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Show STAGESCREENMDIO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. EVER since she chalked up that amazing success ir ""Mrs. Miniver" Greer Gar-son Gar-son has been pursued by pro-ducers pro-ducers who want her to do a play on Broadway this fall. She's read a dozen scripts and turned them down. Now she's been asked to do one called "Queen Elizabeth"; the asker is Margaret Webster, director - daughter of Dame May Whitty; she directed Miss Garson ir I her last London stage hit, "Old Mu sic." If "Random Harvest," whict the red-haired actress is making with Ronald Colman, is done in time, she may consent. Frances Gifford, the new "Mrs. Tarzan." really owes her new assignment as-signment to the impersonation of Dorothy Lamour that she gave in the recently released "Henry" Aid-rich Aid-rich Gets Glamour." William Thiele, . S s ' FRANCES GIFFORD who directed "The Jungle Princess," Prin-cess," the first Lamour triumph, and is also directing "Tarzan Triumphs," Tri-umphs," caught the picture at a neighborhood theater, and asked to have Miss Gifford tested for the role. JK Clark Gable certainly made his departure from movie-making in a blaze of glory. His latest, "Somewhere "Some-where I'll Find You," which he did with Lana Turner, has outgrossed every one of the M-G-M pictures he has appeared in over the past seven years, with the exception of "Boom Town," and that doesn't count because be-cause it played at advanced admission ad-mission prices. Jean Arthur spent most of a day autographing 500 of her own photographs photo-graphs with kisses not long ago. It was just after she returned from a (our of army camps, following: completion com-pletion of "The Talk of the Town." Whenever she met a boy from New York city, where she was born, she promised to send him a photograph autographed with a kiss. She used two lipsticks before she'd finished. Ever hear of processed parchment? parch-ment? Loretta Young encountered it the other day; found she'd been wearing it, in fact, in her new picture, pic-ture, "The Frightened Stiff." It's a new substitute material, and was used in an evening gown. So far as is known, Veronica Lake received the first request from an imprisoned American in Japan for a photograph. It came from marines ma-rines taken prisoner at Wake island, and was forwarded by the International Inter-national Bed Cross. A few months ago Ruth Hussey's bridegroom, Robert Longenecker, saw a newspaper picture of the actress. ac-tress. He clipped it and wrote under un-der it, "Here's the girl I'd like to marry." Not long ago he conld add "Here's the girl I did marry!" The photographer who took the original photograph, Eric Carpenter, also photographed the young couple's wedding! Nelson Eddy and Announcer Bob Garred were so busy trying to outwit out-wit each other with amateur magic a while ago that the "on the air" signal for their radio show almost caught them off base. Nadine Connor Con-nor looks upon their efforts with suspicion; she has sworn that the minute the pair shows an interest in the "sawing a woman in half" stunt she'll leave Eddy without a partner. Kay Harris, feminine lead in Columbia's Co-lumbia's western feature, "The Fighting Buckaroo," was starred in the first picture in which she appeared. ap-peared. It was "Tillie, the Toiler." ODDS ASD E.VDS "Duffy's Tavern" Tav-ern" hailed last season as one of the outstanding new program developments of the year, returns to the air October 6 . . . just for fun, Lou Xova and Leslie Les-lie Chartcris, author of the "Saint" mysteries, mys-teries, treat on as extras in some of the Miami Beach scenes of "The Big Street" . . . Bene Davis, Miriam Hopkins and George Brent tcill have the leads in If'arner Brothers' picturization of the successful stage play, "Old Acquaintance" Acquaint-ance" . . . Marjorie Reynolds and Barbara Bar-bara Britton u ill he leading u-omen for Bing Crosby in "Dixie," the story of Dan Emmett, minstrel man. |