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Show STAGE' SCREEN RADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) MARCH OF TIME cameramen camera-men went on a long and perilous voyage to film some of the material used in "Crisis in the Atlantic" they went from Canada to England aboard a tanker in convoy. The film also includes the first pictures to arrive here from -Greenland since that strategic island has become so important. impor-tant. "Crisis in the Atlantic" vividly portrays tlje many aspects of the struggle to keep the sea lanes open so that war materials and food can be sent to Britain, and depicts as well the joint U. S.-Canadian defense efforts involving bases from the Arctic Arc-tic to the South Atlantic. It's a film scoop; don't miss itl Brian Donlevy has been spending a lot of time learning to do some- It -3e mi thing mat wm De quite useless in private pri-vate life. In "The Great Man's Lady," a Paramount production, pro-duction, he plays the part of a professional pro-fessional gambler, a master hand at cheating. And what makes it all the more painful is the fact that Donlevy Brian Donlevy has ,an abhorrence of all card games, ven the game of Authors. Bette Davis Is at It again, play-' play-' ing one of the most unpleasant women wom-en ever seen on the screen. It's for "The Little Foxes," RKO's screen Terslon of the tremendously successful suc-cessful play. It was RKO, you may recall, that set Miss Davis squarely on her feet, dramatically, by casting her as the heroine of "Of Human Bondage" a role few actresses -would have had the courage to take. She took it, and made movie history. Anna Neagle does an entire dance number while submerged in a glass tank filled with water wa-ter in her new picture, pic-ture, "Sunny." Back in England she won medals for swimming swim-ming and diving, so she got into a scanty sequin costume cos-tume and combined her talents as a swimmer and a dancer. The story's laid in New Orleans Sjjjfr, J during the Mardi Anna Neagle Gras, and Ray Bol-ger Bol-ger and John Carroll head the supporting sup-porting cast. The under-water dance is a stunt new to pictures new, as well, to Miss Neagle, we might add. . At the age of 97 Bob Hope's grandfather grand-father is helping to extinguish incendiary incen-diary fires in the English village where he lives. "My health at present pres-ent is much better than my disposition," disposi-tion," he wrote his grandson. "I don't mind staying up at night to see your pictures, but I hate to have to miss my sleep just to put out some fires." Meanwhile Bob is slated to do another an-other of those hilarious comedies with Paulette Goddard; it's called "The Murder Farm," and sounds as If it might even top "The Cat and the Canary" and "The Ghost Breakers," Break-ers," thejr previous collaborations. Agnes M-oorehcad, who plays the mother In Orson Welles" remarkable remarka-ble "Citizen Kane," first encountered encoun-tered Welles when he was five and she was not much older. He strolled into a hotel lobby with bis father, describing a concert which he had just heard, and doing It so dramatically dramati-cally that she never forgot him. She makes her film debut In "Citizen Kane," and gives a beautiful, sincere sin-cere performance. In fact, the whole cast does that you forget that the people on the screen are acting, because be-cause they seem so real. Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor didn't tell even their best friends that they were going off on that West Indies cruise; waited until un-til just before the boat sailed to send telegrams announcing their plans. It's their first vacation together to-gether in 18 months, and their second sec-ond trip together since they were married three years ago. They sailed as Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Brugh, hoping to avoid advance plans for ovations at their various ports of call. ODDS ASD EA'DS Warner Broth-ers Broth-ers liraled collepe students to man the guns in "Dive Bomber" and "The Flight Patrol" the army draft left a shortage in the ranks of extras . . . "Robin Hood" is going to be a Republic serial, u-ith Roy Rogers in the title role . . . Robert Cummings will be Deanna Dur-bins Dur-bins leading man in "Almost an An-gel" An-gel" . . . Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy are beginning their fifth year uith that cotlee program and uhen they started Bergen ia.sn'( at all sure that he could turn out a script a week . . . "The Pause That Refreshes on the Air" has been renew-ed for another 26 tcecks. |