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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. OLD phonograph records are now being collected for our fighting men. The movement is headed by Kay Kyser, Kate Smith and Gene A.utrey, and endorsed by Ginny Simms. Lily Pons, Benny Goodman, Guy Lom-bardo Lom-bardo and practically all the other top notchers in music. Used and broken records will be converted into scrap and sold, and new records bought for U. S. army camps, forts, naval stations and marine ma-rine bases here and overseas. The American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary will do the picking-up. If you've got a man in the service, you know what a fine thing this is. Columbia has two of last season's greatest grid greats, Bruce Smith of Minnesota and Frankie Albert of Stanford, on the lot in films based on their own lives. Two All-American teams will figure in each picture. pic-ture. EKO added a potential 26,000,000 customers for its "Sweet and Hot" with the announcement that two highly popular coast-to-coast programs pro-grams will appear in the forthcoming forthcom-ing Tim Whelan musical, which co LUCILLE BALL stars Lucille Ball and Victor Mature. Ma-ture. Charles Victor and his "Court Df Missing Heirs" program, and Ralph Edwards and the "Truth or Consequences" company have been signed up for the picture. Director Alexander Hall sent a camera crew around the city to photograph pho-tograph kissing shots for a trailer for "They All Kissed the Bride." He was so impressed by a girl whom the camera caught kissing a young man good-by at a railway station that he offered her a screen test. She was Evelyn Scott, of Salt Lake City. She accepted, but didn't show up she'd married the man she tissed! Betty Rhodes, one of the top singing sing-ing stars in radio, will be Bing Crosby's Cros-by's leading lady in his next Paramount Para-mount picture, a radio story tentatively tenta-tively titled "Manhattan at Midnight." Mid-night." She has her own half-hour weekly radio show, singing over a 0-station network. Susan Peters is the happiest girl In Hollywood. She was just one of t hundred ambitious young actresses, ac-tresses, with a small role in "Tish" and then suddenly she had the second feminine role in "Random Harvest," starring Ronald Colman md Greer Garson, and a new long-term long-term Contract with Metro to boot. A local girl, she'd been trying for two years to get a start in pictures. Recently Jack Holt visited his son Tim on location for "Pirates of the Prairie." Seeing some cowboy extras ex-tras he'd played with, Jack sat down 3n a bench in front of a saddle shop to talk with them. A shot was made of Tim riding by and later it was discovered that, by mistake, lack appears in his son's picture. Lana Turner is cheering she won the dramatic role of the young wife In Metro's "Marriage Is a Private Affair," based on the book of that name. It's a rich and sympathetic role, the sort that young actresses dream of getting. Amelia Earhart's favorite racing plane, the one in which she broke several national records, is being used by Pat O'Brien in his role of a 3are - devil pilot for Columbia's "Flight Lieutenant." It had been rented for spectacular film scenes in which O'Brien is supposed to make test dives. It was not until O'Brien saw Miss Earhart's signature signa-ture scratched on the instrument panel that he learned the plane had been hers. 9r ODDS AND ENDS Lucille Manners had terrific "mike fright" until oil engineer engi-neer took a microphone to pieces and showed her how it worked . . . Lionel Uarrymore was asked by Rudy Vallee if he would consider taking his brolh-tr's brolh-tr's place on the Vallee radio program, but lie refused because of ill health . . . Columbia's "Lucky Legs" revives the upixilated sisters" Frank Capra introduced intro-duced in "Mr. Deeds" in Adela Row-4tnd Row-4tnd and Elizabeth Patterson . . . Feodor Chaliapin Jr., son of the famous Russian Rus-sian basso, has a short but spectacular role, that of Kashkin, in "For If horn the Bell Tolls." |