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Show STAGESCREEfODlO Released by Western Newspaper Uniovt By VIRGINIA VALE IF YOU think an actor's life's an easy one, listen to what happened to Frank McHugh. On the Thursday of his opening open-ing as star of the CBS "Phone Again, Finnegan," he reported report-ed for work at noon on the set of Century-Fox's "Carnegie Hall," at Carnegie Hall Shooting kept him there till 7 p. m., so he was an hour late to rehearsal of the radio show, was still in make-up, and had had no dinner-. Eating a sandwich between be-tween scenes, he worked straight through until the program went off the air at 11 p. m., then rushed to his hotel for a night's sleep, so that he could get up early enough the next morning to be on the movie set at 8 a. m. In 1936, during rehearsal of a radio ra-dio show, Kenny Delmar strolled into the studio, said he was an actor and wanted a job. Homer Fickett, the director, put him to work, and he had a number of starring roles. i r v KENNY DELMAR Recently for old time's sake he did two small parts, a salesman and a bartender, in "Jacabowsky and the Colonel," which Fickett directed for "The Theater Guild on the Air." Few in the audience recognized the actor-announcer who has made such a hit as "Senator Claghorn" on the Fred Allen show. Ann Sothern, of the CBS "Maisie" and the movies, is having automobile automo-bile trouble. Two weeks ago she got a red-topped convertible. Last week she started off the Metro lot in a red-topped convertible, only to discover dis-cover that it was Lauritz Melchior's. Then, at CBS, Red Skelton drove off in Ann's car, thinking It was his. And now she's learned that Tommy Tom-my Dorsey has one too! Little Marlehe Aames, the 7-year-old who recently made her debut as "Cookie Bumstead" on the "Blondie" airshow, has had her movie contract option1 taken up by the Goldwyn studios as a result of her work in her first picture, "The Best Years of Our Life." That realistic thunder you'll hear in "Pursued" came easy. They were shooting an artificially created lightning sequence at Red Rock Mesa, some 10 miles from the Army Ordnance Depot at Fort Wingate, N. M., where huge piles of obsolete ammunition was blown up. Technicians Tech-nicians recorded the terrific explosions, explo-sions, synchronized them with electrically elec-trically controlled lighting and there's your storm! 'For the first time Lauritz Mel-chior Mel-chior and his wife will spend Christmas Christ-mas in Hollywood; he completes a concert tour December 5, and isn't due in New York, for more concerts and appearances at the Metropolitan, Metropoli-tan, until January 7. Which means that Hollywood will be treated to a gala holiday series of parties in true Danish fashion, till he takes off again by plane January 4. All summer Ted De Corsia's voit made friends for him, when he starred ou NBC's "McGarry and His Mouse," replacement for "Duffy's "Duf-fy's Tavern." Then he got an urgent ur-gent call from Orson Welles and departed for Hollywood, for a featured fea-tured role in Welles' newest picture, pic-ture, starring Rita Hayworth. It is Ted's first movie role, and folks predict that tall, dark and affable Ted may be sensational. Mickey Rooney, after finishing his role in M-G-M's "Summer Holiday," launches a personal appearance tour in vaudeville October 24. At the head of a complete show, he'll play theaters in Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati and Cleveland. In addition, he plans to visit army hospitals in the vicinity of his stops and stage shows for the patients. ODDS AXD E.YDS - (Then Joan Crawford's young daughter, Christina, attended a costume party dressed as an angel, she insisted that her U'incj be spangled ivith sequins. . . . Sturgeon on rye, with garlic and a pickle Greta Garbo's favorite sandwich, . . . Jasmine Janks hasK been screen-tested at 20th Century-Fox. . . . Eileen 1'almer of "Road of Life" gets a lot of fan mail, but as she plays a very unpleasant aomiin, most of the letters request that she be dropped from the show. . . . hirn the workers in If arner tiros.' fan mail . department were startled when a man bought $14 worth of fitclll.es of Jams I'-vie. |