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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THEY do tell us that Alan Ladd's popularity with the bobby-socks brigade has made him Hollywood's No. 1 "locket "lock-et star." Alan, currently starring star-ring in "Two Years Before the Mast," received 7,200 requests re-quests in one week from young fans asking for locket photographs, and the demand became so heavy thai Paramount's fan mail department has made up 100,000 special, small-sized small-sized photos of the star, which can easily be cut into a heart-shape, to fit the lockets favored by his teenage teen-age admirers. i Marilyn Maxwell likes her birth-, month, August; in August she decided, de-cided, while singing with Ted Weems' orchestra, to go to Hollywood Holly-wood and try acting. After six months at the Pasadena Playhouse ' MARILYN MAXWELL she got a screen test with Metro, whose trademark is Leo, the August sign of the zodiac. But it was in December that she did her first guest shot with Bing Crosby, leading lead-ing to her present contract. . Robert Watson, former stage sta: who portrays Adolf Hitler in "The Hitler Gang," knows his subject well this is the jifth time he'a played that role. But this time it' I different; it's his first completely serious characterization of Hitler. June Duprez, who portrays Carj Grant's chief romantic interest in "None but tlie Lonely Heart," say she never" got her big screen breah until Producer David Hempstead or. dered her to turn from brunette to blonde for the role. She had her hair bleached, and since then has received many other important offers, of-fers, all calling for blonde tresses-it tresses-it looks as if she'd become a permanent per-manent blonde. One of radio's new singing sensations sensa-tions is handsome Larry Douglas, starred on the CBS "Here's to Romance" Ro-mance" Thursday evenings. Though he's been chief vocalist with Carmen Car-men Cavellero's band and has sung in several stage hits, this is his firsl coast-to-coast radio program. Fanny Brice "Baby Snooks" to millions of radio listeners has assembled as-sembled a collection of pictures by children all over the world that rates serious consideration. She says that the impish character she created foi radio led to her interest in children's paintings, and so to her making this collection. Many of the pictures are from countries now overrun by Hitler. Forty-seven of them have been shown in art galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore and Rochester and recently re-cently in New York City. Chief Willow Bird, of the Apache tribe, is celebrating his 32nd yeai In pictures and his 1000th film role by appearing in RKO's "The Girl Rush." But don't suppose for an instant in-stant that he's playing an Indian he'll be seen as a gold miner! A soldier in Los Angeles lost his wallet, which contained the furlough money he'd been saving up in ordei to visit his family for the first time in 11 months. Newspapers printed the story. Imagine the feelings o) that GI Joe when he received I check in the mail a check for $100, which he's going to hate to spend, because it bore the autograph ol Frank Sinatra! A very special laurel wreath should be given lovely Jane Fro man; in "Here's to Romance" and "Stage Door Canteen" broadcasts she asked to be permitted to sit or stage during the show, because "making an entrance on crutches looks too dramatic." She's the girl who was seriously injured in the Lisbon Clipper crash, while she wai on her way' to entertain our men in overseas service. ODDS AND ENDS Told on the set of "Murder, He Says" that he had just become a papa. Peter Whitney got ex, cited, tripped over a cable, and sprained an ankle. . . . The Jubalaires, CDS' neu quartet, met 10 years ago uhile working work-ing on a strawberry plantation, ana itarted their musical careers as singing waiters in a Florida hotel . . . if'altei Abel was star of the "Armstrong Theater Thea-ter of Today" the Saturday that Betty Caine, of the air, was the voice of the Quaker Girl. . . . 28 hours of radio'! top programs go to invasion troapi each week. ... 100 mustered oul servicemen serv-icemen have roles in the Edtvard C Robinson 'Mr. Winkle Goei to War." |