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Show STAGECSCREEN?ADlO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. I IT IS difficult to know just which bouquet to toss at "In Which We Serve"; people agree that it is a really great picture, but they praise it for different reasons for its direction, di-rection, the excellence of the production, the remarkably good acting, by a cast in which Noel Coward's is the only well-known name. I think that it is great because of its sincerity watching it, you don't think "That's a good performance"; you feel that you are actually watching real people, peo-ple, taking part in their lives. m Signs of the times: An announcement announce-ment from Metro's New York office that the theater where "Tennessee Johnson" is being shown is heated with coal, so patrons will be assured of comfort while viewing this picture pic-ture about the 17th President of the United States. The glamour girls who are sweethearts sweet-hearts of the armed forces have nothing on Baby Snooks; she's the land-based mascot of the officers and men of the submarine U.S.S. Snooks, the enlisted men wear insig- J'' J ' ' j "' ' i BABY SNOOKS nia presented by her on the backs of their overcoats. And Fanny Brice, Baby Snooks' originator on the "Coffee Time" program, has a standing invitation to dine aboard the Snooks the day the war's over. Don't blame the navy for the shortage of zippers; they don't use 'em. Glenn Ford found that out when he arrived on tha set of "Destroyer" "De-stroyer" at Columbia in a brand new sailor's uniform equipped with zippers. Lieut. Com. Donald Smith ruled the uniform out; he's technical techni-cal adviser. Seems they don't use zippers in the navy because, if a gob has to go over the side in an emergency and must get rid of his pants so that he can swim, buttons are much easier to open in the water than zippers are to un-zip. Dorothy Lamour's first male protege pro-tege has red hair and freckles and is Vz years old. He's the son of Dorothy's Doro-thy's secretary, and Dorothy's grooming him for important child roles. You'll see him making his film debut with her in "Dixie." A screen role became a real one for Fay Bainter the other day, when her only son, Reginald S. H. Vena-ble Vena-ble Jr., announced that he had enlisted en-listed in the army and was about to begin officers' training. In "The War Against Mrs. Hadley" she portrayed por-trayed the mother of a boy who enlisted en-listed in the armed forces. She's working now in "Salute to the Marines." Ma-rines." Whoever gets the rights to film Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's life will know that he's won out over stern competition; even before Captain Rickenbacker's recent and famous adventure in the Pacific the major studios were interested in his life story. Dick Martin, the young RKO actor, ac-tor, was discussing "Bombardier" with photographer Ernie Bachrach. "I sure hope I can get a part in that picture," said Martin. "It's going go-ing to be terrific." "I understand that Walter Reed has a good role' said Bachrach. "Good role!" exploded ex-ploded Martin. "Why, he kills off Randy Scott, bombs Tokyo, and gets Anne Shirley what more could an actor ask?" m Henry Travers, who played the rose-growing station master in "Mrs. Miniver," has been cast to portray Dr. Eugene Curie, father of Pierre Curie, in Metro's "Madame Curie," starring Greer Garson. It's the third consecutive film in which Travers has appeared with her he played the country doctor in "Random "Ran-dom Harvest." ODDS AND ENDS Dinah Shore's been signed to appear with Danny Kaye in Samuel Goldwyn'i "With Flying Fly-ing Colors" . . . Lesley Woods of the "Joyce Jordan, M. D." air show, has been dashing about New York during . the cold weather in sequin trimmed I ear muffs . . . Sheldon Leonard plays j a. racketeer in "Lucky Jordan" because , Hollywood thought him the ideal gang- ! ster type but when he appeared in "Margin for Error" on the New York stage the minions of the law voted him the ideal policeman ... Alice Weaver's the fastest moving waitress on the 1 screen in "Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour" Glam-our" she's had experience as one. i |