Show CRE released by western newspaper union by VIRGINIA VALE ITS really good news that comar robert montgomery recently placed on the inactive list by the navy is being starred by in a picture based on they were expendable remember it as the book that gave the world the story of the exploits of the PT P T boats in one of which general macarthur escaped to australia this will be first picture since the delightful here comes mr jor ROBERT montgomery dan were told that the cast will be made up almost entirely of men who have been in the service and comar john ford who has been responsible for so many excellent pictures will direct they were expendable pen dable 11 martha scott chos forsaken movies for the stage temporarily had a busy evening the night she did the soldiers wife on the air the play ashes now doing on the new york stage the theater of romance broadcast was moved to a CBS playhouse across the street from the theater the curtain was held that night and martha skipped from the broadcast to the stage to repeat her performance its taken harold lloyd a long on 6 time to take to radio the imme immediate success of comedy theater sunday nights on NBC proves that he should have done it long ago iles hes director and host of this unique program unique because its the only drama show devoted entirely to comedies the movie moguls are now after lloyd two companies are urging him at the moment to return to the screen a nice little assignment has for george raft in johnny angel hell play a two fisted guy in the middle of mutiny a missing cargo of gold and an affair with a mystery blonde signe hasso has been borrowed from metro to assist richard himber and ken murray of the CBS which Is which are both topnotch top notch amateur magicians ceans so hatching a plot to give a series of magic shows for charity some time soon meanwhile their novel wednesday night program is going strong steel horizons new sunday night mutual program on which a different girl singer from a different city sings with john baker each week is proving a real stepping stone to success annette burford who sang on the third broadcast has won a permanent radio assignment men t as soloist on the friday libs series music tor for naif halt an hour betty ellen morris may be the star of a new winter series damwood Dag wood arthur lake of the blondie program may be dumb on the air but lake a co owner of the pla plastic engineering company recently was awarded an army contract for an airplane part made by a process his company helped develop A tat fat sergeant recently wrote paul whiteman saying hed heard whiteman had once reduced fast the sergeant wanted to know how beca because use his girl marry h him im till he was thinner Whit emans advice concluded practically I 1 had to stop living the yearling has been on the w waiting alt I 1 ing list at metro since 1941 all sorts of problems were involved including complications regarding the animal actors in the film now its announced that metro will produce the picture next spring but the boy originally chosen to play jody has outgrown the role so another 11 year old fair haired fond of animals must be found ODDS AND ENDS so its capt burgess meredith who gets gels the coveted c hance chance to play ernie er pyle ofle in C G 1 I joe abaied on pyle aytes book k lere here Is your war ahe among g lowers are james gleason walter brennan fred astaire and humphrey bogara Boi sart SOO filipinos veterans let tet erans of at the philippine phy e invasion and other pacific campaigns paig will appear in the antis ible ibis army since the parts require men proficient with the bold knife for the guerrilla fighting sequences loan joan Craw crawfords fords warner tamer bros picture known a as Al mildred ildred pierce apparently is ii realty really set to go at last the title has been changed to house on the sand |