Show f E SCREEN CREEN i ADIO flO sed by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALE is nothing new to SUCCESS Joan Davis when she was wasI 7 I she was headlining an act vaudeville But its it's hard to In n work talent and an uncanny sense sens of timing that have landed her where she is now doing The Joan Davir Davi Show on CBS Monday evenings and making ma ing two pictures a year for fo- fo In 1941 1911 she risked for her release from froma a contract with Columbia Pictures and lanced free to lance free r JOAN DAVIS herself onto the Rudy Vallee show for guest shots at first later when Vallee entered the service Joan took over Incidentally when Joans Joan's sister is featured with her on the theair theair theair air the sister is really Joans Joan's daugh daugh- daughter ter Beverly aged 12 Clark Gable is i back on the China Seas where he was ten years ago For The Big Shore Leave in which he stars with Greer Garson the old Merchant Marine freighter was renamed the Minnie Tolbert and fixed up a bit But when Gable saw her he whooped not Minnie that's the old China The same ship on whose deck Gable first kissed Jean Harlow while a brunette newcomer looked on The newcomer has done all right in pic pIc- pictures pIctures pictures tures too by the way way her her name is Rosalind Russell In five weeks and three days of personal appearances Bud Abbott and Lou Costello vacationing while Mystery l in the Air replaces them Thursday Thur day nights ni on NBC netted for the Lou Costello Jr Youth Foundation They'll return to the air in October When Esther Williams reported for work on Metros Metro's The Hoodlum Saint the up make-up girl took one look at her and went to work with turpentine It wasn't a new skin treatment treatment Estherd Estherd been painting her porch furniture the afternoon before A good assistant director has his J wits about him all the time Re Re- Recently Recently Recently at Paramount a scene for Calcutta was in progress when an arc light placed near the ceiling touched off part of the automatic sprinkler system One hundred ex ex- extras extras extras tras and the entire crew scrambled for cover but Herbie Coleman had only one worry Dont let Alan Ladd get wet he shouted We haven't a change of clothes for himl him l County Fair the Jack Bailey I show joins the small select list of I radios radio's summer replacements that have bave been so successful that they've been teen kept on Jimmy Carroll Sings is another Jimmy may act as master of ceremonies in addition to singing Jerry Wayne W star of his own ra ra- radio radio ra- ra radio dio show heard on Fridays over CBS has worked up a little act with witha a few stage and radio personalities ties to tour the army hospitals around New York Its It's a two-act two musical comedy and the boys say says say's its it's s 's swell Bashful Oswald Oswald heard on the NBC BC Grand Ole Opry is probably probably probably ably best known for his wild and raucous laugh Oswalds Oswald's two chil chil- children child children dren d en now delight their playmates l i with a good imitation of their fathers father's trademark trademark his his year three-year- old daughter is practically perfect per per- perfect at it Phillip Terry showed sh wed up on the set 01 of a. a To To Each His Own with a bad limp mp While talking to Walter Pidgeon Pidgeon eon in he rested his knee on a chair and Promptly put it out of joint So in some me of his scenes with Olivia de deHavilland Havilland and Mary Anderson you'll see Terry sitting down though originally originally nally it jt Was planned to have him stand ODDS AND ENDS Xavier ENDS Cugat will willM M not l only appear with hi his orchestra in into Metros to Holiday in Mexico hell Mexico hell he'll turn crooner as aJ well Truth or Come Conns- Consequences Ralph Edwards Edward who's who been liv liv- sag g in in w Bebe Liebe Daniels' Daniels home in Santa Monica uc is i. moving mOIling into Groucho Marx Marxt th AU U 3 fall a L Fred red Allen brings brin brin s his Allen A nf fl Players bade back to the air Sunday Sunday eve eve- Oct Ocr immediately following g i Bergen and Charlie McCarthy C Ce 11 e olta oln also have have Minerva Minerva Pious Pious tand and A Al Alman's Almans mans man's orchestra J The furore over oller r ea 1 Bacall may have been the he cause causeway way there lere was a command perfo perform perform- performS m S le leoJ oJ To Have and Have No at al land cattle castle for lor the e king and queen L H t |