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Show ST)liE SCREEN,: ftADlO n- vna;iM vai.k IT'S a wont comfort, whilo v a t c li i it iX U n i v o v s a I ' s Thantoni Laay." to rotloot that, tui ntattor how monne-in;; monne-in;; tho villain is, ho simply niust not bo allow to kill tho heroine. The picture's a murder mystery that comes very close t being as good as the best of the stiiier-thrillers. There are some strikingly beautiful photographic shots, many excellent performances. The cast is headed by Klla R nines and Frnchot Tone; it includes Alan Curtis, Thomas Gomez, Andrew Tombs nd Elisa Cook Jr. All members of the Thursday Bob Burns airshow will be busy moviemaking; movie-making; for the next couple of months. The "Arkansas Traveler" will be performing In "Belle of the Tukon," with Dinah Shore and Gypsy Kose Lee; Spike Jones and his City SUckers In "Ziegfeld Follies." Fol-lies." Ella Raines was signed by Charles Boyer and Howard Hawks to a contract con-tract when neither had seen her act yet they made her sole asset of a producing company capitalized at $1,000,000! During her first year in pictures she made good with lead roles in four pictures for three dif- i AWy - - 1 .1.7 I . 1 . .. ? " . .-' 5 EIXA RAINES ferent companies. Now under contract con-tract to Universal, she's beautiful brown hair, green eyes), talented (See "Corvette K-225," "Cry Havoc," "Phantom Lady"), and her name is really Ella Raines Trout; hex husband hus-band is Capt. Kenneth Trout, who has the President's Citation, the Distinguished Dis-tinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. The crew of a U. S. submarine In - --''he Pacific was the first audience to cear the musical numbers of Samuel Goldwyn's "Up in Arms"; advance copies of records of songs by Danny Saye and Dinah Shore were presented present-ed to Lieut. Com. H. J. Kossler, USN, by RKO Radio. Marcy McGuire has been besieged by Sinatra fans by letter and in person who want to know how she felt when she worked before the cameras with him. "They tell me I'm lucky," says she as if she hadn't known all along what a break it was for her. But where they saw it as" a thrilling experience, she saw it as a big help in her career. And that recent personal appearance tour didn't hurt, either. Bnd Abbot and Lou Costello can claim the title of "The World's Highest High-est Priced Dishwashers" since their recent appearance at a bond rally at Victory House in Los Angeles. Made members of the Dishwashers' Union, they auctioned off their services. serv-ices. Ted Lewis bought them with 25,000 worth of bonds, invited 12 guests to dinner. The comedians demanded that he double his purchases pur-chases before they tackled the job. "Wide Horizons," the new radio series on Mutual Sunday afternoons, is practically a must. Eddie Dowl-ing, Dowl-ing, the actor-playwright-producer, is a star-maker as well; he launched Bob Hope, Kate Smith and William Saroyan. His new discovery is Maria Mendoza. Three daughters of famous fathers are working at Warner Bros, these days. Karen Hale, daughter of Alan, makes her film debut in "Cinderella Jones," in which Walter Brennan's daughter Ruth also appears. Dolores Prinz is in musical sequences of "Janie" directed by her father. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the world's greatest, will ! launch a series of five broadcasts j over NBC on March 25, under the j baton of Desire Defauw. The pro- grams have been titled "The Fes-I Fes-I tival of Symphonic Favorites," and I will be broadcast from Orchestra Hall. ODDS AND ENDS Alice Faye's j first non-musical dramatic role will be 1 that of "Sissy in the motion picture version of "A Tree Grows in Brook-i Brook-i lyn," at 20th Century-Fox . . . Perry Como will certainly be something for the girls when he does "Something for the Boys' . . . Norman Corwin has wu blanche on his new radio program, pro-gram, "Norman Corwin Presents" . . . ifedy Lamurr has been borrowed from Metro by W arner Bros, for the leading feminint role in "The Conspirators," opposite Paul Henreid . . . Bette Davis , asked that George Coulouris be assigned j to "Mr. Skeffington," her new picture. |