Show I Broderick Crawfords Still Miles Apart Despite Expected Visit of Stork By Hr Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD CN NEA EA Despite Despite De De- spite the expected stork visit in inI July the Broderick Crawfords I are miles away from the thc rumored rUeI ru rUe ru- ru mored reconciliation A Mexican 1 I can standoff is the way Brod BrodI I puts it Virginia Field and md Willard Parker are arc sh signed ned to costar costar co co- star in a TV T film series ta tagged Boss Lady The series calls for Cor 36 films a year each budgeted budgeted budgeted eted at for or the tile next five years Virginia and Willard Villard pl plan tn to marry on OIl Oct 9 9 lIed L Lamarr lmarr and an unidentified fied lied mystery man have been heen I the t talk of AC Acapulco's love ve romance a-romance set William illiam GarI Gargan's Gar Gar- gans gan's wife is on the mend after alter I major surgery Yvonne de deCarlo deCarlo deCarlo Carlo isn't happy over the snip snip- I snip job done on her last U U-l picture Tomahawk Her hi big son song number was vas ed from the picture The Bri Bright h Side I Producer David id Diamond will tilI willI I follow follot up I was tas an American i Spy with The Bright Side revolving revolving revolving re re- re- re around camp entertainment entertain entertain- ment staged by service person person- nel nd Hell He'll give 50 of the tile films film's profits to the services Prediction Prediction Pre Pre- diction Margaret Sheridan is THE gal to watch in the 1951 I movie sweepstakes She makes her film how bow in The Tile Thing Filing Sophie Tucker is scoffing at those retirement rumors She's I booked through 1952 on a doctors doctor's doctors doctor's doc doe tors tor's timetable timetable four four weeks of work and then three of rest Harry Essex the tile writer agreed to write rite script for The Las LliS Vegas Story when assured he wouldn't have hi to visit the tile gambling gam garn- im- im bling hung center for local color Writing in I Hollywood he wailed I T draw on my memory In Las Vegas I just draw on my bank account i Catt Catty Remark June Havoc headed for a Broadway play pIny took f five fre re cats I 1 with her to New Ne' York explaining explain explain- i ing ing ing- I auditioned 51 sitters cat-sitters I but none of oC them was right for forthe forthe forthe the cats eats Hollywood is joining televisions television's televisions television's televisions television's sion's boast that old stars are better than ever Leatrice Joy who ho hasn't appeared on the I screen for 15 years has a big role iole opposite Frank Fay in A WAC A C in His Life Its It's Fays Fay's I first film appearance in eight years Its It's 74 birthday I candles for wistful Victor Moore loore I who ho explains his absence from the screen After 53 years of work Im I'm resting The movie mo offers still come in but the I 1 veteran comedian says If they'll give me a good picture pic pie ture hire Ill I'll always be willing to to work Im I'm old enough now to say no to anything but bitt good ones All that publicity about William William Wil Wil- liam Phipps new star of Arch I s 's movie Five as' as the only man in living with 50 dolls at Hollywoods Hollywood's House of oC the thc Seven Garbos cost him a girl irl friend Phipps blushes I I She telephoned me mefter after fter the newspaper stories said she understood now why I was so difficult to get along with and imd hung up lipI lip up I Fans will ill find it difficult lo to put puta a face on OIl Phipps He FEe was vas the voice of Prince Charming Ch in Cinderella wears a beard in Five and masquerades n as a woman in No Questions Asked Got the Fever Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell Far Far- rell have given C CBS B S the green reen light on another mother r radio dio version of one of their early movie hits Farrell Farroll looking at Rt the tile mountain of letters letter's from fans that rived arrived after aCler his hig Seventh He Heaven 1 broadcast with Janet told tole me alI atI at al I his Palm Springs Racquet Club i To Lo me it was as a m matter of life and death We had to be good Janet and I. I After a few days daY of rehearsing we became a solid team ag again lin When T 1 C came mc back hack to the Racquet Club after the show SilO my crow crew met me and 1 they hey all said Why I boss we e didn't I know you had it in you Short Takes Takes Norma Norma Shearer I kicks off her film comeback plans with an appearance on the Screen Directors s Playhouse OfiN on onN N NBC B C. C The date hasn't been set I I Lionel Barrymore will play the role of President Andrew Jackson in ill Gables Gable's Lone Star Mae West Test is writing another 1 I stage show for COI herself a herself a musical musical musical musi musi- cal comedy New song i A Nickel Aint Worth a Cent CentI I Today Frances Dee makes that film comeback in U LI-I's Reunion in m n Reno She's been starring in television dramas A new new radio o show featuring Ezio Pinza I as a singing florist is 15 being offered offered off off- ered to New York agencies Don Hartman until recently a I writer flO now no nohe he heads production at Paramount Explaining the thc difference dif dif dif- i I ference between a 1 writer and an ani i executive e at t the s Club I Don quipped Every time I go out now my I oat coat and md pants have to match |