Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper WHILE making for Bruce Bennett met a marine who'll have to be referred to merely as the Joe was on leave after some tough Guadalcanal and due soon to return to the South The actor told Joe about a Guatemalan machete he'd collected when he was making a Tarzan serial about ten years a little something I'd like to said so Bennett sent to Last week a V-Mail note from Joe machete Is the pride of the I spent two solid weeks sharpening And I out to cut Bennett wishes he'd had dozens of them to hand Nobody could be more surprised than the originators of the air's Barn Dance Show are at the way it has It was started as a program that would appeal principally to listeners In rural but HAL HALLO RAN come October 2 It celebrates its anniversary on the network as a that many city people It's one of the few that has a paying studio The genial Hal O'Halloran will be on hand as 1 usual as m. c. I Metro is certainly rounding up the band they recently I signed Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians for a and already have Tommy Harry Xavier Bob Vaughn Monroe and Spike Watch for a radio quiz master to name three of Hollywood's loveliest who have not played opposite Cary j It would be hard to name Laraine Day shares honors with him in and is the latest of a list of 28 of his Irene Katharine Hepburn I and Sylvia Sidney have appeared three times apiece in Grant and he's probably our only ranking i star who has both Joan and Constance Bennett on his roster of I Have Made Love to on the I The cast of District made money when they won a wager from the Jay Jostyn of the former show was a guest star on the i and his colleagues bet the op-i position that he'd solve the Just a natural The soldiers stationed at Camp near were trying to find just the right girl to name Camp and wound up by selecting Anita of the Jack Carson show on Every now and then Hi producer and director of Adventures of Nero runs Into an old-timer in radio who reminds him of his first program on the It was called Readings by Hi and he'd rather forget It Three years ago an aspiring young actor named Curtis Rudolf failed to obtain a bit part la a little theater production in and was advised to try some other line of Recently Metro staged a first showing on to the In and an actor named Donald christened Curtis had a leading role in the Wallace Beery A prop man on Fallen set laboriously made by flaking ice into a freezing bin and returned from lunch to find that John Garfield and Walter had returned from their lunch and used it all up throwing snowballs at Maureen O'Hara and Director Richard When they learned how much labor had been they pitched in and mad ODDS AND ENDS The small black microphone into which folks on the Bing Crosby program sing has been named Bob of to the has an idea for a movie quiz in which several are interested Fred signet a long term contract with where made his first picture which starred Joan Crawford and Clark in a ca including and made little of talents Dickie the air's new went to Hollywood several years ago as a of Hoot Gibson he was the voice of in the picture of that |