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Show STAGE' SCREEN,:KAt)IO i NrlrnnM Ivv Wrstcvn NrMp:prr V'ivUmi. Ky YIKC.IMA V A IK j IT'S tho real lVannn Durbin whom you'll soo in "Can't Help Sin ; tho picture's in technicolor, so Dcaiu.a's hair is goMen. not the darker shade created for her black nnd white films. Puit the star will have to vie with the landscape, j (or this super-Western was made against the spectacularly beautiful scenery of Utah. The turquoise blue Navajo lake could otYor competition to any actress. Peanna rated the j best lt music, too; her songs were written by Jerome Kern, author of the music for "Show Roat" and i - V - : I - f N . X I I t X , I I ; Vv' "V ; J i, ,v ,1V , ' , i DEAXXA DVRBIN many other hits, and the lyrics are by E. Y. Harburg, who turned out the verses for the songs in "Bloom- er Girl," New York's newest mu- j sical hit. j During the first eight weeks of "To Have and Have Not," at a New York theater, 350,000 persons paid to see the Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall opus. The Bogart admirers i swarmed in by thousands, many others came to see the new starlet. Johnny Coy and Miriam Franklin rehearsed for three and a half months for the dance they do in "Duffy's Tavern" two weeks longer long-er than it took Fred Astaire and Marjorie Reynolds to prepare their routines for "Holiday Inn." Incidentally Inci-dentally Johnny, recently signed by Paramount, is being hailed as a combination of Astaire and Gene Kelly, because of his performance in "Out of This World." John Cromwell has a reputation as a director who brings out hidden talent and develops stars; he's the man who made Bette Davis a star in "Of Human Bondage." In "Since You Went Away" several newcomers newcom-ers give outstanding performances. Now along comes "The Enchanted Cottage" see it and keep an eye on Eden Nicholas, Martha Holliday, "Virginia Belmont, Nancy Marlow, Robert Clarke, Bill Williams and Carl Kent. Maybe you'll be in on the development of a new star. Wally Cassell, playing a light-hearted light-hearted G.I. whom the girls go for In "G.I. Joe," the Ernie Pyle picture, pic-ture, owes his screen career to Mickey Rooney. Rooney saw him in a Los Angeles cafe, got him a screen test and a contract with Metro. If yon attend a broadcast of "Mr. District Attorney" you see Ethel Browning toting a box about three inches high; she stands on it whenever when-ever it's time for her to say her lines. The voice of a tough gun moll comes from a tiny gal who can't reach the mike! "Brother Al" Heifer, former Mutual Mu-tual Broadcasting System sports announcer an-nouncer and honorably discharged lieutenant commander of the navy, has the latest Cinderella story to tell. While strolling through the corridor cor-ridor of New York's 20th Century-Fox Century-Fox office to audition as a commentator, commen-tator, he was spotted by a talent scout. Result, a technicolor screen test and a long-term contract for the handsome, six-foot five Al. But don't look for him on the screen under that name it'll probably be changed before he faces the samaras Larry Stevens, the 21-year-old lad who replaced Dennis Day as singer on the Jack Benny program, is extra ex-tra pleased about that contract because be-cause now he can marry his high school sweetheart, Barbara Williams, Wil-liams, Universal contract player. You'd think Dick Haymes would be content, what with his "Everything "Every-thing for the Boys" air show over NEC and his starring role opposite Betty Grable in 20th Century-Fox's "Diamond Horseshoe." But now he's studying short-story writing! ODDS AND ENDS Danny Kaye is now starring on' his own air show on CItS We're told that Cornelia Olis Skinner and Holnnd Young may come back in a radio series like their "William "Wil-liam and Mary." . . . Archduke Felix of Austria told Jean Fontaine that the best movie he'd seen was "Going My Way." . . . Judy Canova is now appearing on a new series over NBC. . . . There's still popular demand for another Phil Baker show with Beetle and Bottle ; Beetle is Ward (Stage Door Canteen) Wilson, and Bottle is Harry (It Pays to Be Ignorant) McNaughton. . . . No need to identify Phil (Take It or Leave It) Baker. |