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Show tall STAGESCREENRADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) AFTER Veronica Lake - made her screen debut in "I Wanted Wings," there was plenty of comment about what fashion experts call the "plunging neckline" of her attire. Veronica's necklines held the all-time record for plunging; for a while they attracted almost as much attention as Dorothy Lamour's sarongs. sa-rongs. In "This Gun for Hire" the blonde bombshell is going to eive the clothes-conscious public another jolt; this time she's going to wear tights. The script's to blame she's cast as an entertainer in a night club who does sleight of hand tricks and sings, and that seems to call for tights. That is, it evidently does in Hollywood. Telegraphers are going to have more fun than anybody when Eleanor Powell does that new tap dance In "I'll Take Manila"; to most : ' j ELEANOR POWELL of us it will be just a swell dance, but we're told that wireless operators opera-tors will read a definite message in the taps! Faramount's fixed up a bannister cycle for us not Barbara Bannister, but the kind that accompanies stairs. In "Birth of the Blues" six-year-old Carolyn Lee power-dives down one, smack into Bing Crosby, In "The Great Man's Lady" Barbara Stanwyck slides down another, in crinolines. For "The Wizard of Arkansas" Ar-kansas" Bob Burns shoots the bannister ban-nister chutes, but Burns, of course, is different; he picks up a splinter on the way. And this, it is felt, will definitely end the bannister cycle. Richard de Rochemont, managing editor of The March of Time, says that filming "The Story of the Vatican" Vati-can" was like a vacation. Since 1934 he has been chasing film scoops, and more than once he's escaped death by a narrow margin. "At the Vatican I had a good crew of technicians, tech-nicians, all our locations were in a small area, and there were no intrigues in-trigues or subversive movements to be dealt with," says he. The latest March of Time is "Sailors With Wings," which traces the development of the navy's air service and how it operates in partnership part-nership with the fleet; it's vital and absorbing, one of those pictures that you won't want to miss. The manager of an RKO theater on Long Island heard patrons imitating imi-tating the voice of the RKO Pathe rooster so often that he finally 'arranged 'ar-ranged a contest and let them crow for cash and poultry; several hundred hun-dred persons mounted the stage and crowed like mad. Glenn Ford almost sailed oft to distant ports the other day as a way of getting into the right mood for "Martin Eden," his next picture. He was just stepping on board a freighter, believing that its next stop was San Francisco, when a production produc-tion assistant raced to the dock and stopped him. He wanted to sign on as a seaman and see what it was like. But five minuies later the freighter sailed for Honolulu. The radio scoop of the year is the signing of Shirley Temple to do four programs for one of the big watch manufacturers. For the first time in her career she'll be on the air regularly Friday evenings, December Decem-ber 5 to 26, 10 to 10:30, Eastern Standard Time, on CBS. She will do a series of four Christmas programs, pro-grams, in which she will sing and present Christmas playlets, and her salary for the month's work will be $50,000. Radio sponsors have been pursuing the young star for years. ODDS AD EM)$-"tlold Back tho Paun" is holding back other pictures; theater owners have found it so popular popu-lar that they're extending its run, and it's running neck and neck in receipts uith "Caught in the Droit," Para-mount's Para-mount's top grosser of the year . . . Oscar Levant, of "Information Please and a couple of pictures, has heen signed to a term contract by Paramount Para-mount . . . Bent yn, Okla., uill apptar on new maps as Gene A it trey, Okla . . . Jeanette McDonald and ISelson Eddy are reunited amtiri in ' Married an Ant:el" . . . Milton tlrrle can tell fiie j jokes a minute and keep up that pace I ior tuo hours without repeating one. J |