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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE FOR the first time Hollywood Holly-wood can remember, two actors, in different studios and different productions, are playing the same character. In "Murder, My Sweet" (RKO) and "The Big Sleep" (Warners), the author, Raymond Ray-mond Chandler, has as central cen-tral character a hard-fisted detective, Philip Marlowe. That was right up Humphrey Bogart's alley, al-ley, and Warners gave it to him; at RKO, apple - cheeked Dick Powell got it. Oft the screen they're good friends, go sailing and play bridge together. It was Powell who took Bogart under his wing when the latter lat-ter came to Hollywood from the New York stage; today Bogart is Powell's biggest booster for success in his own field. Dorothy Lamour is headed for more dramatic roles, now that she's abandoning sarong roles; "Medal for Benny" and her current UN . x ' s i I I DOROTHY LAMOUR chore, "Masquerade in Mexico," give her opportunities to go all out for serious acting. Now it's no safongs maybe no technicolor! Betty Hutton's career seems to be following the general lines of Carole Lombard's. Carole started as a tornado, tor-nado, then slid over into romantic and dramatic roles. The blonde bombshell's dual role in "Here Comes the WAVES" showed what she could do as a dreamy, romantic roman-tic lass, and in her next, "Incendiary "Incendi-ary Blonde," based on the life of Texas Guinan, she has some "moments" "mo-ments" that are anything but incendiary. in-cendiary. .- . . If yon were disappointed because Gracie Fields didn't sing a note in "Holy Matrimony," wait till yon see "Molly and Me." She not only sings six songs, she does one of them as a dnet with Monty Woolley. According Accord-ing to The Beard "When Woolley sings, it is quite as rare a thing as when Woolley shaves." Graeie's planning to return to England by the western route, entertaining troops all the way. First thing we know those low-cut, off-the-shoulder fashions are going to return. Twelve of Tallulah Bank-head's Bank-head's 14 frocks in the Ernst Lubitsch "A Royal Scandal" are made that way. Trouble is, a girl has to have shoulders like Tallulah's to wear those gowns. The picture, in which she plays Catherine the Great, promises to be one of those Lubitsch masterpieces. , With her first week's salary as "Grandma Rommely" in 20th Century-Fox's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Brook-lyn," 63-year-old Ferike Boros finished fin-ished paying a debt of gratitude. Nine years ago the Hungarian actress had a run of bad luck; hospital hos-pital and doctor bills took all her savings, and she was about to lose her home when Director John Cromwell Crom-well stopped foreclosure proceedings. proceed-ings. Kay Kyser and his "College of Musical Knowledge" are off on the most extensive hospital tour in the history of this country. Broadcasting Broad-casting along the way, they'll sweep through the country in a big arc. " Tanis Chandler's RKO contract came in an unexpected way. A studio executive heard her sing on one of the first OWI programs to General MacArthur's invasion troops and Filipino guerillas on Luzon. Lu-zon. You'll hear her in "George White's Scandals of 1945." Shirley Dinsdale, 17-year-old ventriloquist, ven-triloquist, and her dummy, Judy Splinters, are now regular members of the cast of Nelson Eddy's CBS "Electric Hour." Shirley's a sophomore sopho-more at the University of California Califor-nia and a holder of the distinguished honor citation from the government for war bond campaign work. ODDS AND ENDS Nancy Walker is such a hit in the Broadway musical, "On the Town," that her movie alma mater, M etro-Goldwyn-M ayer, wants to rewrite the stories scheduled for Mickey Rooney and star Nancy in them. . . . At Warner Bros, they're preparing a short subject entitled "G.I. Music" to be made up oj name bands overseas with the V. S. army Jean Hersholt, star of CBS "Dr. Christian," will go to Denmark immediately after the war to make a survey of postwar needs. . . . Darryl Hickman, who plays the cynical "Raymond" on the Corliss Archer air ihow, will play the same role in the Cm liss Archer movie. "Kist and Tell. |