Show By VIRGINIA V VALE AlE Released by Western Newspaper per Union rJ ATHILE making Sahara WHILE v for Columbia Bruce Bennett met a marine who'll have to be referred to merely as Joe the marine Joe was vas wason wason vason on leave after some tough Guadalcanal fighting and due soon to return to the South Pacific The actor told Joe about a Guatemalan Guatemalan Guatemalan Guate Guate- malan machete hed he'd collected when he was making a Tarzan serial about ten years ago a little something something something some some- thing Id I'd like to have said Joe so Bennett sent it to him Last week a V-Mail V note from Joe said My machete is the pride of the outfit I spent two solid weeks sharpening it it And brother I aint out to cut hay hayl Bennett wishes hed he'd had dozens of them to hand over Nobody could be more surprised than the originators of the airs air's Barn Dance Show are at the way it has developed It was started as a program that would appeal principally principally i pally to listeners in rural areas but I 1 4 HAL O'HALLORAN come October 2 it celebrates its anni anniversary on the network as ashow a ashow ashow show that many city people love Its It's one of the few that has a paying studio audience The genial Hal O'Halloran will be on hand as usual as m. m c. c Metro is certainly rounding up the popular band leaders they recently signed Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians for a musical and already already already al al- al- al ready have Tommy Dorsey Harry James Xavier Cugat Bob Crosby Vaughn Monroe and Spike Jones r. Watch Vatch for a radio quiz master to name three of Hollywoods Hollywood's loveliest who have not played opposite Cary Gary Grant It would be hard to name one Laraine Day shares honors with him in Mr Lucky and is the latest of a list of 28 of his heroines Irene Dunne Katharine Hepburn an and Sylvia Sidney have appeared three times apiece in Grant pictures and hes he's probably our only ranking star who has both Joan and Constance Constance Constance Con Con- stance Bennett on his roster of Celebrities I Have Made Love to toon toon toon on the Screen The cast of Mr District Attorney Attorney Attorney ney made money when they won wona a wager from the Ellery Queen performers Jay Jostyn of the former former for for- mer iner show was a guest star on the latter and his colleagues bet the opposition opposition opposition op op- op- op position that hed he'd solve the mystery Just a natural The natural The soldiers stationed stationed stationed sta sta- sta- sta at Camp Ellis near Lewiston Ill III were trying to find just the right girl to name Miss Camp Ellis and wound up by selecting Anita Ellis of the Jack Carson show on CBS I Every now and then Hi Brown producer and director of The Adventures Adventures Adventures Ad Ad- ventures of Nero Wolfe runs into an timer old-timer in radio who reminds him of his first program on the air It was called High Brow Readings by Hi Brown and hed he'd rather forget forget forget for for- get it e years ago an aspiring young actor named Curtis Rudolf failed to obtain a bit part in a little theater thea ier production in Cleveland and was advised advised advised ad ad- to try some other line of work Recently Metro staged a first showing showing showing show show- ing on Salute to 10 the Marines in Cleveland and an actor named Donald Donald Don Don- ald aid Curtis christened Curtis Rudolf had a leading role in the Wallace Vallace Beery h A prop man on The Fallen Sparrow Sparrow Sparrow Spar Spar- row set laboriously made snow by flaking ice into a freezing bin binand binand binand bin bin- and returned from lunch to find that John Garfield and Walter had returned from their lunch and used it all up throwing snowballs at Maureen OHara O'Hara and Director Richard Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard Wallace When they learned how much labor had been involved they pitched in and made more ODDS AND ENDS The ENDS The small mall black microphone into which folks jollu on the Bing fling Crosby program sing ing has been named Skinny Shinn Ennis Bob Dob Hawk of Thanks to the Yanks anks has an idea for a movie mode quiz qui in which several studios are interested Fred Astaire's Astaire signed a term long contract with Metro where here he mad mado his first pic plc ture Dancing ture Dancing Lady Lath which starred Joan Crawford and Clark Gable Cable in a cast including in in- Franchot Tone and made little of Astaire's talents talent Dickie Jones the airs air's new Henry Aldrich went to Hollywood several years ear ago as a of o Hoot Gib Cit son son son-he he was ivas the voice of Pinocchio in the of that name i |