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Menjou, role from which Menjou's
real wife, Veree Teasdale, retired
because of illness. Martha Scott
has the leading role. Animated Sc
quences by Leon Schlesinger, the
film cartoon creator, will begin and
end the picture.
Nine-year-old John Donat, son Of
Robert Donat, makes his film debut
in '"This Land Is Nine" starring
Charles Laughton and Maureen
O'Hara. John breezed through his
lines, and between takes sat high on
stepladder, reading comic strip
magazine-stayed there until Direc-
tor Jean Renoir called him down
from his perch to 60 to work again.
David Niven returns to the screen
after a tw0-year absence in "Spit-
fire." the British-made GOldwyn pro-
duction which will be released by
RKO Radio. A major in the British
army, he was given leave to co-star
with Leslie Howard In this picture.
After testing Hollywood stars by
the dozen, King Vidor has selected
an unknown for the important role
of Brian Donlevy's wife in Metros
america" She's Ann Richards,
who arrived here from Australia on
the last boat to leave after the bomb
ing of Pearl Harbor.
Little Margaret O'Brien, who stole
the honors in Journey for Mar
garet" and did the same thing when
the "Screen Guild Players" did a
dramatized version of it on the air,
won Jack Benny's heart when, ask
ing him for an autograph, she said
she'd seen him fall into lake in a
picture. "That was with Bob Hope"
said he. And Margaret replied Bob
Hope? Is he a comedian, too?"
Red Skeletons been having swell
time, working at Ebbets Field in
Brooklyn on ''Whistling in Brook
lynn; every member of the famous
Dodgers, including Manager DUro-
cher, appears in the picture. Five
hundred rabid D0dger fans sat In
the bleachers for some sequences
and what's more, got paid for 1t!
The quickest way to become
star on your own program is to do
a guest shot on Rudy Vallee's Thurs
day show. During the past year
he's presented Groucho Marx, Billie
Burke and Ransom Sherman, among
others. Now Marx stars on his own
Saturday night program, Sherman
recently launched new series, and
Billie Burke will have two air shows
going during the summer.
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That new Salute to Youth" pro-
gram has just about everything ra-
dio fans can want. There's William
L. White, war correspondent; Ray
mond Paige and an all-youth orches-
ira; Nadine Conner, Metropolitan
Opera star; Berry Kroeger as mar
rator, and a guest war worker. With
most of the cast in their teens or
early twenties, the program-on
NBC Tuesdays-is a salute to youth,
by youth.
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ODDS AND ENDS-Lesley Woods.
Bright Horizon" actress, has said good
BY to her dog, Bouncsr; he's joined the
army as buck private Fred Alien
sciu return to motion pictures this sum-
mer :. They're found another road for
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Road 70
Utopia" to be made this summer. bus
probably sCifhous Dorothy Lansour !.
Affer fue years. Phil Baker sCiH return
70 she movies IN 2Ofh Cenfury-Fox's The
Girls He Left Behind Cinsy Simms.
star of -JohHny PreseHss," he's begun .
tour 81 desert army camps sriihin days
disiascs 81 Hollyoood; she o6ess : one.
uaon.1n slfo,p and W. entire expenses n
fhe zip. including those of fhe orehesirs-
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