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Show ; STAGECSCREENxftADlO j By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. i TUDY CANOVA, the Flor-J Flor-J Ida comedienne who made hog calling pay dividends, is coming into her own this season, sea-son, after years of being featured, fea-tured, co-starred, and everything every-thing else but starred. With : "Sleepy Lagoon" just finished for Republic studios, the lanky hillbilly Immediately started her own starring star-ring roles In two mediums, films and radio. In August she goes to Columbia Pictures, to star in an ex- t".'. wiliyifl,r.:-irrr"-'"0''."ir".-;p '"rr.:fr ( V: I .- r : i t JUDY CANOVA pensive production, "Louisiana Hay-ride"; Hay-ride"; at present she has the honor of replacing Al Jolson on the air, Tuesday nights. Mrs. Robert Donat saw her husband hus-band for the first time in two years at a recent Hollywood preview, but only on the screen. Robert Insisted on her going to America when the war clouds gathered, but he remained re-mained In England. The picture was M-G-M's "Tartu," In which he plays I a swashbuckling secret agent it'll be ready for the rest of us to see. & That very good mystery, "The Fallen Sparrow," will be filmed by RKO Radio with a cast so good that it's got to be fine. Maureen O'Hara, who co-starred with Charles Laugh-ton Laugh-ton In "This Land Is Mine," heads It. Those publicity questionnaires which Hollywood stars fill out for their studios are frequently a source of amusement. George Sanders, for example, who co-stars with Marguerite Mar-guerite Chapman in Columbia's "Appointment in Berlin," came across the question, "What did your parents want you to become?" Whereupon Sanders promptly wrote "Self-supporting! " Eddie Cantor made his first trip East in a year to launch a new Liberty Lib-erty ship, look for talent for his new picture, "Show Business," and to raise money to admit 6,000 youngsters young-sters from Nazi Europe into Palestine; Pal-estine; the British government had agreed to admit them if they could be provided for. Cantor gave the arrangements a good start by adopting adopt-ing 500 children himself. Incident1 ally, said he, he could always use a new name for his radio show. If yon liked Helen Hayes' radio drama, "Bid for Happiness," look forward to seeing It In pictures. Samuel GAdwyn has announced that when Teresa Wright returns to the movies this autumn she will be featured fea-tured In a film based on the air show. Peggy Allenby, 'of NBC's "David Harum," has learned to make her motto, "Never expect much." Once a radio director phoned her that she was perfect for a certain part on his show. She rushed to the studio stu-dio and found the part consisted of one piercing shriek! Bilt as a matter mat-ter of fact, it was one of the highest-paid highest-paid screams ever screamed over a radio network. Records for Our Fighting Men, Inc. Bob Hope, president has already al-ready sent more than 300,000 new and popular discs to the services for distribution. This year's drive lasts all through July; look up your old, scratched or even broken records and turn 'em In. They're sold as scrap to record manufacturers, and the net proceeds go for new records for the men In the armed forces. m Harry Sherman ought to receive a medal from Western picture fans. With almost 100 of his Western films still currently playing to audiences ail over the Allied world, he is preparing pre-paring 18 more Americana stories for release In the near future. "The Daddy of Hopalong Cassidy series" is given credit for bringing Zane I Grey's books to the screen as well. I ODDS ASD EKDSAl Jolson tviU play hii7iself in the Jesse Laslty-War' ner picture, "Rhapsody in Blue" . . . And Oscar Levant will play himself in the same film . . . Anne Baxter gets the role Janet Gcynor placed in the I silent version, tchen "State Fair" is I re-made, by 20th Century-Fof . . . I Tallulah Bankhead returns in the Alfred Al-fred Hitchcock picture, "Lifeboat," which promises to be one of the year's most dramatic pictures . . . James Cagr.ey bought "The Stray Lamb," by the late Thome Smith, from the estate of John Barrmore it's another of those wacky comedies, and film folks , wondered if he planned to eppev in it. I |