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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. AT NINE O'CLOCK on the - night of Tuesday, September Sep-tember 1, every theater in the land is expected to stop its program and stage a "Salute to Our Heroes"; it's planned as one of the features of the treasury's billion-dollar war bond and stamp drive. Patriotic Patri-otic airs will be played as a color guard marches down the aisle, a one-minute speech will be made, the audience will give three cheers and then sing the national anthem. H every movie theater is filled, 11,000,-000 11,000,-000 people will participate. Bobby Breen, once famous as a child singing star, who retired from the screen in 1939 at the age of 13, is coming back to it. In Republic's "Johnny Doughboy" he will play himself, a passe movie star, appearing appear-ing with Jane Withers and Patrick Brook. During the past year Ginny Simms has been working for RKO, under the usual six-month contract, with options. There's been no big publicity pub-licity build-up. But recently she I - I GINNY SIMMS signed as the singing mistress of ceremonies for the new "Johnny Presents" radio show, starting September Sep-tember 8 immediately she was cast for three important films, and two other studios that wanted to borrow her were refused! Orson Welles has given us another superb picture; "The Magnificent Ambersons" rates right along with "Citizen Kane." He makes a story really come to life. And he has done us all a service in bringing Dolores Costello back to the screen. Dorothy Lamour has a brand-new makeup for "White Cargo," but il sounds like one of those things that one would rather do without. She wears five successive layers of a fluid foundation that combines cream with powder; each is applied all over her body with a sponge and allowed to dry before the next is applied. Then she's sprayed with a film containing gold dust! "The War Against Mrs. Hadley" has been selected by the Kate Smith radio hour for a nation-wide salyte on September 25. It features Edward Ed-ward Arnold, Fay Bainter, Spring Byington, Richard Ney, Jean Rogers Rog-ers and Van Johnson. Quite a way to launch a picture, as the Kate Smith hour is broadcast over 104 stations, and is said to attract more than 30,000.000 listeners. Susan Hayward can thank her stars that she's a good screamer. Few actresses can scream convincingly, convinc-ingly, but Susan let out such a good yelp when testing for "Reap the Wild Wind" that C. B. DeMille promptly signed her up for the second sec-ond feminine lead. As a result of her performance, those In the know are predicting stardom for the pretty pret-ty little redhead within a year. Joan Davis can thank broadcasting broadcast-ing for furthering her movie career. Though she's such a clever comedienne, come-dienne, her roles just seemed to be getting smaller and smaller. Then Rudy Vallee asked her to guest star on his program a few times, and she was such a hit that he made her a regular. Whereupon the film studios began to wake up to what they'd been missing, and she's in demand once more. Lesley Woods, who stars in Columbia's Co-lumbia's "Joyce Jordan" every afternoon, aft-ernoon, likes to remember when she and Tyrone Power were on the payroll pay-roll of the Motion Picture Exhibit at the Century of Progress Exposition in 1938. She says they stood around and tried to look like movie stars and ate ham sandwiches. ODDS AND ENDS Wh en Jacquiline White reported on the set of "Skyway to Glory" she was handed a telegram wishing her good luck, signed "Uncle Frank" meaning Frank Knox, secretary secre-tary of the navy . . . Dare Elman, the "Hobby Lobby" man of radio, has been so busy that he hasnt been able to catch up with his own hobby for months; he's a stamp collector . . . Meyer Davis heads a committee of bandleaders to collect musical instruments instru-ments for American prisoners of war the Y. M. C. A. will distribute them . . . William Powell and Hcdy l.amarr teamed so well in "Crossroads" that they'll be starred in "Starlight." |