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Show STAGE SCREEN :ADlOv ly YUUUNIV V A IK IWle.nstM by Western Nowspaiu'i Union. IriniiKU Mv'llKK is pliMitj soro these days in tlu muscles, not the temper Here's the reason. The UKC picture, "Heavenly Hays,' vhich he mid Molly are inaklng, in -UuU-s a dream fantasy in whirl Fibber, as a typical American clti ion, enters the U. S. senate chambc and swims n round IS foot above thi floor. It's done with invisible piaiu wives which accounts for the son muscles Now that K. T. Stevens hai achieved screen stature with hei dramatic lead in the William Cam eron Menzies production, "Addresi Unknown," at Columbia, she cai claim the distinction of being tin S s , . -J - Ns K. T. STEVENS only Hollywood star who still live! In the house where she was born K. T. is the daughter of producer director Sam Wood, and still live: with her parents in the family mansi In Hollywood. One night recently 70 soldier! were having fun in a New York nigh club. One thought he recognized t big. buxom blonde in the audience "Miss Tucker," he said, "the boys would sure get a thrill if you'd sini 'Some of These Days' for them We're on our last furlough, headinf ' overseas." She sang, she wroti "Sophie Tucker" on menus for them Didn't want to disappoint the boys by explaining that she's Lulu Bates practically a double for Miss Tuck er, a well-known blues singer who's starring now on NBC's "All Time Hit Parade." Barry Wood, singer and master ol ceremonies on "The Million Dollar Band," doesn't have too much time or his farm these days. He's beer entertaining wounded servicemen ai the Halloran and St. Albans hospitals, hospi-tals, near New York. Incidentally, that's a fine idea Barry has that of giving war savings sav-ings stamps as tips. It is one that is oeing widely copied in radio circles. i Something new has been added tc Webster's dictionary; the new edi tion will include the word "pup petoon," according to word recentlj received by Paramount. II you're a movie-goer you know1 it well; it's derived from "puppet" and "cartoon," "car-toon," and is the registered trademark trade-mark of those short subjects produced pro-duced by George Pal. "And ,tc rhink That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," picturization of the novel ol the same name, is the latest in the jeries of Technicolor Puppetoons produced by Pal for Paramount. Helen Mack, who's appearing in "And Now Tomorrow" with Loretta SToung and Alan Ladd, has been nicknamed "Droopy Helen" by hei friends because she plays so many imotional roles. She began training !or roles like that back in the Jays when she studied acting in a New York children's theater school, A-here she had some classmates destined des-tined to be well known Helen Chan-iler. Chan-iler. Ruby Keeler and Gene Raymond Ray-mond among them. The movies' own Margaret Sulla-fan, Sulla-fan, returning to the New York itage to star with Elliot Nugent n the highly successful "The Voice 3f the Turtle," juggles three different differ-ent careers expertly the stage, the icreen, and hardest of all, that of i good wife and mother ... It vas thrilling to sit in the audience me night recently and find that, Tvhen people murmured "Isn't it wonderful that he's here?" and itood up to stare, it was Lieutenant Commander Robert Montgomery whom they meant. A huskier look-ng look-ng Robert Montgomery than in his picture-making days, looking very landsome in uniform. ODDS AND ENDS-Wulluce Beery's brother Noah is slutftd for a role in 'ally's new picture, "Gold Town' . . . Belly If inkier, "Joyce Jordan, A7. D." liar, has given a pint of blood once tvery four months since I'earl Harbor . . Hetty Ilutton wrecked five studio 'ocking homes while recording her l(ocking Horse" specialty song in aramount's "For the Angels Sing" . . Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Vayo Methot, are making a short at Vomer's, "A Report From the Front," lor the American Bed Cross; it in-lludes in-lludes comment on their recent 10,000-nile 10,000-nile VSO entertainment tour of North tfrican and Italian war fronts. |