The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-01-04

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PAUL MUM
Segall, who wrote "Here Comes
Mr.. Jordan" so maybe the public
will like it as well as they did that
one. It's film fantasy, laid mostly
at the DEVILS estate in Hades. NUM-
will play the role of gangster there,
Rains will be seen as the Devil him.
self. Meanwhile, Art Director Herr
brun is having his troubles; he's in
vestigating all the conceptions of
Hades which exist today, trying to
decide just what most people think
it looks like.
Want to swap predictions for 1915
with Daryl F. Zanuck? Last year
he said that Jeanne Grain, Vivian
Blaine, June Haver, william Eythe
and Dick Haynes would achieve
stard0m within year. Now he pre-.
diets that Mark Stevens, Glenn
Langan, Richard C0nte, Nancy
Guild and Rex Harrison are those
most likely to achieve stardom in
Hollywood during the next IL
months.
For months Dick Powell and his
wife, June Allyson, have been look
ing forward to the day when they'd
move into their remodeled Brent
wood home. The work was delayed
and delayed, while the Powells were
evicted from one hotel and apart
ment after another. Came Deem
Der 20, the great day-Dick had to
spend it rehearsing his "Rogue's
Gallery broadcast, and June SUI
pervised the moving alone.
Claudette Colbert plans to spend
the first three months of 1916 in New
York, just resting. During 1915 she
made three pictures; now, with at
tendance at the New York opening
of Tomorrow Is Forever" her
only definite date till Easter, she
hopes to do nothing but catch up with
all the things she's been wanting to
do for the last four years. But watch
those radio dates bob npt
Joan Davis daughter, Beverly
Wills, used to spurn JOan's bedtime
story offers, saying, 'sWhatt With
that vOice?" Now s'that voice."
e&n 81 Dr. 80 To-
nights ON CHS, has the last laugh
ON daughter-in the movie, George
Whites Scandals" Beverly does q
take-0ff ON Joan as a child. And
Joan's voice was dubbed i'm 10 re-
place Beverly's girlisf tones.
It all sounds pretty fantastic, and
nobody could be much more in the
dark about the whole thing than
Hedy Lamar. The tale is that she
and George Eingfield submitted to
the U. S. government complete de-
tails of their own invention of a
steering device for torpedoes, four
years ago. The plans and model
were accepted for investigation,
then nothing more was heard about
it. But just as Hedy was about to
start work in Hunt Stromberg's
"The Strange Woman" London
newspapers broke a story about the
invention, inferring that it was one
of the wars secret weapons. Could
be. But who can be blamed for
thinking it's lust a beautiful dream
of a smart press agent?
Bob Hawk, of Thanks to the
Yanks," drew capacity audience
recently in rather unorthodox
way. Missing a plane in New Ha-
ven, Conn.,, en- route to Boston from
New York, he fell asleep in the air
port waiting room. One hour later
he woke up to find large audience
of men, women and children watch
ing him-maybe hoping he'd talk in
his sleep and divu1ge a few answers.
ODDS AND ENDS - That fap-tap-tap.
ping you may mistake for added sound ef.
fects on ''Ths Theater Guild Of the Air" is
Harold Levy beating baton tattoo on his
music stand to arouse Florence Wightman.
harpist--she becomes so interested in the
play that she sometimes misses her music
cues. -. On the day ishen Sidney Black
mer's son, Bresoster, icas born, he receired
Y fan lester pslstmmked .Bresgsfsr, 0ci. 81,
ar. NJ" the exact moment Of the baby's
birth. Michael Curtis interviewed so
applicants for The role Of the four red.
hacded .ons II, ay.ffe With Father jIst as