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Show J THK BgLLMTN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH jjjl COURT NAMES HIM . . . M. E. Thompson, Georgia's former lieu-tenant governor, as he received the telephoned news that the Su-preme court of Georgia had ruled in his favor in the governorship hearing. He will be governor un-til next election. STAGEEN RADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALE IT'S just a matter of time 1 till the movie, moguls talk Gordon MacRae into making pictures. Like Gregory Peck, he was an NBC page boy for a while, in 1940; he got an audition with Horace Heidt, and a job singing with Heidt's band. A singing baritone, he'd had experi-ence sang with Harry James' and Lcs Brown's orchestras at the N. Y. World's Fair. After a stint with the army air forces he started over again radio sustaining, Broadway musicals, CBS commercials. Begin-ning May 19th, he'll be heard GORDON MAC RAE over 320 stations coast to coast, 220 transcribed; he's heard now on the "Teentimer's" program. Tall, good looking, he's definitely star mate-rial. Phil Baker received a fan letter the other day that proved how well known he is. The envelope was ad-dressed simply with a sketch of an accordion and a large question mark; Immediately it was delivered to the "Take It or Leave It" quiz-maste- r. William Keighley, movie director and Radio theater producer (his latest picture is the Shirley Temple-Franch- Tone "Honeymoon"), says "Inexperienced actors and ac-tresses have a 100.000 to 1 chance of getting anywhere In motion pic-tures, and it's even harder to break into radio." He recommends dra-matic school and summer stock as training; "too much dramatic equipment isn't possible." Marjorie Reynolds' first "bad girl" role since she started in films at the age of six comes at a strange time. She plays a shady lady in Seymour NebenzaPs "Heaven Only Knows," which rs Robert Cummings and Brian Donlevy and it's her first picture since the birth of her first child, Linda, who was born last November. A fine break for a lovely young mother! The deadliest moment in radio comes when sound effects fail, says William Spier, sound effects man. It's happened to him wice on "Sus-pense," when guns didn't go off as scheduled. Once an actor cried "Don't shoot me!", nothing hap-pened, and another actor came to the rescue by exclaiming "Okay, I'll use this knife!" Recently, when William Bendix did "Three Faces for Midnight," two guns balked; fi-nally one delivered the fatal bang. George "Gabby" Hayes showed up at the Saturday night "Round-up" rehearsal the other day looking slightly green around the gills. He'd spent the entire morning riding a stagecoach in Paramount's "Albu-querque," and just couldn't take the motion. Parks Johnson and Warren Hull the famous Vox-Po- p team, feel, like a lot of us, that radio com-- i mercials have their place and shouldn't mess up a broadcast. When the matter came to a show-down between them and their sponsor, they lost the argument, and quit. More power to them! So, beginning May 20th, they're re-leased from their contract, re-placed by Arthur Godfrey's Talent SC0UtS' Don't miss the new March of Time, "Fashion Means Business." It shows backstage views of new Paris and New York collections, shows New York's huge garment center at work, lets you see de-signers in their studios, gives the inside of the fashion business. Lamenting the difficulty of finding a singer to replace Betty Barclay, Sammy Kaye said "I'm not fussy; all I want is a girl who can sing like Dinah Shore, with a face like Lana Turner, a figure like Betty Grable's, and the natural poise of Ingrid Bergman!" ODDS AND ENDSUniversal-in-ervationa- l Pictures has bought 'The Wistful Widow of Wagon Cap" for Abbott and Costello . . . Sice timing; uithin the past few months "David Harding Counterspy" has had four shows on themes which made front pages the day before the broadcast . . . The reason so many well-know- n stage stars appear on "Crimes of Careless-mss- " is that Producer-Directo- r Jim Sheldon has so many good friends in the theater . . . Cass Daley, comedy star of Paramount's "Variety," collects antiques bought an 1880 clock re-cently, and found an old five-doll-bill inside it! fir Jli&- -j 'i' " ENGLAND . . . Europe is not the only place buffeted by heavy seas. At Redondo Beach, fogry surf returned to the onslaught again, crashing over the cement walk and cascading into wilcrfront homes. Photo was taken after ' ,of the wild waves had calmed down to a great unan at extreme right is shown shoveling debris away from her front door. GRANDMOTHER A STOWAWAY . . . Mrs. Grace Albanese, Italian-America- n wife of a Bronx, N. Y., grocer, as she arrived aboard the army-operate- d American liner Marine Perch a stowaway. Mrs. Albanese sailed to Italy last November to visit her failing mother and her married son, Tony, a sailor, who won a Silver Star in action. Strand-ed after four months, she walked aboard the Marine Perch in Genoa. The adventurous grandmother arrived wearing a navy jacket, on which she sewed her navy son's service insignia. SMALLEST CAMERA . . . Built and designed for use by OSS agents and underground forces during World War II, this tiny "M.B." camera, no larger than its namesake, a matchbox la now on the market. LITTLE PIG WENT TO ... a restaurant not to market. But he had nothing on the little piggy 1M to market. "Oscar" wandered into a restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. No one knew where efrom, but chef Frank Tornabcne, holding a meat cleaver behind his back, seems to know where r. And just when pork prices are going up, too. U. N. RULE FOR JAPAN . . . Turn the problem of occupation of Japan over to the United Nations Is the advice that Gen. Douglas MacArthur recently gave the world. He Is shown with Ambassador Paul V. McNutt, who visited Tokyo recently. ... ... ... DEFENDS JAPS . . . Miss Elea-nor C. Goode, New York City, the first woman to appear before the 8th army tribunal as defense coun-sel for an accused Jap war crim-inal, is shown in court. Her client is charged with brutal treatment of Canadians. ' ' fS RED CROSS IN FINLAND . . . The Timonen family, shown above, formerly of Suojarui, India, is among 450,000 Finnish evacuees from the Baltic province which now forms part of Russia. The American Red Cross, whose relief program to Finland has counted heavily dur-ing the cold winter months of the past two years in alleviating the needs of the nation, is taking care of families like the Timonens with warm clothing, such as the boy's pajamas his first. HOMi MAKERS . . . Mrs. Fred Dittman, Hlghmore, left, I . Kohfeld, Warner, who have been selected by South college for the award of "Eminent Homemakcr 1917." is the mother of 12 children, all of whom are making for themselves. Emil, the oldest, is a chemist on the IW pr, j. , . Since her husband's death, Mrs. Dittman moved but manages to operate one of the largest home state i addition to active work in church, garden and organizations, Mrs. Rehfeld's husband died in 1936. farm 1;ls under heavy mortgage, she managed to pay educate and raise six children. ijpllBBWtofc. .... MARGARET'S DEBUT . . . Mar-- , garet Truman singing in her radio debut with the Detroit Symphony orchestra. Critics, generally, said that the President's daughter showed promise of developing into singer after further ex-perience. an opera mv.v ''.'.'v.- - NEW GOVERNOR . . . Oscar Rcnnebohm as he was sworn in as governor of Wisconsin. The new executive, former lieutenant gov-- ernor, replaces Walter Goodlund, who died at the age of 85. Rcnne-- bohm says he will follow the poli--! cies of Goodland. Qfoff jfjPpPjBwB"! ' yjp fill WIN THEIR OSCARS . . Photo shows the big four winners in the 19th annual academy award program at Los Angeles. Left to right: Ann Baxter, winner of award for best supporting actress of the year; Sam Goldwyn, winner of the Irving Thalberg award for outstanding picture of the year, "The Best Years of Our Lives"; Olivia dc Havil-lan-winner of the Oscar for the best actress of the year, and Harold Russell, handless veteran in "The Best Years of Our Lives," won the award for the best supporting actor and a special Oscar. CONGRATULATIONS . . . Ken-- neth Spencer, 6, offers his con--! gratnlations to "Blackout of Toka--I den," winner In male collie class at Valley View Park Country club, Sherman Oaks, Calif. 'TENTED . . . After 54 years in P"""0 np time vice president of the United States, now n Wa" n a ravorite dgar' thP P'C,U,V, . closed I'ftZ? Uvalde. Tex., ranch. With "gj Xan mav b seen every afternoon feed.ng h and and glad that turkeys, at peace with the world to help solve the world problems. MILITARY GOVERNOR . . Gen. Lncius D. Clay, who has just been appointed military governor of the U S zone in Germany, relieving Gen.' Joseph T. McNarnej j Go command CS1!. eral Clay will |