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Show STteESCREENMDIO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THAT Bob Hope is quite a man. Though he was half a continent away, Columbia Pictures had to reshoot an entire en-tire scene for "The Impatient Years" because he stole it from Jean Arthur and Lee Bowman. Cameras whirred while Jean and Lee went through a tender farewell near a railroad station newsstand. They did a swell job. But -wnen Director Irving Cum-mings Cum-mings screened the rushes next day, there on a magazine cover was Mr. Hope, perfectly in focus, with a wide grin splitting his face. Naturally the mood of the scene was completely ruined! If Warner Bros, stick to the facts during the making of "Night and Day," the Cole Porter life-story, they'll have to hire Xavier Cugat and his Latin-Americanos, who work for Metro, for the film. One afternoon after-noon some years back the boys were rehearsing at the Waldorf, when Cole Porter walked in with a fox-trot he had just written. He asked Cugat to have them play it it was "Begin the Beguine." After being under contract to Warners' War-ners' for more than a year without making a picture, Joan Crawford is set for her first starring picture for them. It's "Mildred Pierce," a story p V v v , c t 1 iS' 4 " 1 it, - w - I , i t JOAN CRAWFORD involving a divorced woman and her grown daughter. Miss Crawford recently re-cently worked in a scene in "Hollywood "Holly-wood Canteen," playing herself; she danced a jitterbug number with Dane Clark. i Shortly before her variety hour left the air last month, Kate Smith got a taste of working on Sundays, when she was a guest on four Sunday Sun-day shows "We the People," "Silver "Sil-ver Theater," "Bandwagon" and "Hall of Fame." When she returns to the air in September she'll be heard from seven to eight, EWT, Sunday evenings it will be the first Sunday series in her entire 13-year radio career. Pat O'Brien, costar of "Marine Raiders," has been asked to make a recording of a "Knute Rockne" pep talk adapted to war instead of football, for use in the official training train-ing schedule of every marine going through the San Diego boot camp. The request came after O'Brien, in San Diego for the filming of the picture, pic-ture, was a guest on the marines' "Halls of Montezuma" radio program, pro-gram, and as "Rock" gave his boys a pep talk. Commanding officer Col. George Hall had the idea of having Fat record the talk as a permanent per-manent feature of training. Of all the roles which Jay Jostyn, "Mr. District Attorney," has enacted, en-acted, one of his favorites is that of a virile sea captain. He played it on a midwestern station many years ago, on a series based on the adventures of sea-faring men, and it was very, very salty. And Jay, who at that time had never been on anything larger than a row-boat, had a wonderful time. Eddie Cantor, who's spent the last two months in New York broadcasting broadcast-ing from nearby hospitals and service serv-ice headquarters, is on his way back to Hollywood; en route Eddie will play his self-named "Purple Heart" circuit of rehabilitation hospitals. hos-pitals. Many howls provided by Harry Savoy come during his ad-lib warm-ups before the broadcasts (NBC, Thursday nights). Recently he walked on stage, was introduced i by Jimmy Wallington, and asked the j audience to take out their handker-; handker-; chiefs and wave them at him. I "Thanks," said the Crown Prince of J Confusion, "that's the first clean i laundry I've seen in months." j ODDS AD KDS Special footage I for Kay Kyser's Columbia picture, "Battleship Blues," will be. filmed in , Rocky Mount, N. C, his home ioun. . . . Flotrer Parry, ex-wife of jnchie Coocnn. returns to the screen in an important role in "Hollywood Canteen." Can-teen." . . . Of all the modes in !ew York, soldiers, sailors and marines re- i reicina free tickets at :Vu ) nrfs "Wl ' Park" one night recently, most named to see "Bnrk Home in Indiana" . . . A new sone by Cole Porter, "llon't Fence ! Me In," will be sune by Bov Boners and his Sons of the Pioneer for their special appearance in the all-star musical musi-cal extravueanza, "Hollywood Canteen" I |