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Show stAgecscreenaeio Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE pENNIS WATERS was late -1 ' the morning he reported for work in RKO's "Crack-Up," "Crack-Up," and lost the part that of a drunk whose face is never visible to the camera. Two days later the former marine ma-rine got a better one, when Director Irving Reis learned that Waters had been late because be-cause he'd been unable to find a home nearer than Santa Ana, 60 miles from Hollywood, his car was wrecked the night before he was to report, and the bus he was riding on that morning broke an axle. So Reis cast him In a role In which, riding on a train with Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor and Herbert Marshall, he tries to get acquainted acquaint-ed with Miss Trevor. Just good luck disguised as bad! At NBC they think Christofer Lynch is going to be one of the sensations sen-sations of radio this year. The Irish tenor after being launched in style on the September 30 broadcast of "Voice of Firestone" at Carnegie hall, no less, will alternate on the - ' V ! v . i ( - fc . f " ." '' " ' CHRISTOFER LYNCH program with Eleanor Staber. He's . a John McCormack discovery, has sung extensively in concerts in Europe, and will give a series of concerts here. Robert Mitchum, who quit at Lockheed four years ago to act In a Western film, has been coming along fast; he's now working opposite op-posite Teresa Wright In "Pursued," for United States Pictures. But his big break comes with top billing in RKO's "Build My Gallows High," in the principal role, originally intended in-tended for John Garfield, then for Dick Powell. Three cheers for Metro, where they're doing right by that swell ' mystery, "The Whispering Cup," by Mabel Seeley. Clifford Odets wrote the screen play, and will direct; Pandro S. Berman produces. It's one of our best mysteries, and whould make a fine picture. Have you heard Suzy on "County Fair," Saturday afternoons on CBS? Suzy, 16, was picked out of the audience, audi-ence, given Katy, a six-year-old mongrel, and told to prove that an old dog can be taught new tricks. To the amazement of the radio moguls who spend weeks and thousands thou-sands of dollars on ideas for radio programs, this simple stunt draws listeners as honey draws flies. Everybody Ev-erybody who's heard her loves Suzy, people write in suggesting new tricks, or asking how on earth Suzy's taught Katy the ones she knows. Peter Donald is landing at the top in radio this season, after some years of showing that, as a story teller and dialectician, he belonged there. He is a star in his own right on the "Pot o' Gold" program pro-gram over ABC, and is also permanent per-manent on the Fred Allen show, since Fred signed him to create a new character to replace Falstaff Openshaw. It isn't Zuzka Zenta any more, it's Susan Douglas. Susan, who hails from Czechoslovakia, finished her role in "The Private Affairs ol Bel Ami" in a hurry so that she could hurry to New York and get her final citizenship papers. She became Susan because that's a literal translation trans-lation of her first name. She got Douglas out of a telephone directory in a search for a real American name. Phil Baker's "Take It or Leave It" is a magnet for visiting Hollywood Holly-wood stars and Broadway ditto an audience sprinkled with Al Jolson, Gene Autry, Bing Crosby and other celebrities is typical. They say Baker is "a performer's performer." ODDS AND ENDS Nine years ago Adolph Menjou appeared as Deanna Durbin's father in "J00 Men and a Girt"; he'll be one of her swains in Til Be Yours". . . Bobby Doyle, of CBS "Tonight on Broadway" gets a loi of fan mail from ex-GJj, wishing luck to the new singing discovery. . . . Lou Nova, who's made several films since he fought Joe Louis, has a comedy role in Warner Bros.' "Love and Learn." . . . 20th Century-Fox's "The Razor's Edge" will be released in 23 foreign languages. . . . When a c.'ifir 6oj clothes caught fire in "This Time for Keeps" Lauritz Melchoir beat out the flames with his bare hands. |