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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. SAYS Teresa Wright, "I was bewildered and lonesome when I first came to Hollywood, Holly-wood, but I had a job to do, and did the best I could." A swell job it was, too, and now she's doing another one; making mak-ing a screen comeback. After 18 months absence from pictures, due to Illness, she is currently appearing with Gary Cooper in International Pictures' "Casanova Brown," and will be starred in two other pictures before very long. After making a bit in two Broadway successes and refusing a Hollywood contract be- TERESA WRIGHT cause she felt she wasn't ready for it she made four outstanding pictures, pic-tures, won an "Oscar" for her work In "Mrs. Miniver," and was starred In her fourth one. At Paramount .they claim that Lucy Tarr is the homeliest girl in Hollywood, and Lucy doesn't care. She's been signed for the role of a hillbilly in "Murder, He Says," starring star-ring Fred MacMurray. "I've got a Job out of my looks," she boasts. Ted Donaldson, ten-year-old now completing the role of "Nealy" in 20th Century-Fox's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," is to get his first starring star-ring role In Columbia Pictures' "Rusty." It's a new sort of boy and dog story, telling of the reformation reforma-tion of a vicious Nazi-trained dog by a boy. Young Donaldson scored ft personal triumph in "Once Upon a Time," with Cary Grant and Janet Elalr. Some of our top radio commentators commenta-tors will be seen by the general public pub-lic for the first time in Ralph Staub's Screen Snapshots subject, "Show Business at War"; he's signed up SO of the leaders, including Louis P. Lochner and Raymond Gram Swing. Bob Waterfield, UCLA football 1 star recently given his honorable discharge from the marine corps, has been signed by Warner Bros, for an important role of a paratrooper para-trooper in "Objective Burma," starring star-ring Errol Flynn. Waterfield may make a career of motion pictures instead of returning to the gridiron, as previously announced. Iledy Lamarr, George Brent ana ! Paul Lukas will be co-starred in "Experiment Perilous," Miss La-marr's La-marr's first appearance on the RKO lot. And that's quite an assignment for the girl remember, Lukas won the Academy award for the best performance per-formance last year. One of the oldest and most popular popu-lar radio shows, the National Barn Dance, soon entering its eleventh yedr of continuous network broad-l broad-l casting, has been engaged to appear jj in person at two midwest state fairs ithis summer. The entire cast will put on their traditional show at the Wisconsin state fair in Milwaukee on August 26, and at the Indiana state fair in Indianapolis on Sep- tember 2. NBC has a fine new series replacing replac-ing "American Story." Twelve dramatizations, called "They Call Me Joe," tell the story of the contributions con-tributions to America made by the various national and racial groups represented among our servicemen. Through the cooperation of the war ! department, the programs will also be heard by service men and women overseas. j The war department's morale lervice division, ASF, through the ' cooperation of CBS, will broadcast the science and geography programs pro-grams of CBS' "The American School of the Air" to millions of ervlce men and women stationed "U over the world, starting October 8. Programs will be heard on battle ' fronts, troop transports, hospital hips, submarines and in general hospitals in the U. S. ; ODDS AND ENDS Betty Ilutlon 'gan campaigning for that Texas Cuinan role three years ago, tvhen she 'i ju first signed by Paramount The Tremaynes hold weekly swing con' cloves at their San Fernando Valley totci. . . . Inspired by the success of Mie's huh Hose," Anne Nichols is tparmg a sequel to it thinks maybe u iU be called "Abie's Irish Off-lp?r Off-lp?r . Tivelve Welsh folk songs 6e used in Belle Davis' "The Corn jf 11 Green" they'll be sung by choral A roups varyme in size from 30 to 80 toicej. |