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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. ONE of the fifteen magazine models now working in "Cover Girl," starring Rita Hayworth, will begin her real movie career with a complete wardrobe. The Cover Girls are contributing a dollar a week apiece for 13 weeks, to be set aside as a "career starter fund." The full amount $195 will be matched by the first star, making $390. The first Cover Girl who receives re-ceives a bona fide screen offer after finishing her role at Columbia will win the entire amount, to be spent on a wardrobe. Joan Leslie, co-starred with Fred Astaire In RKO Radio's "The Sky's the Limit," made her film debut five years ago as a child actress in their "Laddie"; she was Joan Brodel then. She moved right along, play."V" play-."V" - 1 j JOAN LESLIE Ing opposite Gary Cooper in "Sergeant "Ser-geant York," and Jimmie Cagney in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." A year ago Astaire saw her dance and said: "One of these days she's going to be my partner!" Leslie Howard, young daughter of a famous father, is all set to carry on a famous name. Remember how very good she was in her radio appearances? ap-pearances? She makes her film debut de-but with her father in "Spitfire." Another daughter of a famous parent, par-ent, Mary Hayes, daughter of Helen, makes her bow with her mother, this month, in a special Girl Scouts' radio program. Walter Brennan, Hollywood's only three-time Academy Award winner, celebrates his 25th year as a film character actor while he's appearing appear-ing in Samuel Goldwyn's "North Star." And his youngest daughter makes her debut, as his granddaughter. grand-daughter. Real French - Canadian troops make their film debut in the Commando Com-mando raid sequence of the Merle Oberon-Brian Aherne film, "First Comes Courage." We're told that Commando tactics never before revealed re-vealed to the public are demonstrated demonstrat-ed by the 300-men tank force which performed for the cameras at Beecher Bay, Vancouver Island, B. C. It was looked on as excellent combat training for the troops. Open house for servicemen in Hollywood is a daily routine of hospitality in the Harry Sherman studios; an average of 30 soldiers, sailors and marines has been watching watch-ing Albert Decker and Claire Trevor in "The Gunmaster." Sherman has also opened his sound stages for parties par-ties for men in uniform; the other night 150 soldiers were invited to informal in-formal festivities at the end of the lay's work. Jennifer Jones, who landed the lead in' "The Song of Bernadette," nearing completion, has joined the all-star cast of "Since You Went Away." Claudette Colbert plays the young mother; Shirley Temple and Jennifer are her daughters. Wendell Niles was unable to get overseas passage with Bob Hope, so he stayed home to be actor-announcer on Johnny Mercer's Music Shop, the summer replacement for Bob's program. Mercer is going to double from his radio show to write Metro's "Ziegfeld Follies." If those red and blue ration coupons cou-pons have been bothering you, be sure to see the latest Lum and Ab-ner Ab-ner picture when it comes your way. The famous Jot 'Em Down Store of Pine Ridge, Ark., is the scene of all sorts of mixups with the coupons, sugar and coffee tickets, and Lum and Abner's duties as air raid wardens war-dens and ration board and tire inspectors in-spectors as material. ODDS AXD ENDS Jose Iturbi's making a film for Metro, in which he portrays himself . . . Louis Armstrong, No. 1 trumpet man, is the laundry's best friend used a dozen handkerchiefs handker-chiefs for mopping purposes one morning recently, wliile recording for 'Jam Session" . . . Betty Button has flayed a girl who earns her own living in etery one of her pictures to date, , . . Lupe Velcz had her first case of stage fright when she had to handle a very young baby in "Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event" the lad that the baby j could uork only tu o minutes at a time j was all that saved her! |