Show E SCREEN C EE By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union Unton HOUGH OUGH the world wasn't THOUGH a aware ware of it theres there's been a crisis in Hollywood because of old age the original chimpanzee chimpanzee chimpanzee chim chim- panzee who played Cheta Tarzan's mate couldn't work and a new Cheta had to be found for Tarzan and the trie Amazons Kurt Neumann director of the picture searched far and wide finally found the new ape right in iu Hollywood The perennial perennial perennial per per- Tarzan Johnny liked the new Cheta at once and Cheta reciprocated Now the problem problem problem lem is how is-how how will Ch Cheta ta get along I with Brenda Brend Joyce Tarzan's new mate 1 Betty Hutton received her first letter letter letter let let- ter from an American soldier in a aGerman aGerman aGerman German prison camp only to discover discover discover dis dis- dis- dis cover that he was a boy she went to school with in Battle Creek Mich 1 I 2 YG N rf x r. r BETTY HUTTON He said he hadn't seen any new movies as hed he'd been out of circulation circulation circulation tion for the past 14 months but asked her to send him an autographed autographed auto auto- autographed graphed photograph as up pin-up pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures were allowed in the camp where he vas was imprisoned i Alan Marshal borrowed from David by to star with Dorothy McGuire and Herbert Marshall Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall in The Enchanted Cottage has had to give up the role because of what his doctor diagnoses as nervous exhaustion Marshal has combined bond tours army camp appearances and other war activities activities activities ties with months of studio work on two long productions r. So nobly has Ted Malone acquitted himself on his Monday Wednesday and Friday night human interest broadcasts from the thc invasion fronts on NBC that his sponsor signed him to a year five-year contract His Dis postwar efforts will be on an the Alexander style Bettejane Greer is making her film debut simultaneously in two features the musical PanAmericana PanAmericana PanAmericana Pan Americana and Two O'clock Courage This calls for considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able bicycling between stages so soshe soshe soshe she doesn't have to take time out for exercise at least r The War Var Production board has approved approved approved ap ap- proved Paper Troopers written by Mutual network composers Sunny Sunny Sunny Sun Sun- ny Skylar and Henry Sylvern as the official marching song of the waste wastepaper wastepaper wastepaper paper drive Skylar you know is the composer of Mucho and Amoy Amor Am or Sylvern is a noted musical musical musical mu mu- conductor who is on the Jane Jare Cowl show and Cisco Kid as well as on the Mutual show he does with Skylar I Roy Acuff his Smoky Mountain Boys and little Rachel of NBC's Grand Ole Opry have been selected selected selected se se- se- se by the army to take part ina ina in ina a special movie which will include many top-flight top st stars rs of stage screen and radio and be shown in army camps all over er the world The IThe Great Gildersleeve is probably probably probably ably the only stooge who's risen to toha ha having ving his own radio program and also starring in the movies lie He surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded Fibber ribber McGee and Molly in various stooge roles until in 1911 19 his a avalanche of fan mail inspired a sponsor to build built a show around the character Hal lIal Peary had built up a fellow with big ideas but simple warm hearted and jolly t tAt At the age of five and a half Dickie Jones of The liThe Aldrich Family had his own radio program program pro pro- gram on a local sta station tion in Texas Today TodDY at nt 17 hes he's played more than half a dozen major films films in in fact he had his first film layoff in more than 10 years in 1942 when he broke a leg while playing t the le lead opposite Shirley Temple in Miss bliss Annie Rooney then broke it again in The liThe Major a and the Minor ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Away Away back when Jim JimI Heres I ere to 10 Romance and Ann Arm Joyce Jordan Jort Shepherd were typIcal Y J typical ical American boy and girl in their fir first irs big radio program out our of Chicago Chicago nolt nou they're together ler again in ill Dig Big Sister Suter When hen Lum Lunt and und Abner travel by train Lum gets the lower lover berth and Abner thE I upper this thi was settled 12 years ago b by flipping a coin r. M set a 0 I I record for lor liette Betta Davis Valis by b running 14 weeks at a theater do de Cordova has played with only fire il feminine stars but stars but they're Ingrid Ii Bergman Berg erg man liaise lamer Rainer Joan Jour Fontaine Bett Deity Betty and Dorothy |