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Show By INEZ GERHARD ON MARCH 4 "Theatre Guild on the Air" plans to do a full hour-and-a-half hour broadcast of S "Hamlet", which will certainly be heard by the largest single audience audi-ence that has ever heard it since-Shakespeare since-Shakespeare wrote the play centuries cen-turies ago. It will come from the-stage the-stage of the Belasco Theatre in New-York New-York and will be heard over the-full the-full NBC network. Stars will be-Dorothy be-Dorothy McGuire of the movies and. Pamela Brown and John Gielgud , ' of the theatre, both now appearing : . in one of the season's hits, "The- ' Lady's Not for Burning". "Hamlet" was modernized for GI's during the , war, "and the broadcast will follow-along follow-along that line. ; Burl Ives will launch a series of ' 26 programs for the state depart ! ment's Voice of America. Accompanying Accom-panying him will be an instrumental ; group. Wonder what the countries- ; behind the iron curtain will think ', of "The Blue-Tailed Fly"! i Irene Vernon, whose latest pic- i. ; ture is "Sound of Fury" (a Robert j Stillman production for United ' ' Artists), is one of the four judges j who will hand out 15 savings bonds to the winners of the Num-Zit baby beauty contest. It's open to infants , from 6Vi months to 2Vi years old, from March 1 to June 1. Entry-blanks Entry-blanks available at all drugstores. Robert Stack, star of Republic's-"Bullfighter Republic's-"Bullfighter and the Lady", received re-ceived the General Rose Memorial Award for this year. It is given by the third armored division to war veterans in the entertainment world 1 for outstanding work. j ! ' Two topnotch woman wrestlers ' have been signed as technical ad- i visers for a wrestling match between be-tween Jane Wyman and Alexis Smith in "Here Comes the Groom". One of them, Clara Mortensen, Is world lightweight champion. Other technical advisers four Los Angeles high school students,, picked by members of the Los Angeles An-geles school board, who sat in ons story conferences for Filmakers' "On the Loose". They passed on the teen-age language, and on popular popu-lar colors of hot rods, phosphorescent phosphores-cent sox, beanie caps and other such fads. Producer Collier Young: was bent on making the film real- istic. t Since Columbia's "The Flying; Missile" opened around the country ' Glenn Ford's fan mail rating has risen 70 per cent that always hap- ! pens when he makes a picture in-uniform. in-uniform. Notice the scene where he i lies in a bunk on a submarine, withs pin-up girls plastered all over the-bulkhead; the-bulkhead; the camera really lingers on the one of Eleanor Powell, who is Mrs. Ford. Bette Davis Is responsible for two of the actresses in her new "Payment on Demand". One is Frances Dee, who hadn't made a picture since 1948; Bette chose her. The other is Barbara Sherry, Bette's three-year-old daughter. The four fur coats Judy Holliday wears in the movie version of "Born Yesterday" are worth $46,-000 $46,-000 the entire cost of producing the stage version of the comedy was about $50,000. Incidentally, Judy's hit performances on the NBC "Big Show" may be the prelude to her having a radio show of her own always provided that she cares to have one. Ruth Roman has finally received the wedding ring designed by her husband, Mortimer Hall. It failed to arrive in time for their wedding, in Las Vegas, so she wore the one belonging to her stand-in, the matron ma-tron of honor. Claudette Colbert and Mary Benny drove four times around the block, trying to find a place to park Jack's car before going into the theatre to see Stanley Kramer's "Cyrano de Bergerac". Then the manager came out and offered tc park it for them. It had a drive unfamiliar to him; after stalling the car three times he had to summon sum-mon Mary to park the car herself. Times have changed; movie companies com-panies not only ignore television, they pick stars from it. Paramount decided to make "Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick" and wanted a "new face" to play the lead. Alan Young had appeared in supporting roles at 20th Century-Fox a couple of years ago, but it was his hilarious per- formances on television that sold him to Paramount executives. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Dane Clark now knows how strip-teasers work; for one scene of "Never Trust a Gambler", including rehearsals, re-hearsals, he had to put on and take off a trench coat exactly 147 times . . . The Crosby-Hope "Road to Paris" became "Road to Hollywood", Holly-wood", now has been changed to "Road to Bali" . . . Now it's rumored ru-mored that Elizabeth Taylor would like to re-kindle an old romance with a wealthy ex-boyfriend down in Florida. |