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Show STAGESCREENADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE RAYMOND MASSEY is setting set-ting up an all-time record for other performers to shoot at; so far no one else has appeared ap-peared in all four branches of , the Thespian art. To begin with, there's his regular weekly week-ly stint on the radio, in "The Harvest of Stars," on NBC. He's also appearing currently on the Broadway stage in "Pygmalion," "Pyg-malion," with Gertrude Lawrence. RAYMOND MASSEY Just recently he did two television shows for CBS. And in April he returns to Hollywood to make "One Secret," with Joan Crawford. That's covering the field! Hedy Lamarr and Gene Lockhart are right back where they started, on Stage 3 on the Goldwyn lot. They both got their first big screen breaks in "Algiers," which was filmed there. Now they're back for the first time, for "The Strange Women." James Stewart's back In Hollywood, Holly-wood, after visiting In Washington and New York where even nightclub night-club audiences look at him with interest. in-terest. His first postwar picture will be "It's a Wonderful Life," made for Liberty Films and released re-leased by RKO, is a Frank Capra production. That's under way now. His next film will be "The Magio City," a Robert Riskin production, for RKO. ' Got a baseball team you want to sell? Anne Baxter's interested. She's been a baseball fan since she was in high school; now, like Bing Crosby, she wants to own, a team, or part of one, at least. Incidentally, Incident-ally, the Charles R. Rogers picture in which she has a leading role is now known as "Angel on My Shoulder" Shoul-der" again; exhibitors who were polled liked that title better than "Me and Mrs. Satan." Michael Bottoms has retired from the screen, after appearing In "A Scandal in Paris" for 30 seconds as the infant Vidocq. Mike's father, in Guam, has never seen him, so Mrs. Bottoms let Mike, aged three months, play the part. Jean Tennyson, star of "Great Moments in Music," will take a chance on any young singer she believes be-lieves in. She's presented many of them on her radio program; discovered discov-ered Mario Lanza, who substituted for Jan Peerce when Peerce was on the Coast. Constance Moore was called for makeup and wardrobe at 5 a. m. one morning, because of the elaborate elabo-rate costume she was to wear that day in "In Old Sacramento." Four : hours later she was ready, stepped on the sound stage, and saw machine-made rain falling like mad. I "And now. Miss Moore," said Producer-Director Joseph Kane, "if you'll lie down on your face in the mud you've just fallen out of a stagecoach!" j Jack Dempsey's children knew he was "Mr. Hush" on that gorgeous stunt on "Truth or Consequences"; he phoned them after the third week and when they said they'd heard him on the radio he swore they hadn't; couldn't admit the truth, because no outsider could know it was his voice that was puzzling contestants. Ed Wynn has been held over as guest star on the program headed by James Melton and Annamary Dickey. Originally Wynn was signed for only four weeks, but the public has been so enthusiastic about him that he remains a while longer. The time of "Strangers In Love," Paulette Goddard's next for Paramount, Para-mount, is 1947, so she and a studio stylist are trying to figure out what .ashions will be current next year. ODDS AD EDSThe first day ids for "Adventure" appeared in A t ork suhunys, 2,000 additional ones had o be printed, to replace those twiped fans uhn uantrd Clark Gable's pic-ure. pic-ure. . . . During his three years in the wnnrs Macdnnald Carey sent allot-nonl allot-nonl checks to his u ife, u ho ai ed them 'nr a doun payment on a Hollwond hnme, . . . Friday nichl is fining to be VS nicht in a lot oj homes Durante nd Vnnre at 9:.?i7, Danny Kae at '1:00, Uoh Crociv at 10:30, EST. 'iru tllen took hii name from the pre-:r pre-:r jnurnaUlir tram n Drew I'earson ,7-d liohrrt iU-n. |