Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-22

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EFFIE
Dairo, a well-known portrait artist,
made up her face. Bergen, who has
had a female dummy under con-
sideration for some time as foil
for Charlie, hopes we, the public,
will like Fife.
Allen Jenkins, character come
dian who left Hollywood more than
year ago and has since Travelled
$1,000 miles entertaining the armed
forces, will return to the movies in
1.-THE Wonder Man." the Samuel
Goldwyn comedy starring Danny
Kaye. Now in North Africa with a
USO camp show, Jenkins cabled ac-
ceptance of gangster role similar
to the one he did for Goldwyn in
Ball of Fire"
John Neshbitt, who broadcasts his
Passing Parade" over CHS three
nights week, has just finished a
Metro Passing Parade" movie
oiiok N1olliClllo tIldI IiauC 11lS-
tory" 1t highlights discoveries OF
the stethoscope, sulfanilamide and
the vulcanization of rubber.
Dean Jaeger, who served as chap
erone on the Blue networks Blind
Date" recently, was spending his
last evening in this country. He flew
to England the next day to begin
work on a picture for the British
government, which is designed to
promote good will between England
and the United States; when COM
pleted, the film will be released in
this country.
Ensign Jay Robinson, U. S. NJ,
who won the $500 cash award in a
nationwide contest for the best
American conception of Salome, used
no model for the portrait-so now
Director Mervyn Leroy is trying to
find somebody who looks like it, to
1t will be more prominent in the
RKO picture than it was in the
widely read book.
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1t looks as if jeanette Macdonald
and Nelson Eddy would have to ap-
pear together in pictures and on the
air forever. Their second costar-
ring appearance on the air, in the
first of this years DeMille theater
programs, was the result of an ava
lanche of mail requesting it.
The August Daytime Network
Hooperatings reports that when a
Girl Marries' leads the list of Top
Ten" weekday programs. MA Per-
kins" is second, and Our Gal, Sum
day" third. Then come big Sister,"
Romance of Helen Trent" Life
Can Be Beautiful, Stella Dallas"
young Widder Brown" Kate
Smith Speaks" and Breakfast at
Sardi's."
M-G-M is going to launch King
Vidor's IAN American Romance" in
style BETTING the elaborate produc-
ton. On October 27, according to
present plans, the picture will have
initial showings in each of the state
capitals and the national capital.
Vidor says that he's been thinking
about this picture for Is years, ever
since he made The Big Parade"
-typifying the spirit of America.
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Those battered shoes which Ed
Wynn wears to his broadcasts have
borne him through AZ years of stage,
screen and radio stardom, so of
course he got them out for his new
Happy Island" radio program.
Originally purchased for $3.50,
Wynn figures that they We cost him
$4,000 for upkeep, but he refuses
to part with them-the rationing
situation is his latest excuse.
ODDS AND ENDS-"The Shadom," one
Of radios most chilling dramas. returns to
the air ria Mutual September "a. The
ne,o band leader for Metros Screen
Test" Ted Steele, started in radio as an
NBC page boy. :. Marguerite Chapman
has the lead opposite Paul MUM in
"Counter-Anack;" MUM ,uiH play Rus.
sian guerrilla. Dorothy Lamour let
her hair return to its natural dark broun
shade for her role Of paisano girl in II
Medal for Benny" Nearly ten years
ago Fred Maclfurray made his first Para.
mount picture, the "Cilded Lily" ,cith
Claudefte Colbert: their latest costarrer,
"Practically Yours" is her latest under