• ” v?! yj * » THE TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Page Five tifc , I...................... ................ ——........ — ................... .. A. Hollywood’s Loveliest Qirls Starred By M-Q-M In One of Season’s Best Stage anti Screen “Keep Your Powder Dry” Is Superb Entertainment For The Entire Family Officers’ Candidate Song Star, Jan Clayton Miami Inn Is Wins New Screen Pact By Burny Zawodny Packing ’Em In “Keep Your Powder Dry,” the Seen On A Hollywood HOLLYWOOD (Special) new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hit Movie Set Jan Clayton has been given a They’re packing ’em in again at the Valentine Theatre, boasts new contract with Metro-Gold- this week at the New Miami Inn one of the season’s top casts in HOLLYWOOD—Dancing wyn-Mayer Studios. The young, with an all-star cast headed by aie of the year’s finest film of- on a crowded nightclub red-haired beauty contest win­ Roy Vincent, M. C. ecrewball .•ings. It stars no less a love­ floor, rFances Rafferty and ner is now in New York scoring deluxe. ► ly and talented trio than Lana Bob Stanton are to play a 'bl1 \ a success in the musical show. Others in the cast are Viki ■ Turner, Laraine Day and Susan love scene for the new “Carousel,” and the studio de­ Mills, songstress; Candy Leigh, Peters. M-G-M comedy with music, cided to give her the contract toe tap and acrobatic dancer Chockfu! of laughs and tears “Abbott and Costello in as a result of her outstanding and Mme. Evon, the original •—indeed, all the ingredients that Hollywood,” in which the work in “This Man’s Navy,” the Amazon. go to make up a real all-family two young players appear Wallace Beerystarter which Reservation for parties may entertainment — “Keep Your with the comics. teamed her with Tom Drake. be made with the best in steaks, Powder Dry” will hold your in­ Director S. Sylvan Simon Before signing her first chickens and chops available. terest every minute of its calls for a rehearsal of M-G-M contract last year, Jan running time. Stanton kissing Frances. spent many omnths entertaining Evening Performance SOLD It’s a human story of three All is quiet as they go members of the Armed Forces. OUT. Excellent seats avail­ girls, from different walks of through the routine. She spent four months in the able for matinee at 3:00. life, who join the celebrated —- Stanton kisses her and Aleutians, Women’s Army Corps. Each has then* looks over to Simon As soon as her current en­ MAT. PRICES: 12 “J,"4* a different motivation: Lana, as and asks “How was it?” Faye Emerson exerts hfcr smouldering blonde charm on Alan the spoiled,Valerie arks, enlists Without hesitating a mo- gagement in the Broadway stage is concluded, Jan will return to Hale in the above scene from Warners’ “Hotel Berlin,” now IN PERSON in order to protect an inherit­ Bmnt, the director replies: Hollywood and a feature role in playing at the Paramount. Also starred in the timely drama are ance; Laraine, as the “Army “Hadn’t you better ask Raynumd Massey, Andrea King, f cUx Lorree and Helmut Den­ brat” Leigh Rand, is confident Frances?” an important Metro-Goldwyn- jf/her superiority because of her Mayer production. tine. ■ ' • upbringing and training; ,and CALL ME CARUSO CLEMENTS Susan, as Ann Darrison, has a FAMILY AFFAIR \ husband in the service overseas Stanley Clements, the young Don DeFore will take a bus^ and wants to Jo her own bit to actor who apepars with Alan The Jack Benny Program man’s holiday in his home town, help speed the victory. Ladd and Gail Russell in Para­ Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this sum­ mount’s “Salty O’Rourke,” earn­ mer. He’ll do some acting in a Did you know that one of Sunday Over NBC play for the Sinclair Memorial the International representa­ ed his first money on New York Church's Drama Group. The bal­ tives of UAW-CIO now work­ subways. His brother passed the > “Outsideof Mary, I’Ve been with Jack lontfer thAn anybody ance of the cast his brother and ing for Richard Gosser, Reg. hat among the passengers. three sisters. The director, his Director of Reg. 2B-UAW- else in the show,” Don explained. “So I’ve been wondering when mother. they’d get around to telling that thrilling story oi itoW- I hap­ CIO was at one time a mu­ STAR REPORTER sician? and that he married a Arturo de Cordova, starring pened to become a Benny man.” simHtut rasa wunuiM piano player . who none with Dorothy Lamour in Para­ “The truth is,” Benny remarked, “I’m letting the world know other then Walter Madrzy- mount’s “A Medal for Benny,” kowski. how and why Wilson became my COLONY formerly was an ace Latin Ame­ announcer to break down that .C NMAi. at MONItOE ■ rican correspondent. In his silly rumor that I hired him Loew's Mr. Seastrom advertising LANA TURNER turns in her “civvies” for the uniform of SATURDaV THRU TUESDAY newspaper career he covered the WAC in her latest M-G-M film “Keep Your Powder Dry.” simply because he was cheap or manager of Willys-Overland Co. the pioneering trans-Atlantic because he laughed so hard at done and got went himself a job plane flights between the Brazil Between the senes she keeps busy corresponding with G. I. my jokes. The reason I wanted ESQUIRE A . CRON'-S with a movie company. “bulge” and Africa. fans all over the world. Now at Valentine. Don with me is very different, Doors Open Daily 110 51 a. m. * * ♦ and the listening audience should THE 1 E' S OF 4 today’s Gag of the Day ITURBI HIMSELF AGAIN 60 know.” THE K F fiDOM ' j In between rehearsals on Jose Iturbi, just returned from “Hotel Berlin a triumphant eastern concert Quite inadvertently, according ert orchestra NBC’s “Everything for the to last week’s script, Jack opened ' Boys,” composer - conductor tour, has been signed by M-G-M for a top fetured role in “Holi­ Rochester’s diary. He didn ’ Now m Salo ar inel Brrt. Gordon Jenkins told about the —2n^BIGWJT— Violently Ani i-Nazi day in Mexico,** in which he quite finish it, so there might be 3# Saperiar Street. ieiri Seff- drunk who hailed a cab and another spicy chapter next wee! Hedy Ljh" in—Gw-Th Brant fell into the back seat. “Shay, There is a definite ring of authenticity in Warners’ “Hotel again will portray himself. I Addressed Stimoed blopt. Others sharing top billing in the although Mary and Phil think driver,” he ordered, “drive me Berlin,” now playing at the P; ramount, with five stars—Faye it’s a dirty trick for Jackson to raal Lukaa around the block a hundred Emerson, Raymond Massey, Am rea King, Peter Lorre and Hel- Joe Pasternak musical produc­ tion will be Ilona Massey, Jane read anybody’s private journal (STATE Theitre imes.” The driver was sart- mut Dantirv—heading the cast, This is largely due to the various KiMENT PERILOUS” led, but he obliged just the members of the cast who have, at one time or another, brushed Powell and Xavier Cugat. It is Larry Stevens’ song will be same. Around and around the up against the Nazis. scheduled to go before the Jerome Kern's newest “More block they went. On the six­ For instance, there is Helmut cameras in June. and More.” ty-first trip, the passenger Dantine. Dantine learned about Screen IXewcomer leaned forward. Nazis the hard way—from the “Step on it, but,** he hiqr On Stardom Road Seen a good euped, in an awful inside of a German concentra­ tion camp. He was confined to HOLLYWOOD—-Audrey Tot- cat fight lately lurry.** 'Who that camp after his arrest as an ter, blonde blockbuster came to films via the radio PARAMOUNT'^ NO? Then you’re going to With the gas situation being officer in • the Austrian army. “soap opera” circuit, has been «et a bang out of these Valerfine what if is, some Hollywood The actor remained imprisoned given a new term contract at quickie producers have had to for many weeks before being re­ twee cuddly kittens who taka «ry-!write their gangster pictures. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and as­ ’’The Longies are now taking leased on condition that he signed the second feminine lead off tfeeir mittens and scrap it out! in “For Better, For Worse,” their victims for a walk. would leave at once. Then there is Kurt Kreuger, new Robetr Walker-June Ally- son picture which Richard ^9) LOS ANGELES IN MOVIE who plays a Nazi air ace in the Whorf is directing. Metfo-Goldwyn-Mayer will film. The Nazis, coming into Miss Totter, who has been '-'Tb ? film “The Postman Always called one of the most promising Rings Twice” in and around Los power, had a direct effect upon £■ Kurtz’s family. They were forced newcomers in Hollywood, will J Angeles, which was he otriginal play a predatory Balkan aristro- setting for the James M. Cain to flee to Switzerland. And now crat in the story, the threat to best-seller. The main setting is the Nazis hold the family estate the love idyll of Walker and a roadside lunchroom just out­ which was willed to Kurt when Miss Allyson. side Los Angeles. Other location he was only eight. The Joliet, Ill., girl had the scenes will include its famed Mary Albu, who makes her ingenue lead in ‘Main Street PLAT V Union Station, the wholesale V WrtnrW' U American screen debut in “Hotel After Dark” as her first picture market district of the city; the and has since had roles in “Her Civic Center and courthouse; the Berlin” as Andrea King’s maid, Highness and the Bellboy,” ’’X.