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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union, SEEMS as if, these days, you can't swing a cat in Hollywood Holly-wood without hitting a Cinderella. Cinder-ella. Jane Powell's the latest. Fourteen years old, she is under un-der contract to MGM, but will be launched on her movie career ca-reer by Charles R. Rogers in a starring role in "Song of the Open Road." Meanwhile she's Charlie McCarthy's leading lady on Edgar Bergen's Sunday night radio show. She was Oregon's Victory ' Girl before she went to Hollywood last August, and Deanna Durbin gets credit for discovering her. Ruth Warrick's motion picture career ca-reer has been haunted she's played one matron after another, and she's Just 24! She was lucky to get the role of the first "Mrs. Kane" in "Citizen Kane" but it was a middle-aged role, done so well that she r " v. - a. i : v .!. I t ' - . RUTH WARRICK I was cast as Joseph Cotten's wife in I "Journey Into Fear"; then she was I Joan Carroll's guardian in "Obliging Young Lady," and "Forever and a I Day" did no better by her. In "The I Iron Major," with Pat O'Brien, she's I herself for a while in an early se-I se-I quence, so maybe the tide's turned. I Alan Carney, in "Gangway for To- I morrow," feels that RKO has helped I him to realize a lifelong ambition. I He's always wanted to do a trained I animal act, but had neither the pa- I tience to train an animal nor the I chance to get the right one. Now I fortune has smiled on him at last. I In "Gangway for Tomorrow" he I plays a hobo whose constant com. I panion is a trained hen! I Rosalind Russell's all set to play I Nurse Kenny in "Elizabeth Kenny " ; I she spent a week in Minneapolis I with the renowned Australian nurse, I talking with her and familiarizing I herself with the Foundation named I for her and with the Kenny tech- I niqoe for curing infantile paralysis. I She also studied pictures of Miss I Kenny at different stages of her ca- I reer, to make her portrayal authen- I tic. I A check for one million dollars has I been turned over by Warner Bros. I Pictures to the Army Emergency I Relief, that being the first install- I ment of proceeds from the film ver- I sion of Irving Berlin's "This Is the I Army." I I Making Barbara Stanwyck look so I seductive that it would seem reason- i I able that Fred MacMurray would I I enter Into her plot to murder her ! I husband for his accident insurance i I That's the problem faced by Direc- ! I tor Bill Wilder in Paramount's I "Double Indemnity." First he had I her wear a sun suit, but sun suits I are now so widely worn that they're I no longer obviously seductive. She I tad to jolt MacMurray at first I Slance. So now she wears a bath I towel! I Marian Shockley, who created and I lias played the role of "Nikki Por- I ter" for five years on the Ellery I Queen NBC radio series, was off the I !r recently for nine weeks because I ot serious illness. But her voice ap- I Parently was heard; Helen Lewis, came to New York six years I eo with Marian, and with her tried I out for the role, is an expert mimic; I she stepped in and imitated her ; I "lend Marian! ( I I ,When word go' out that Patrice I Munsel, 18-year-old winner of the I Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the I Ar last year, had landed a $120,000 I "ncert contract before ever she I "ng at the Met, literally hundreds I "young singers rushed"to try for i I "j year's auditions. In Chicago ' ane Wilfred Pelletier heard 141 , I Sirls and boys, all of whom had high I "opes of following in Patrice's foot- 4 I s'eps. J ODDS AND ENDS Roy Acuff, "" f "Grand Old Opry," is I i1c!et' governor of Tennessee he wont t- e the oniY 0ce holdeT in his famUy " "u aid is Neill Acuff, a General Ses- 0 I rVV court judge . . . Alexis Smith and I j ,or Moran have been chosen to be ii "enny' j leading ladies in the War-",' War-",' ' Jf-j cedy "The Horn Blows at J """'Wu" . . . Aian LaAd, who recently e,t'ei a medical discharge from the 51 11 '"" oeen named by Paramount & Li lei"1 " "A'"l Now Tomorrow" j7c"ig Franchot Tone . . . Corp. Billy 1 ' "e l 'he original "Dead End l" visiu-d CBS s "Let's Pretend," nKh fue him his start. |