Show CR By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union TIME T IME was vas when an an a actor clot was likely to lose his pub pu lie if he stayed off the screen for even a short time Som Sorn i cant can't risk it now v. Ala Alan n Lad Ladd d doesn't belong in in that cla clasSa class i Ss a large part of the public i is rem remaining ining faithful to him while h hoff hei hel et off serving his country an and d refUSing refusal to put anyone else in their idol idoll Ej place He worked hard for his SU sue cess had cess had years of encouragement but few good roles and put in time till tini ti ll e It working in radio before 1 he got good role in Joan of Paris rr Then ra a j a I I r- r r. r xA r r. r r V ALAN LADD he tested for This Gun for or Hir and when Paramount executives saw sai his test they didn't bother about t ting testing test ing anyone else His success in Hirell that role was like Marlene Dietrichs Dietrich's a is Morocco Morocco instantaneous i 1 Gary Moore who stars co-stars with wi Jimmy Durante over both CBS and ands andl NBC will make his picture debut under David sponsorship and will be developed as c a a sort of combination of Fred Allen AIlen and Bob Hope which Hope which should be something It'll be Allen on writing ability and Hope from the slant of bis delivery 4 41 Howard Petrie announcer of th the Moore Durante air show had both Paramount and after him with a term long-term acting contract He lien Het stands six feet four and weighs pounds right pounds right up with Paramount Bill Edwards of Our HOur Hearts Young and Gay y I 7 I Hildegarde the new radio star wb wb has the Beat the Band show on a Wednesday evenings introduced i song called Got Bars on Her Shoulders and Stars in Her Eye Eyes tI the couldn't resist the title title so adopted the ditty for their official recruiting song Pompeii's emergence into front fron page importance because of t e fighting around Naples inspired O Y to reissue its spectacular The Last I Days of Pompeii originally r re released leased in 1935 its cast includes Alan Ala Hale Basil Rathbone and Lous LOJ 1 i I Dick Haymes Haymes' first tests a at t 2 Fox Century-Fox turned out so well wen Hut his part in Four Jilts and a SUP Jeep with Carole Landis was made Ni bir Niger birger bis' bis bisger ger and bigger Meanwhile l le hii radio ra n dio sponsor pays for the lads lad's po POP larity Half Hall the program courts come from New York with a full orches orchestra tra chorus and Jim Ameche featured fen fea another another orchestra and chorus chorn f choro-f f goes on in Hollywood I ing Haymes' Haymes songs I r r Flossie Flynn head of Lout Telephone Information Service J 1 1 New York says that recently kg Wj office offic has been swamped by Ji 5 about Metros Metro's two-reel two sh rt Heavenly Music a tale of a Jl i musician who cant can't get into hea until he convinces a jury fury of farno famo 4 composers that swing is real m ID sic sic says says she gets more calls ask ring r- r she dogon dog doe ing where its it's playing than on feature productions a 7 II 0 Its It's taken 14 y years rs for Holly 4 I Tc b to get around to remaking Cl Br Bridge of San Luis Rey done don donea B 2 lit In 1929 as a silent Benedict a a business man who bought boughtwood's o woods wood's General Service Studios Studs tEe J e y year and a half ago bought V screen rights and put Rowland Lee in as director director and and now now the Plure's P p 1 tures ture's timed right to coincide 1 f the work of the Committee on on I Inter American Affairs 4 1 tJ The Ellery Queen cast likes t to j d heard above the incidental music the organ except when guest de deta e e. e tives turn up early during the the the-a d r e t e j rehearsal then rehearsal then when the cr faub solution is given the or organ an roars drowning o out t all voices ODDS AND ENDS ENDS ENDS Tenor BiU Ilia i discovered by Groucho Marx in h k iI programs program's ch chorus rus and then given Iten n lr has been signed to to a singing part Pa pet contract Looks as if tl Blon e td It be fly 11 Singleton could soon pretty legs again in she was originally brought to lIo I j os because of her success in 1 Broadway stage Maureen Ollar J seen in m The Fallen q 1 Paul H will costar star in th thaC at atThe spill The Spanish Main Roy Acu I t t I on radios radio's Grand Ole OIo Opry I candidate for lor governor in j tit f elections election next year t |