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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THERE'S a radio installation installa-tion on Corregidor that is so well camouflaged that the man who set it up says that he's the only person who can ever find it. He manned it during the siege, and some day he's going to go back and use it again and also salvage some of the equipment he used, because be-cause it belongs to him. When he wasn't using it for official purposes, it meant a lot to him personally, which should mean a lot to certain American band leaders because between be-tween bomb explosions, he tuned in on their music! Martha Lafferty was too long a name to be used on a theater marquee, mar-quee, so her bosses changed her name to Janet Blair, because they were sure that her name would be up in lights before long. Janet, now working in "Something to Shout About," selected that last name from Blair county, Pennsylvania, where she was born. It was her work in "My Sister Eileen" that landed her name on the marquees. Conrad Veidt is to have a vacation from playing Nazis on the screen he does it so well that he's always in demand for those hissable char- I -j 1 """". I . y x i J CONRAD VEIDT acters. In "Above Suspicion" he'll have the top character role, that of an Englishman masquerading as a Nazi! Tala Birell's going to have a lighthouse complex it she doesn't watch out; she's played in two pictures pic-tures that are laid almost entirely in lighthouses. The first was "Cape Forlorn," an English one; now she's in RKO's "Seven Miles From Al-catraz." Al-catraz." Desi Arnaz didn't know it when he was assigned to the most important impor-tant role of his movie career; he'll portray a tank fighter in "Bataan Patrol." When he was chosen for it, he was somewhere in the Caribbean, Carib-bean, entertaining American soldiers, sol-diers, and as his whereabouts were a military secret, Metro officials couldn't notify him that he was to be offered a good dramatic role. Director Clarence Brown recently sent Metro's property department this memo "Wanted a gopher that can act." The terror of the garden will appear in "The Human Comedy." Com-edy." It's reported that four crews of men were dispatched to find the right gopher. Michael Duane, Columbia's new white hope, waited till the sneak preview of "City Without Men" before be-fore he sent to New York for his wife. Said he'd seen too many men come to Hollywood, break all old ties, and then go back home broke. But after he saw how that first audience audi-ence felt about him, (as a result of which Columbia gave him a new contract) he wired Mrs. Duane, "Okay, honey, bring Poochie we're in!" Broadway's burlesque wave has hit radio and the movies or so it seems, with stars stripping the clothes oft their backs, practically, and donating them for auction at bond rallies. Joan Blaine, star of the radio's "Valiant Lady," has given giv-en everything from dresses to earrings ear-rings and an evening bag, and Joan Crawford and Bette Davis have contributed con-tributed large wardrobes. They couldn't understand why Jean Arthur kept blowing her lines during a scene for "Merry-Go-Round" which was being shot on the studio roof. Jean was cavorting about in shorts and explained later that, since she hasn't had a vacation this year, she was making the most of this chance to geti some sunlight. "This gives me a chance to get a Palm Springs look," said she. ODDS AND ENDS The CBS Caravan Cara-van Hour recently lent one of its actors to the movies, when Metro signed Bob Walker, the "Jerry Soams" in the "Our Town" sketches . . . And RKO has been testing Ann Thomas, who's "Casey," tile secretary, on "Abie's Irish Rose" . . . Dinah Shore has just completed her eleventh "command performance" on that short-wave program for American boys overseas . . . Rosemary Lane's returning re-turning to the screen after an absence of nearly two years to play the feminine lead in Republic's "Chatterbox" ; during dur-ing the interim she's been starred on Broadway in "Best Foot Forward." Brian Aherne, who's just finished the scary "A Night to Remember," with Loretta Young, is in Arizona running his own flying school, to train boys for Uncle Sam's air forces. He'll stay on this government govern-ment job for the duration. Bing Crosby's Thursday night show will be reduced to half an hour, beginning January 7 the reason given is "war conditions." Could be that the ceiling on incomes is making mak-ing celebrities very reluctant to ap-j ap-j pear as guest stars. |
