The midland journal., 1946-11-29

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show up like sunsets. AS result
she's become an expert at jacks,
so good that few little girls will
play with her, and has taken to
swimming, with characteristic zeal.
In fact, she's become so good at
it that she wants to do picture
with Esther Williams. She likes col
or pictures, but says they're exas-
perating to make!
Jack Leonard makes his film de-
but in "The Guilt of Janet Ames,"
at Colu1nbia, starring Rosalind
Russell and Melvyn Douglas. A juke
box favorite, he was a featured
singer with Tommy Dorsey from
1886 to 1940 He spent five years in
the army, appeared at one of New
York's smart night clubs; then Co.
lumbia signed him up and is
launching him on a new career.
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Want to rent movie? An article
in the December Woman's Home
Companion tells you how to 60 about
it-provided you do it on nom
profit basis. Clubs, schools and
churches should find the article
most useful.
Following that command perform
ance before England's king and
queen, Ray Milland and his wife
plan to do some travelling - Paris,
Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm,
Nice and Rome are on their list.
They're due back in Hollywood in
December, when he's going to try
to talk Paramount into giving him
an actOr-directOr contract. Looking
ahead to the days when he doesn't
want to act any more?
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1t happened at Mahan Hall, at
Annapolis. Some 1,500 middies, lis
tening to a warm-up speech by
Milo. Boulton before ''We, the Peo-
ple' was to be broadcast from
there, let out howl when part of
Phil Bakers "Take 1t or Leave It"
came through, and they heard
Baker say, "And now you have 80
seconds to answer tonight's jack
pot question, What is the name Of
the Secretary of the Navy?'"
Nancy Lauck, daughter of Chet
Lauck, who's ''Lum" of "Lum and
Abner," celebrated her 18th birth
day not long ago, and was given a
st. Bernard puppy, her favorite
present. She didn't hesitate about
naming him = called him Kilroy.
The audience got surprise when
Paulette Goddard showed up at the
Coast CHS studio for Bachelor
Mother" Hollywood Players"
broadcast. Late shooting on the C..
B. DeMille set left her so little
time that she arrived wearing the
tattered dress of bond slave, her
role in "The Unconquered." She
had to sacrifice those terrifically
long fingernails for the part. And
on one occasion, when she was
wearing a gold bracelet spelling her
name, and couldn't get it off, a
workman had to take a saw to it
in 1863 slaves didn't wear gold
bracelets!
Producer Walter Bunker puts on
a special treat for studio audiences
at Fanny Brice's "Baby Snooks
Show" He doesn't close the cur
tains, but allows the audience to
watch the last IS minutes of the
music and sound rehearsal.
Louise Barclay, who's the actress
on Fright to Happiness" spent her
time crawling around on all fours
during her first stock engagement.
The company did fables, and Louise
played alternately fox, lion and
a wolf.
ODDS AND ENDS-When Ed "Archie"
Gardner, of the "Dufy's TaUern" broad
casts, is not busy at the mike he usually
sits pith his ,0ife in the front rotC. :.
George Montgomery and Dinah Shore
hape been building their Oton home at
Encino, CaIit.-in the process George
dropped a log ON one foot and broke a
toe. Airline Francis has been on
many a radio shoio-"W THAT'S My Name
,vas one of her best; but she's doing
,vhat she likes most on her neic NBC
series. affairs of Ann Scotland" creating
ne,u character -. Affer hearing all
y -. .,,,, ,b,ss m, ~lduentures of a Tin