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Show By VIRGINIA VALE ' Released by Western Newspaper Union. S' EVEN years ago the Gumms sisters broke up ;their vaudeville act to follow separate paths. Now they're back together again, working for Metro. The eldest, Sue, joined the fan mail department depart-ment when her army husband was sent far away. The second, sec-ond, Jimmie, became a script girl. The youngest shot right to the top as an actress. She's Judy Garland, and her latest picture, "Presenting Lily Mars," gives her a chance to use all the talents that have made her so popular. Harriet Hilliard has to stand for the goings-on of Red Skelton's "Junior" "Ju-nior" on the air's "Red Skelton and Company" but just let her own young sons try to cut such capers! HARRIET HILLIARD Nearly two years ago she dismissed their nurse, and now David, 6fc, and Eric, 2, are brought up by Mama. "I think well-raised children are the most Important things in the world," says she. Tommy Dix, who makes his screen debut in Metro's "Best Foot Forward," has been signed to a long-term long-term contract. He's the lad who wrote the March of Dimes song for President Roosevelt's birthday party. You'll see the most famous night spots of the past and present in Columbia's "Cover Girl' which stars Rita Hayworth and features the 15 outstanding magazine cover girls of the country. For the Gay Nineties scenes, Director Lionel Banks has completed models of Rector's, Rec-tor's, Tony Pastor's Music Hall and the old Madison Square Roof Garden. Gar-den. For present-day sequences, an exact replica of New York's Stork Club Is being built. The cover girls are all successful New York models. They're learning their ABC's the hard way, those 27 Hollywood youngsters, young-sters, aged from four to seven, who appear in "Russia" with Robert Taylor. They have to recite the alphabet, al-phabet, not in English, but in Russian! Rus-sian! As some of them don't know It in English yet, that makes things a bit difficult, especially as there are six more letters in the Russian one than in the English. When Gerard Darrow appears for the "Quiz Kids" broadcasts there's suspense till the cast learns what livestock he' s brought with him. Recently he showed up with a I hamster, sent him by a Philadelphia fan. A hamster is of the mouse ! family, but lives like a gopher. "I should have called him Hitler, I guess," said Gerard, "as long as he's a European rodent." A dream will come true for Dinah Shore this summer when she sings in the famous Hollywood Bowl during dur-ing its summer concert series. She has been successful in other fields of musical endeavor, but she won't be happy until she sings in the Bowl. Barry Wood, radio's singing star, lives on a Connecticut farm where 1,500 chickens are being raised. But not content with that, he recently bought an old distillery in the neighborhood, neigh-borhood, and is converting it into a home for 5,000 Barred Rocks and Plymouth Rocks. With this promising promis-ing start, Wood expects before long to be one of the major chicken raisers rais-ers of southern New England. Amazonian Hope Emerson got a lucky break when Jimmy Durante gave her a nickname the first time they appeared together on the program pro-gram he does with Garry Moore Thursdays on NBC. He nicknamed her "Miss Bongshook" and the next day the phone calls began pouring in, offering her engagements on other oth-er shows. She says she used to be a blacksmith, but she doesn't look it ODDS AND EX D Eddie "Rochester" "Roches-ter" Anderson lias a business interest mutside of movies and radio; the corn-puny corn-puny he heads makes parachutes . . . They handcutjed George Sanders the ethnr day for a scone in "Appointment in Berlin" and then spent two hours tryinn to net the handcuffs off . . . Itrs the wardrobe woman who watches Ann UtiUer dunce most anxiously in "IT hat's Buzzin Cousin?"; Anns wearing precious pre-cious opera-length nylons . . . Robert Sterling's been elected Cadet Major of his flying class at Thunderhird Field, Phienix, Ariz. . . . Shirley ftoath of radio's ra-dio's "Duffy's" ivilt appear in the movie version of the show. |