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Show j Released by Western Newspaper Union Hv VIRGINIA VALE KATHARINE HEPBURN was nearly drowned at I sea while making a picture, ! George Zukor directed; it was in scenes for "Sacred and Profane Love" that Greeij Garson was swept into the sea at Monterey, with Zukor directing. Not getting to be habit with him, we hope! Well,: he's directed the (rent of stage and screen Ethel Barrymore, Laur-j ette Taylor, Greta Garbo, Ingrid, Bergman, with great success and! no casualties. "All these women ar i . i; I i ft GARSON unlike any you ever saw befora," he says, "and when first you see them, you are not sura that you like them. But once people become accustomed to peculiarities of strikingly strik-ingly individual actresses, thousandi try to be like them." Kenny Baker steps in as emcee and star of "Glamour Manor" September Sep-tember 30, on ABC. The show will have the same format as last year; story three days a week, audienca participation Tuesdays and Thurs days, Baker every day. Denmark's "Viking Girl," who'i signed a long-term contract wltl Hall Wailis productions, has th leading feminine role In "The Beggars Beg-gars Are Coming to Town." She anil her family were among the last te leave llt-uimtrk before the German occupation. Jane Withers got her start In fllmi in a Shirley Temple picture, "Bright Eyes." Now that they're both grown-up, Jane says she'd like to make another picture with Shirley. Shir-ley. She proves what a real actresi she is as a reporter in "Dangei i Street." William Wyler can't see why the i doctor said it was just "a common cold" that laid him up during the filming of Goldwyn'i "The Besl j Years of Our Lives." He flgurei that the cost of halting production for a day costs exactly $5,326.15. 01 ; course, that included the salaries l0f stars, extras and technicians. A 1 1 for the extra 15 cents that was for a box of aspirin. I n Peter Lind Hayes, considered by l a lot of people the best comedian 'jnow at large, reports to Hollywood in the fall for his first picture role; i he'll play a press agent in Nunnally ij Johnson's "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid." Radio row still is gaping gap-ing over the very sensible stipulations stipula-tions he made when first radio offers of-fers were dangled before him $10C a week for hiniseif, $3,000 for script writers. He learned the importance of writers after an unfortunate experience ex-perience with the Beatrice Kay show. Tommy Dorsey, working in "The Fabulous Dorseys," (United Artists release) is prepared for anything. "The way Hollywood does things," said he, "I'm not sure they won't ask my brother Jimmy to portray me, and then ask me to play Jimmy!" The "experts" on "It Pays To Be Ignorant" are frightfully disappointed disap-pointed not a single romance has' developed between contestants! ; who've met when appearing on the ; program. More than a hundred j couples have been introduced te i each other; Friday after Friday, a young man and a young woman j . have been selected from the audi-1 . ence and brought to the stage. Bui i Tom Howard still has hopes. Marsha Hunt and Felix Bressart) will be seen in good company in I I "Carnegie Hall" the cast includes! i Uascha Heifetz, Arthur Rubenstein, I Lily Pons, Rise Stevens and Benny . (Goodman, Boston Symphony orches-. orches-. j tra, New York Philharmonic and I Vatican choir. ! ODDS AND ENDS-When Curtis Bernhiirdt, directing "Pawtsoof at ! Warner's, calls "Joan!" he gets re-iponses re-iponses friim Joans Crawford, Win- I field. Chandler and I.oring. . . . Nice eonfrnrl Hubert Taylor's signed with M-C-.M; if'.i for S years, no options, land he can nrodure and direct if something some-thing spoils his looks for acting. . . . Dennis Day breaks in a new radio pro-Igrnm, pro-Igrnm, "A Div in the Life of Dennis jDay," on October 3 VBC, Thursday let'ening.1. . Frank Wilcox, featured in " Cover the Big Town," became infpresfprf in acting when a salesman told him about a little theater group. |