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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHEN Jose Iturbi heard that Morton Gould and Alec Templeton were to ap- pear on the same radio pro-! pro-! gram he said "You may rest assured that you will hear s every type of music from Bach to boogie and Wagner to woogie! " Which is about what happens on the "Carnival" program each Wednesday night. Gould, composer, com-poser, conductor, pianist and arranger, arrang-er, has written music that has been played by orchestras from that of Toscaninl to that of Glenn Miller. Templeton appears with leading symphony orchestras, and also plays . boogie - woogie piano. Musically there's practically nothing they s can't do but their weakness is im-1 im-1 provlsationsl ' ., :. 1 . - Dick Jones, the new "Henry Al-; Al-; drich," has entered Hackley school at Tarrytown, N. Y., and whenever p , DICK JONES 7 phone call comes there fo? Dick the other boy call out, as "Mrs. t Aldrich" does on theair "Hen-reeel j 'HENRY ALDRICH!" I J Hollywood has plenty of "technical experts," but when Samuel Brons- ton, producing "Jack. London" for I United Artists, wanted a man who 1 knew all about seals and how they are caugnt he had to search the San Pedro waterfront Sven Hugo Borg, Swedish actor who. was Greta Garbo's Interpreter when . she first landed In Hollywood, went along to - help. P. S. They got their man. Following sneak previews of "Lady in the Dark," in which he co-stars with Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland was given a new seven-year contract, without options, by Paramount Para-mount "Holy Matrimony" brings as Monte Wooley and Grade Fields in such a good picture that 20th Century-Fox executives ought to do nothing else but try to find another suitable story for them. It's based on Arnold Bennett's "Burled Alive." Miss Fields made a tour of British, North African and Sicilian army and navy camps . during the summer! she'll have her own radio program this faU. - ' .. , - For the . first time in her screen career Joan Fontaine will do an imi-, imi-, tation, in "Frenchman's Creek." But nobody will be able to tell whether it's a good one or not, for the lady whom the talented Joan imitates is Nell Gwynn! . Parks Johnson and Warren Hull have been a bit dazed since they staged a "Vox Pop" from the Lau- - rinburg-Maxton Air Base, Maxfon,' N. C, where airborne troops are trained. They learned that the individual in-dividual airborne soldier carries ' almost as many items as'a depart- . ment store, and learns how to do more things than any motion picture actor ever dreamed of. """" Grade Allen returns to the Metre lot after a two-year absence to play a comedy role in "Two Sisters and a Sailor," and also to introduce on . the screen the "One Finger Piano Concerto" which she played at Carnegie Car-negie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. r-""- Hie-" For every screen scrape he gets into John Garfield uses the flat black - automatic pistol he first used in "Blackwell's Island," made when he -- arrived in Hollywood. He .has "killed" ten men with it , "It's my character gun," says he. "It's the right type for me." Latest use is in "The Fallen Sparrow," the RKO - drama of espionage, in which he makes love to Maureen O'Hara, Martha O'Driscoll and Patricia Morison, and goes' gunning for Walter Wal-ter Sle?ak., The gun works Just as well whether he'a-theviUain or the hero. ODDS AND ENDS Harry Conover's Cover Girls are aiming to blanket the - movie lots; five have won movie "contracts "con-tracts and three others liave screen commitments , . . One of the "Crime Doctor" regulars, Walter Greaza, now doubling into. Elmer Rice's play, "A New Life," has received movie offers from three studios , , . United Artists' "The Girl From Leningrad'' has had a change of title; it's now "Russian GirV. . .. . When Jean Arthur reported for her guest appearance on the first Charlie McCarthy show this fall, Charlie gave her a necklace of bear claws which he had bought her in Newfoundland. |