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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. "Ill EARING Jack Benny talk A A at luncheon about his overseas trip to entertain the armed forces was an experience experi-ence that all of his many fans should have shared. "Nothing "Noth-ing happened to me." That was his theme. "I didn't almost al-most get killed; I wasn't uncomfortable. I'm going back to Hollywood and urge all the actors to duplicate my trip il they can; I saw places I'd never have seen otherwise." other-wise." He said that when he went into hospitals he was at a loss; "I'd say 'Hullo and a man would say 'Hullo' and I wouldn't know what to say next; Td think 'Maybe he just doesn't car about meeting me.' " Most of the time he talked about how swell tho rest of the troupe were! Joan Davis is starring In a radic program with Jack Haley and mak ing two pictures at the same time "Show Business" at RKO and 4,Boautiful But Broke" at Universal. i"1 i: " JOAN DAVIS How she's going to get from NBC to Universal and back to RKO and still have time to eat and sleep is a problem that's causing quite a bit of worry for everybody but Miss Davis. Screen star Robert Young will play host on the annual Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing show sponsored by a watch company, com-pany, November 25, from four to six (EWT). Headliners signed so far include Alan Reed (Falstaff Openshaw), Lena Home, Jose Iturbi and Burns and Allen. Director Sidney Laniicld needed six-months-old twins for Paramount's "Let's Face It" (co-starring: Bob nope and Betty Ilutton). Out went the call, in came twins, but none salted Lanfield. Finally In came a beautiful single. Lanfield sadly explained ex-plained that he must use twins; If only this infant were two! "Oh, that's all right," said the mother. "His twin brother's testing at Warners'." War-ners'." Here's a tribute Charles R. Rogers Rog-ers recently signed a seven-year contract con-tract with Pat Starling, whom Henry Clive, the artist, described as "The most perfect Venus in America"; you'll see her in "Song of the Open Road," previously called "It's Great to Be Young." Looks as if somebody some-body didn't know that when a tiling Is perfect, it can't be any more so or is that quibbling? Charles Laughton signed an odd contract recently one permitting his photograph to be used as a prop in "Dangerous Journey." His wife, Elsa Lanchester, plays a London scrubwoman who takes her husband's hus-band's picture with her on her odys-sey odys-sey to Berlin to kill Hitler. Miss Lanchester Lan-chester thought it would be a fine idea to let her real husband pose for the picture so Charles got the contract. con-tract. What they do with their radio scripts Jack Carson has bis bound; Gertrude Lawrence autographs hers and auctions them off at various charity functions; Glnny Siinms sends hers to the Glnny Simms fan clubs. Everett ("Crime Doctor") Sloaue gives his scripts to acting-ambitious acting-ambitious studio page boys; Charlie Martin has the CBS Playhouse movie stars sign Ids, and keeps them as souvenirs. Pat Hyatt, pretty blonde member of th Music Maids and Hal, who was seriously injured in an automobile automo-bile accident many weeks ago, will soon be back on the Bing Crosby program she surprised everybody recently by hobbling into the NBC studios on crutches during a rehearsal re-hearsal of the Music Hall program. ODDS AND ENDS If you see the U. S. navy movie short, "Eagles of the Navy," showing how fliers are tramed, that's the voice of Joe Gotten you 11 hear as narrator . . . Linda Darnell has been borrowed from 20th Century-Fox for the leading feminine role in United Arthls "It Happened Tomorrow which seems to be Uie last word m Io morrow" titles . . -Fraction best-selling "The Robe" will start m Hie spring; it will be produced on a tcale surpassing that of Ben Hur . . . ffcffr Ilutton is still receiving mail from men who proposed to her when the was a singer witli Vincent Lopez orchestra she averaged five a day. |