Show r E C E H Q Released by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALE to a recent J Johnny JohnL John ohn- ohn L ny Presents broadcast never never never nev nev- er even suspected that in the studio the sort of thing was happening happening happening hap hap- pening that speeds radio performers performers performers per per- formers and producers toward nervous breakdowns Ginny I Simms was singing when a man walked up on the stage and headed toward her Since when a abig abig abig big show like that one is produced there are so many people on stage no one realized just at first that the theman theman theman 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 offstage off offstage offstage stage whispering in his ear very confidentially all the while Credit Ginny with never missing a note J f JIn fIn In more than six years in pictures Geraldine Fitzgerald practically always always always al al- al- al ways lost out romantically with theother the theother theother other girl getting the man In Wilson Wilson Wil son she won out and decided to leave Warner Varner Bros and strike out Y V r ry y c r rc c GERALDINE FITZGERALD for herself herselt So they let her win John Garfield in Nobody Lives Forever I as a parting gift On her own she went into Uncle Harry for Universal Uni Uni- versal versal-doesn't versal doesn't get h her r man but goes to the gallows for trying All of one day Hollywood was filled with rumors that and Paramount had merged merged-a 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 l was shooting exteriors with Ingrid Bergman Henry Travers Travers Travers Trav- Trav ers and several extras on a Paramount Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount lot for Rainbow Productions' Productions The Bells of St. St Marys Mary's being made at I Eddie Cantors Cantor's still untitled West Vest Western ern em Comedy at will retain for Cantor and Joan Davis the same character names they used in Show Business though theres there's no similarity similarity similarity simi simi- larity between the pictures they'll keep the same names just for luck Oliver Wallace Vallace who composed during the last war and Der Fuehrer's Face during this one provides the score f for r Walt Diary Diary Diary Di Di- Disney's new short African ary which is releasing This time Goofy is starred Lauren Bacall has hasa a 3 difficult task ahead of her she's finished The Big Sleep her second picture in which she appears opposite Humphrey Humphrey Humphrey Hum Hum- Bogart for her third assignment assignment assignment assign assign- ment shell she'll have the feminine lead leadin leadin leadin in Confidential Agent which play an English woman A different different different differ differ- ent accent a different male lead shell she'll have to work hard 1 Fred MacMurray and Leslie Fenton Fenton Fenton Fen- Fen ton launched their new enterprise Mutual Productions recently beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning work on Pardon My Past Its It's a comedy and MacMurray plays twin brothers who never meet but whose effect on each others other's existence existence existence ex ex- ex- ex is disastrous Marguerite Chapman is Freds Fred's leading lady Akim William Demarest Harry Darry Davenport and Douglas Dumbrille Dumbrille Dum- Dum brille have strong roles i iAn An force air-force friend is responsible for Abbott and Costellos Costello's signing Bob Mathews as a vocalist on their Thursday night NBC programs The friend on furlough was asked to Costellos Costello's one Sunday for a swim he took along a record of Mathews' Mathews and played it for Lou 5 h hA A special concert made up of requests requests requests re re- re- re quests from our troops overseas will be broadcast by the New York Symphony Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Artur conducting over CBS on Sunday July 1 1 Requests are being cleared by the Armed Forces Radio Service f ODDS AND ENDS ENDS On On his Sunday radio program Ozzie Oie Nelson recently urged people to take servicemen into their homes homes and and when he got home found that his children had filled the house with soldiers sol sot diers Biers and sailors In Masquerade in in Mexico Dorothy Lamour wears ears a streamlined stream lined silver bathing suit Joan Joun Bennett will start in in Woman in in the Window on the Radio Theater June 18 Republics Republic Sunset Carson Canon 64 Western star dropped into the studios studio's hospital for an aspirin on the way tray out our ho 10 hit lit his head on a sign and had to go bach back for treatment Amos n ii n Andy plan to leave leate on a tour of foreign military installations in Juno June |