OCR Text |
Show STAG EC SCREEN MOJO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Uni9n.) A STUDIO stage hand stole the spotlight from William Wil-liam Powell and Hedy La-marr La-marr when Wendell Willkie (who recently was elected chairman of the board of 20th Century-Fox) visited the stars. Willkie arrived just in time to watch them doing their first love scenes in "Crossroads," and offered to change places with Powell Pow-ell The stage hand, Pinky Picciano, had a brother who was a petty officer on the battleship Mississippi when Willkie's brother Ed was a division di-vision officer on the ship, and entertained en-tertained Willkie and the cast with anecdotes. Incidentally, in his new position Willkie will not "perform any executive duties or be actively connected with the operation of the company." Eleanor Powell's spun glass hula skirt is scheduled for a tour of the army camps; so are two other costumes cos-tumes a pink satin tails and top hat and an abbreviated toreador outfit. out-fit. She's bought the rest of the costumes she wore in "Ship Ahoy," and they'll go along. When Jack Benny takes his Sunday Sun-day night radio show to army camps the member of the cast who has the most fun is Rochester; the soldiers j EDDrE ANDERSON I (Rochester.) always supply him with a "jeep," and he has the time of his life riding rid-ing all over camp. "No rougher than the Maxwell," says he. William Holden was the first married mar-ried Hollywood man to join the services; serv-ices; quitting motion pictures at the top of his career, he became a private pri-vate in the army. You'll remember him as the small-time bookkeeper in "The Remarkable Andrew," for his speech for democratic ideals. He married Brenda Marshall last July; she is working at Warner Brothers' in "The Constant Nymph." Virginia Dale went home to Charlotte, Char-lotte, N. C, for a vacation, and returned re-turned with a husband, one who's probably unique among Hollywood husbands. He's 28, his name is Courtland Shephard, and his business busi-ness is, of all things, commercial shark fishing! There's no sound-effect trickery about it when you hear George or Gracie Allen running up and down stairs. A set of wooden steps 12 of them; count 'em, some time is near the mike, and Ed Lutas, sound-effect sound-effect operator, does the skipping up and down. If it hadn't been for the red polish on her nails, three-year old Patsy Nash would have played a boy in "I Live on Danger." She was discovered dis-covered when she and her mother were waiting for a bus. Producers William Pine and William Thomas wanted a little boy for the picture, thought she'd do. Then they also discovered the red polish, learned that she was a girl and rewrote the part for her. She was so good that they've optioned her for a featured fea-tured role in the Richard Arlen "Interceptor "In-terceptor Command." It begins to look as if the gentlemen gentle-men have it when correct answers have to be given. During 11 weeks of broadcasting, on Bob Hawk's Friday Fri-day CBS quiz, 14 men have won ?4,474 in defense bonds; only 8 women have scored, winning $1,879. For the past three years Alan Bunce has been radio's popular "Young Doctor Malone"; during that time he's picked up many fine points of medicine, so many that he was chosen to play Dr. Walters" Wal-ters" in "Chaplain Jim, U. S. A.," the new Monday through Friday dramatization which is being presented pre-sented in co-operation with the radio ra-dio division of the war department. ODDS AMD ENDS Hal Peary, the air's "Great Gildcrslceve" has signed at RKO to appear with Fibber McGce and Molly in their next picture . . . And RKO has cast Randolph Scott and Jackie Cooper in top roles with Pat O'Brien in "Battle Stations" a story of three V. S. navy gunners . . . One oj screendom's favorite juvenile teams-Mickey teams-Mickey Rooney and Freddie Bartholomew, Bartholo-mew, will be reunited in "Yank at Eton" . . . Their last appearance together to-gether was in "Lord Jeff" four years ago . . . "Tish," adapted from Mary Roberts Rinehart's delightful stories, is bring screened by Metro. |