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Show STACESCREENADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union. I ONE of the most interesting interest-ing pieces of casting that's taken place in Hollywood Holly-wood is the selection of Joan Crawford and Greer Garson to combine their talents for the first time in "When Ladies Meet," a screen version of the stage hit of some years ago. It's the story "of a wife and the "other woman"; they meet without knowing that they're rivals. They become warm friends and the fun begins when their identities are re- GREER GARSON vealed. The stars are fresh from hits Miss Crawlord from "A Woman's Wom-an's Face," and Miss Garson from j "Blossoms in the Dust." Robert Tay- 1 lor will be the fought-over male. Edgar Kennedy, the "slow-burn" star of RKO Radio's shorts, is preparing pre-paring to leave on his annual personal per-sonal appearance tour. He will be accompanied by his wife, his son and Chester Conklin, and he will play Midwest theaters and fairs. Katharine Hepburn, whose performance per-formance in "Philadelphia Story" put her back where she wanted to be at the box office, will start work soon on another picture. At present it's called "The Woman of the Year"; she'll play a newspaper columnist col-umnist who's married to a sports writer. Metro feels that it's a good title for a Hepburn picture because of the comeback which she staged in "Philadelphia Story." Miriam Hopkins withdrew from "Bad Lands" recently, giving two reasons, one ordinary, one unusual. The ordinary one she felt that the part did not suit her; probably it didn't. The title doesn't sound like a Miriam Hopkins vehicle. The unusual un-usual one she felt that Robert Stack, the leading man, was too young to play opposite her. Few feminine stars would admit that! Jack Holt's offspring are doing all right for themselves in films as is Papa. Tim is scheduled for six "outdoor dramas" (just Westerns to us,) for RKO for 1941-42, and his sister Jenny, who's 20, has been engaged en-gaged to play the feminine lead in "Stick to Your Guns," a Hopalong Cassidy picture in which that veteran vet-eran of Westerns, William Boyd, plays the lead. Every so often somebody has the bright idea of trying to persuade Maude Adams to come out of retirement retire-ment and make a picture. Nothing Noth-ing ever comes of it. The latest to try it is Frank Capra, who wants her to star in a film called "Meet Jane Doe, Mother of John Doe." If she could be tempted to make a picture the opportunity of working with Capra should do it. Edmund Lowe and Victor McLag-Icn, McLag-Icn, who impersonated marines in the movie version of "What Price Glory" years ago, have become "Sergeant Quirt" and "Captain Flagg" again; this time on the air. They're doing a radio program designed to promote recruiting by showing modern life in the corps; it's a weekly feature, and should be welcomed by those who remember "What Price Glory." Jack Smart, of CBS's "Meet Mr. Meek," met a judge last week, not once but twice. Picked up for speeding, he didn't have the money for the fine, so the judge let him go home for it. He hurried so fast, wanting to pay the first fine and get to his radio rehearsal on time, that he got another ticket for speeding. speed-ing. But the judge let him out of the second one. ODDS AD E'DSCleo Manning made her debut as a mntion picture actress by being kissed by Clark Gable, in "Honky Tonk" . . . Metro's putting a lot nl its most talented youneslers into "Dotin in San Diego"; they're amateur detectives uho uncover a A:i band amid defense activities . . . Lili Damita and very young Sean Leslie Flynn have left the hospital where he arrived and gone home to Papa Errol . . . Mona Maris, of Warner Bros.' "Law of the Tropics," uill make luo pictures in her native Argentina . . . Ann Solhern has a new Metro contract , . . Richard Arlen is booked to do three melodramas for Paramount. |