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in her contract so that Janet could
share star billing. Next she took
Janet for tour of the army camps,
with the purpose of interesting her
soldier brother, George Russell, in
the young actress.
Alan Reed spent two months in
Hollywood waiting to make pic
ture that never was started, though
he was paid regularly. He collected
a typical Hollywood wardrobe
slacks, sports shirts, Mexican hu-
araches, silver-trimmed belts. Ezra
Stone, till recently of Henry Al
drich," ran into Reed in his Holly
wood togs, in New York. "Gee,"
said he, you're not even civilian!"
Young Russell Hoyt, RKO actor,
has been trying to make people forget
his striking resemblance to Alan
Ladd. Now it's got him job. RKO
used him in bits in "Seven Days
Leave" and "Here We Go Again."
then had no role for him, so lent
him to Paramount for Lucky Cor
don"-he'H play a Ladd henchman
who, because of his resemblance to
the star, can create alibiS for him.
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Claudette Colbert probably set a
record recently by being a brides
maid once and a bride twice, all with
in "a hours. It was all for Preston
Sturges' "The Palm Beach Story;
Claudette's bridegrooms were Joel
McCrea and Rudy Vallee, and her
stunt as bridesmaid took place when
Joel married someone else. She's
working now in ''No Time for Love"i
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In Somewhere I'll Find You"
keenan, Wynn, of the radios "Shad-
ow" programs, played soldier who
operated 1918 machine gun which
had been blown from its tripod; be-
cause of the kickbacks, his shoulder
was strapped for two weeks. When
he saw the picture i'm New York, a
soldier in front of him said: "Fake!
You can't fire a machine gun from
that position" keenan, leaned for
ward and tapped the young man on
the shoulder. eyes you can, broth
er," said he. 'T did it."
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When Jack Benny and Mary Liv-
ingstone first met she was IL, and
Jack, calling on her sister, disliked
Mary as heartily as she loathed
him. He was appearing at a local
vaudeville theater, and Mary bribed
her pals to maintain complete ST.
lence all through his act!
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Claudia Morgan, recently signed
to play Andrea Reynolds on the
air serial, eve Love and Learn"
couldn't escape the theater; she's
the daughter of Ralph Morgan, the
niece of Frank, and made her stage
debut on Broadway while in her
teens. A few years ago she was
playing lead roles simultaneously in
two Broadway stage hits and in
radio series.
ODDS AND ENDS-Bing Crosby post.
pOned his return to his radio program for
tUeek in order to complete his goIfng
tour for the benefit of the Red Cross
Metros released "ATCA," a onereeler de.
picting the work OF the Air Training
Corps OF america, which is training some
100000 high school boys in the elements
of aerOnautics Olivia de Hauilland,
born in Tokyo, couldn't accompany the
"Princess O'Rourke" company to The air
port at Lockheed for location tcork; all
players had to haze their birth certif-
Gates, and Oliuia's happened to be missing
:. Alexis Smith gaue soldier lift in
her cdr-rdn out of gas and had to borrotU
dollar from him to get some.
It's not surprising that Washing
tonians bought 1892 ,635 worth of
war bonds as admittance to the first
showing of Metros "The War
Against Mrs. Hadley," what's
astounding is that a movie critic
bought 1000 bond to get in!
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When invited to be a guest on
"We, the People," Col. Harold D.
Shannon, who commanded the u. S.
marine ground force at the Battle
of Midway, said that he'd be glad
to; that they used to listen to it out
at Midway island.