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Show STAGE'CSCREEnIvRADIO Itoleuaed hy Wc-elem Newapuper Union. Ily -VIRGINIA VAMC GRACE MOORE, who's gone overseas to entertain enter-tain servicemen, i.s booked for a new radio program of her own, which will take to the air this autumn. If it isn't good it will break her record she's been successful in musical comedy, in opera, in the movies, and whenever she's done a radio stint listeners have wished for more. All that's known at the moment Is that George I - ' 4 " - V- , '4. V ). : ' ' A y . ' , GRACE MOORE I Glvot, "The Greek Ambassador," will appear with Ver. Miss Moore, looking most attractive In uniform, j bade farewell to New York officially. Just before she was due to leave. No small task lay ahead of her; a , little singer named Lily Pons had ! already set the pace for singers en- I tertalning servicemen. ) Way back years ago. Lew Ayres I shot Into stardom via his role in "All Quiet on the Western Front." William Goetz, head of International Internation-al Pictures, thinks he has under contract con-tract a young man who can dupli- 1 cate that feat. The young man is Richard Long; he hasn't completed his chores in "Tomorrow Is Forever," For-ever," but the Hollywood grapevine : caught up with him, and Goetz has turned down four offers to share Long's contract. Trust Warner Bros, to catch up with the army discharge system practically as soon as It was an-! an-! nounced. In "Janle Gets Married" Johnny Miles, Art Kassel Jr., John Sheridan and Mel Torme portray veterans who win their discharge via the point system. His fans are congratulating them-I them-I selves nowadays, since it's teen announced an-nounced that Fred Allen will take over that spot on NBC at 8:30 Sunday Sun-day evenings, (EWT) rounding out a full hour of comedy which began I with Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mc-I Mc-I Carthy. Allen will spend the summer sum-mer in setting up the program format of the broadcast that will mark his regular appearance to the air after a year's absence. Katina Paxinou, the talented Greek actress who gave such a 'magnificent performance in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" two years ago and hasn't done a picture since, i will be seen in the Charles Boyer-Lauren Boyer-Lauren Bacall starring film, "Con-J "Con-J Bdential Agent." The new March of Time "Spotlight "Spot-light on Congress" is crammed with vivid, informal shots of Wash-. Wash-. Lngton personalities. Much of the material, such as scenes of Presi-t Presi-t dent Truman talking with Senate Majority Leader Barkley, is ex-i ex-i elusive with the March of Time. ! The scenes of the biannual press i club party for new senators are ' especially entertaining. If you wonder won-der how congressmen spend their time, don't miss it. Paulette Goddard says she's now "an ex-brunette trying to acquire a blonde personality." She likes her honey-blonde hair, says her husband and his friends are enthusiastic about it, so she'll keep it that way. She finished "Kitty" and has had eight months' rest since then, the longest holiday she's ever had. Spent a lot of it at her Santa Monica beach home. She's'the same Paulette, blonde or brunette. Maybe it's so that Hal Wallis ' thinks Lizabeth Scott can be built I up to rival Lauren Bacall. Lizabeth's j Initial screen effort is "You Came Along," in which she has a fairly i difficult role. She'd had good train-i train-i ing with the road company of Olsen land Johnson's "Hellzapoppin." Says even training with the commandos ' would be a cinch beside that! ! ODDS AND ENDS 20lh Century Fo.t'j "The Way Ahead" brings David , Nii'en back to the screen for the first time since he left Hollywood to enlist in the British army. . . . Overseas entertainment enter-tainment list includes Sonja llenie. . , . Samuel Goldwyn thinks Steve Cochran, vf "Wonder Man," is "a younger Clark Gable." . . . Joan Cauljield's sister Betty, Bet-ty, who replaced Joan as the lead in Broadivay's "Kiss and Tell" has been receiving film offers as the result oj Joan's success in "Miss Susie Slagle." . . . Binnie Barnes icon the role oj "Ann Bonney" in RKO's production "The Spanish Main." |