Show SCREEN CR a Released by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALE HATS HAT'S quite a jump that 1 Your Hit Parade has made from Frank Sinatra to Lawrence Tibbett nobody can say that the executives arent aren't giving us variety They wanted to widen the musical range of the program and its it's safe to say that they're accomplishing their aim They've also brought about a reunion Some 23 years ago Lawrence Tibbett was one more young man headed toward an operatic career career and and Basil was an operatic basso He h L c v r a. a A LAWRENCE TIBBETT showed the young man how to use his voice in fact Tibbett credits him for helping him succeed Now is the announcer on the program that gives us the first operatic star to sing popular music regularly Abbott and Costellos Costello's conductor conductor conductor con con- ductor Freddie Rich has been given an unusual assignment for the new United Artists picture A Walk in the Sun He will compose a special song to run throughout the picture to interpret the different different differ differ- ent moods of the story musically It will also be used as a background for the narrators narrator's comments r John Brown who plays Father on NBC's A uA Date with Judy originally came to Hollywood to play in pictures after specializing for years as a dialectician on the stage But in my first part says Brown I didn't have a line The director gave me a cane and said Just stroll past the camera Then he added but remember to walk with a foreign accent i Every weekday evening as Perry Como steps to the microphone for his solo on his a young lady lady lady-a a different one each time time time- rises in the studio audience and tosses a white carnation at his feet The girls belong to Manhattans Manhattan's numerous Perry Como fan clubs which accord to members the honor honorof of presenting their idol with flowers I Hedy Lamarr star co-star of Experiment Experiment ment Perilous broke into the movies as a script girl but didn't go far before she could really learn her duties she was given a arole arole arole role in something called Storm in ina ina ina a Water Vater Glass She was just 15 had run away from school and her family promptly staged a storm in ina a teacup Hedy weathered it and in another year was one of Vienna's reigning screen beauties 1 Bill Goodwin ace announcer who recently switched from the Burns and Allen program to Frank Sinatra's Sinatra's Sinatra's Sina Sina- tras tra's is doing right well with his career as an actor You heard him with George and Gracie as a Ua friend to the Burns family you'll see him in a leading role in Incendiary ary Blonde and also in Alfred Allred Hitchcock's picture Notorious starring Ingrid Bergman Lots more fun than just announcing 1 Butterfly McQueen former comedienne comedienne comedienne come come- dienne on Jack Bennys Benny's radio program program program pro pro- gram has a comedy role in Mildred Mildred Mil dred fierce Joan Crawfords Crawford's first Warner Varner Bros picture under her present contract As f if if that picture hadn't been held up long enough the star came down with flu and they had to shoot around her If youve you've always wanted to go to Mexico and see no immediate chance of doing it make a note to see Republics Republic's Song of l Mexico Co James M. M Fitzpatrick is neglecting none of the famous historic spots none of the very beautiful o Mes i Arthur Lake of the CBS Blondie program says his destiny will never be complete till he stars co-stars with Dinah Shore Asked if someone else wouldn't do he cracked In uIn our family its it's a tradition tradition tradition tion that every Lake must have a aShore aShore aShore Shore 7 ODDS AND ENDS Drew Pearson syndicate writer and radio commentator makes his film debut in Betrayal From the East East appearing in the prologue and doing the narration The script of the CBS Suspense drama The Tho Man Who Couldn't Lose has been bought by a ah h Hollywood studio and will be adapted to the screen Marie McDonald who plays play a fatal lady in Its It a Pleasure was billed over Frank Fran Sinatra when alien they both tang sang with Tommy Dorseys Dorsey's band but she sho rave gave up her singing career to go into the movies Ted Malone heard from overseas over over- teas seas on the tle Blue is writing a CI syndicated column olumn called I 1 Saw Sale Your Boy |