Show S C R E na N a 10 by VIRGINIA VALE released by western newspaper union ophe Thi HE first actor in hollywood history story ever to be elected a delegate to a national political convention melvyn douglas wonders if he will be able to enjoy the honor of course I 1 can always be represented by proxy he said the other day but a chance like this comes only every four years and id hate to miss it douglas made preparations to be in m chicago july 15 for the big conclave but he temporarily forgot that he is also an actor involved in the new columbia comedy he stayed for breakfast along with loretta young eugene pallette una oconnor and alan marshall alexander hall the director is making every effort to hurry things along and is making all the scenes with douglas first if you think like to be a motion picture producer pause and consider what happened at the paramount studio recently when joel mccrea withdrew from the cast of arise my love because of ill health 1 because of macreas Mc withdrawal ray milland was plucked from the cast of virginia to take the mccrea assignment op VIT JOEL mccrea cosite claudette colbert 2 that meant that virginia start on time 3 that meant that franchot tone who was to have co starred in virginia had to withdraw from the cst cast because he had another commitment and could appear in virginia only if it started on schedule 4 that meant that fred mcmurray stepped into the role for which milland had been scheduled playing opposite madeleine carroll but 5 she flew to england recently at the moment of writing theres no telling when sheu shell be back dorothy lamour traded a according to her studio head of hair for 30 cents worth of calico and it just a stunt in a movie scenario either seems ashes been wanting to bob those 40 inch tresses which played quite a part in establishing her as a draw at the box office the studio wanted her to make some soma more pictures in which she wore a sarong and she was determined ter mined not to so both sides gave in she sh e had her hair bobbed by wally westmore head of the makeup department and cried a little as most girls do when they hear that first snip of the shears and consented to do three south seas pictures moon over burma aloma of the south seas with jon hall and south of samoa with bing crosby A custom has been initiated during the rehearsals of the rudy vallee sh show ow to mark the th e scripts with asterisks to denote the laugh allowed the reason for this is to clock for timing when the show shoy is is actually broadcast four asterisks are tops in laugh pauses the other night someone in the cast asked scriptwriter sid fields what it meant to see five asterisks instead of 0 the customary four replied fields then you know that you have the fred allen alien script by mistake when you see the bin bing crosby picture rhythm on the river of to find that you may be surprised ken carpenter kings bings announcer and chime ringer on the air plays a radio announcer named nam ed ken carpenter its the result res alt of an accident scenarists had given carpenter another name in the picture but john scott trotter chos bings broadcast band leader and a band leader in the picture made a long film take in which he called carpenter by his real name it was simpler to change the name than to do the scene over again arthur lakes desire for realism on the blondie radio show nearly disrud disrupted ted the program recently in one scene he had to fall fail down with accompanying sound s effects the proper usually that just means that the sound man makes the noises but arthur insisted on doing his own fau fall the show was on for the eastern broadcast arthur fell wrong the script hew flew in ih all directions and penny singleton ingleton S had bad to rush over with her script and let arthur read his part from it until his script had been reassembled |