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Show stagescreenMio By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THE talented folk responsible responsi-ble for the Inner Sanctum thrillers (Saturday evenings, CBS) are hoping the police won't think they're prophets. A while ago their weekly sketch was called "The Candlestick Can-dlestick Murders" a few days later one of New York's most shocking murders took place, when a young woman was killed with a candlestick. candle-stick. Soon afterward the city was horrified when many of the pigeons that fly about St. Patrick's cathedral (near the CBS studio) were poisoned that week the Inner Sanctum mystery mys-tery was "The Bird of Doom,", and had Laird Cregar, of the movies, poisoning pigeons. It begins to look as if somebody around there had a crystal ball. A large amount of money, time and labor was spent on the dream sequences of "Lady in the Dark," but they couldn't possibly be lovelier love-lier or more dream-like than those in the Claudette Colbert-Fred Mac- rl FRED MacMURRAY Murray "No Time for Love." That hilarious comedy bears a striking resemblance to the story of the Ginger Gin-ger Rogers picture, and deserves to be rated among the year's top productions. pro-ductions. At the suggestion of Bette Davis, star of the picture, Warner Bros, have changed the name of Douglas Drake to Johnny Mitchell, the name of the character he plays in "Mr. Skefflngton." Gig Young also was named from a film character, his role in "The Gay Sisters." On Broadway service men stand In line to get into Destination Tokyo," To-kyo," along with the rest of the public. The picture was just as popular during its recent one-week run at the Mare Island naval hospital, hos-pital, San Francisco. Because many patients could not be moved to the hospital theater, a 16-mm. print was screened in wards and sick rooms. 1 "The Song of Bernadette" is an impressive picture; it was done beautifully, reverently, with dignity. Jennifer Jones, new to the screen, seems to have been perfectly cast as the heroine; many of the best actors and actresses in the theater and the motion pictures are in the cast, and all have given their best. Paramount had a problem in "The Uninvited." The star-spangled cast Includes Ray Milland, Ruth Bussey, Donald Crisp and Gail Russell. But there had to be an unseen actress who moans and weeps heartbroken-ly heartbroken-ly in the night, filling the hearts of yon and me and the rest of the audience audi-ence with cold terror. She's the ghost of a Spanish gypsy girl. Betty Farrington got the role. Quite a deal, the one by which RKO will release the star-studded product of the new International Pictures, Pic-tures, Inc., representing one of the strongest independent organizations of producers, writers, directors and stars in Hollywood. Lined up are Gary Cooper, Sonja Henie, Edward G. Robinson, Teresa Wright, Dinah Shore, Frank Morgan, and other headliners. The first picture will be "Casanova Brown," costarring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright. "Your America," the first coast-to-coast program sponsored by a railroad (NBC Saturdays), is that rare thing, something new in radio programs, taking us behind the scenes of railroad operation. Music is provided by an orchestra and a chorus, both composed of workers for the railroad, and there are dramatic dra-matic stories by Nelson Olmsted. Hope you've already formed the habit of listening to Walter Pidgeon's new radio series, "The Star and the Story," which bowed in on February Febru-ary 6. He presents first ranking actors in the vehicles that skyrocketed skyrocket-ed them to fame. ODDS AND ENDS F. Hugh Her-bert's Her-bert's "Meet Corliss Archer" will become be-come a movie for Columbia Pictures . . . Frances Longford and Barbara Jo Allen (Vera Vague) have signed for two pictures a year with RFiO . . . A Liberator bomber in the South Pacific is named "Lili 'n Chester Morris" for the actor and his wife . . . Usually cast as a Nazi soldier, Helmut Dantine appears ap-pears as a Frenchman in Humphrey HirKirt's "Passage to Marseilles" . . . It'll be William Bendix versus Dennis O'keefe, a sergeant and a corporal in the marines, in "Abroad With Two Yanks" . . . Bob Trout was married on July 4th a dale he'll remember. |
