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Show STAGEvSCREEN, -ADIO Acl-nril by Vtrn Newspaper UnUvn. By V1KG1MA VAI.K '-pIUCY'UE tolling it on 1 Kayo Emerson Roosevelt. Seems she sent Sel.nick International In-ternational producer, Dora Sehary, a bill for $6.00 ns tha fee for plusim; his picture, 'Til Be Seeing You." The Roosevelt bride got into a taxi at the Warner studio and forgot for-got to toll the driver her destination. destina-tion. But she did shout "I'll be see-Ins see-Ins you" to a group of friends. x' vl FAYE EMERSON Whereupon the driver, asking no questions, drove her straight to the theater where the picture was playing. play-ing. The meter rang up $6.00, she sent Schary the bill and he paid it Anyway, that's the story. Incidentally, "1 11 Be Seeing Yon" Is the first of the rehabilitation pictures, pic-tures, which will probably be a cycle before It ends. Joseph Cotten plays the returned soldier. Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple are co-stars. co-stars. RKO's "Enchanted Cottage" is another one, with Dorothy Mo-Gnire Mo-Gnire and Robert Young In leading lead-ing roles. Warner Bros, have three scheduled "The Very Thought of Ton," "Janie Gets Married," and "This Love of Ours." New York fell heels over head In love with little Margaret O'Brien the instant she arrived. But Margaret Mar-garet never lost her head, though two of her pictures, "Music for Millions" and "Meet Me in St. Louis," were being shown at big movie houses, with crowds pouring In to see them. She could have appeared ap-peared on any number of radio programs, pro-grams, attended any number of parties. Everyone adored her. - Lana Turner and Van Johnson draw the leading roles In Metro's production of "The Pirate," which Lynn Fontaine and Alfred Lunt did on the stage. This will probably be one of those pictures that are so gorgeous gor-geous to look at that nobody cares whether there's a plot or not. Anyway, Any-way, who cares about a plot if they can watch the lovely Lana, wearing wear-ing marvelous costumes? Though Dan Duryea succeeded Franchot Tone as president ot the dramatic club at Cornell, he had no thought of acting professionally; it took six years in an advertising agency to lead him to the stage, and a career of playing men you'd like to choke. He does it again in "The Woman in the Window" he's cast as a bodyguard who turns blackmailer after his boss is murdered. mur-dered. William Powell is going to appear again as the late Florenz Ziegfeld, this time In Metro's all-star. Technicolor Tech-nicolor "Ziegfeld Follies." Powell first played the Follies producer in "The Great Ziegfeld," which brought Luise Rainer an Academy award. They'll never be able to type Michael O'Shea. A low-brow comic in his first film, "Lady of Burlesque," Bur-lesque," he then played Jack London Lon-don in the film based on the author's life; he was "Mulveroy" in "The Eve of St. Mark," and a Actionized character based on Henry Kaiser in "The Man From Frisco." And on NBC's "Gaslight Gayeties," he shares honors with Beatrice Kay in singing old-time ditties. They rented a $65,000 necklace of white jade for Hedy Lamarr to wear in "Experiment Perilous." Then they photographed it, and it just wasn't white enough for the camera. So they covered it with 40 cents' worth of white, washable make-up! ' Audrey Young of the Broadway musical comedy stage, has never yet been seen on the screen; her first picture Is Paramount's "Out of This World." She's good enough, though, so Paramount borrowed her from RKO for a leading role in "George White's Scandals of 1945." ODDS AND ENDS Ginny Simms, star of "Johnny I'n .ents," recently was chilly at rehearsul and asked lor a fur coal it seemed to walk lo her alone, till Johnny stepped out of it. . . . Bob Hopes sponsor announced an-nounced that bob's new ten-year contract con-tract involved uhal is believed to be the tartest total sum ever negotiated in a single deal for radio talent. . . . Hudy Vallee returns to the screen in "Veople Are FaiHV.". . Eddie lirucken inherits i one o the choice time-spots in radio I uhen he gets hts own show February j 14 the time immediately following Charlie McCarthy. |