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Show By LYN CONNNELLY TT APPEARS NOW that Bob Hope and his sponsor have come to the parting of the ways after a dozen years together . . . The divorce came about through Hope's desire to tape record his shows a la Crosby and the sponsor's unsympathetic ear to his pleas shallow frame that there is no room for a window shade, an effective effec-tive solution can be obtained by using us-ing a pair of inside shutters, padded pad-ded and covered with the same fabric which is used in other parts of the room. These can swing shut at night to provide privacy and add a distinctively decorative note when they are folded back against the wall during the day. . . . This summer when "My Friend Irma" takes its seasonal leave from , the air-lanes, air-lanes, Marie Wilson, Wil-son, who plays Irma, and her husband, hus-band, Alan Nixon, also an actor, will go on tour . . . Incidentally, In-cidentally, Alan, with Marie as instigator, in-stigator, was just WILSON signed by Paramount Pictures . . . Dennis Day will make his first movie in six years it's called "I'll Get By." Paul Douglas, - who was a topflight top-flight announcer prior to the war, . will audition a new comedy series for NBC . . . Only four years ago, Douglas . tried a comeback on--radio and couldn't make it . . . Now a success in pictures, he can have his pick of shows on the networks net-works . . Fifty Gene Autry pictures pic-tures made at Republic are being offered to television for $1,000,000. JUST A LITTLE CHATTER Jack Bailey,' emcee of "Queen for a Day," whose "What's Cook-in' Cook-in' " has been among the top selling sell-ing cook books, has an offer to do another book this time on his radio experiences with "Queens" on the Mutual network Cinderella show . . . Joan Davis has nixed a CBS offer to keep her show, "Leave It to Joan," on a sustaining sustain-ing basis until a new sponsor can be obtained. Anne Whitfield, 11, and Jeanine Ann Roose, 12, who play the daughters daugh-ters of Phil Harris and Alice Faye on the radio, went to Toots Shor's restaurant during their recent New York visit ... A solicitous waiter didn't know who they or their mothers were, but thought he could be helpful by pointing out a celebrity to them ... He looked around, then leaned over and said confidentially, "Over there are Alice Faye and Phil Harris, the famous radio team." |