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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Beleased by Western Newspaper Union. t IN "HAPPY Go Lucky" Mary Martin will have a' new hairdress that's the result re-sult of a suggestion from Jack Beddington, of the English Ministry of Information. He cabled David Rose, Para-mount's Para-mount's managing director in Great Britain (then in this country). "Medical authorities authori-ties here consider it highly desirable in the interests of hygiene and safety that factory girls and other war workers should wear hair as short as possible on the back of the neck. Urge you to persuade Hollywood star to adopt similar style to encourage them to do se." Chris-Pin Martin made actors out of his six grandchildren the other day. Told to select half a dozen youngsters between the ages of four and ten to be his family in "Across the Border," the new Hopalong Cas-sidy Cas-sidy film, he just went home and got them. That well-known book, "The Moon and Sixpence," has been a headache head-ache to most of the movie companies; compa-nies; it's' been owned or held under option by Paramount, Warner Bros., i , If -V I , ' f - i .3 I ' ' - 5 , f m ' 1 GEORGE SANDERS RKO and Metro. The trouble was getting a script that would pass the censors. Now we hear that it's to be done for United Artists, with George Sanders as the hero who abandoned his wife and his business to be a painter in the South Seas. "Woman of the Year" lives up to all the enthusiastic predictions that Metro made for it. Almost 300,000 persons paid to see it during the first two weeks of its run at New York's Radio City Music Hall and a lot of them stood in line plenty long for the opportunity! It's one of the best of the year, certainly; also one of the best that Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy have ever given us. If you like gangster melodramas "Johnny Eager" should suit you right down to the ground. Robert Taylor is fine as the tough hero. Lana Turner lovely as the pretty daughter of the District Attorney. Nothing novel about the plot, but plenty of excitement Hours are spent checking the questions and answers on the Phil Baker "Take It Or Leave It" program pro-gram (Sundays over CBS) ; the research re-search bureau has to be sure of getting the only correct answer. Yet the public frequently thinks they're wrong. Recently hundreds of Persians Per-sians objected to the statement that the Mazda lamp wasn't named for an individual they said that Mazda was an ancient Persian god, and they felt that he was entitled to recognition. rec-ognition. But the researchers classed him with Zeus and Apollo and ruled him out as a mere man. "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" will always be the most romantic song in the world to Mrs. Chester Lauck and Mrs. Norris Goff, whose husbands are Lum and Abner of the radio and the movies. Both men were members of the fraternity at the University of Arkansas, and wooed their home-town sweethearts with the song Goff did it on the saxophone, Lauck put his proposal campaign on with the drums! The Aldrich Family of the air waves has given many a young actress ac-tress a boost toward bigger things. Between Henry's sister and his many sweethearts a lot of girls are needed for it. Betty Field's a graduate grad-uate of the program; so are Mary Mason, of the air's "Maudie's Diary" Di-ary" and the stage, Patricia Ryan, of "Claudia," and Patricia Pear-don, Pear-don, star of the Broadway hit, "Junior "Jun-ior Miss," which Shirley Temple takes over for radio. ODDS AND EXDS Ransom Sherman, Sher-man, proprietor of radio's zaniest hotel. Crestfallen Manor, teas appointed "Lobby "Lob-by Bobby" of the International Hotel Greeters association . . . Judy Garland's next film will be "The Big Time." a story of vaudeville . . . Mikhail insiim-nv, insiim-nv, the very funny Mexican garage mechanic me-chanic in "Hold Back the Daun," m cast as the gypsy in "For it horn the Bell Tolls" . . . Josephine, the mol famous monkey in pictures, celebrated hrr 15:h year as an actress on the set of Columbia's Colum-bia's "Canal Zone"" aUo hrr 30th birthday birth-day . . . Cary Grant maintains that in "The Gentlemen Misbehave" he's the screen's worst-dressed man. |
