Show E SCREEN ADIO Uy By VIRGINIA VALE by Western Newspaper p per Union WAS rumored some time IT ago that Frank Sinatra didn't like his role in his first picture Higher and Higher and therefore therefore therefore there- there fore didn't want to do it For all nil anybody knows the lad may have dramatic talents that will bring him success success equal to the fame hes he's won as a singer The picture Wake Up and Live which Ben Bernie and Walter Winchell Winchell Winchell Win- Win chell made some years ago seems a perfect vehicle Now that Sinatra has replaced Bing Crosby's horses as the trading leading topic of most of the radio comedians its it's only fit and proper that Bing and he are arranging arrangIng arranging ing to appear on each others other's broadcasts broad broad- casts Phil Bakers Baker's Take It or Leave It is about to become a motion J. J Twentieth Fox Century-Fox has signed Baker to star in a comedy built around and named for the CBS I Sunday night quiz Take It or I dOE q r r a PHIL BAKER Leave It departs for Hollywood following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing the February 27 broadcast to start work on the film film with with Brian Foy directing the picture should be worthy of the air show I In Marine ul Raiders Pat OBrien O'Brien Bob Ryan and Ruth Hussey Bussey Bus Hus- sey eight men of the cast have received received re re- honorable discharges after months of action In the South Pa Pa- All eight have been awarded the Purple Heart t London whooped it up over the performance of year six Margaret Marga Marga- ret OBrien O'Brien in Lost Angel when the picture was launched there The newspapers couldn't praise her highly high high- ly enough She made her screen debut in Metros Metro's Journey for Mar Mar- garet Shell She'll play Little Eva in their technicolor production of Uncle Uncle Uncle Un cle Toms Tom's Cabin with Lena Horne Home as Eliza and Lewis Stone as St. St Clair Last year Bette Davis was compelled compelled compelled com com- to decline an honorary degree degree degree de de- de- de gree from her fathers father's alma mater Bates college in Maine This year Rollins college in Winter Whiter Park Fla wanted her to drop in on February 25 to accept a PhD Ph.D. but she had to decline again With Mr Skeffington Skeffington Skeffington now being filmed and The Th Corn Cora Is Green coming up she cant can't get away for the ceremonies K The new Horace Heidt Heldt show Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day evenings on the Blue network is rapidly becoming a must on the broadcasting lists of many American American American Amer Amer- ican homes Certainly nothing could be more dramatic than this attempt to find just the right job for two honorably discharged service men each week And the rest of the show holds up as excellent entertain entertain- ment One of the biggest plums that a Hollywood director could get was that of directing The Robe It went to Mervyn LeRoy who did Madame Curie Random Harvest harvest Har lIar vest Anthony Adverse and many other successful pictures It'll keep him busy for some time t Anne Jeffreys blonde model ex-model was on her way to an operatic career career career ca ca- ca- ca reer when films lured her to Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood now she's getting her first important break iq in a major production production production tion playing the second feminine lead in the new Sinatra picture Radios Radio's Stage Door Canteen heard over CBS helps maintain canteens canteens canteens can can- teens in New York Hollywood WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Boston and Philadelphia Not content with that the Stage Door have adopted a fleet of the the navys navy's landing craft infantry and are keeping the entire group entertained entertained en en- via letters and surprise packages The program is presented present present- ed by the American Theatre Wing ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Shen When Madame Curie was in ill its seventh week meek at NewYork New NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's Radio Radia City music hall it was also abo playing its seventh week weak for lor the troops on the Italian rant battlefront Charlie McCarthy McCar thy Ihy turns turn ventri ventriloquist in Song of 01 the Open Road with a replica of 01 himself himell called railed Junior on his hiJ knee knee A North African soldier fan Ian of 01 CBS CDS singing star tar lerl Jeri Sullavan has dubbed her the th girl gin with the pin up voice John Cart Gar radios radio's busiest conductor arranger has hai composing the original musical score lor C S' S War Town a new dra dra- natie malic series erie with a contemporary theme starring Ralph Bellamy 4 0 w |