas- ure of meeting Parks Johnson who's a swell guy you may be lucky enough to meet Mrs Johnson who goes along Before the broadcast Johnson stages stunts with members members members mem mem- bers of the audience and pays them well for participating Mrs Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son buys the gifts gUts for the women on the program and rounds up good places for the company to eat As part of the audience you'll be part of the program and have a grand time Rosalind Russells Russell's sponsoring Janet Blair with a vengeance First she convinced Columbia Pictures that Janet was perfect for the title role in My Sister Eileen then she waived the exclusive star clause a is sf sfa ai a r i Y Yb i b J JANET BLAIR in her contract so that Janet could share star billing N Next ext she took Janet for a tour of the army camps with the purpose of interesting her soldier brother George Russell inthe in inthe inthe the young actress r. r Alan Reed spent two months in Hollywood waiting to make a picture picture picture pic pic- ture that never was started though he was paid regularly He collected a typical Hollywood wardrobe wardrobe- slacks sports shirts Mexican huarache huaraches huaraches hu- hu arache trimmed silver-trimmed belts Ezra Stone till recently of Henry Aldrich Al- Al Aldrich Aldrich ran into Reed in his Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood togs in New York Gee said he youre not even a civilian r. Young Russell Hoyt oyt actor has been trying to make people forget his striking resemblance to Alan Ladd Now its it's got him a job RICO RI used him in bits in Seven Days' Days Leav Leave and Here We Ve Go Again then had no role for him so lent him to Paramount for Lucky Gordon Gor Gor- don hell don hell he'll play a Ladd henchman who because of his resemblance to the star can create alibis for him Claudette Colbert probably set a record recently by being a bridesmaid bridesmaid bridesmaid brides brides- maid once and a bride twice all within with with- in 24 hours It was all for Preston Sturges' Sturges The Palm Beach Story Claudette's bridegrooms were Joe Joel McCrea and Rudy Vallee and her stunt as bridesmaid took place when Joel married someone else She's working now in No Time for Love In Somewhere Ill I'll Find You Keenan Wynn of the radios radio's Shadow Shadow Shadow Shad ow programs played a soldier who operated a 1918 machine gun which had been blown from its tripod because because because be be- cause of the kickbacks his shoulder was strapped for two weeks When he lie saw the picture in New York a soldier in front of him said Fake You cant can't fire a machine gun from that position Keenan leaned forward forward forward for for- ward and tapped the young man on the shoulder Yes you can brother broth broth- er said he I Idid did it When Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone Livingstone Livingstone Liv Liv- first met she was 12 and Jack calling on her sister disliked Mary as heartily as she loathed him He was appearing at a local vaudeville theater and Mary bribed her pals to maintain complete si silence silence silence si- si lence all through his act Claudia Morgan recently signed to play Andrea Reynolds on theair the theair theair air serial We Love and Learn couldn't escape the theater she's the daughter of Ralph Morgan the niece of Frank and made her stage debut on Broadway while in her teens A few years ago she was playing lead roles simultaneously in two Broadway stage hits and in a aradio aradio aradio radio series 7 ODDS AND ENDS ENDS ENDS-Bing Ding Crosby postponed post pored his return to h his radio program for fora a week in order to complete his hiJ golfing tour for or the benefit of the Red Cross Metros Metro's released a one one depicting de the work cork o ol 0 the Air Training Corps of America to rich is J training some ome high school boys in the elements of aeronautics Olivia de Havilland born in Tokyo Toko couldn't accompany the Princess company to the airport air air air- port at Lockheed Jar for or location work cork all players had lOd to have we their birth cater co and Olivias Olivia's happened llOp to be missing nr Alexis Smith gave gale a soldier r a lift in I. I her car ran car ran out our of gas and had to borrow borrowa a dollar from him to get gel some r |