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Show STAGE' SCREEN) IADlO lty YIKCIMA VA1.H liolesod hy WYsttM-n Nrwsp.ipov UnUm. IT'S linrd to write about Si;no llasso bivauso only superlatives should be used, and there's so much to say. Very beautiful, talented nrni intelligent, the youni; Swedish Swed-ish dramatic star is famous 1 on the Scandinavian stage ! and in England. She put in her year of waiting here for hor 'quota number, so that she could act, by writing for Swedish newspapers; even covered the resident's press conferences. She's a superb actress, I v . V j SIGXE HASSO beautifully trained. You'll get just a small sample of her work In lletro's thrilling "Assignment- in Brittany"; she stands out in a cast including such experts as Margaret "Wycherly, Richard Whorf, John Emery and George Coulouris. Christine Gordon, making her American debut in "I Walked With a Zombie," plays the zombie, the longest role in this RKO film. In Czechoslovakia Miss Gordon was well known on the stage, screen and xadic in this picture she doesn't speak a word! Carlton Morse, whose "One Man's Tamily" has been a ten-year favorite favor-ite on the air, is finally making a screen treatment of it for United Artists. What with still doing the famous radio serial and having his "I Love a Mystery" broadcast again, he's fairly busy. There's an ambitions plan under -way to open United Artists' "Stage Door Canteen" on all fighting fronts simultaneously practically all over the world, as well as on ships at sea. The event will be brought to the American public by radio; the famous folk of the show world who appear In the picture will participate, partici-pate, and there'll be conversations between them and the men of the armed forces. Lum and Abner, who must deliver their fourth picture to RKO by June 1, are still searching frantically for .just the right story. Meantime, their second film, "Bashful Bachelor," still makes money; the third, "Two "Weeks to Live," is just out At the request of King Haakon of Norway, the English offices of War-Tier War-Tier Bros, have asked that a print of "Edge of Darkness" be sent over "immediately for a special showing; "the print was rushed to Lisbon by Clipper, then to London. Starring Ann Sheridan and Errol Flynn, with a cast including Walter Huston, .Judith Anderson, Ruth Gordon and Morris Carnovsky, it tells the story of the revolt of a Norwegian village against the Nazi invaders; it's a picture pic-ture fit for a king, showing the spirit of his native land. "Ladies in Gray," a story of the American women who are working In government hospitals to help re-Jiabililate re-Jiabililate the wounded, will be produced pro-duced by Metro with the co-opera-'tion of the war department and the Red Cross. For the first time in eight years Adolphe Menjou and his wife, Veree Teasdale, will appear together In a picture; they'll be seen In "HI Did-dle Did-dle Diddle" as a husband-wife team, and are planning to continue as a starring partnership. Ann Shirley and Walter Reed, who ook screen tests together when -they were 13, for child parts in a Brian Foy picture, have the romantic roman-tic leads in "Bombardier." He didn't immediately recognize her when they met at the RKO studio; in the days when they made those tests together she was known as "Dawn O'Day" the kind of name that always used to be inflicted on child actresses. ODDS AND ENDS Gloria Blondell, thlcr of Joan, is carving a career for herself, very successfully, in "I Love a Mystery" Victor ISorge's doing fine; nfter appearing in "Broadway Melody of 1943," he'll appear in a picture with hedy Lamarr, as her leading man . . . 1'ierre Aumont, making his starring debut here as leading mnn in "Assignment "Assign-ment in Brittany," looks like just what's needed in Hollywood, where good leading lead-ing men are scarcer than hen's teeth . . . To date, Ralph Edwards' "Truth or Consequences" broadcasts from various cities have been sellouts; he hopes to tell $20,000,000 worth of war bonds on his tour. |