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Show STAGEvSCREEFOADlO Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD TUNE LOCKHART, who be-J be-J came the toast of New York yver night after the opening of '.he Broadway hit, "For Love jr Money," plans to leave the jlay when it goes on tour May iO. Eagle -Lion Films have ier under contract, and want her to :ome back to Hollywood to discuss ier next picture; she is currently 'eatured in their "T-Men," in a lead-ng lead-ng role opposite Dennis O'Keefe. Returning to California will be no lardship for June, as it would be for nost girls if they had to leave a sue-. ; ;-: . w : i JUNE LOCKHART cessful play. She will be able to in-iulge in-iulge in the sport she enjoys more ;han anything else water skiing at Lake Arrowhead, where her parents lave a house. It will be a perfect vacation for Red Skelton next summer if his plans go through. He wants to tour Kith Ringling Brothers or Clyde 3eatty's circus, and make a 16 mm. 51m of what goes on behind the scenes. Red, who has finished his starring stint in Columbia's "The duller Brush Man," was born to the ;ircus; his father was a clown with Haggenbeck and Wallace. Motion picture rights to "The Heiress, one of the season's most luccessful plays, have been sold to Paramount the price, $250,000. Dlivia de Haviland will star, in the role played on the stage by Wendy ailler. A radio man in Hollywood tried o sign up Howard Duff for a pro-ram pro-ram that tries to give aspiring roung actors a radio break and lien learned that Duff has been starring in "The Adventures of Sam Spade" the last 18 months! Ezra Stone, busy directing one Broadway show, has received offers ;o stage two more this season. A good many actors would feel that lis "Henry Aldrich" role was work ;nough. House Jameson ("Mr. Aid-rich") Aid-rich") stepped into a different character char-acter in the new film, "The Naked 2ity" emerges on the screen as a Park avenue doctor who resorts to ihady practises. Edgar Kennedy, one of the' few iriginal Keystone Kops still active n films, passed his 500th milestone when he finished RKO's "Almost a Vlillionaire." It also marked the .tart of his 37th year in motion pictures. pic-tures. Fred Clark, who started in 20th Century-Fox's "The Chair for Marin Mar-in Rome" as a ruthless, grim de-;cctive, de-;cctive, is winding up in the same picture as a comedian. Director itobert Diomak discovered Clark's aient for comedy, and the part played by the actor, on loan from Michael Curtiz Productions, has been revised and built up to include ;omedy bits. Parks Johnson and Warren Hull will make a flying trip from Alaska ;o San Juan, Porto Rico, to join the Atlantic Fleet on Caribbean maneuvers maneu-vers for a Vox Pop broadcast March 10, over ABC. Only about i.OOO miles! Danny Thomas' all-girl band on lis new radio show has become an 'almost" all-girl band. Seems the ?irls got tired of being women without with-out men, so now the band features ?irls in the string and bass fiddle sections only. Dwight Weist, newsreel commen-;ator. commen-;ator. radio actor, announcer and naster of ceremonies, leaves the 'heard but not seen" group soon. Due to be released soon is a Pathe lewsreel showing Dwight, as mas-:er mas-:er of ceremonies on "We, the Peo-Dle," Peo-Dle," interviewing the Smith sisters, '.he singing sextette, aged 74 to 84. who made a recent appearance on he popular CBS program. ODDS AND ENDS Jack Benny's tponsor has cut out the free cigarettes lor the studio audiences. . . . Glenn cord and William Holden began work m Columbia's "The Man From Coln-'ado" Coln-'ado" without make-up, got such heavy 'jim after a few days in the open that 'hey had to lighten their complexions Titb greae paint. . . . Producer Irving Zummings' gift to John Sturges1 baby uas tbe set ot solid gold safety pins Zn en him by Ethel Barrymore in 1918 'or Irving Cummings jr. Sturges is iireclor of Cummings' "The Sign of the Vam." . . . Edgar Bergen plans a sum nttr vacation in Sweden. |