Patti Clayton Tests For Fox Screen Role
Patti Clayton, famed for the airwave “Chiquita Banana” duty, undergoes screen testing at Fox as she pursues another television opportunity.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1946
Page
15
Patti Clayton, famed for the airwave “Chiquita Banana” duty, undergoes screen testing at Fox as she pursues another television opportunity.
The Fall season opens with The Front Page at the Royale Theater in New York. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s Chicago police reporting era satire returns, recalling its 1928 premiere and later film adaptations. The piece notes past casts, movie versions, and the show’s enduring impact on theatre and cinema.
The Broadway play On Whitman Avenue nears its 130th performance and will run five more weeks on Broadway before beginning a tour. The production features the title characters Myrt and Marge and is set to depart for a tour shortly after the Broadway run.
The text notes Lillian Russell carried a pistol as Fiorella in The Brigands during a long stage career and mentions Jane Russell wielding two guns in The Outlaw, suggesting a recurring link between the surname Russell and on screen or stage weaponry.
Margaret Chapman and Lee Bowman lead in The Walls Came Tumbling Down at State Theater with a detective heroine pursuing a priceless da Vinci painting once owned by her grandfather. Cast includes Edgar Buchanan George Macready and J Edward Bromberg as rival claimants amid murders slugging scenes and a grave robbery. Bowman’s character helps the heroine win the painting as the romance blooms.
Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson star in a Balkan prince farce set in New York. Aided by Joan Leslie and Janis Paige, the comedy follows the prince incognito, a romance with Lauren Bacall dreams, and a chaotic democracy lesson that ends with a hopeful but ironic twist.
Paramount presents Two Guys From Milwaukee with Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan. Walls Came Tumbling Down features Lee Bowman and Marguerite Chapman. Capitol offers These Three with Merle Oberon. Rialto screens Lone Rider Ambushed. Leon shows Junior Prom with June Presser Frankie Darro and Jackie Moran. Bad Bascomb stars Wallace Beery and Margaret OBrien. Texas offers House of Horrors with Robert Lowery Virginia Grey. Victory presents They Were Expendable featuring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne.
George and Al St John aid a sheriff sting to unmask the gang leader posing as Keno while Linda, the outlaw's girlfriend, is kept in line. Tonight at the Leon Theater shows Junior Prom starring June Presser Frankie Darro and Jackie Moran. Tomorrow Bahama Passage with Madeleine Carroll and Sterling Hayden opens at the Rex. Bad Bascom with Wallace Beery and Margaret O'Brien screens at the Texas Theater. House of Horrors stars Robert Lowery and Virginia Grey at the Texas Theater showing tonight at the Victory.
Night clubs schedule bands: NAT hosts Dick Stevenson and band nightly except Sundays while Aviatrix features Carlton Scales and dance music. Rainbow Gardens runs Monday to Saturday with Sons of the est. Mayfair features Ken Carter and his orchestra nightly. Mexican Inn has Dick Miles and his trio from Shreveport for dinner and dancing nightly. Old Tascosa presents Dick Morton performing evenings for dinner and dancing.
Profesor T Thomson Flynn, father of Errol Flynn and dean at Queens University Belfast, is visiting his son in this country.
Betsy Blair the wife of dancer Gene Kelly has been signed for the female lead in Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas starrer My Empty Heart. The casting confirms Blair as the principal heroine in the forthcoming production.
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