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Show STAGESCREENADIO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. TINX FALKENBURG. re-J re-J ceived an urgent request Erom a group of soldiers at a LI. S. military outpost recently; signing themselves as the boys in "Hut 33, Iceland," they oeggedher to send them a large picture of herself in a bathing suit, as soon as possible. "We want to put it on the wall for two Important reasons," they wrote. "1 It will give us something interesting interest-ing to look at. 2 It will help to keep the captain's eyes busy when he comes around to inspect our juarters." She sent a picture five teet high! "Once Upon a Honeymoon" unites Ihree of the screen's top figures in Ihe studio where each has previously previous-ly scored triumphs RKO Radio. They're Ginger Rogers and Cary I Grant, who've both made plenty of hit pictures, and Leo McCarey, producer-director of such delightful films as "Love Affair" and "My Favorite Wife." "Once Upon a Honeymoon" is the kind of thing they all do best. Thousands of moviegoers, on reading read-ing of Elmer Davis' appointment as director of the Office of War Information, Infor-mation, recalled seeing him on the screen. To "Information Please" fans he was one of the highlights of the series issued by RKO Pathe. Bill Stern, NBC director of sports and famous sportscaster, plays himself him-self in Samuel Goldwyn's "The Pride of the Yankees," which stars Gary Cooper and is based on the BILL STERN life of the late Lou Gehrig. Theresa Wright, Walter Brennan and Babe Ruth head the supporting cast Stern flew from the Coast to participate In the scene showing "Lou Gehrig Memorial day," which marked Gehrig's retirement. . J. Carroll Naish is going to be seen as an ape-man, no less, in 20th Century-Fox's "Buried Alive." It's this comnanv's first effort in the horror line, and just the title promises well. John Shepperd and Lyhne Roberts will have the romantic roman-tic leads. Rosalind Russell is booked for another an-other of those pictures in which she's such a clever and handsome young business woman that she makes business women in the audience green with envy. This one will be "Portrait of a Lady," and the plot (which somehow has a familiar ring) deals with the efforts of a husband hus-band to win his wife away from a business career. "Guerrilla Brigade," the Soviet picture which was shown in New York recently, has been booked by the RKO circuit and is scheduled for national release. This is the first time in some years that a Russian picture has been booked by a major theater chain here. Those bitter little quarrels between be-tween actors and motion picture companies no longer mean what they once did, not since radio's here to stay. When Madeleine Carroll and Paramount disagreed not long ago, the beautiful Miss Carroll merely departed for New York and picked up some engagements to broadcast, at $2,500 each. Paul Muni and his studio parted, so he did a stage play, got $5,000 apiece for several radio performances, then signed with another studio. John Garfield and Warner Bros, disagreed, dis-agreed, and radio grabbed him. William L. Shirer talks to his friend, Edward R. Murrow ("This Is London") every Sunday before their respective broadcasts. The conversation is over a private wire, and the first thing Murrow asks is about the baseball teams. ODDS AD EXDS Janet Blair, former for-mer singer with Hal Kemp's orchestra and now playing the title role in "My Sister Eileen," is rehearsing the songs for a new civic opera to be presented late this summer in Los Angeles Mainbocher, famous dressmaker who's been responsible for many of the Duchess of Windsor's costumes, has been signed to a term contract by Fox . . . Bob Burns has a new bazooka, made from scraps from P-38 bombers by the boys who build the planes . . . Donna Reed's wearing the silver wings of a pilot on the Anti-Submarine Patrol in the Atlantic, Lu Donald Aden, |