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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) TN "BILLY THE KID," Robert Taylor's new starring star-ring vehfcle for Metro, there is one scene in which all of the characters have to check their six shooters with the sheriff before attending a mass meeting. Each morning morn-ing on the set, the assistant director takes up a collection from all the extras and bit players. He "frisks" them not of their guns, but of their wrist watches. Here's the reason. The other day Robert Taylor was playing a scene in the back room of a saloon. Also in the scene were Gene Lockhart, as the bad man, Lon Chaney Jr., Norman Willis, Grant Withers and several western type extras. With hand on the door about to exit, Taylor Tay-lor spoke bis line "What time is it?" Lockhart was about to make the reply called for by the script when Director David Miller called "Cut!" One of the bearded extras had forgotten for-gotten where he was and automatically automati-cally pulled back his cuff to look at his very modern wrist watch. "Gone With the Wind" started Ona Munson on a career of what : she's afraid will de-i velop into type casting, cast-ing, the bugaboo of actors. She did "Belle Watling" in "Gone etc." and then played another "shady lady" In the picture "Wagons Westward." Now she's set for the same sort of part in "Lady From New Ona Munson Orleans," a story laid in the period of the Louisiana Purchase. It's a relief re-lief to her to do those "Big Town" broadcasts with Edward G. Robinson. Naturally, everything possible is going to be done to put Shirley Tern- pie back at the top of the star list when she goes to work for Metro. The wealthy little miss (she has more than a million in the bank) will appear ap-pear in the screen version of "Panama Hattie," a success ful musical now running run-ning on the 1 New York stage, with Ann Sothern, Elea- Shirley Temple nor Powell, Connie Russell and Red Skelton. Shirley starts her "comeback" at a salary of $2,500 a week. "The Lady Eve" gives Henry Fonda an opportunity for which he's grateful the chance to wear his own clothes on the screen for the first time in three years, and to have his hair cut. The only other time it's been trimmed during those three years was when he got that prison hair-cut for "The Grapes of Wrath." His roles have called for straight drama with a minimum of comedy, and the only time he kissed a heroine on the screen was in "Chad Hanna." In "The Lady Eve" he wears 14 different outfits everything from full dress to silk pajamas and indulges in-dulges in some bits of torrid love-making. love-making. As for Barbara Stanwyck, she wears the longest bob ever worn by a star 16 inches; she's been growing it for the last five years, ever since "Stella Dallas." She wears 25 stunning costumes, and indulge in-dulge in slapstick comedy, in her role of a woman card-shark. Horace Heidt has finally escaped his reputation as "the man with the trained dog." Before his orchestra hit the national networks and Heidt's name became a synonym for scintillating scintil-lating syncopation, Horace had a vaudeville act featuring Lobo, an amazing dog. Booking agents always al-ways thought of Lobo when Heidt's name was mentioned. But that's all in the past now, since the smashing success of his "Pot O'Gold" program. pro-gram. Overcoming unfortunate breaks was nothing new to the band-leader. At the University of California he was well on his way to football fame as a tackle when he found himself on the bottom of a scrimmage scrim-mage pile-up, and was carried off the field with a broken back. Lying in the hospital, he decided to organize or-ganize an undergraduate orchestra to help pay his way through college. The orchestra gave him conducting experience which helped him on his way to the top ranks of radio band-leading. band-leading. ODDS AND ENDS Warner Bros, releases "Christmas Under Fire," another an-other Quentin Reynolds commentary short; the. first was "London Can Take It" . . . The proceeds go to British war relief; "London" raised $26,400 for the jund . . . "The Trial of Mary Duttan" has become "The Trial of Mary Andrews" but it probably will be the same old trial . . . Rudy Vallee's sponsor spon-sor bought the rights to Rudy's new theme song, "I'll Give You a Smile for a Smile" and presented them to i'allee as a gift . . . Gene Autry, of the movies and radio's "Melody Ranch." will appear ap-pear in a rodeo act at the Fort orth stock show in March. |
