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Show STkESCREENMDSO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union.) PARAMOUNT may have something very interesting interest-ing in the picture called, so far, "Tales of Manhattan." It's the story of a dress suit and what happens to it, and there are seven sequences, in each of which a different male star will appear. So far Charles Boyer, W. C. Fields, Edward G. Robinson and Joe Mc-Crea Mc-Crea have been signed up, and Paul Robeson, the famous baritone, is one of the dozen outstanding stars being considered for it. Well, remember re-member "If I Had a Million"? The episode which practically everyone recalls from that picture is the one in which Charles Laughton, learning that he had a million dollars, gave his boss the raspberry. It made the picture! Susan Hayward did so well in "Reap the Wild Wind" that she has been given another important role; in "The Lady Has Plans," the Paul-ette Paul-ette Goddard-Ray Milland spy comedy, com-edy, she'll be an American racke- t A r : i SUSAN HAYWARD teer whose identity gets mixed up in Europe with a woman radio commentator's com-mentator's the commentator being Miss Goddard. The screen play was written by Harry Tugend, author oi "Caught in the Draft." Martha Mears, the popular blonde radio singer has been signed tc a terra contract by RKO Radio. As ber first assignment she will do a feature number in floor show sequences se-quences for "Call Out the Marines," which stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe. RKO has also signed Pare Lor-entz Lor-entz to write, direct and produce feature films. Lorentz, you'll recall, was responsible for those superb government-sponsored documentary films "The River," "The Fight for Life," and "The Plow That Broke the Plains." Too much can't be said in praise ; of "Here Comes Mr. Jordan." It's one of the most original pictures ever turned out in Hollywood; it's highly amusing, it's well performed, especially by Robert Montgomery, James Gleason and Edward Everett Ever-ett Horton. Don't miss it! Kathryn Grayson's going to grow up into Spring Byington in Metro's "The Vanishing Virginian" and they'll both be portraying Rebecca Yancey Williams, the author of the book. Despite the chance to see two movie actresses portraying her before the cameras, Mrs. Williams refuses to go to Hollywood. Edward G. Robinson recently spent a week with his son, Manny, at the Black-Foxe Military academy summer camp in the San Bernardino Bernar-dino mountains, and as a result there'll be a change in the dramas presented on the CBS "Big Town" program during the 1941-42 season. That exposure to the youngsters convinced Robinson that younger listeners lis-teners shoufd hear more comedy and light dramas which may also provide older ones with relief from present world conditions. So "Big Town" will be more amusing. Few people outside of the radio business have ever heard of Hal Block. Radio writers usually are just heard, speaking through the mouths of othei people. But Block has done such prodigious work on CBS's "Treasury Hour Millions for Defense" that he's becoming known to the public. With regard for each performer, he has written the humorous hu-morous side of the show' for just about every big-time air comic of the day. And that's quite a trick, i for comedians, according to those ! who know, are naturally some of the I unfunniest men in the world. ODDS AXD EXDS Patricia Morrison, Morri-son, last of the lone-haired brunettes in j the movies' stellar ranks, has succumbed to the inevitable she's succumbed to a i bleach and a bob . . . Joel McCrea can't help stopping and listening when he hears a newsboy really giving; he used to peddle papers himself . . . If arner Brothers have decided that you'll be more likely to w-ant to see "The Black Widow" if it s called "The Body Disappears," with Jeffrey Emn, Jane If yman and krlward Everett llor-, llor-, ton . . . I eronica Lake and her infant daughter, Elaine, have matching bed jackets of ice blue satin just the thing or a brand new baby! |