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Show I By VIRGINIA VALE ; Released Dy Weitern Newspaper Union. BOB HAWK, CBS quipmas-ter quipmas-ter of "Thanks to the Yanks," manages to spend at least two nights a week performing per-forming for men in the armed services. When a camp calls for a show Hawk sends out a call to his many friends in the entertainment world and immediately a well-rounded well-rounded show of varied acts organizes organ-izes to help "Thanks to the Yanks." Bob, who taught Junior high school English when he was 18, has broadcast broad-cast everything from grand opera to wrestling matches says his toughest assignment was giving a hole-by-hole description of a miniature minia-ture golf tournament. He's never done better work than he's doing now for the men in the service. Just 11 years ago Lucille Ball went to Hollywood as a show girl, to appear in Eddie Cantor's "Roman Scandals," along with 11 others. You'll see her, as a show girl. In : i T ! 1 j - j . LUCILLE BALL "Meet the People"; she's climbed clear to the top of the ladder in the meantime. Right now people are crowding to see her in "Du Barry Was a Lady." She's the only one of the original twelve who's still in pictures. Those American Youth Hostels that have become so popular get their innings in "Song of the Open Road," for which Sammy Kaye and his orchestra have been signed. Redheaded Red-headed Peggy O'Neill makes her debut in the starring role. 'I- Leatrice Joy Gilbert has been under un-der contract to Metro for some time, but it's only now that she's going to get her chance a role in "Kismet." She worked in summer stock last season, and if there's anything in heredity this daughter of Leatrice Joy and the late Jack Gilbert Gil-bert certainly ought to go far as an actress. Her father was one of Metro's big stars for years. Some clever lad at MGM is composing com-posing a new song for Lena Home, who will wow audiences everywhere, the studio predicts, in "I Dood It," the Red Skelton-Eleanor Powell picture. pic-ture. The song is called, we're told, "Moonlight Sinatra." One photograph of Renee Terry ' of CBS's "Bright Horizon," inspired 341 proposals of marriage immediately imme-diately after it appeared in a New York newspaper. If showed her in her Nurses Aide uniform, feeding a baby in the children's ward of a hospital. Fraak Sinatra seems to like Hollywood Holly-wood and picture-making; he's going go-ing back In November to make "Mr. Cinderella" for RKO, and they do say that the story of the picture Is pretty much the story of the young man's life. ; 1 When Bob Hope got back from that trip that took him to England, Africa, Sicily and Iceland he wasn't sure whether he'd be able to return to the air September 21 -or not-said not-said Bing Crosby would pinch hit for him if he couldn't. He was pretty pret-ty tired, but forgot that when he talked about his trip. "The greatest thing that ever happened to me," said he. And "Believe me, the programs pro-grams we do from the States are going to mean more than ever to us now that we know what they mean to the men." 1 Last season hundreds of service men had to be turned away from the Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy shows because of lack of room. This year Bergen will put on a preview pre-view of the show, Just as it goes on the air, plus added entertainment by Songstress Dale Evans and the cast, for service men on furlough in the Los Angeles area. So every Saturday Satur-day night there'll be fun for soldiers, sol-diers, sailors and marines. ODDS AND ENDS-Myrna Lay, who's made no picture for a year, returns re-turns to Hollywood to co-star in "The Thin Man Goes Home," with William Powell . . . Hunt Sternberg's "Lady of Burlesque," starring Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea, is one of the most popular films being shown at military hospitals , . . Each studio visitor to the "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Ba-sin Street" gets a card asking him to name three celebrities whom he'd like to have appear on the program . . . Lyn Bari was borrowed from 20th Century-Fox Century-Fox to play the glamorous dancer in United Artists' "The Bridge of San Luis Key." |