Show 10 Released by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALET VALE T TIME IME was when a motion picture picture pic- pic l ture actor was just an actor very few Hollywood stars went in for business enterprises on the side But nowadays theres there's hardly one who isn't emulating Bing Crosby in making money earn money Alan Ladd not long ago bought a partnership in a aSanta aSanta aSanta Santa Monica restaurant And Bill Holden while working in Dear Ruth joined Arthur band bandleader bandleader leader Carl Hoff and radio producer Andrew G. G Hickox in organizing Hickox Productions Inc a radio transcription company which will wiil syndicate musical and dramatic shows to radio stations across the country Oh yes Holden yes Holden also has invested money in hi a helicopter manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing man man- concern r. r I Joyce Reynolds is back at Warner Warner War- War Iner ner Bros after an months eighteen absence from movies Her last pic- pic rk I JOYCE REYNOLDS ture was Janie her next one oe willbe will willbe willbe be The V Wallflower a comedy based on the play of the same name Robert Hutton will co i Jack Baker has one of the oddest jobs in Hollywood he makes plastic plastic plastic plas plas- tic barnacles for all pier dock and wharf sequences in Warner Varner Bros films ims He also equips houses with artificial icicles shapes icicles shapes them by hand from cellophane and silicate of soda then dips them in alcohol to tomake tomake tomake make them brittle You'll see some of his best in hi Errol Enrol Flynns Flynn's Never Say Goodbye i Nanette Parks who's been under contract to Paramount for the last year received a wonderful present for her birthday the birthday the lead in Catalina a Technicolor musical Sterling Hayden will be one of her leading men and Olga San Juan Cass Daley and Billy De Dc Wolfe head the supporting cast The picture is slated to go before the cameras very ery soon i Considering the high price of bakery bakery bakery bak bak- ery goods its it's disconcerting to learn that eight pies were wasted on the set of Its a Wonderful L Life e for a scene in which Todd Karns had to walk while balancing a pie on his head After the eighth pie hit the dust the property man Lou Hafely deflated the pie tin and inserted two pins on an each side for balance the ninth pie sta stayed d put 4 Its It's no wonder that the girls like to work for Director Mitchell Leisen Leisen Leisen Lei- Lei sen stars like Paulette Goddard and Olivia de Havilland say they do and more and more of the top are asking to be assigned to his films Hes He's introduced a new method method method meth meth- od in Suddenly Its It's Spring Spring holds holds rehearsals without up make-up for the first hour or two so the girls girl's dont don't have to report at the crack of dawn Bing Crosby who has crooned in hi 47 languages including Esperanto will sing a typical Brazilian song in Portuguese in Road to Rio his tutor is Louis Oliveira who'll act as technical advisor on the picture As in the four our previous Road pictures pictures pic plc- tures Crosby will be teamed with I Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour with Norman McLeod l directing Daniel Dare is producing for or Paramount r. r Most musical plays or films have not more than half hall a dozen new tunes but nearly every Abbott and Costello air show this season has included included included in in- a specially written musical number in which the theme dovetails dovetails dovetails dove dove- tails with the story line of the Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day NBC broadcast To compose a special musical production each week is s no small assignment f. tentatively titled Kamikaze Kami Karni kaze will include confiscated Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese film never before seen by the public More than a million feet of the film were studied before the film used in the picture was decided on ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Juvenile Jury y tIr-y filmed by Universal Pictures has bas been released through throughout out the country Ed tf Archie Gardner has completed final sketches for his cartoon strip which willbe will be based on the ha happenings at DuDys Tavern Paulette Goddard's wardrobe in Unconquered is costing Paramount were we're told hough lold though she has therole therole the therole role of a II slave girl dressed mostly in in homespun When something good happens to Larry Hain Haines s of Young Dr Malone Maon he attributes it to 10 the tie hes he's wearing and continues to 10 wear the same slime one till his bis luck changes |