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Show STAGE-SCnENADiO : By VIRGINIA VALE j Released by Western Newspaper Union. I 1 ONE of the war's most incredible in-credible ventures, the drive of General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell to retake the Burma road, is shown in this month's "March of Time." It's called "Back Door to Tokyo." You'll see American boys flying the "hump," the world's most dangerous air route; you'll see Merrill's Marauders on the attack and General Chennault with his forces. MOT's ace camera-, man, Victor Jurgens, has again ; turned in an outstanding photo- graphic scoop, portraying a mili-1 tary feat so gigantic that it's an) important historical event. j I "Days of Glory" isn't a world-; beating picture, but RKO feels ' pretty sure that it launches a new male star Gregory Peck, who "has I ears like Clark Gable, and is too j jtall and broad-shouldered to be com- V '4 3 GREGORY PECK j fortable in an ordinary chair." Proof of his drawing power is the fact that a wave of excitement ran through the studio when he ap-i ap-i peared, and Ginger Rogers asked to have him in one of her pictures. Metro is cooking up another of those pictures in which various episodes epi-sodes will be written by famous authors, with Metro's biggest stars appearing in each. Called "The Common Sin," it will have Carey Wilson as producer. The first writer signed for a single episode is I. A. R. Wylie. After years of diligently preparing : himself for that elusive motion picture break, a young Oakland Junior college graduate got it; he's Greg McCIure, 26, and he landed the role of John L. Sullivan in Bing Crosby's production, "The Great John L." He's worked as a salesman, longshoreman, laborer on a railroad, and farmhand; finally he went to dramatic school at night and worked during the day. j . Because film babies are allowed to work before the camera for only short intervals between long rests, Warner Bros, is saving production time by casting twins for a single role in "Christmas in Connecticut," the Barbara Stanwyck-Dennis Morgan Mor-gan comedy. The twins, just eight months old, are Sandra Lee and Susan Lee Taylor. September will be a busy month for Xavier Cugat, who's heard as "Your Dubonnet Date" maestro over MBS Wednesday nights. He'll make two one-week theater appearances, appear-ances, open at a smart Hollywood night spot, and begin work in Metro's "Week-End at the Waldorf." Wal-dorf." Ever try to remember the names of those fantastic characters Garry Mcore talks about on the Moore-Durante Moore-Durante airshow? They're Twinkle-toes Twinkle-toes Gooch, Rancid Crumknuckle, Elvira Smoop, Arbutus Cronksquod-git, Cronksquod-git, Schmilldwidder Funk, and I Farnsfinsendindles Crud! Alan Young, who's heard Wednes-I Wednes-I day nights on NBC at nine, EWT, I crashed radio at 15, in a 15-minute I show for which he was paid $2.50 j a week. He played dozens of characters, charac-ters, got a raise of 50 cents after I 26 weeks, asked for more, and was fired. He formed a vaudeville act with his sister, things went well, ' then she married. He returned to j radio, and real success came quick-! quick-! ly after that. In addition to his newly-won singing sing-ing laurels as host of the "Broad-; "Broad-; way Matinee" airshow, baritone j Ronald Graham will probably win I some more when his latest film venture, "Ladies in Washington," is j released. ! ODDS AD E.lSOzzie Nehim ! and lliirriel Hillinrd sing ihair own sjH'cinl armngnment of "Sunday, Monday Mon-day and Ahinys" in I'arainounl's "'lake 1 1 . . . 7ie nrw "Glamour Manor" mli Chfj Artfut'llfi, way become one of those summer air shows that win a fermanenl place for themselves; its a smart combination of comedy and 1 quizzes . . . V ictor flitrge returns to the "ISain Street" th'mi for eiaht weeks in the fall: he's used to contract reneuals had four consecutive 17,-uee.k con-trat con-trat ts on the Hint; i.roshy show . . . I " 1 inislry of Fear" has (tne of the. tall-1 tall-1 s Rrottjei of male ftrincipals ei er in a picture led by Hay Milland. |