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Show STAGECSCREENRADIO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. HARD up for leading men as more and more of the famous stand-bys go into the army, Hollywood is busily recruiting re-cruiting newcomers to the screen, and hoping that you'll like them. Columbia will introduce in-troduce the public to Robert Ilymes, formerly a singer with Freddy Martin's orchestra, or-chestra, in "What's Buzzin', Cousin?" with Ann Miller, Phil Harris Har-ris and his orchestra, and Rochester. Roches-ter. Metro's signed James Davis, a Kansas City oil salesman; he has a supporting role in "Salute to the Marines," and the male lead in "Swiag Shift Maizie." Meanwhile Franchot Tone's agent has said: "When Franchot wants to work for nothing he'll work for the government." Tone had agreed orally to make one picture for Warners War-ners for $60,000, but the wage ceiling ceil-ing forbids him to make more this year than he did last. Last year he was idle several months because of Ulness; he's already earned almost al-most as much this year as he did last. He'd be able to keep just $20,000 of that Warner money, and would have to work the rest of the year for nothing. "Old Acquaintance" Acquaint-ance" was the picture involved. Georgia Gibbs recently signed a 13 week contract as the new sinking star on the CBS Caravan Hour, but she was more thrilled when Producer Produc-er Bill Bacher gave her a chance to act. She'd never spoken lines on 4 i !r5?V I i GEORGIA GIBBS any stage before. So she was practically prac-tically breathless when the big moment mo-ment came. Lanny Ross asked: "Do you conga. Miss Gibbs?" and Georgia replied: "Of course I conga, con-ga, Mr. Ross." Momentous! Myrna Loy doesn't care about making more pictures, since her recent re-cent marriage, so she's been turning turn-ing down all assignments, and Metro Met-ro has engaged a new wife for William Wil-liam Powell for the new "Thin Man" picture Irene Dunne. Beatrice Kay, who sings those ballads of the past on the air's "Gay Nineties" show, has yielded to the call of Bollywood, and will make a picture laid in old New Orleans Or-leans early next year. So all the people who've thought she was an old lady and a lot of radio listeners listen-ers do, because of the songs she sings are going to find out that she's both young and pretty. Leslie Brooks has been studying jiujitsu to such good effect that she's been asked to tone it down. Told to put up a good fight in a scene with Linda Darnell, Doris Dudley and Glenda Farrell in Columbia's Co-lumbia's "City Without Men," she tossed 'em around like bean bags! Charles Boyer has five leading ladies in "The Constant Nymph"; in the order that they hold in his affections on the screen they are Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Bren-da Bren-da Marshall, Jean Muir and Joyce Reynolds. At the request of the council of ohieis of the Navajo reservation, Harry Carey will film a series of shorts dealing with the history and traditions of the tribe. He speaks Navajo, and is one of our best authorities on the tribe. Jane Wyatt, whom you'll see in "The Navy Comes Through," has sold 5,000 feet of 16 mm. color film on birds to RKO; they'll release it as a two-reel short. Ornithology has been her hobby for years. The film shows the life and habits of virtually virtual-ly all western birds, including sea gulls and eagles; the color pictures she's sold were several years in production. ODDS AND ENDS Eddie Cantor has a new discovery Shirley Dinsdale, 15-yonr-old ventriloquist, whom Edgar Bergen says is a natural one; she's had her own series of programs on San Francisco's NBC station . . . When people peo-ple look at Gig Young as if they knew him he's sure he's facing former customers cus-tomers at a drive-in in Los Anxeles where he used to work . . . Betle Davis insists that her best photographs have been taken by her mother, an ex-professional photographer . . . Jean Arthur plays half a dozen scenes in "Merry-Go-Hound" with her face plastered with cold cream. |
