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Show STAGE v SCREEN, RADIO lly VIKCIMA M.V. Itolcnaf (1 by WeMtern NcwtipuLKT Union. MARY ASTOK certainly started somethinj; when she signed up as master of ceremonies for that new Thursday nij;ht air show, in which she is starred with Charles Runnh's and Mischa Auer. Witliln a work sponsors were being deluded with plans for pro-Cinms pro-Cinms on which cirls would net as emcees. Anil just nslc John Chnrles Thomns If the ladies nre taking overl lie's a plaeld, composed ln-dlvidiuil, ln-dlvidiuil, but he nearly lost his culm " '. '' .('' ': ' ' , 7 : : i " -- ' ' , I . - ,v . , f it MARY ASTOR recently, at one of his Sunday after noon broadcasts, when he saw six new girl members of the orchestra. Penny ("Blondie") Singleton is a very proud young woman. She now answers to the name of Mrs. Major Sparks her husband was recently promoted, after performing distinguished distin-guished service as a captain. Penny's Pen-ny's more elated than he isl If it's announced that Capt. Clark Gable will appear at your local movie house in a new picture, "Wings Up," don't expect to see a great deal of him in it. The film's an Office of War Information short subject, and it's certainly worth seeing, see-ing, but Gable isn't on the screen much of the time. He acts as narrator, nar-rator, and makes an appearance only in the concluding scenes. Now you'll have to add another Ameche to your list. He's Jim Jr., son of Jim Sr. of the Sunday "Here's to Romance" broadcasts, nephew of Don. The five-year-old appears on CBS in the "Big Sister" serial. To make the cloud effects for the Heaven scenes In "A Guy Named Joe," starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne, the air must be undisturbed un-disturbed and the temperature even. So an air lock system is being used on the heavy double studio doors, and a watchman's been installed to see that the outer one's closed before be-fore the inner one's opened. Of course the cast has nicknamed him Gabriel. Among the congratulatory wires Bill Stern received when he switched to a Friday night spot on NBC was one signed by George Raft, Betty Grable and Tommy Dorsey. He's slated to make a movie with them some time next falL They put Marie McDonald into a wig, for the first time in her life, for scenes in "Tornado," since her own blonde hair was too short. So when she lighted a gas heater In her dressing room, gas which had escaped during the night exploded In a burst of flame, which caught the long ends of the wig. The wig was ruined; Marie would have been badly burned if she hadn't thought fast and snatched it off. Eigne Hasso, of "Assignment in Brittany," has been signed to contract con-tract by Metro, and around the studio stu-dio they are predicting that she will be one of the biggest stars in Hollywood Holly-wood after two or three roles In top pictures. Anne Shirley, the romantic interest inter-est of "Bombardier," has the largest larg-est collection of service men's flying wings of any Hollywood star 42. But Donna Reed has a set of flying reports taken from a Jap flier shot down at Guadalcanal, a bomb fragment frag-ment from London, and walrus tusk sewing needles from Iceland, all gent her by soldier admirers. Susan Peters and her fiance, Richard Quine, had a bad spill the other day. They were showing off before some friends with a bit of trick double riding, on Susan's new motor bike it went down and so did they, but hurt nothing but their pride. ODDS AND ENDS Humphrey Bogart and Robert Young have made more free appearances for the Screen Guild Players than anybody else leven broadcasts apiece for the charity . . . "A Date With Judy" another serial about an American family, will replace Eddie Cantor's "Time to Smile" program pro-gram for the summer . . . The day after Phillips Lord blasted tire stealers on "Gang Dusters" he started for Maine end somebody stole the tires of his roadster . . . George Lowther, writer-narrator-producer of "Superman," says he's never had mike fright because he spent three years as cheer leader at New Haven high school, megaphone in hand. |