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Show STAGE "SCREEN RADIO uy vna;iM vale Relensed by Westorn Newsinuwr Unton. MILITARY experts contend con-tend that "Singing sol-, sol-, diers are fighting soldiers" so American army men on all fronts and in camps at home are to receive army hit-kits each month, with the lyrics of six top songs selected by the soldiers and a committee : headed by Fred Waring. As l chairman he conferred with Mark Warnow, director of NBC's "Your j All Time Hit Parade," Lanny Ross, I Jimmy Dorsey, Connie Boswell. Ma jor Howard J. Bronson and Captain Harry Salter. Kate Smith and Guy Lombardo are also members of the committee. Laraine Day, Cary Grant's leading lead-ing lady in RKO's "Mr. Lucky," has her biggest opportunity in that picture, pic-ture, but she had to be killed off tc get it. Remember her as Dr. Kil- I LARAINE DAY ' dare's nurse in the Kildare series? j She became so popular in that role that they did away with her in "Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day" sc that she'd have a chance to go on to bigger and better things. ' That overseas trip made by Kay j Francis, Martha Raye, Mitzi May fair and Carole Landis is to have ar. aftermath. Twentieth Century-Fox will base a picture on the girls' ex ' periences, calling it for the mo ment, at least "Four Jills in a Jeep." For some time the major motiop picture companies have been eyeins 'One Man's Family" it's been a r leiiding" radio serial for 11 years, and has an estimated weekly audience of Zia million listeners. Charles R Rogers finally captured the screen rights, for United Artists release hy paying Carleton R. Morse thf I. highest price ever paid for a radio program! They tell us that Virginia Weidlei ' had no warning that her sister Renef ' was going to turn up in the role oi one of her school chums in "Besi Foot Forward." Seems that Renee two years older than Virginia, haC been working as a gas station at tendant, to release a man for wai service, and intends to become a welder, but is taking a turn at the ' movies between times. The sound effects library at War ner Bros, keeps right up to date: added some new effects for "Aii Force," and ran into one of the most difficult recordings made so far-the far-the smacking sound made by the opening of a parachute when a pilol leaps. Henry Aldrich and his family have burst into print, by way of an excellent ex-cellent article in a national magazine. maga-zine. They're so real that it's a shock to go to the play, "The Patriots," Pa-triots," and see House Jameson, Henry's radio father all these years, giving a superb performance ar Alexander Hamilton. Incidentally, Madge Evans, silent screen star and wife of "The Patriots' " author, plays Thomas Jefferson's daughter. A sudden switch in the shooting schedule of Columbia's "Attack by Night" meant that Brian Aherne had to be. rushed from a golf course tc the set. He was hurried through make-up and wardrobe and out tc his place before the cameras, put on an operating table, and completely covered except for his left knee, upon which a motion picture operation opera-tion was performed! Michele Morgan, who made hei Hollywood debut in "Joan of Paris," steps into a tuneful musical comedy with her next role, when she stars in "Higher and Higher." Frank Sinatra, whom you've heard on the air, also has a prominent role. Miss Morgan's first French film gave her the lead opposite Charles Boyer. Vera Vuguc, of the Bob Hope radio program, who's made several Republic pictures, has been signed by Columbia to appear in a special series of short comedies next season . . . Columbia's picked up its option on Ann Savage; after completing a three-weeks' tour of army camps and naval stations she was given the second feminine lead in "Right Guy" . . . Bill Tultle, make up expert, made Donna Reed up for her first screen test, which won her a long-term long-term contract with Metro; their recent wedding was one result. "Mrs. Miniver" was acclaimed as the best picture of 1942 in the annual Mexican newspaper critics' poll taken recently. |