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Show stage: screen Radio Hy VIIiCIMA YAM. IT WAS throo times :uul thou out for : certain Hollywood jinx, for which actor John Dall thanks his lucky stars. Throe successive occupants of n certain ill-omened house in Laurel Canyon, near Hollywood, Holly-wood, tjnw to unhappy eiuis, vi:i a piano crash, suicide and murder nt tin- hands of nn unknown. Then John Pall moved in. A newcomer -.WA , j jt , , riY TiWllM .v . ' ' Vhll UliB I I niflltt I iohv run. to films, from the New York stage, he needed all the luck in the world. Two weeks later he was signed to j make his debut opposite Bette Davis i in "The Corn Is Green"; now he's on the stellar list at Warners'. The only case on record of an actor's ac-tor's being wounded by a cork in Hollywood occurred during production produc-tion of Warners' "Escape in the Desert"; Des-ert"; junior actor Blayney Lewis popped his popgun at a Nazi villain, caught Samuel Hinds In the left eye. Eight-year-old Sharon Moffett did so well in "My Pal, Wolf," that KKO promptly began looking for the right story for a starring vehicle for tier. It's been found In "Lend Lease for Penny," an original with a smalltown small-town background. A new series, to be known as "High School Kids," will be produced pro-duced by Sam Katzman for Monogram Mono-gram release; the films will be "jitterbug "jit-terbug musicals," stories of modern youth, and contracts just signed call for four a year. A special plane will fly Edwin Jerome to New York from Washington Washing-ton each Saturday, and back to the Capital late Sunday night. He has a part in the 20th Century-Fox picture, pic-ture, "Now It Can Be Told," which deals with the way the FBI handled espionage agents. All his scenes are shot right in the office of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI. But Jerome has been a regular on "Crime Doctor" ever since it went on the air five years ago, and can't miss performances because of a picture pic-ture assignment, hence the weekly plane trips. When three-year-old Ann Marshall is twelve she'll choose her own middle name. Her father, Herbert Marshall, star of the air's "The Man Called X," who on June 12 takes over the Bob Hope spot during the comedian's vacation, agrees with his wife, Lee Russell, about that. So many children are kidded because they have unusual middle names, they say, that they'll let Ann choose her own. A summary of 17 years of Academy Acad-emy Awards will be prepared as one of the Columbia Screen Snapshots Snap-shots for the current season. The reel will feature the 34 male and female stars who've received Oscars, Os-cars, starting with the 1927-28 awards to Janet Gaynor and Emil Jannings, and will present them in scenes from the pictures for which they won the awards. It'll end with Ingrid Bergman and Bing Crosby. Alexis Smith thought she was buying buy-ing curtain material for her home when she bought a lot of marquisette some time ago. But when she was cast as an angel in the Jack Benny picture, "The Horn Blows at Midnight," Mid-night," she learned that the wardrobe ward-robe department was having trouble finding sheer stuff for her costume. So she handed over her window coverings, cov-erings, hoping they could be salvaged sal-vaged for curtains later., Every day is open house for servicemen serv-icemen at Basil Rathbone's home in Bel Air, Calif., with special emphasis empha-sis put on entertainment during week ends. The star of "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" has entertained about 50,000 men and women of the armed forces. ODDS AND ENDSSuinley Clements, Clem-ents, luufih jockey of "Sully O'Rourke," is an expert harmonica player picked up the art when, as a kid, he picked up climes sinning on N. Y. subway trains. . . . Eddie Cantor has signed his Litest singing discovery, Fred Mattel, to a five-yettr contract; Fred's now a regular on Eddie's air show. . . . Cornel W ildes infant daughter, Wendy, appears with her father in Columbia's UA 'I housand and One Nights." . . . Humphrey liugart enacts his 25th homicide in "Conflict," a psychological murder mystery soon to be released by Warner llros.; he's continuing his career of crime now in "The Two Mrs. Carrolls." |