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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. ONE of the air's best pro-grams, pro-grams, "Shipmates Ashore," may soon be broad-:ast broad-:ast nationally; it's a variety show, done by British Broadcasting Broad-casting company, with an sAxnerican star and an English me broadcasting from New York, ind two of the same from London. It goes to fighting men on the seven leas, and it's thrilling. Gertrude -awrence went down to New York's Seamen's Church Institute on a biter bit-er Saturday morning recently, to ling and to chat with Burgess Mere- i it ' 1 ( GERTRUDE LAWRENCE lith in London; said he: "Tell Paul-!tte Paul-!tte I got her Christmas present." Tried out on a local New York itation, the program's been a great niccess, and an important part of he hands-across-the-sea movement. Andrew Stone has cooked up lomething special for his "Sensa-dons "Sensa-dons of 1944" (Eleanor Powell, W. D. Fields). He's concluded arrangements arrange-ments with the state of Colorado to tave a man walk a tight-wire across Ihe Royal Gorge. First off, he want-id want-id to stage the act over Niagara Falls, but authorities on both the V. S. and Canadian sides of the falls lave so far refused to play. m Marking the most important Pan-Lmerican Pan-Lmerican alliance in the motion picture pic-ture industry in recent years, United irtists has arranged to distribute in ill Latin-American countries and in Spain the product of a new Mexican production company, Artistas Aso-liados, Aso-liados, S. A. . When NBC was informed that Parks Johnson and Warren Hull of "Vox Pop" would be armchair de-:ectives de-:ectives on an Ellery Queen Broad-:ast, Broad-:ast, an NBC executive asked "Who is Parks Johnson? Isn't he in ra-!io?" ra-!io?" "Vox Pop" was a popular VBC show for nearly five years before be-fore it switched to CBS I Incidentals', Incidental-s', those two Vox Poppers should be lecora'ted for the swell job they're 5oing these days. Did yon hear little Dickie Mono-Ian Mono-Ian when he covered himself with rlory on the CBS "Big Town" program, pro-gram, playing a little blind boy iphose dog was run over by gang-iters? gang-iters? A Warner Bros, scout did, ind promptly arranged to interview Dickie object, a screen test. To John Charles Thomas falls the listinction of occupying Radio City's !amed Studio 8H, better known as ihe Toscanini studio, now that he Is broadcasting his Sunday NBC Jrtgram from New York for seven freeis, while making 21 Met Opera irppearances. Barbara Hale, former Chicago nodel who came to film prominence vhen she was picked to play opposite Trnk Sinatra in "Higher and High-s" High-s" has been given another good oie by RKO the second feminine ead in the Pat O'Brien starrer, Marine Raiders." m Jimmy Cash, singing star of the 3urns and Allen CBS program, will nake his picture debut in the Uni-ersal Uni-ersal film tentatively titled "Cross four Fingers." He gets a break; in original number, "A Dream go," has been written for him. Time was when no Hollywood ictress would admit that she ever ifted a finger around the house; now hey pitch in and are proud of it Dorothy Lamour and her mother did ieir own washing for five months a ffhile ago. Jean Arthur, Joan Crawford, Craw-ford, Ann Sheridan, Betty Grable foO can go right down the list, and Ind the girls proud of being able to :ook, garden, do practically any chore and take pride in it. Claudette Colbert's butler once was one of her prides now she buttles, and very well, too! ODDS AND ENDS Heretofore confined con-fined to the screen, "The Adventures of Charlie Chan" will shortly take to the tirwaves . . . Ruth Howard, daughter of quizmaster Tom Howard, helps write Qie scripts for "It Pays to Be Ignorant" the comedy-quiz show now heard on the CJ3S "Kate Smith Hour" . . . In years ! come the Battle of Stalingrad will be studied in military academies through the medium of a documentary film idile.d by Paramount, now being shown in theaters as "The City That Stopped filler Heroic Stalingrad" . . . Groucho Mmrx is a new uncle; his brother Harpo hafifldopled another child, named it for Alexander Woollcoll. |