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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. METRO'S going to do big things the week of June 22nd, in celebration of the organization's or-ganization's twentieth birthday. birth-day. Their first big picture was "The Big Parade"; their thousandth, now being shown, is "The White Cliffs," starring lovely Irene Dunne. During anniversary week practically every movie theater in the nation will show some Metro picture a short, a newsreel or a feature. At the studio there'll be a ceremony honoring those who have served the company for 20 years. And a coast-to-coast broadcast will feature every star under un-der contract to the studio. King Vidor's "America" and "Dragon Seed," with Katharine Hepburn, will feature in the celebration. Tr Chili Williams, model now under contract to RKO, is too popular for the good of her bank account One photograph in a weekly magazine CHILI WILLIAMS brought her 40,000 requests from servicemen for pin-up pictures. Think what'll happen after they see her in "Having Wonderful Crime"! When the temporary chairman of the Republican national convention calls the party delegates to order, the National Broadcasting company will have completed six months of preparation; for the sixth time, they'll handle both the big political conventions. A program of real importance will originate over about 500 radio stations sta-tions this month; it's "The Life of Premier and Field Marshall Jan C. Smuts of South Africa." The South African Broadcasting corporation at Johannesburg made a dramatization in 13 episodes, and the discs were flown to New York and there reprocessed re-processed into master recordings. The series begins with the discovery of diamonds and gold in South Africa, Af-rica, tells the legendary exploits of the famous field marshal, ends with the Union of South Africa as one of the United Nations. Relatives and friends in Wades-boro, Wades-boro, N. C, of Pvt. Rowland S. Pru-ett Pru-ett had heard nothing of him since he was reported critically ill in an Italian hospital until they heard his voice when he spoke from Algiers on the Allan Jones-Frankie Carle air. show. His wife and mother were called out of prayer meeting by friends in time to hear his last few words on the broadcast, which later was done over for them by the local station. Maybe it was because he was kidnaped kid-naped at the age of three months, or perhaps it's because of his appearance appear-ance in a mystery play when he was three; Frank Readick doesn't know, but he's been living a profitable life of crime for some time. He played the title role in "The Shadow" for eight years; he's the villain in "The Crime Doctor," "Gangbusters," "Mr. District Attorney," and other air shows, including "Portia Faces Life." Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding the army air forces, recently wrote the president of Paramount expressing express-ing his appreciation of the company's compa-ny's wide distribution of "The Memphis Mem-phis Belle." There's a picture that no one can afford to miss. It's a four-reel Technicolor documentary film dealing with an American bomber mission over Germany, and "superb" and "thrilling" are much too tame a description of it. "Double or Nothing," radio's oldest old-est quiz show, is working hand in hand with the movies these days. John Reed King and Frank Forest went to Colorado Springs for the first showing of "Buffalo Bill"; right after that, the quiz show went to Philadelphia for the grand opening of "Mark Twain." Now all they need is some more bigger and better movies, with celebrities to appear " on their show. ODDS AXD ENDS "Girl of the Lim, berlost," made once by RKO, once by Monogram, will be remade by Columbia, Colum-bia, starring Jeff Donnell. . . , W , C. Fields has been chosen pin-up man of Subchaser 1360, now in action against the enemy; seems when everything goes wrong they gaze at his picture and break out in laughter. . . . Hollywood owners of trained shepherd dogs have been taking tak-ing them to RKO for tests one will play the second most important role in "The Pumpkin Shell." . . . Don Ameche has been asked to serve on President Roosevelt's Committee for Italian Relief. Re-lief. . , . Constance Moore's baby can call Mrs. Cary Grant godmother. |