Show 4 S STAGE ea SCREEN RE N RADiO 10 by VIRGINIA VALE released by western News newspaper poPer union N WAKE ISLAND paramount IN has shown what a war picture ought to be the truth was so dramatic c that there was no need to dress it up with a fancy plot and praise goes to the writers W R burnett and frank butler and to director john farrow tor for letting that plot be as slight as a poss possible ible farrow farro w directed it supe superbly rb the members of the cast did a memorable job pretty good cast incidentally including brian donlevy walter abel robert preston macdonald carey and albert dekker dont miss A word more about wake island it was first shown at the quantico marine base w with ith an audience of 2000 2 marines who cheered it wholeheartedly the surest guarantee that theres nothing phoney about this very swell picture when you see seven days leave keep an eye on marcy meguire mcguire il if youre you re interested in stellar material she plays a brat sister 1171 1 11 7 ui MARCY mcguire 0 of f lucille balls with a crush on victor mature during filming her i part was fattened three times so that she finally had two musical numbers of her own and a comedy romance that in the original script lona iona reed chos a stunt woman as well as claire stand in in the desperadoes has ridden horses that cow punchers w n it mount leaped from high cliffs risked her neck in dozens of ways hut but she balked at an assignment the other day the script called tor for claire ciaire to smoke a cigar loua iona was told to do it and said no she cant even smoke a cigarette porter hall who plays the thieving double crossing heavy in the desperadoes has just been made a deacon ip in the first presbyterian church of hollywood hes usually cast as a villain but hes he s never owned a gun since he served in the last war he drink or gamble he practically never smokes yet on the screen he stops at nothing paramount has a file of what do you suppose cobwebs Cobweb sl I 1 due to priorities its impossible now to get the liquid rubber of which movie cobwebs used to be made the studio lasquite has quite a few murder mysteries like street of chance coming along so the prop department got busy wove cobwebs out of the material on hand and filed them away tor for reference charles W koerner head of radio production has announced that artistic and prestige films of dubious box office merit are out well some of those prestige films were pretty dull but a lot of really fine and profitable pictures would never have been made if that ruling had gone through years ago wed not have had the grapes of wrath or gone with the wind or pasteur or a good many others that look like money makers before they were released life masks taken directly from the faces of a group of stars along with fashion sketches original charcoal sketches of sets and other material used in preparing a film will comprise a traveling educational exhibit soon to be sent on tour by frances parker lecturer will accompany it and it win will be displayed at universities schools civic and educational societies september 30 marks a special anniversary niver sary in the national barn dance show the completion of ten consecutive years on the air broadcasting 52 weeks a year yar other radio pro programs gramis have come and gone but the barn dance goes on forever ODDS AND ENDS greer garson carson has signed a long term contract with metro her first picture under the new arrangement will be madams madame curie curia james cagney bought a war bond which entitled him to two tickets for the hollywood opening of his pic twe ture yankee doodle dandy freddie bartholomew has bought himself a motorcycle which he rides bade back and forth to columbia lor for work in junior army larry elliott an bouncer on bob hawks how hoie am I 1 doin air air show has landed the she nor rating assignment on universals sars new short entitled how canada tracks omm nazis |