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Show STAGESCREENsRADlO , By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THE baton Judy Garland carried fourteen years ago in an act which she did with her sisters at a Lancaster Lan-caster theater has been rejuvenated re-juvenated for her starring role in "Ziegfeld Girl." Four -year -old Judy kept the "stick" among her souvenirs of "The Gumm Sis- " 1 ters" era. During "Pigskin Parade," in which she first won screen recognition, recogni-tion, she carried it again. Now as the drum majorette in the M-G-M musi-cale musi-cale finale number, it once again comes out of hiding but with a difference. Like Judy, it's been Judy Garland glamourized. Painted in silver, it has 100 sparkling spar-kling rhinestones studding the head. "I'm sure if it had been as impressive impres-sive 14 years ago as it is now, we would have received more than 50 cents apiece for our 'Gumm Sisters' act," chuckled the young star. It's pretty Ellen Drew who gets the feminine lead in "The Night of -January 16th" when it finally goes before the cameras. Patricia Morrison was to have had it. Casting Cast-ing difficulties for the picture began last February, when Don Ameche refused to have anything to do with it; Robert Preston is now slated for the Ameche role. Frank Capra's "Meet John Doe" will be more than just a good pic- 4,ir. Its rplMEB fiplphra f . tiie 9.fl years of picture making. He's made 26 pictures and is one of Hollywood's Holly-wood's few directors who can be depended de-pended on to turn out top-notch ones. Rise Stevens, young American mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan 11 Opera company, who made her first appearance at the White House when she participated in the Inaugural concert con-cert this year, has been signed by Metro - Goldwyn -Mayer. Her first picture will be a Technicolor musical; musi-cal; she'll leave for Hollywood at the Rise Stevens end of April, alter the completion of her concert and radio season, and begin work in May. She made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1938 (she'd shattered a 55-year-old record, when she was 19, by informing Metropolitan officials of-ficials that she was "not yet ready to accept the greatest opportunity opened to a young artist"). Still in her mid-twenties, she is one of the company's leading mezzo-sopranos, and lovely looking to boot. She's going to offer very, very keen competition com-petition for Jeanette MacDonald. It was aching arms, not art, that lent a new and more sinister note to Humphrey Bogart's performance in Warner Brothers' "High Sierra." Visitors to the set noticed a new and sinister alertness, produced by Bogart's Bo-gart's carrying his arms out from his body as if ready for a quick draw. But "When you have a holster strapped tight under each arm all day, you get tired of the contact and involuntarily hold your arms away from your body," Bogart explained. "But I may as well confess; when I found that it gave a sinister effect, ef-fect, I kept doing it, even without guns." - Boris Karl off is appearing on the New York stage in a goofy and hilarious murder mystery entitled, "Arsenic and Old Lace." He's cast as a man who terrifies people because be-cause he looks so much like Boris Karloff of the movies. And even highly sophisticated members of the audience are audibly delighted when they recognize him. Mr. Karloff, incidentally, gives an excellent performance per-formance as the man who resembles him. Turhan Selahettin Shultavy Bey is a new name in American motion pictures; its owner is a young man of distinguished lineage in Turkey. But when 24-year-old Turham came Dto this country to seek his fortune he left his dignified and aristocratic past behind him. Which was just as well, for when the cast and crew of "Murder on the Second Floor" had difficulty pronouncing his name they just dubbed him "Bay Rum." ik ODDS AXD ESDS Doris Dudley dyed her blonde hair midnight blue for a role in the Miriam Hopkins stupe play Zar.i of the Angels"; now the ; pliy has been called off, and Doris ; must turn blonde again, fast, for a role I m another play, "The Bo Tree" . . . Since the hectic days of July, 1939, liaymond Gram Swing has been broadcasting broad-casting almost every day without missing miss-ing a single program because of illness; recently he took a three weeks vacation, vaca-tion, and spent most of it in bed. swk : . . It's reported that Dick f'owcll, who recently left that cofjee program, is forming his own orchestra for another radio program. |