Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-09-13

Vallee entered the service, joan
took over. incidentally, when Joan's
SISTER" is featured with her on the
air, the sister is really Joan's daugh-
ter, Beverly, aged u.
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Clark Gable is back ON the China
Seas" where he was ten years ago,
For The Big Shore Leave" in
which he stars. with Greer Carson.
the old Merchant Marine freighter
was renamed the Minnie Tolbert'
and fixed up bit But when Gable
saw her he whooped That's not
Minnie, that's the old China. y
The same ship on whose deck Gable
first kissed Jean Harlow. while a
brunette newcomer looked on. The
newcomer has done all right in pic
lures, too, by the way-her name is
Rosalind Russell.
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In five weeks and three days of
personal appearances Bud Abbott
and Lou Costello, vacationing while
Mystery in the Air" replaces them
Thursday nights on NBC, Melted
S75,0C0 for the Lou Costello Jr.
Youth Foundation. They'll return to
the air in October. ytls
When Esther Williams reported
for work on Metros The Hoodlum
Saint" the makeup girl took ope
look at her and went to work With
turpentine. 1t wasn't a new skin
treatment-Esthe been painting
her porch furnitdfe the afternoon
before. iai1ascHF
A good assistant director has his
wits about him all the time. Re-
Gently at Paramount a scene for
Calcutta" was in progress when an
arc light placed near the ceiling
touched off part of the automatic
sprinkler system. One hundred ex-
tras and the entire crew scrambled
for cover, but Herbie Coleman had
only one worry. Don't let Alan
Laid get wet!" he shouted. I'VE
haven't change of clothes for,
him!"
County Fair" the Jack Bailey
show, joins the small, select list of
radios summer requirements that
have been so successful that they've
been kept on. Jimmy Carroll
Sings" is another. Jimmy may act
as master of ceremonies in addition,
to singing.
Jerry Wayne, star Of his own ra-
dio show heard on Fridays over
CHS, has worked up little act with
few stage and radio PERSONAL
ties, to tour the army hospitals
around New York. It's a two-act
musical comedy and the boys say
it's swell.
Bashful Oswald, heard on the
NBC Grand Ole Opry," is prob
ably best Known for his wild and
raucous laugh. Oswald's two chill
dren now delight their playmates
with good imitation of their
fathers trademark-his three-year-
old daughter is practically per-
feet at it. la
Philip Terry showed up on the set
of ITO Each His Own with a bad
limp While talking to Walter Pidg-
con, he rested his knee on a chair
and promptly put it out Of joint. So in
some of his scenes with Olivia de
Havilland and Mary Anderson you'll
see Terry sitting down, though orig
inally it was planned to have him
stand. t
ODDS AND ENDS-Xapier Cugal
wiH NOT only appear NTH his orchestra
in Metros Holiday in Me1ic0"--heI
turn crooner as toeli. Truth OF
Consequence" Ralph EdioardS, who''
been living in Bebe Daniels home IN
Santa Monica. is moving into Croucho
Marks this fall. =. Fred Allen brings
his Allen Ara Players back to the ali
Sunday euening, Oct. 7th, irnmedidtel,
folIolcing Edgar Bergen and Charlie
Mccarthy. He'll also hare Miner,
Pious, and Al Coodnan's orchestra
The furore ouer Lauren Bccol
may haze been the cause; Anyway, ther'
pas "com nland performance Of IT
Hare and Hare MOI" al Windsor castle
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