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Show STAGESCREEnMCJO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. SEEMS as if, these days, you can't swing a cat in Hollywood Holly-wood without hitting a Cinderella. Cinder-ella. Jane Powell's the latest. Fourteen years old, she is under un-der contract to MGM, but will be launched on her movie career ca-reer by Charles R. Rogers in a starring role in "Song of the Open Road." Meanwhile she's Charlie McCarthy's leading lady on Edgar Bergen's Sunday night radio show. She was Oregon's Victory Girl before she went to Hollywood last August, and Deanna Durbin gets credit for discovering her. Euth Warrick's motion picture career ca-reer has been haunted she's played one matron after another, and she's just 24! She was lucky to get the role of the first "Mrs. Kane" in "Citizen Kane" but it was a middle-aged role, done so well that she C i z " j . ?' ' ; 'a n ! - ' ' "I - ' .. J " - s -V J, ' r 1 r- . - 1 RUTH WARRICK was cast as Joseph Cotten's wife in ''Journey Into Fear"; then she was Joan Carroll's guardian in "Obliging Young Lady," and "Forever and a Day" did no better by her. In "The Iron Major," with Pat O'Brien, she's herself for a while in an early sequence, se-quence, so maybe the tide's turned. Alan Carney, in "Gangway for Tomorrow," To-morrow," feels that RKO has helped him to reaUze a lifelong ambition. He's always wanted to do a trained animal act, but had neither the patience pa-tience to train an animal nor the chance to get the right one. Now fortune has smiled on him at last. In "Gangway for Tomorrow" he plays a hobo whose constant companion com-panion is a trained hen! Rosalind Russell's all set to play Nurse Kenny in "Elizabeth Kenny"; she spent a week in Minneapolis with -the renowned Australian nurse, talking with her and familiarizing herself with the Foundation named for her and with the Kenny technique tech-nique for curing Infantile paralysis. She also studied pictures of Miss Kenny at different stages of her career, ca-reer, to make her portrayal authentic. authen-tic. A check for one million dollars has been turned over by Warner Bros. Pictures to the Army Emergency Belief, that being the first installment install-ment of proceeds from the film version ver-sion of Irving Berlin's "This Is the Army." X Making Barbara Stanwyck look so seductive that it would seem reasonable reason-able that Fred MacMurray would enter into her plot to murder her husband for his accident insurance that's the problem faced by Director Direc-tor Bill Wilder in Paramount's "Double Indemnity." First he had her wear a sun suit, but sun suits are now so widely worn that they're no longer obviously seductive. She had to jolt MacMurray at first glance. So now she wears a bath towel! Marian Shocklcy, who created and has played the role of "Nikki Porter" Por-ter" for five years on the EUery Queen NBC radio series, was off the air recently for nine weeks because of serious illness. But her voice apparently ap-parently was heard; Helen Lewis, who came to New York six years ago with Marian, and with her tried out for the role, is an expert mimic; she stepped in and imitated her friend Marian! Wben word got out that Patrice Munsel, 18-year-old winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air last year, had landed a $120,000 concert contract before ever she sang at the Met, literally hundreds of young singers rushed to try for this year's auditions. In Chicago alone Wilfred Pelletier heard 141 girls and boys, all of whom had high hopes of following in Patrice's footsteps. foot-steps. ODDS AXD EXDS-If Roy AcufJ, singing star of "Grand Old Opry" is elected governor of Tennessee he uont be the only office hoUler in his family his dad is iS'eill AcufJ, a General Sessions Ses-sions court judge . . . Alexis Smith and Dolores Moran have been chosen to be Jack lienny's leading ladies in the Warner War-ner Bros, comedy "The Horn Bloivs at Midnight" . . . Alan Ladd, who recently received a medical discharge from the army, has been named by Paramount for the lead in "And A'oic Tomorrow," replacing Fmnchot Tone Corp. Billy llalnp one of the original "Dead End Kids" visited CBS's "Let's Pretend,'' which gave him his start. |