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Show STAGE SCREEN RADIO Releujed by Western Ncwspupn Union B V1BGIN1A VALE THEY tried out more than 50 WAC hair-dos before Pauiette Goddard's coiffure for "Suddenly It's Spring" was decided on. Those overseas over-seas caps are pretty severe, and the fact that the hair has to be tvo inches off the collar in back made things more difficult, as many a WA,C will testify. Final ly she was given soft bangs, and 8 center part in the back, with braids pinned around her head to give s good line. It took one hour of extra time every day to get her ready for the cameia not very WAC-like! m The only film hero listed in Webster's Web-ster's New International Dictionary is Tarzan. defined as "The hero ol a series of stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. He is a white man. ol jH B JOHNNY WEISSMULLER prodigious strength and chivalrous Instincts, reared by African apes." Johnny Weissmuller lives up to the ' definition, as usual, in his latest, I "Tarzat. and the Huntress," and has signed to play Tarzan for the next three years. Eddie Albert was entertaining j Constance Moore and Joan Edwards Ed-wards on the set of Republic's "Hit Parade of 1947" by singing "Souse of the Border," which he and his I wife Margo had composed. Producer-Director Frank McDonald liked it so much that he decided to put it Into the picture. Eddie's made three big pictures fsr three big studios' since he's been out of the navy "The Perfect Marriage," for Hal Wallis; Republic's delight-j delight-j ful "Rendezvous with Annie," and Universale "Smash-up." When George Sanders left for England he thought he was just going go-ing on vacation, after finishing "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami." So Director Albert Lewin cabled him to go to Paris and scout for sites for his next picture, "Strong as Death." Dorothy Lamour's been in too many of those "Road" pictures with Crosby, maybe. Anyhow, she and her husband have bought some brood mares and are going in for raising thoroughbred stock on their ranch- they already had 700 hogs and 200 steers. I Sterling Hayden's first picture j since his discharge from the r arine corps will be "Blaze of Noon," story i of the four McDonald brothers. pioneers in commercial aviation. ! Paramnunt's assembled a cast head-1 head-1 ed by Hayden, Sonny Tufts, William Wil-liam Holden, John Lund and Bill Bendix. Hayden was headed for stardom before he left Hollywood: it looks as if he'd make it this time. First Columbia Broadcasting ' System did it had their local sta-I sta-I tion, as well as frequency modulation modula-tion and television, changed to WCBS. instead of the old New York listing, WABC. National Broadcasting Broadcast-ing liked the idea now it's WNBC. It's catching! One of the first parts that House Jameson ("Dr. Benjamin" of the air's "Crime Doctor"), got after leaving college resulted from the assumption in New York that every Texan knows how to spin a rope. House was engaged to appear in a skit with Will Rogers and didn't know one end of a rope from the I other So he took the job, went out and learned tricks with a rope, and did right well. Robert Alda. whose next picture is Warner Bros.' "The Man I Love." has been on tenderhooks j lately; he's crazy about his farm I and everything on it, and two of 1 1 his prize pigs, Porkie and Bess, are about to become parents. ODDS AM) ENDSCkrutamu Early, a character in the Dick Tracy comic I ttrip, a ill mmm have her counterpart in ratlin: a California station ii hold-inn hold-inn auditions to find a nirl who'll he git en a big publicity buitd ui us.Christ-mat us.Christ-mat larly . . . tdith Arnold of "Crwf ' Doctor" couldn't easily have escaped ' haiinn red hair; it runs through pen-I pen-I erations of the family Maidnnnld 1 Carey of "Suddenly It's Spring" has a new secretary, his wife . . . Harold I'eary, BC's "Gildersleete," belieies in numertdofty; some years ago he changed his last name from I'erry to I'eary, hesan w-ing Harold instead of Hal and uhal do you knotc, Uietmmi |