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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. I By VIRGINIA VALE LISTENERS to a recent - "Johnny Presents" broad-! cast never even suspected that in the studio the sort of thing was happening that speeds radio performers and , producers toward nervous j breakdowns. Ginny Simms was singing when a man walked up on the stage and beaded toward her. Since, when a big show like that one is produced, there are so many people on stage, no one realized just at first that the man didn't belong there. Then Ken Roberts, the announcer, spotted him. Just before the man reached Ginny, Roberts reached him; he took the stranger by the arm and led him oft stage, whispering In his ear very confidentially all the while. Credit Ginny with never missing a note! In more than six years in pictures Geraldine Fitzgerald practically always al-ways lost out romantically, with the other girl getting the man. In "Wilson" "Wil-son" she won out, and decided to leave Warner Bros, and strike out GERALDINE FITZGERALD for herself. So they let her win John Garfield In "Nobody Lives Forever," as a parting gift. On her own, she went Into "Uncle Harry," for Uni-versal Uni-versal doesn't get her man, but goes to the gallows for tryingl All of one day Hollywood was filled with rumors that RKO and Paramount had merged a big gate was opened between the two studios, and that was enough for the gossips. The fact of the matter was that Leo McCarey was shooting exteriors with Ingrid Bergman, Henry Trav-ers Trav-ers and several extras on a Paramount Para-mount lot for Rainbow Productions' "The Bells of St. Mary's." being made at RKO. Eddie Cantor's still untitled West-cm West-cm Comedy at RKO will retain for Cantor and Joan Davis the same character names they used In "Show Business," though there's no similarity simi-larity between the pictures; they'll keep the same names Just for luck. Oliver Wallace, who composed "Hundustan" during the last war and "Der Fuehrer's Face" during this one, provides the score for Walt Disney's new short, "African Diary," Di-ary," which RKO is releasing. This time Goofy is starred. Lauren Bacall has a difficult task ahead of her; she's finished "The Big Sleep," her second picture, in which she appears opposite Humphrey Hum-phrey Bogart; for her third assign-ment assign-ment she'll have the feminine lead in "Confidential Agent," which play an English woman. A different differ-ent accent, a different male lead, she'll have to work hard. Fred MacMurray and Leslie Fen-Ion Fen-Ion launched their new enterprise, Mutual Productions, recently, beginning begin-ning work on "Pardon My Past." It's comedy, and MacMurray plays twin brothers who never meet, but whose effect on each other's existence ex-istence Is dissstrous. Marguerite Chapman Is Fred's leading lady; I Abim Tamlroff. William Demarert. Harry Davenport and Douglas Dum-brlllc Dum-brlllc have strong roles. An air-force friend is responsible for Abbott and Costello's signing Bob Mathews as a vocalist on their j Thursday night NBC programs. The friend, on furlough, was asked to Costello's one Sunday for a swim; he took along a record of Mathews' and played it for Lou. 1 A special concert made up of requests re-quests from our troops overseas will be broadcast by the New York rhilharmonlc-Symphony Orchestra. Artur Rodzlnskl conducting, over CBS on Sunday, July 1. Requests are being cleared by the Armed Forces Radio Service. 0ni)S AD t.lS-Vn hit Sunday tadio prntram em recently urtetl people: to take teriicemen into thrir hornet and uhen he got hom !nund that hi children had fillrd thi mine uilh toldiert and tailoit, . . . In "Manpieradt in Mexico" rliy I amour Kfdri Ureamlmed tiliet bathing mil. . . . Joan llennell m ill Uar in "Woman in iht Uindm" on the Hadio theater Jun IS. . . , Hepuhlic't Suntrl Carton, '4" IT mrrn tnr, dropped into the Widia't hotpital for an utpirin: on the ny out he hit hi head on u and had to $n bark for treatment. |