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Show STAGE "SCREEN RADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.l DOROTHY LAMOUR may have to remain in the sarong that made her famous, but Jon Hall has finally grabbed off a role that will enable him to wear regular clothes the curse of "The Hurricane" has lifted for him, if not for her. After his success among its winds and waves he was idle for two years. Then Producer Edward Small asked to borrow him for another an-other South Seas picture, "South of Pago-Pago." Near the end of shooting shoot-ing on it, Small was planning to film "Kit Carson," and had already signed Randolph Scott for the leading lead-ing role when Hall appeared at the studio one day wearing a ten gallon f x J I ' $ "J 1 1 7" I JON HALL hat and a semi-cowboy outfit. He had a late call for work that day, and had spent the early morning hours riding with his wife, Frances Langford. Small met Hall near the actor's dressing bungalow and now it's Hall instead of Randolph Scott whom you'll see as Kit Carson. In its latest issue, "The Philippines; Philip-pines; 1896-1946," the March of Time pictures the new problems facing the Philippines as a result of today's mounting war fever, and shows how Philippine independence, scheduled to take effect in 1946, is already threatened by Japan's current cur-rent expansion program in the south Pacific. h It's been announced that Joan Blondell plans to retire from the screen indefinitely when she finishes fin-ishes "I Want a Divorce." She has been suffering from severe colds and inertia for the past year, and says that she will travel throughout America with a road company, (a novel cure for both severe colds and inertia!) and later on will make an extended tour of South America for a change of climate. Fred MacMurray has grown to be so expert at water polo that a company com-pany that makes short features has asked him to make, one on the sport. Felix Knight, starred on the airwaves' air-waves' "All Star Revue," had a bad moment recently. After he had sung a medley of songs about the month of May, gardens and apple orchards, the Three Jesters strode up and down the aisles, tossing apples ap-ples and other farm products to the audience. Knight swears he was scared to death for fear the fruit would be handed right back hurtling hur-tling through the air straight at him. If Columbia's Wayne King wanted to start up in the pipe tobacco business, busi-ness, he already has a large clientele clien-tele all over the country. For 15 years he has been smoking his own private mixture, but he won't tell anyone what it is. It's the result of four years of experimenting. But though he won't give away the secret of the mixture, he does give away the tobacco 12 pounds of it a month. When he travels on personal per-sonal appearance tours there's always al-ways a large can of it on his dressing dress-ing table so if his orchestra is playing play-ing in your town, and you know anyone any-one who smokes a pipe, you might drop in and get some. . Deems Taylor, the music critic and composer who acts as master of ceremonies on "Musical Americana," Ameri-cana," has a maid who delights In taking part in contests of all kinds. She was greatly excited recently when she was notified that she had qualified among the winners in a national contest, and couldn't wait to receive her prize. When it came it turned out to be an autographed copy of Taylor's latest book on music! j Bob Trout maintains that during those first few days after war really broke loose he averaged only two and one-half hours' sleep out of each 24, and could have floated a battleship battle-ship on the amount of coffee he drank to keep awake. Newscasting isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Republic has arranged to produce a picture starring Gene Autrey; the title will be "Melody Ranch" same as his radio program and several members of the radio cast will appear ap-pear in the picture. |