Show J 1 E C REEN 10 Released by Western Newspaper Union i. i By VIRGINIA VALE VALETS VALET'S TS T'S really good news that thai ITS IT'S Robert Montgomery Montgomery Montgomery Mont Mont- the gomery recently placed on inactive list by the navy is being being being be be- ing starred by in a picture based on They Were Expend Expend- able You'll remember it as the book that gave the world the story of the exploits of the T P-T boats in one of which General MacArthur escaped escaped escaped es es- es- es to Australia This will be Montgomery's first picture since the delightful Here Comes Mr Jor- Jor fi h y Li ROBERT MONTGOMERY dan Were We're told that the cast will willbe willbe be made up almost entirely of men who have been in the service And John Ford who has been responsible responsible responsible re re- re- re for so many excellent pictures pictures pictures pic pic- pic- pic tures will direct They Were Ex- Ex Ex Ex- b Martha Scott who's forsaken movies for the stage temporarily had a busy evening the night she did The Soldiers Soldier's Wife on the air that's the play she's now doing on the New York stage The Theater of Romance broadcast was moved to a CBS Playhouse across the street from the theater the curtain was held that night and Martha skipped from the broadcast to the stage to repeat her performance Its It's taken Harold Lloyd a long longtime longtime longtime time to take to radio the immediate immediate immediate imme imme- diate success of Comedy Theater Sunday nights on NBC proves that he should have done it long ago Hes He's director and host of this unique pique program unique because its it's the only drama show devoted entirely to comedies The movie moguls are now after Lloyd two Lloyd two companies are urging him at the moment to return to the screen That's a nice little assignment JlKO KO has for George Raft In J Johnny John ohn- ohn ny Angel hell he'll play a two-fisted two guy in the middle of mutiny a missing missing missing miss miss- ing cargo of gold and an affair with witha a mystery blonde Signe Sinne Hasso has been borrowed from Metro to as as- 1 I Richard Himber and Ken Murray Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray of the CBS Which Is Which are both top-notch top amateur magicians magicians magicians magi magi- so they're hatching a plot to give a series of magic shows for charity some time soon Meanwhile their novel Wednesday night program program program pro pro- gram is going strong h Steel Horizons new Sunday night Mutual l program on which a different girl singer from a different city sings with John Baker each week is proving a real stepping steppingstone steppingstone steppingstone stone to success Annette Burford who sang on the third broadcast Chas won a permanent radio assignment assignment assignment assign assign- ment as soloist on the Friday l IBS series Music for Half an Hour flour Betty Ellen Morris may be the star of a new winter series i- i t. t Arthur Lake of the Blondie program may be dumb on the air but Lake but Lake a owner co-owner of the Plastic Engineering company recently was awarded an army contract contract contract con con- tract for an airplane part made by bya a process his company helped de de- de- de r. A fat sergeant recently wrote Paul Whiteman saying hed he'd heard Whiteman had once reduced fast the sergeant wanted to know how because his girl wouldn't marry him till he was thinner Whiteman's advice advice advice ad ad- vice concluded Practically I had to stop living v The Yearling has hns been on the waiting list at Metro since 1941 all sorts Borts of problems were involved Including complications regarding the animal actors in the film Now its it's announced that Metro will produce produce pro pro- produce duce the picture next spring But the boy originally chosen to play Jody J ody has outgrown the role so another year old haired fair fond of Df animals must be found v I ODDS AND ENDS ENDS So So its it's Ca Capt pt Burgess Meredith who gets get the coveted chance to play Ernie Pyle in G C 1 I. I Joe Joc based on Pyles book Here Is Your War Among the losers losen are James Gleason Wafer Wa Wal Walter ter fer Brennan Fred Astaire and Humphrey Bogart Filipinos veterans of the tIle Philippine invasion and other Pacific campaigns campaigns campaigns cam cam- w will l appear in IlKO The Invisible ible Army since the parts require men proficient with the bolo knife for lor the guerrilla fighting sequences Joan Crawf Crawford's Crawfords ord's s Warner Bros picture known as u Mildred Pierce apparently is u really get tet to go at last the last the title has za been changed CO to louse House on the Sand |