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Show l , THE IU L1 ETIX, BINGHAM C VNYON. UTAH STAGE SCREEN RADIO Released by Western Newspaper Unton. By VIRGINIA VALE WHEN Jackie Coogan five he skyrocketed to fame in "The Kid." He was making his second pic-ture, "Peck's Bad Boy," when the car taking him to the studio crashed; he was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull, and he's been total-ly deaf in one ear ever since, a fact he's just revealed. He faked his way into the army, made an en- - JACKIE COOGAN viable record as a second lieuten-ant in the army air forces. Now 31, he's been discharged, and is on the air with his own radio show, "For-ever Ernest," on CBS Monday nights. He broadcasts from Holly-wood, and is all set to return to pi-ctureshas a new film scheduled to start In June. Pretty good for that wistful infant, "The Kid" I David Rose, 20th Century - Fox musical director, never goes to bed before 5 a. m. can't compose in daylight. Yet he thinks a good musi-cal piece can be dreamed up on a street corner or a bus! That new composition of his, "Gay Spirits." which you heard on his Wednesday night radio program, is the result, he says, of playing his popular "Holiday for Strings" backward. Doreen Taylor, who for the past four years has done the singing for many a famous non-singi- movie queen, at last sings in her own right on the screen In RKO's "From This Day Forward." They finally tested her and discovered that she's very photogenic. For Universal' "So Goes My Love," Myrna Loy had to get used to moving about in the burdensome costumes of 1870, but she says it needed no adjustment to play the young woman who planned to marry a rich man, won Hiram Maxim, the famous Inventor, pilot-ed his career and raised their chil-dren. For, says she, girls employ those same stratagems today. 'Exactly four years ago," said Gregory Peck on his recent birth-day, "I spent my birthday washing dishes in a New York restaurant." Now he's on top; David O. Selznick has signed a new contract with him, wiU star him in "Benedict Ar-nold." It will go into production late this year, will be done in techni-color, and on the same scale as "Gone with the Wind" and "Duel in the Sun." The story of radio since its incep-tion will be the basis for a two and one-ha- lf million dollar film tenta-tively titled "Magic in the Air." Jer-rol- d T. Brandt, who produced the "Scattergood Baines" series before he entered the service, and made 150 training films while In the navy. will produce the film, bringing to the screen the top personalities of radio since the days of crystal sets. Anne Francis, 15, who plays "Kathy Cameron" on NBC's "When a Girl Marries." has been signed to a seven-yea- r contract by MGM. Anne made her radio debut in 1938 on the children's program, "Coast to Coast on a Bus," and has been acting ever since. When Mutual comes on the air with its four separate broadcasts i of the Indianapolis Speedway race on Decoration Day, a record num- - ber of nine announcers will be on hand at various positions around the track. Bill Slater and Ford Pear- - son among them. When Fred Waring and his Penn-yivania-take over the Fibber Mc- - Gee and Molly time on NBC for the I summer, starting June 18, Fred will I probably be setting a record; with I his Ave morning programs, he'll be ! doing six half-hou- r shows a week I on a network. ODDS AND ENDS In "Suddenly I Jt't Spring" Fred MacMurruy had to I lake six falls and taid: "This picture is misnamed; it should be 'Suddenly It's Fair." . . . Boris Karloff plays s dramatic role in a comedy jor the first time in the Danny Kaye picture, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." ... I fan who asked Perry Como for his script after a recent "Supper Club" broadcast was told he'd need it fr the repeat for the West Coast, but she could have the script if she wanted to unit; to his astonishment there she was, four hours later. . . . Paul Lavalle has been given three dachshund pups, j named Bach, Beethoven and Brahm. . Eddie have been iCOCBAGE is 'own paralysis at hi9 on ( arbondale, J :isks favor, .ii HIS MODELS WERE THE TOPS . . . Flying Offic er Carl Ere. man. Luke Field, Ariz., is shown with the moJci planes which won first and second prizes at the model airplane meet held at I.uke Field. Record 61.2 mph. The army air force has a program to encourage the build-ing and flying of model planes not only among enlisted personnel and officers but also among civilian groups. Many aces in World War II became interested in aviation while building model planes. " -- "' - - '"' " """ Hj SLAVIA pJ V BUCK Sf A X' J SYRIA J MEDITERRANEAN '. S "51 IRAQ jRjsjL L u -- tA ARABIA Ly! ' " y i wi k( a y Jk OU.1 8UtAN OUUtn Jl HADKHAMAUTS K-v- V'' SH.OM..CW.M.CK.lO.H OAMtfNtUW .sjPHf xVAip JJf" 1 OS-S-Vl INDIAN OCf AN I y: " r .'li-if-lL- LMI&ilB COMPLICATIONS FOR BIG FOUR . . . While the Big Four conference In Paris faces many difficult problems involving treaties and claims and boundaries, the Turkish situation presents future complications. In the dark areas shown are the three buffer states of the Near East and Middle East. Here the strategic and meet. Control of the Dardanelles Is a vital issue and economic Interests of Russia and the western powers eastern frontiers. Arrows on the map show how use of he Russia has sought to press claims on Turkey's straits cuts 3,000 miles from the supply line to Russia. At the opening sessions the Big Four sidestepped the troublesome Trieste and Italian colonial questions and began the consideration of the Italian-Frenc- h frontier, the size of Italy's future armed strength and disposal of her surplus shipping. France's proposal to add In-ternationalization of the Ruhr and detachment of the RWneland from Germany to the agenda, added furthet complications. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bcvin caused another upset by Insisting that Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg representatives be permitted to sit in on such negotiations as spokesmen for nations which suffered heavily through German aggression. 1 ff , '.''4; , , , Fiorello H. LaGuar-Tork'- s former mayor, ed to the top of the tdder to give the farmers acts of life. At Fargo, e asks for wheat for Eu- - aBSfMSJBSJSJMMMsaaBMSlBSMgBliSMMWtiMSMWIMMSl FAST FEEDING . . . Jimmy Slyter, 19, receives food through tube from thermos bottle during his Los Angeles-Catalin- a island swim try. his attempt after two hours The navy veteran was forced to abandon five miles short of the 22 and 49 minutes of paddling, approximately mile route. He was pulled aboard exhausted. Judges believe that he struck his head on boat which caused collapse. TO INVESTIGATE FRANCO'S GOVERNMENT . . . Committee of the U. N. security council which will In-vestigate the charges that Generalissimo Franco's government In Spain Is a menace to world peace and security. Left to right: Oscar Lange, Poland; Henri Bonnet, France; Pedro Velloso, Brazil; Paul Hasluck, Australia, and Hsushl Shu, China. . . . Remember child star of 1ED stories tell us that from his aunt, eloped his press agent. She older than Freddie. : GOING IP... statis-"W,,1wh- at David Rothman, ""inttis, and Marianne are interested in. c W'ather have action to cov- - Km bottft"ls so thty can jAW! Thpy ave received vC . ""' opA officials V' soon be covered. I YOUNGSTERS STUDY AT FBI ACADEMY . . . Kenny Rose, Dick Little and Hugh McMahon, cub scouts of Falls Church, Va., look over a small section of the huge "model city" which is part of the equipment used by the FBI national academy in teaching traffic problems to learn modern police science. Thousands of youngsters visit the FBI monthly. IBk W TEA TIME FOR TRILBY Trilby, leader of the elephant herd of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus, shows his latest tea cup. A veteran of the show, he still rules the herd. m FRGFT . . . When Sgt. Bass II. Lewis COLONEL ShRL! d , isn thilt upon Jr., Clmnbus G..; h.m 'Jsuite a Sand have his colonel his discharge Rutledge, Hk. WtTksW nHBHIHMHIHBJBSHBSgSlSSlSBBHBB GREEN FOR OPA . . . William Green, president of the AFL, told the senate banking committee that those who opposed extension of the OPA were a "death lobby." He j demanded It be continued intact. MOST VALUABLE . . . Baseball's most valuable players, Phil Cav-arrett- Chicago Cubs, left, was chosen as the National league's most valuable player in 1945, and Hal Newhouscr, Detroit, won the award for the most valuable player in American league. Both men show promise of being leading contenders for the high honor this season. 'j M. 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