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Show stgecscreeHaidio By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. ("MNGER ROGERS' new picture, "Tender Comrade," Com-rade," may not bring her an Academy award, as "Kitty Foyle" did, but RKO is doing Its best to swing that coveted honor her way. "Tender Comrade" will be shown at two theaters in Los Angeles on December 29, though its national release is not scheduled till GINGER ROGERS March. This bit of maneuvering makes it eligible for an Oscar this year. Ginger plays a war bride who takes a job in a plane factory while her soldier husband is at the battle-front. battle-front. A radio counterpart of filmdom's Academy Awards is broadcasting's newest wrinkle. Titled the "Radio Hall of Fame," the hour-long broadcast broad-cast is heard each Sunday over the full Blue network, with the editors of Variety magazine selecting the topnotch acts from screen, stage, radio ra-dio and the concert halls of the world for presentation during that time. m The management of Washington, D. C.'s Constitution Hall is regarding regard-ing Alec Templeton with something skin to awe. The CBS "Carnival" star broke all existing box-office records rec-ords when he appeared there in concert. con-cert. It was the first sell-out engagement en-gagement in seven years, and the first time an artist has been asked to return in the same season. Dinah Shore's picture career, coming hard -on the heels of her sensational success in radio, is moving mov-ing so fast that her films can't keep up with her. Her first, "Thank Your Lucky Stars," is now showing throughout the country, her second will be released in February, just as she's starting her fourth meanwhile mean-while her popularity on the air increases in-creases daily. Don Ameche maintains that even standing in line may prove to be lucky for the standee. He was standing stand-ing in a theater-ticket line in 1928 in Madison, Wis. The stock company's com-pany's star met with an accident, the manager recognized Don and put him into the re- It looks as if "No Time for Love" i going to be remembered along with the other ' delightful comedies that people laugh over years after they've seen them. And the heroine of those films is likely to be either Jean Arthur or Claudette Colbert. This time it's Claudette, playing a photographer for a smart fashion magazine, falling in love with a husky lad (Fred MacMurray) who's a sand hog. Jane Withers, who's 17, has her first important straight dramatic role in 10 years in Samuel Goki-wyn's Goki-wyn's "The North Star." Though she's made 30 pictures since her screen debut, and starred in most of them, she had to pass a strict test, then another one, before she was given the role; she's played in so many comedies that Goldwyn wasn't sure she could do it. "Higher and Higher," RKO's Sinatra picture, will have a spectacular spectac-ular opening; it will have its first showing on New Year's eve in 50 RKO theaters in New York city, Westchester and Newark, N. J. The regular Broadway opening will come later. At the cutting of the Command Performance transcription for the overseas audience, the Hoosier Hot Shots, in Hollywood with the National Nation-al Barn Dance cast for their Paramount Para-mount picture, wrote their autographs auto-graphs in the books which Gracie Fields was carrying. These autograph auto-graph books belong to war orphans in the Gracie Fields orphanage In England; the youngsters had specially special-ly asked for those names. ODDS AND E.VDS Probably the bigpest surprise for fans seeing the Amos V Andy show for the first time is the discovery that the stars look like an ad for what the well dressed man should wear . . . Ben Grauer, who announces on ihe "South American Good Neiehbor" prop-am, "Information Please" and "For This We Fipht," plnvcd in the original "Pcnrod' film . . . if hen Irene Dunne and Carv Grant headed the castt all tickets for the Screen Guild Players weekly broadcast were gone six weeks in advance . . . Captured German films showing the "rescue" of Brnito Mussolini Musso-lini by the Nazis hiehlichts a recent issue of RKO Palhe cus. |