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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union. TF THAT Victory Caravan A appears anywhere in your vicinity you'll certainly want to see it. Players enlisted by the Hollywood Victory committee com-mittee to tour for Army and Navy relief are Charles Boy-er, Boy-er, Eleanor Powell, Merle Oberon, Rise Stevens, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Lahr, Frank McHugh, Ray MacDonald, Desi Arnaz, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Joan Bennett Ben-nett and Olivia de Havilland. It wasn't hard for Paramount to line up a cast for "Wake Island" Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, f Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker and Barbara Britton lead It. But stunt pilots were a necessity and -only four could be found! Fifteen years ago there were at least 100 who vied for jobs in such pictures as "Wings" and "Hell's Angels"; now they're in the army, navy, marine ma-rine corps and Royal Canadian Air force. When Betty Jane Rhodes was a child actress, appearing in "Forgotten "Forgot-ten Faces," Herbert Marshall used -to buy her miniature airplanes as .gifts. Reginald Denny gave her two j . V v1, k ' ,. " - x . It I BETTY JANE RHODES model planes with tiny gas engines. She's a welder in an aircraft plant in the new musical, "Priorities of 1942," completely surrounded by planes, and is air-minded enough to be perfectly happy. Richard Lyons, sevcn-ycar-old son of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyons, is "" iVTITViirS f" ,ittl hia ""''" career " k while his parents star on the radio In England instead of on the American Amer-ican screen. He has an important role in "Atlantic Convoy"; is playing play-ing an English refugee, which comes close to his own life. Pat O'Brien's youngsters Ma-vourneen, Ma-vourneen, seven, and Sean, five, visited their father on location- at the Alhambra airport for "He's My Old Man," and persuaded the technical tech-nical advisor to take them on a flight. The ""flight" consisted of taxiing taxi-ing from one end of the field to the other. Lynn Martin appeared several weeks ago in a singing commercial on the air's Radio Theater, and received re-ceived so much praise that when a night club sequence appeared in a later script she was promptly signed for it. Also, she was engaged to sing with Ray Noble's band on the Edgar Bergen show. The last picture John Eeal did in Hollywood before he went to New York to appear in a stage play was "The Man Who Found Himself," in which Joan Fontaine was getting her start. He gave her a pep talk, told her to stick to it and some day she'd win the Academy Award. She visited him on the set of "Atlantic Convoy" the other day. "I just came to tell you that you told me so!" she said. Pat Friday, another young singer recently heard with Bergen, told Ray Noble that he played Cupid for her and her aviator-husband. They were listening to his orchestra, at a Los Angeles hotel, and to its music mu-sic her husband told her that she was the most beautiful girl in the world. She thinks the music had a lot to do with it "But it was so beautifully done that I just had to marry him!" Jean Tennyson, star of "Great Moments in Music," has inaugurated inaugurat-ed a "Share Your Birthday With Men in the Service" campaign she took her 45 pound birthday cake to the Stage Door Canteen in New York and divided it among men of toe armed forces. ODDS AND ENDS Evelyn Kcyes wears exotic perfumes so pi(y Glenn ,?.rd playing opposite her in "He's My Old Man," as he s allergic to perfumes . . . iiirfs like a record of some kind i" first five pictures liofter Clark kissed Marlcne Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, Lupe Velcz, Ruth Ford and Eileen O U earn . . . Robert Ryan has reported report-ed to RKO Radio for one of the choic-est choic-est roles ever handed a screen newcomer, new-comer, that of the lead in "Name, Ape "d Occupation" ... "1'arachute Nurse" brought Marguerite Chapman and William Wright their first screen kiss and when he grasped her the first time she slipped and turned her ankle! |