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Show sstagecscreenMadio Released by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALE JIMMY GAGNEY is settling J down to work on his new picture, "Blood on the Sun," after too long an absence from the screen. During that absence ab-sence he's made a four-month overseas tour, and his brother William has gone through several hundred manuscripts, trying to find suitable material for James. Two possible stories turned up for the picture following "Blood on the Sun"; no matter which is selected. Cagney will be seen as a soldier in the American army in the days of the Indian wars. RKO executives swear that "Tall In the Saddle," starring John Wayne, is absolutely a non-formula western. Wayne never bids his faithful horse a fond farewell; Ella Raines is not JOHN WAYNE a schoolteacher; Wayne doesn't win all the fights, nor does he gallop off up canyons just for the sake of galloping. gal-loping. And surprise he not only kisses Ella Raines, he kisses Audrey Long, too. For several years now Bob Hope has not broadcast before a civilian audience. Only servicemen are admitted, ad-mitted, whether he has been giving performances abroad or bere in America. Parks Johnson and Warren Hull have starred GI Joe and war workers work-ers since Pearl Harbor, keeping their own voices in the background. But recently Parks was riding in a New York taxi, and the driver turned around. "You're Warren Hull, aren't you?" he asked. "No, I'm Parks Johnson, but you have the right show," said Parks. "I knew it," said the driver. "Soon's you told me where to go, I knew that voice." "Without Love," the new Katharine Katha-rine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy-Lucille Ball picture, went before the cameras cam-eras the other day, with Keenan Wynn and Patricia Morison in supporting sup-porting roles. It's based on the play by the same name in which Miss Hepburn appeared. Just for her own convenience, Joan Bennett's an inventor. She invented in-vented and patented a lipstick brush that can be carried in a purse without with-out smearing other articles; that's just 'one of her inventions. At the moment she's having fun designing wall paper. Lois Wilson, star of the silent screen, is carving out quite a career for herself on the stage and in radio. She was practically snatched from the Saturday matinee of "Chicken Every Sunday," the day before the first broadcast of the Ethel Barry-more Barry-more show, "Miss Hattie," when producers wanted to make a last minute switch in the role of "Martha Thompson." Lois got the role; you hear her Sundays. The Radio Hall of Fame has certainly cer-tainly lived up to its name; now beginning its second year on the air, it has brought to the Blue network nearly every nationally famous person per-son in the entertainment field more than 150 of them. If you gave your dog to the army, you'll want to see "My Pal, Wolf." The picture, revolving around the adventures ad-ventures of seven-year-old Sharyn Moffett and a dog, has a sequence showing how the army performs in transferring a pet into a perfect canine ca-nine soldier. Picture and radio people are agreed on one thing no matter what anybody says, they're convinced con-vinced that Joe E. Brown did everything every-thing in his power to cheer the boys overseas. If ever a man put his heart into doing anything, the "Stop and Go" star put his into entertaining entertain-ing servicemen. ODDS AND ENDS Dinah Shore and Jimmy Durante are among the stars who will record the Christmas "Command Performance" show for those overseas. . . . House Jameson, of "Crime Doctor," was named as a result of the close friendship between his father and Col. E. M. House, President W ilson's adviser. . . . Keeis Toomey has been signed for a role in "The Big Sleep"; Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall head the cast. . . . Dirk Jones (Henry Aldrich) is writing all his letters let-ters to one Miss Betty Bacon of Los Angeles. . . . When the Eddie Cantor show performs for servicemen, it's red-haired red-haired Nora Martin the boys whistle at. |