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Show W0 STAGESCREENADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THE motion picture industry indus-try turned out recently to do honor to Harry Carey in celebration of his completing a year of making motion pictures pic-tures "The Shepherd of the Hills," his latest, is his 305th. He's long been one of the most beloved men in Hollywood, because he's one of the most human. Not many people at the celebration knew of one of the nicest things he ever did. The Indians who work on his ranch (he homesteaded it himself) had never seen the sea; when he learned that, some years ago, he and his wife piled them all into trucks and drove miles to show it to them! Red Skelton was so eager to play one of the three sailors in Metro's 7 "Panama Hattie" thathe campaigned; went around with his pockets full of cigars, and whenever when-ever he met one of the 'executives involved in-volved he'd hand out a cigar and say "Vote for me for 'Panama Hattie.' " Then they previewed pre-viewed "Lady Be Red Skelton Good,- in which Skelton's a sensation. sensa-tion. "Panama Hattie's" producer, Arthur Freed, sent Skelton a box of cigars and a note saying, "Red, you're elected. After 'Lady Be Good' you're the one who deserves the cigars." The producer of the air's "Stepmother" "Step-mother" serial auditioned dozens of aspirants for the role of a two-year old. Then be happened to catch Alice Sherrie Goodkin's baby Imitations Imita-tions on the Uncle Ezra program and she got the part. Ray Milland and Brian Aherne are starring with Plnnriptt fnlhpr-t in "Skylark." Mil-land Mil-land was a boy soprano so-prano when a child in Wales but in 12 years of acting in pictures he's never sung a note. Aherne never would sing as a child, or even a youth and he's always al-ways having to sing before the camera. In "Skylark" he has IiLipi'"U(1iJ r ; io sine trie sea chan- Brian Aherne tey, "Blow the Man Down," for five minutes and it's during a storm at sea. Well, that's Hollywood for you! Here's RKO Radio's list of 14 new players whom they believe you'll want to keep seeing on the screen; they'll appear in 1941-42 productions: produc-tions: Signe Hasso, Dorothy Com-mingore, Com-mingore, Ruth Warrick, Anne Hunter, Hunt-er, Michel Morgan, Frances Neal, Ginny Simms, Joan Carroll, James Craig, Edmond O'Brien, Joseph Cotton, Cot-ton, Dennis O'Keefe, Paul Hammond, Ham-mond, Philip Reed. Keep track of them, if you're interested in seeing how stellar material is developed; some may hit the heights, others won't. You'll be the real judges! Some of these players might be called stars now, of course; James Craig, who clicked as the young doctor doc-tor in "Kitty Foyle," is to become a star in "Unexpected Uncle"; Edmond Ed-mond O'Brien had one of the four stellar roles in "Parachute Battalion." Battal-ion." But it's the public, not the studio, that has the final word in these things; fortunes have been lost in attempts to cram "stars" down the public's throat, when the public stayed away from the resulting pictures in droves. Let's hope RKO's choice is a good one! After you girls see Paramount's "The Parson of Panamint" you may all be wearing your hair "a la El-Drew"; El-Drew"; that's the name the actresses ac-tresses in the picture gave the hairdo hair-do which Ellen Drew adapted from the one the studio found was authentic au-thentic for the year 1892, in which the picture is laid. Ellen agreed to the necessary pompadour, but added a small curl right in the center cen-ter of her forehead, and the style was made official for the film. Charlie Ruggles stars in the picture. Connie Boswell, of the Bing Crosby Cros-by program, has invented a new game. t It's called polo tennis. .Connie, .Con-nie, who is unable to walk, worked out the idea of having the players ride large tricycles, and everybody who's played is enthusiastic about it ODDS ASD EDSBess Johnson, of radio's "The Story of Bess Johnson, has abandoned the wheel chair sie' used since she broke her ankle some weeks a no . , . Rosalind Russell's relieved re-lieved that the titJe of her new co starrine picture with Clark Gable has been changed to "They Met in Bombay" Bom-bay" formerly it uas "L'nholy Partners" Part-ners" . . . Soldiers from the nearby army base turned out in force for Uie "sneak" fire-view of Ronald Col man's latest, "My Life With Carolmf" at Riverside, Calif. ... 7. Carrol Saish tacked that "J" onto his name because fans had a way of thinking he was a woman thanks to all that make-up- |