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Show STAGEN RADIO Released by Western NewspapeT Union. By VIRGINIA VALE AFTER seeing talented . Deborah Kerr's fine performance per-formance in the thrilling "The Adventuress" it is easily understandable un-derstandable why Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast her opposite op-posite "Clark Gable in ''The Hucksters". Garbo. Dietrich, Berg-an-now Kerr, who already rates right along with them. "The Adventuress," Adven-turess," a J. Arthur Rank production produc-tion released by Eagle-Lion, is delightful. de-lightful. Sometimes it's a thriller worthy of Hitchcock, sometimes It's wonderful comedy. The cast, 3f course, is excellent; the scenery DEBORAH KERR -Ireland, the Isle of Man Is beautiful. beau-tiful. And Miss Kerr, who has the :ourage to look plain as well as ery beautiful, gives a performance to be enjoyed, and better, to be emembered. Jean Hersholt, the kindly "Dr. rhristian" of the CBS Wednesday light show, got his first movie job n Hollywood in 1915 not because le could ac,t, but because he owned i dress suit, tuxedo, spats, derby md cane. He received all of $15 a A'eek. The cast of "This Is Hollywood," lumbering close to 30 of the film :apitol's top people, converged on salt Lake City for the recent pre-niere pre-niere of "Ramrod" via all modern nethods of transporation. Some ent by plane, some by train, Jthers by automobile. The reason 'or splitting the group was to make :ertain that a talent nucleus would )e on hand no matter what the weather happened to be. Bryan Foy will personally super-else super-else "Red Stallion," which may out-:lass out-:lass "Smokey" and "Thunder- ii .ul." produced under his super-rision super-rision at 20th Century-Fox. There'll e animal battle scenes that have lever before been attempted in a i picture. Richard Benedict, who plays the Douncer in Columbia's "The Guilt Df Janet Ames," is really Joseph Sciurba, an Italian. He got his start Dy hanging around East Coast stu-iios stu-iios as a youngster. One day Al Christie, looking over a crowd of prospective extras, singled him out and asked if he spoke Spanish. "Si, Duono," said Richard, in his best Italian, and they gave him the part. Michael Woulfe, fashion creator jnder contract to William Cagney, says he's rapidly going nuts. At RKO he's designing clothes for Laraine Day and Judith Anderson !or "Tycoon"; at Eagle-Lion he's dressing Sylvia Sidney and Ann Richards for "Love From a Stranger, Stran-ger, " and at U-I he's whipping up (rocks for Ava Gardner for "Singapore." "Singa-pore." Ran up a taxi bill of $107.15 In no time at all, dashing from one itudio to another. So he decided to learn to drive, and on his first day as a motorist was hauled in by a cop for improper parking. Radio announcer Don Wilson has been signed as narrator for scenes In Columbia's "The Corpse Came C.O.D." George Brent, Joan Blond-ell Blond-ell and Adele Jcrgens have the leading lead-ing roles In the thriller about a series of murders with a Hollywood studio background. Seven years Isn't too long to wait for a honeymoon, according to Robert Mitchum and his wife. They decided when they were married to wait tiU he was a "star, and then honeymoon in New York, where he grew up. She'd never been there. His movie career was well under way when the war interrupted it; "The Locket" starred him and they headed for New York and he bought her a locket, because that made it possible. ODDS AXD ESDSZachary Scott u convinced spring is really here; his aaugbler K'at erly, 10, has poison oak poisoning. . . . So less than 50 Holly, wood news photographers havt snapped candid shots of Ann Sheridan crocheting a bedspread. . Matt Crowley, star of "Road of Life," and radio's "man with the perfect diction " overcame the handicap of stuttering, tnd so altered his plans for earning a nelthood from radio engineer to radio actor. . . Donald O'Connor, comedian on the Ginny Simms show, s lust 21, but he's a father and has a lot of responsibilities hut he still eatt tskimo pies during rehearsals! ft |