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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) FOUR soldiers from the middle mid-dle west got the thrill of a lifetime recently. Claire Trevor, Tre-vor, who'd been working late at Paramount on "The Black Curtain," was driving to a Hollywood cafe for dinner when she saw them trying to thumb a ride. She stopped and asked them if they'd have dinner with her. There were no introductions. in-troductions. In the middle of the meal one of them suddenly exclaimed. ex-claimed. "Gosh. I know you you're Claire Trevor!" Resultant casualties, casual-ties, one glass of water, spilled; two cups of cofTee, dropped. Cause, amazement of fellow guests. Claudette Colbert's slated to play another of those beautiful, brisk newspaper women that we see so often on the screen and so rarely in ft Tkf '-"V ' t r CLAUDETTE COLBERT real life. She'll do it in "No Time for Love." Fred McMurray, the, hero, plays a sand hog, who works on a tunnel project under the Hudson. We're told officially that Jean Parker, now playing in "Hello Annapolis," An-napolis," has just planted the largest larg-est one-girl victory garden in Hollywood Holly-wood half an acre, all vegetables, which she's taking care of entirely by herself. Anybody who's ever taken tak-en care of a vegetable garden knows that either her screen career or the tomatoes and beans is going to be sadly neglected. "Klondike Kate," who's in Hollywood Holly-wood to select an actress to portray her in the Columbia story based on her life, gave the same final test to all candidates, including Evelyn Keyes, Jinx Falkenbnrg and Shirley Patterson had each roll a cigarette. Jonathan Hale, who plays a bit in "Joe Smith, American," is a great-' grand-nephew of Nathan Hale plays the part of a foreign agent who beats up a man who's inspired by Nathan Hale's words, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Joan Fontaine better get ready for the biggest year of her screen career, ca-reer, now that she's won the Academy Acade-my award for her work in "Suspicion," "Suspi-cion," whether she really wants to go on making pictures or not. She was sure that one of the other nominees, nomi-nees, her sister, Olivia de Havilland, Bette Davis, Greer Garson and Bai-bara Bai-bara Stanwyck, would get it. "On-the-air" habits of radio folk Fred Allen chews gum, swing organist or-ganist Milt Herth chews candle wax; the Andrews Sisters squeeze each others' hands, Phil Baker squeezes the golf ball that he always carries car-ries in bis pocket. Tallulah Bank-head Bank-head grips her script so hard that afterward it shows the marks of her finger nails on every page. Sixteen-year-old Linda Ware postponed post-poned her Paramount commitments because her doctor said she'd have to take a rest, preferably out of town. She went to New York. A week later she'd accepted a singing engagement at a swank night club, was discussing the lead in a musical musi-cal show opposite Ray Bolger, and had four offers for guest shots on the air. They say the doctor's threatened threat-ened with apoplexy. Bob Hawk's Friday evening radio program, "How'm I Doin'?," is one of Uncle Sam's heaviest buyers of defense stamps. The program authorities au-thorities keep a $2,000 reserve on hand at all times. Two men are responsible for keeping keep-ing actress Ann Thomas in New York, when she had an opportunity to join Shirley Temple in the radio version of "Junior Miss"; they're Mr. Ace of radio's "Easy Aces," (she's his stenographer in the air show,) and Mr. Meek of "Meet Mr. Meek." ODDS A.D EXDS Since Fred Allen moved his broadcasts to Sunday evenings eve-nings he's right back where he was nearly ten years ago, with "Fred Allen's Bath Club Revue" . . Kate Smith autographed auto-graphed almost 1,000 sailors' caps when she appeared at the Great Lakes U. S. naval training station Norma Jean Wayne was only 14 days old when she made her screen debut as the new baby of the screen's "Blondie" series . . . Warner Bros, has to find new leading men for "The Hard Way" and "The Widow Wouldn't Weep" because Jeffrey Jef-frey Lynn's in the army now . Metro's bought "Dragon Seed," by Pearl S. Buck, and will make a picture of it. |