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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THE Hollywood telephone repairman was phoning his report. "Yeah ,1 fixec lit; cord was chewed. ause. "Yeah, chewed. No, not a dog-a lion." Pause "Sure I said lion." Pause. "Look, I haven't had a drink all day, and I said a lion chewed it. I'm at Jinx Falkenburg's house He grinned. "Yeah, I knew you d understand." The cub, a present . to Jinx from her brother, Bob, has since then taken to sharpening his teeth on the piano legs. The Columbia Co-lumbia star of "She Has What It Takes" says that's perfectly all right, if he sticks to piano legs. Pola Negri, who years ago was one of the head glamour girls of the silent movies, is returning to the screert in the United Artists film, "Hi Diddle Diddle"; she'll play an operatic star, the wife of Adolphe I "(h yr POLA NEGRI Menjou, a role from which Menjou's real wife, Veree Teasdale, retired because of illness. Martha Scott has the leading role. Animated sequences se-quences by Leon Schlesinger, the film cartoon creator, will begin and end the picture. Nine-year-old John Donat, son of Robert Donat, makes his film debut in "This Land Is Mine," starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. John breezed through his lines, and between takes sat high on a stepladder, reading a comic strip magazine stayed there until Director Direc-tor Jean Renoir called him down from his perch to go to work again. David Niven returns to the screen after a two-year absence in "Spitfire," "Spit-fire," the British-made Goldwyn production pro-duction which will be released by RKO Radio. A major in the British army, he was given leave to co-star with Leslie Howard in this picture. After testing Hollywood stars by the dozen King Vidor has selected an unknown for the important role of Brian Donlevy's wife in Metro's "America." She's Ann Richards, who arrived here from Australia on the last boat to leave after the bombing bomb-ing of Pearl Harbor. Little Margaret O'Brien, who stole the honors in "Journey for Margaret" Mar-garet" and did the same thing when the "Screen Guild Players" did a dramatized version of it on the air, won Jack Benny's heart when, asking ask-ing him for an autograph, she said she'd seen him fall into a lake in a picture. "That was with Bob Hope," said he. And Margaret replied "Bob Hope? Is he a comedian, too?" Red Skelton's been having a swell time, working at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on "Whistling in Brooklyn"; Brook-lyn"; every member of the famous Dodgers, including Manager Duro-cher, Duro-cher, appears in the picture. Five hundred rabid Dodger fans sat in the bleachers for some sequences and what's more, got paid for it! The quickest way to become a star on your own program is to do a guest shot on Rudy Vallee's Thursday Thurs-day show. During the past year he's presented Grouchs Marx Billie Burke and Ransom Sherman, among others. Now Marx stars on his own Saturday night program, Sherman recently launched a new series, and Billie Burke will hve two air shows going during the summer. That new "Salut. to Youth" program pro-gram has just about everything radio ra-dio fans can want. There's William 'te' war correspondent; Ray-a Ray-a w a,'?e and an all-y"th orches-fW orches-fW Na,dlneConn", Metropolitan Opera ,t. Berry KrQeger rator, and a guest war worker With most of the cast in theii" or NBCyTueWsdntieS,-the Camion by youth" da -lute to youth, Mtla Hope, "Road Z I ? "nd Bob frothy Lamour P 'fat """""" Phil Baker mill L', ' ' ' )"ear. Lflt Behind- . Ginl H- G,rh " i "Johnny Preses-Ty ?lmms s"" "f desert army can, w 0 '"r entnatoebardo's sev-featured sev-featured o S "Zl T is being was named v a tte Time " fur brother were branVHS' Her from New York when she? "u"5 and they suggested tt born' ir ParentsThote eVrT Plying the day's song hit 3 mentator as "a Ih u D6WS com" interestingly W is Can sPeal toe is no cewrs .5 Mmut when |
