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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE MARJORIE REYNOLDS told it on the "Duffy's Tavern" set at Paramount. Seemsher husband, Capt. Jack Reynolds, who'd just returned from overseas, told her that the British children and the American soldiers stationed m England have developed a new bit of repartee. When the children chil-dren trot alongside the men, asking "Got any gum, chum?" the reply is "Sure, mister, but for your sister." On the same set, a naval officer told Ed Gardiner that his "Duffy's Tavern" is one of the most popular radio shows on the Mosquito Mos-quito network, a broadcasting chain organized last January, that now extends ex-tends to every, base in the South Pacific. William Bendix, starred in 'The Life of Riley" on the Blue, has a fat part in the new Fred Allen picture, pic-ture, "It's in the Bag." He's cast f I s L s' " ft" I WILLIAM BENDIX as a meek racketeer who "inherited" "in-herited" the gang from his mother. Quite a change from his usual tough roles. The confusion that comes from Hollywood's habit of changing picture pic-ture titles caught up with seven-year-old Nona Griffith recently. A producer, who was interviewing her for a role in a picture, asked her how many pictures she'd worked in. "Three," said she; " 'Her Heart in Her Throat,' 'Fear,' and 'The Unseen.' Un-seen.' " Nobody could expect her to realize that they were different names for the same film. Wally Brown and Alan Carney have been so successful in RKO comedies that the studio is planning 'way ahead for them. When they finish fin-ish "Radio Stars on Parade" they'll go into "Master Minds," playing radio ra-dio detectives who become real sleuths. Margaret O'Brien and Butch Jenkins Jen-kins have just been portrayed by a sculptor in the clothes they wear in "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes." Butch' s mother, who chalked up quite a record for herself as an actress she's Doris Dudley is awfully busy thse days, not acting, but seeing to it that her young son keeps the delightfully natural behavior be-havior that has made him such a success on the screen. Everybody's waiting for "The Bells of St. Mary's." With three academy award winners Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, and Director Di-rector McCarey working on it, it's got to be something special. McCarey has given Ruth Donnelly a role as a nun which he says is comparable to that of the priest played by Barry Fitzgerald in the highly successful "Going My Way." Bing Crosby not only does his regular movie and radio chores, but also appears on radio programs such as "Mail Call" and "Command Performance," Per-formance," for the boys overseas, and makes pictures exclusively for the army and navy. When you see RKO's "First Man into Tokyo," don't miss the opening if you want to hear the voice of Japan's Premier Kuniaki Koiso or maybe you'd rather miss it. A transcript tran-script of his voice urging the Japs to sacrifice everything to repulse the nemy was used. Radio's first big feud, "The Battle Bat-tle of the Crooners," was waged by Rudy Vallee and Will Osborne. Val-lee's Val-lee's been on the air ever since, apart from his time out for Uncle Sam- Osborne, though a topflight band leader, hasn't been too familiar famil-iar a figure in the radio scene in recent years. Now he's returned, ioining the Abbott and CosteUo show that's heard on NBC Thursday nights. ODDS AND ENDS-tnilJo'n Smtcr, director of Sonja Uenie's "U s a Pleasure," Pleas-ure," once wa, a member of that immortal im-mortal aeration the Keystone hop,. . Anne Sterrtt, of "Our Gal Sunday, began her career at the Cape llayhue in Dennis, Mass., w.th Belle Dm-is-both were ushers there. . . . Joan Woodbury Wood-bury Columbia 1'ictures star, taught Jennifer Jones, Selznick star, two dance, which you'll see her perfnrnung m Duel in the Sun." . . - The Hollywood grapevine ucnl into action after a pre-liew pre-liew of "The Affairs of Susan , ; nine loan-out offers were made for Dan De-Fore, De-Fore, who plays onu of Joan Fontaine s romances. |