Show iGE ADIOS Released nel by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALE VALET T UNIVERSAL has given us ua something more than a topnotch picture in The Sus Sus- Suspect Suspect Suspect we get food fod for thought right along with abundant en A man commits two murders and has such good reasons for doing so that you cant can't bear to have him pun pun- You keep rewriting the end end- ending ending ending ing figuring out ways of saving him Charles Charle Laughton gives one of the best performances of his life Ella EUa Raines is excellent Molly MoUy Lamont Lament caused men spectators to ask askE 1 1 1 r- r E t I 1 M MM l M CHARLES LAUGHTON Who is she Robert di direction dl- dl direction couldn't be improved upon Its It's a picture with murder but no horror a picture with charm and beauty No matter what movies 1945 brings The Suspect will be one of the best f Bette Davis is back in Hollywood after quite an absence to begin story conferences on her next pic pic- picture picture pic- pic picture ture Stolen Life The picture is set to go before the cameras early in February with Curtis Bernhardt directing 3 When Martha Holliday reached Hollywood after dancing in night nightclubs nightclubs nightclubs clubs she was made assistant dance director She had to give up the job and go over to to satisfy her desire to act shell she'll act ac and dance too in George Whites White's Scan Scan- Scandals Scandals Scandals dals starring Joan Davis and Jack Haley aley likes to push promis promis- promising promising promising ing newcomers along and give them thema a whack at really important roles Lauritz Melchior who makes his screen debut in Thrill of a Ro Ro- Homane Romance Romance mance mane Metro picture starring Van Johnson and Esther Williams has signed a new contract with the studio The famous singer sing r has an important impo tant singing role in Brighton Beach Shortly before the war var when the U. U S.- S. fleet was on maneuvers Art Linkletter House Party CBS al al- almost almost al- al almost most broadcast a a unit of the navy into a general court martial When word came that the fleet was due in San Diego harbor he arranged to broadcast its arrival from a mo motor mo- mo motor mo- mo motor tor launch Fog delayed the fleet some miles away and it anchored but Art didn't know that He broad broad- broadcast broadcast broadcast cast his script script and and the Admiral listening in thought his orders to anchor had been disobeyed and was ready to court martial all offenders Art can laugh about it now Boris Karloff recently recently completed The Body Snatcher and Isle of the Dead for and is booked to go right on scaring us into shivers The studio has signed him to make three horror pictures dur dur- during during during ing the next two years When Phil Kramer NBC comedian an anried tried ried out for his first radio show with Edward G. G Robinson in Big Town Robinson stopped him and said severely Dont clown young man Use your natural voice The only trouble was that Kramer was using his natural voice He was doing loing all right in pictures till his vocal chords chords- tightened up the after after- aftereffect aftereffect effect of an illness his comedy voice resulted I That baby on n the e Eddie Cantor Show Eddie Cantor Von Zell is isa isa isa a a handsome chap of ot about 30 who's probably the only male baby im im- impersonator impersonator on the air His name mme is Billy Gray and as a pioneer in his profession he deserves a rattle at least I I Barry Fitzgerald Fitzgera played his role as Bing Crosby's father in Para- Para Paramount's mounts mount's Tavern with his nand in a cast he broke a finger the night before he started work on the picture That man could give a afine afine afine fine performance even if he had a broken neck r Jr I ODDS AND ENDS ENDS-Ellery Ellery Queen gen gen- gentleman gentleman sleuth of the CBS series bearing his hit name flame has a new neau Nikki Barbara Ter Ter- rell cell When Robert Rober Taylor was as a CI agnat guest gnat on the Rate Kate Smith hour hur his wife Barbara watched the program from Irom the tile clients client's booth One of New NewYork's From York's Yorks big department stores is featuring a o dress named Gaslight Gayeties named for lor or the radio show starring Beatrice Kay Ray and Michael OShea Sonja Son trained highly feet fee are among the Ile smallest mailed in Hollywood she wears a size 3 3 shoe Alan Ladd once played six s characters on a CI radio show that ha was when wilen he was trying to 10 get ge his I. I J start lar as an actor and ht he I. I did it well uell too 00 |