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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. GAIL RUSSELL hasn't seen her brother George for two and one-half years; he's a bugler in the army, stationed in Alaska. As she's been a movie actress less than a year, he's never seen her on the screen, though her third picture, pic-ture, "The Uninvited," is now In the editing stage. So she's sending send-ing him all the glamour art of herself her-self that she can lay her hands on, to prove to him that the spindly-legged spindly-legged junior in Santa Monica high whom he left behind him Is really a movie actress now. Dinah Shore's getting a new daddy dad-dy Charles Winnlnger of "Show Boat" fame, who'll be her father In the new picture, "Belle of the ' ' If1 $ LXl. ll'J it A i DINAH SHORE Yukon." Dinah will sing, Winninger will play a trombone, and Gypsy Rose Lee will well, she'll be Gypsy Rose Lee. All of the casualties on "Suspense," "Sus-pense," the CBS thriller, aren't confined con-fined to the script. When Orson Welles guest-starred recently, he broke his ankle as he entered the echo chamber,-a box-like compartment compart-ment used to give voices a ghostly quality. Dame May Whitty stepped right out of her role as Pierre Curie's mother In "Madame Curie" to testify testi-fy on juvenile delinquency before Senator Pepper's U. S. senate sub-cemmittee sub-cemmittee on wartime health and education. They say she was just as delightful there as she is in the picture, especially when telling of her prewar experiences in arranging arrang-ing country vacations for London's underprivileged children. Sammy Kaye was the second Hollywood Hol-lywood celebrity to back the "Dance With a WAC" program, which originated origi-nated with film producer Charles R. Rogers. When Rogers was in Palm Springs on location for "Song of the Open Road" he arranged for the male members of his cast and crew to spend an evening dancing with the air WACs stationed at the army's desert transport command base. Mischa Auer's collection of pets is becoming a problem. He had 30 hens and a rooster, and recently received re-ceived two dogs, a Newfoundland and a Yorkshire terrier. Wally Ford gave him the Newfoundland, which weighs about 200, and he named it Heddy. The terrier was Mary As-tor's As-tor's gift; it weighs a scant pounds, and he calls it Tallulah. "Up in Mabel's Room" is his current picture. pic-ture. Joan Davis and Jack Haley of the air waves are dashing from one picture studio to another these days. After Joan's appearance in "Around the World" RKO signed her for two pictures a year, and she's also under un-der contract to Paramount for two. Jack Haley was originally all set for RKO's "Up in Mabel's Room," but had to drop out because of other picture assignments. As chairman of the Malibu rationing ration-ing board, Warner Baxter took over In the days of sugar distribution; he stuck through coffee and gasoline, but wanted to resign when he returned re-turned to the screen to star in "Lady of the Dark." He was persuaded to stay, merely appointing a temporary vice chairman, and completed his picture work in time to come back and face the canned goods situation. It's the way things happen tc some people. The other night "Big Town" Director Jerry McGill went over to see his friend Fred Bethel, the "Here's to Romance" director, on broadcast night. He was much impressed with the looks and voice of Marcia Neal and the result oi that chance meeting is that Marcia has a part in McGill's new Broadway Broad-way play, "Compromise." ODDS AMD EMDS A national comic book publisher is frying to interest in-terest Fibber McGee and Molly in o monthly feature strip based on tlieii amusing experiences . . . Cass Daley, tcho introduces the song, "He Lmcc Me Till tlie All-Clear Came," in hei new picture, "Riding High," has re ceiccd requests to sing it in file differ enl languages for overseas broadcasts . . . They're gilding Marlvne Dietrich'i legs for a scene in "Kismet" . . . Basu Rathbone brings a bottle of milk tc the Mutual station studio in Iloliy icood and gives everybody in the cas, a sip just before "The Adventures o, Sherlock Holmes" starts. |