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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE ZACHARY SCOTT'S grandfather, grand-father, a thrifty early-Texas early-Texas settler, saved not only the first silver dollar he earned, but the first two, and they brought him luck. Scott, ( Who inherited the lucky silver sil-ver dollars and had ' them converted into cuff links, evidently evi-dently didn't have them on x' V t . X. i. "N- x V-. . .1... .... -..-A.... m,,,v-,i ZACHARY SCOTT the day he was riding an old mare for a scene in "Cheyenne" and pretending pre-tending that he knew nothing about riding. Or maybe the luck brought by the dollars has worn out Anyway, Any-way, he acquired a dislocated sacroiliac. sac-roiliac. Grandpa didn't even know he had one! Scott is taking no chances now; if you look sharp you'll see that he's wearing those silver dollars in Warner Bros.' "Stallion Road." Lou Costello has a hobby, followed between broadcasts of the Tuesday NBC Abbott and Costello show and picture-making. It's collecting historic his-toric and unusual sheriffs' badges. Recently he received one of his best, sent him by the High Sheriff of Nottingham, England. That brings the collection up to 100, and he's on the lookout for at least that many more. Nita Hunter, a 15-year-old singer who was born in St. Louis, Mo., has been set by co-producers Buddy ' Rogers and Ralph Colin to play the title role in Comet's musical, "Miss Television." David Bruce and Cleatus Caldwell are the picture's romantic leads. Nita plays a twice-divorced twice-divorced singer. Then, when Director Direc-tor Reginald LeBorg finishes, she marches off to the schoolroom! Jerry Fairbanks, Paramount shorts producer, is lining up the shooting of Elliott Murphy's "Mr. Winkle's Holiday" in Technicolor, just as it's being presented. It's an Aquaretta a combination of musical musi-cal comedy, revue, water show and operetta appearing where Billy Rose staged his Aquacade during the New York World's fair. June Earing, the swimming star, is being be-ing eyed by the movies' talent scouts, who consider her a rival of Esther Williams; she's a former national na-tional and metropolitan AAU 100-yards 100-yards backstroke champion. Bill Slater, master of ceremonies of "Right. Down Your Alley," is getting get-ting letters from bowling clubs all over the country offering to pay their own way to New York if he'll get them on the program. Unfortunately, Unfortu-nately, Bill picks his contestants from those who are relaxing at a New York bowling alley on Sundays; Sun-days; like the other quiz shows, this one is strictly on the level. There's been a lot of talk about how "Aunt Cissic" Bartholomew felt about Freddie's marriage; after all, she brought him up and promoted promot-ed his movie career "made Mm what he is today." Well, now "Aunt Cissie" is promoting a career of her own; she's signed for a supporting support-ing career In Paramount's "I Cover Cov-er the Big Town." Professor Quiz is still sorting questions listeners have sent him; during his first seven years on the air, he requested questions from his listeners so his hotel room is filled with files, and in his spare moments mo-ments Quiz digs around in them for the queries we hear on the air. His staff checks the authenticity of every ev-ery question before he uses it. AU-American football player Tom Harmon has been signed for a role in "Gentleman Joe Palooka," now before Monogram's cameras. This is Harmon's first picture since he starred in "Harmon of Michigan." His wife, Elyse Knox, has the feminine fem-inine lead. ODDS AVU ENDSCollrr Uing Crosby has hern nominatrd by Ohio Governor Frank Lausche to srrve on the committee sponsoring the National Caddy Tournament August 19 at Co-litmhus. Co-litmhus. . . . Eighteen years ago an advertising ad-vertising slogan from 11 oily wood thrilled movie. goers "Garbo Tallis!" . . . Maybe Johnnie Wcismullrr is getting get-ting tired of being "Tarzan" but he's lignrd a contract to do three more jungle jun-gle thrillers, one a year. . . . To those of us u ho'd walk a mile to see Mihlred fcalu ick appear on the stage or in a picture, it's elegant news that she'll be teen as "Amelia" in the motion picture of "The Late George Aplcy," |