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Show STfiGESCREENADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) "pR. BROADWAY" opens L' with a scene on a narrow nar-row ledge, supposedly 40 feet above the real Broadway. A girl, played by Jean Phillips, Phil-lips, is pretending to be crazy, and is about to commit com-mit suicide. A man, played by Macdonald Carey, pretends pre-tends that he also is crazy, in order to get her off the ledge. In the middle of the scene each discovers that the other is sane, j And when Miss Phillips and Mr. j Carey met for the first time, on the ledge, with cameras pointed at j them, they discovered that they j both hail from Sioux City, Iowa. The story of the men in the army air service who operate the secret i bomb sights and actually drop the j bombs on targets from giant planes will be filmed by RKO Radio, with the co-operation of the United States army, it will be called "Bombardier." "Bom-bardier." Like the elephant, Richard Arlen never forgets. About five years ago he and Mary Carlisle made pictures j together, and took daily turns buy- : f y ? ; ; '"J - V I MARY CARLISLE ing the entire cast and crew ice cream. The other day they began work with . Jean Parker and Phil Terry in "Torpedo Boat," at Paramount. Para-mount. When the ice cream man came around Arlen tapped Mary on the shoulder. "It's your turn to buy," said he. "Remember, I bought the last time, five years ago." And Mary remembered, and treated. Thanks to Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Krupa and his orchestra are featured in Samuel Goldwyn's "Ball of Fire." The Krupa band is her favorite one, so when she was asked to select one for her night club singing sing-ing sequences, Krupa got the vote. Ever wonder where film companies com-panies get their ideas for shorts? Hal Peary, who's radio's "The Great Gildersleeve," did a hiccough routine In a recent broadcast. A Columbia Pictures executive heard him, liked the stunt and It will be a "Screen Snapshot." 'Betty Hutton went to Hollywood, fresh from Broadway's "Panama Hattie," to make her screen debut to "The Fleet's In." Bob Hope booked her for a guest appearance on his radio program probably you heard it and first thing she knew, she was on it for keeps! Rudy Vallee will have the second male lead in "The Palm Beach Story," the Preston Sturges picture starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea, with no singing for Vallee. New Orleans Is certainly having Its day in the movies! "Flame of New Orleans," "Lady From Louisiana," Louisi-ana," "Birth of the Blues," "Blues In the Night," "Louisiana Purchase" Pur-chase" and before long Edna Fer-ber's Fer-ber's new story, "Saratoga Trunk!" One of the war-time campaigns that has spread like wildfire is the "Shaves for the Boys" drive to obtain ob-tain free minor necessities for the boys in the defense training camps. Constance Bennett is head of the movie stars' committee, which includes in-cludes Dorothy Lamour, Joan Fontaine, Fon-taine, Maureen O'Hara, Joan Blon-dell, Blon-dell, Claire Trevor, Joan Bennett, Linda Darnell and Brenda Joyce. Don Gordon, "Tom Mix Straight Shooters" announcer, says that the greatest compliment ever paid him came from an old couple who sent him $4,000 to invest for them because be-cause he sounded so honest over the air. Back went the money, but he treasures the compliment. ODDS AND ENDS Connie Bos-well Bos-well has asked for her release from that Thursday night radio program, but will stick through 19il . . . Babe Rulh will play himself in the film of Lou Gehrig's life . . . Mothers of 200 Americans Amer-icans in the RAF will be Warners' guests when "Captains of the Clouds" is released . . . Eddie Albert will bo starred for the first time in RKO's "Cheyenne" . . . Mervyn Le Roy, directing di-recting "Johnny Eager," has in the cast four players whom he gave their start in pictures I.ana Turner, Edward Ar. nold, Glcnda Farrell and Henry O'Neill . . . Eros Volusia will dance in Metro's "Rio Rita." |
