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Show STAGE-SCREEN RADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE THIS is news that a lot of, people have been waiting wait-ing for Lanny Ross returns to radio April 1. He'll be heard from 7: 00 to 7: 15 E.S.T. every week night over CBS, with Evelyn Knight and the Chittison trio. He's out of the army after 27 months overseas, during which time he was assigned to MacArthur's headquarters has four battle stars, the Legion of Merit and the Philippines Liberation Libera-tion ribbon. First thing we know lil-.lJMWWWxWx-WI' JxxvxS.xxxxxWi.VxxXx XV X, X, : v : VMx - xxx X"S V I ! !u V 1 ' x tx x55 1 i " xxxxxxxxxxx Xx x X X - X N V X . I l X X I Vx XXX S 1 i X X x LANNY ROSS he'll probably be making pictures again; "Stage Door Canteen" is his last one. A star athlete at Yale, Lanny put himself through law school by singing on the radio, then decided he'd rather be a singer than a lawyer after all. Will George Sanders sprinkle his hair with water and wear curls in "Bel Ami" or won't he? He says he won't; he'll play one of those awfully virile he-men, and he thinks curls would look sissy. Director Albert Lewis thinks curls would be historically correct, and he's an ex-college ex-college prof and should know. Whatever What-ever happens, Sanders will have a sweeping mustache; he won that argument Virginia Keilly, a British film actress ac-tress who's just arrived in Hollywood Holly-wood to work for RKO, gave up her place on a fast ship to a G.I. bride and crossed on a boat that took 14 days during which she found a stowaway, darned the crew's socks, painted the captain's quarters and weathered a storm without getting sick. You'll see her soon In "Carnival," "Car-nival," a British film. They were playing "If" In Hollywood, Holly-wood, guessing what famous historical histori-cal characters would be doing if they were in Hollywood today. Gracie Allen won; she said Shakespeare Shake-speare would probably be under contract to Warner Bros., writing melodramas for Humphrey Bogart, the Borgia family would most likely be in charge of the studio commissaries, commis-saries, while Cleopatra would be giving Lamour a run for her money in the sarong field. An unusual feature of the new office building which Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are erecting in Hollywood is a television test studio. stu-dio. The stars "of that Thursday night airshow are looking way ahead polishing up their video routines rou-tines for the future. Somewhere there's a colt that's going to be one of the screen's big-name big-name horses. James Warren, RKO's western star, soon to be seen in "Sunset Pass," is on a trip through Arizona, Texas and Wyoming, Wyo-ming, looking for a colt with distinctive dis-tinctive markings, to be featured with him in the studio's next Zane Grey western. The colt will have film training at a ranch, and be groomed for stardom. Mrs. Lillian Fontaine, mother of Joan and of Olivia dc Havilland, is going to play a mother again. She was Jage Wyman's mother In "The Lost Weekend," then worked In "The Imperfect Lady," now she's been cast as Paulette God-dard's God-dard's mother In "Suddenly It's Spring." If Paramount's "The Emperor Waltz" lives up to expectations it should be one of the year's best pictures. Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine will co-star in this Technicolor Tech-nicolor musical, and the com-I com-I pany will go all out in providing j beautiful settings and lovely mu-'; mu-'; 6ic. "Her most glamorous to date" is what the studio says of Joan's j role, promising costumes that will make her look her loveliest, i i ODDS AD ESDS-M-tri, ha, signod i Tony Martin to a lona term conlrart , 'ftllint ine com il'-linn nj his role in "Till the Clnudt KM By," lhi lijn stnry of i Jprnme Kfrn. . . . Alfred Hithrftrh has but pound on hi Iran meat diet. . . . Metro's ofjered Ed Wynn a contract to co-Mar v ith his son, Kenan If ynn. . . . The first radio assignment of fieese Taylor, Tay-lor, currently featured in "Young Dr. Valone," uas jtlaying the lead in a sketch called "The Life of Chirk Gable". . . . Martha Virhe.rs has to move from her Sorlh Hollywood house; uants to find a home for herself, her lather, mother, brother and six kitten. "' |
