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Show ' STAGE" SCREEN,:RAt)IO By VIRGINIA VAl.E Fflrnsrd by Wi'slorn Nfvi:iiwr Union. GINGER ROGERS' new picture, "Tender Comrade," Com-rade," may not bring her an Academy award, as "Kitty Foyle" did, but RKO is doing Its best to swing that coveted honor her way. "Tender Comrade" will be shown at two theaters in Los Angeles on December 29, though its national release is not scheduled till i I C ! I GINGER ROGERS j March. This bit of maneuvering j makes it eligible for an Oscar this ! year. Ginger plays a war bride who ! takes a job in a plane factory while ' her soldier husband is at the battle-I battle-I front. I A radio counterpart of fllmdom's j Academy Awards is broadcasting's newest wrinkle. Titled the "Radio ! Hall of Fame," the hour-long broad-i broad-i cast is heard each Sunday over the full Blue network, with the editors ! of Variety magazine selecting the ! topnotch acts from screen, stage, ra-i ra-i dio and the concert halls of the world for presentation during that time. j The management of Washington, I D. C.'s Constitution Hall Is regard-I regard-I ing Alec Templeton with something akin to awe. The CBS "Carnival" tar broke all existing box-office records rec-ords when he appeared there in concert. con-cert. It was the first sell-out engagement en-gagement in seven years, and the first time an artist has been asked to return In the same season. Dinah Shore's picture career, coming hard on the heels of ber sensational success in radio, is mov-I mov-I Ing so fast that her films can't keep I np with her. Her first, "Thank Tour Lucky Stars," is now showing throughout the country, her second will be released in February, just as she's starting her fourth meanwhile mean-while her popularity on the air increases in-creases daily. Don Ameche maintains that even standing in line may prove to be lucky for the standee. He was standing stand-ing in a theater-ticket line in 1928 in Madison, Wis. The stock company's com-pany's star met with an accident, the manager recognized Don and put him into the role. It looks as if "No Time for Love" is going to be remembered along with the other delightful comedies that people laugh over years after they've seen them. And the heroine of those, films is likely to be either Jean Arthur or Claudette' Colbert. This time it's Claudette, playing a photographer for a smart fashion magazine, falling in love with a husky lad (Fred MacMurray) who's a sand hog. Jane Withers, who's 17, has her i first important straight dramatic role in 10 years in Samuel Gold-wyn's Gold-wyn's "The North Star." Though she's made 30 pictures since her screen debut, and starred in most j of them, she had to pass a strict ! test, then another one, before she was given the role; she's played in so many comedies that Goldwyn wasn't sure she could do it. "Higher and Higher," RKO's I Sinatra picture, will have a spectac-I spectac-I ular opening; it will have its first showing on New Year's eve in 50 ; RKO theaters in New York city, j Westchester and Newark, N. J. The regular Broadway opening will come later. j At the cutting of the Command Performance transcription for the overseas audience, the Hoosier Hot Shots, in Hollywood with the National Nation-al Barn Dance cast for their Para-; Para-; mount picture, wrote their auto-; auto-; graphs in the books which Gracie j Fields was carrying. These auto-i auto-i graph books belong to war orphans ! in the Gracie Fields orphanage in i England; the youngsters had special-j special-j ly asked for those names. ! ODDS AND ENDS-Probably the biggest surprise for fans seeing the j Amos 'n' Andy show for the first lime is j the discovery that the start look like an ! ad or what the well dressed man should wear . . . Ben Crauerf who announces on the "South American Good Neighbor" program, "Information Please' and "For This We Fight" played in the j original "I'enrod" film . . . If hen Irene Dunne and Cary Grant headed the cast, i all tickets for the Screen Guild Players j weekly broadcast were gone six weeks j in advance . . . Captured German films thowing the "rescue" of Benito Musso-j Musso-j lini by the Nazis highlights a recent j issue of RKO Pathe News. i i |