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Show STAGESCREENiRADIO By VIRGINIA VALE Eeleajed by Western Newspaper Union. TNGRID BERGMAN'S su-J- perb performance in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is one of those things that people remember re-member for years. It's the more notable because in that opus she was up against really real-ly tough competition. Katina Paxinou, the talented Greek actress who plays "Pilar," can dominate any scene without half trying, and the list of male actors reads like an all-star cast. Incidentally, after 100 performances the picture was still gelling out at all performances in INGRID BERGMAN New York; that meant that for eight solid weeks the public had been trooping to the theater to see just that picture no news reel, no comedy, com-edy, no other attraction. Mentioning Ingrid Bergman reminds re-minds me that in "Gaslight," which she is making with Charles Boyer who plays a most villainous villain you'll see Tarquin Olivier, son of Laurence Olivier and Jill Esmond, the clever and attractive actress who was his wife before he married Vivian Leigh. Young Tarquin is only five, so he's starting his career fairly fair-ly early. It's a nice break that Gail Russell, new In films, gets. She's making "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay," playing one of the principal roles, and Paramount has given her a new term contract and the starring part In "Her Heart in Her Throat," scheduled first for Loretta Young. Looks as If Loretta liked her role in "And Now Tomorrow" better. "Her Heart in Her Throat" is a mystery. A curious soft slapping sound heard occasionally during rehearsals of Morton Downey's afternoon radio program, usually just after he had finished a song, has finally been eliminated. Radio engineers, checking check-ing on the origin of the sound, discovered dis-covered that it was caused by Downey's thumbing his bright red suspenders. He began doing it after he was warned not to jingle coins while he was singing. Now he wears a belt in the studio, and empties his pockets before he steps up to a microphone. It's no wonder that producers get jittery. Michael O'Shea was riding a motor scooter, crashed into a stage wall and landed in a hospital, with severe bruises, to put it mildly. That held up shooting on United Artists' "Jack London," as he was to appear ap-pear in every remaining scene. Joseph Cotten, narrator and acting act-ing star of "America Ceiling Unlimited," Un-limited," and greatly in demand in Hollywood, is billed as the Great Joseph, "The Wizard of the South," in Orson Welles' Mercury Wonder show; it's done nightly under canvas, can-vas, In Hollywood, for the edification edifica-tion of service men; they're entertained enter-tained and highly by feats of magic, and all for nothing! It was a thrill for Dinah Shore recently re-cently when her new picture, "Thank Your Lucky Stars," was sneak-previewed sneak-previewed at WSM's Air Castle studio stu-dio in Nashville, Tenn., where Dinah started her singing career. All her old friends came. Her new commercial com-mercial starring series starts on CBS September 30, and will be heard Thursday evenings at 9:30, Eastern War Time. Back in the 1920s Gertrude Lawrence Law-rence made a guest appearance on a radio variety show for -which the sponsors paid her 20 pounds a minute min-ute about $100 American money. It established a financial record. When she returns to the air with her new show, September 30, on the Blue Network, she'll get so much more that though the figure's still a Becret it will establish another record. rec-ord. ODDS AND ENDS When Don 'Ameche, host of the "What's New?" show heard Saturdays over the Blue network, calls his wife "Honey" irj not only a term of endearment, but an abbreviation of her name, Honore . . . After all that talk about retiring, Fred Allen returns to the air next month, but this year the show will emanate from Hollywood and he'll take a flyer in pictures . . . Trudy Erwin had some earrings made from two antique gold thimbles, wore 'em to rehearsal of the Bing Crosby show, and lost one and found Crosby wearing it . . . War or no war, Ted Husing will be announcing football games over CBS this fall. |