Show By VIRGINIA VALE Newspaper Union Released by Western hearts didn't MAYBE break but some of them certainly cracked when Jinx Falkenburg announced her engagement to Tex McCrary and admitted that the ring she was wearing had been given to her by him when she was in Miami where he was a candidate for a commission in the army air forces There'd been rumors that shed she'd wed him but her other suitors just kept hoping 1 George Raft finally bought his contract from Warner Varner Bros after being under suspension for most of ol the last year He did get away tomake tomake to tomake make Broadway for Universal paying Warners in order todo todo to todo do so Hes He's now working in their Background to Danger his first picture made at the studio since he did Man Power back in 1941 Maybe now well we'll see him more often Wasn't it nice news that an all all- girl troupe of American entertainers entertain entertain- ers headed by Kay Francis Carole Landis and Martha Raye had arrived arrived ar ar- rived safely in Great Britain They'll entertain for our troops f 1 r KAY FRANCIS there Miss Francis acting as mistress mistress mistress mis mis- tress of ceremonies They've been appearing at army and navy training trainIng train- train Ing bases here so they know what the boys want USO Camp Shows sent them r. Orson Welles' Welles new radio program for the Aviation Industry isn't his family's first brush with aviation His father long ago had the idea of attaching a glider by a long rope to an automobile lie He tried it out with a family retainer in the plane and everything worked fine till the aged flier screamed for help No- No worked out how to land the plane Somebody cut the rope and the plane fell with slight damage to the experiments experiment's victim A photograph photograph photograph photo photo- graph of the crash erash is Orson's proof of his family's contribution to avia avia- tion Bob Hope and Lenore Aubert were hit on the head by the White House when working in They Got Me Covered Cove A giant cutout of the Presidents President's mansion suspended from overhead by wires broke loose when a wind machine wrenched it from its moorings and sent it crashing crash crash- ing to the floor It just missed wrecking the career of one of our best comedians for some time to come f George Sanders and Tom Conway real life brothers who play brothers in Radios Radio's The Falcons Falcon's Brother were born in Russia Their father was English their mother Russian George worked m in South America Tom in Africa and Hollywood united them I Jerry Wald Vald producer of Action in the North Atlantic recently became became became be be- came t the e father of a son Then the same thing happened to the assistant assistant assistant assist assist- ant property man Then to Actor Paul McWilliams l Jr Cancel that order for trained seagulls cried Director Director- Lloyd tloyd Baco Bacon 1 In thi this this- picture our ship is going to be followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed by storks Joan Leslie star of The Hard Way danced miles during the making of the picture as proved by a pedometer But she's now brushing brush brush- ing log up on her jitter-bugging jitter gg in g to cope with the dancing of the service men with whom s she he dances at the Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood Canteen 1 John Garfield's four year old daughter Katherine gets a a chance to follow in her f fathers father's footsteps in an Acting career shell she'll play her fathers father's daughter in in Air Air Force because Director Howard Hawks thinks she has talent f ODDS AND ENDS I ENDS Paul Muni will Sun Yat Sen in pia play y a biographical film of the Chinese leader Walter Waller Huston who plays play the tIle part part o o oj oa f a Norwegian in Edge of oj Darkness devotes much o of oj f his time ante spare to playing Uncle Sam in to a short sub for Jor the navy Grade Gracie Fields ivill sing a number of her popular Sol Sot Lessors Lessor's songs in Stage Door Canteen share of oj the a films film's Brit British h gross will go to her favorite receipts land land Charles Lau charities r in Eng Laughton g and and his wi wife wilc f E Elsa a Lanc 1 i are becoming Am c citizens American they took out their lief fir first t about clout three months tapers papers ago A watch com pany an air sh show zu on Christ Christ- mas as w a salute to o our armed forces force ore |