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Show STAGEN RADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union, IJy VIRGINIA VALE SIX top cinema stars will shine on the Hollywood Players programs, beginning September 3 Tuesdays at 9:30 p. m., EDST, and continuing con-tinuing for 38 Tuesdays thereafter. there-after. They are Claudette Colbert, Col-bert, who'll launch the series, Bette Davis, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, John Garfield and Gregory Greg-ory Peck radio's greatest list of stars a9 program regulars. Each will be heard several times during CLAUDETTE COLBERT the 39 weeks; they'll select their own vehicles, choosing hit movies, stage successes, best-seller novels and short stories in which they've appeared or wanted to appear. They'll be given the greatest possible pos-sible leeway In selecting their material. ma-terial. What a set-upl With practically all movie stars yearning to try their luck on the stage, via summer theaters, Jeff Donnell received a bid that others longed for. The highly successful Playhouse at Ogunquit, Me., asked her to guest-star in a play of her own choosing, with her husband, Dialogue-Director Bill Anderson, ' directing It. And she had to turn It down because she's playing the second feminine lead In Columbia's : "Mr. District Attorney," now shoot-: shoot-: ing. She's asked for a rain check for next year. Stuart Erwin (star of the CBS "Phone Again Finnegan") and his wife, June Collyer, recently celebrated cele-brated their 16th wedding anniversary anniver-sary by entertaining Allan Jones and Irene Hervey, whose 10th anniversary an-niversary came that same week. The scenic Roosevelt highway along California's Malibu coast, near Los Angeles, is the setting j for mufti of the action of RKO's forthcoming "Step by Step." Anne I Jeffreys and Lawrence Tierney have the top roles. James Melton will replace Raymond Ray-mond Massey beginning October 6 as star and master of ceremonies cere-monies of the "Harvest of Stars." The program's format will change with more emphasis placed on music than formerly, though a dramatic story of American contemporary con-temporary life or a historical highlight high-light will be included in each broadcast. broad-cast. Melton's contract is for five years. It sounds wonderful Bob Hope replacing Clayton Collyer as radio's ra-dio's "Superman," with Paulette ! Goddard supporting him as "Lois j Lane," the girl reporter. But the general public won't hear it. It's a burlesque program recorded for "Command Performance"; the show will be used for transmission to our armed forces overseas and for veterans in hospitals. Barbara Hale and Bill Williams, RKO contract players who did so well they were elevated to stardom, star-dom, are back in Hollywood after a cross-country honeymoon during which they travelled 7,400 miles 6,000 by automobile, the rest by air. Harry Carey Jr., son of the veteran vet-eran actor, has been assigned a key role in "Pursued," United States Pictures' drama of the early . southwest. It will be filmed in tech- nicolor near Gallup, N. M., with Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson and Robert Mitchum. 1 Though Benny Goodman is ter- ; rifically popular, that new air show ; will be called "The Victor Borge Show, starring Benny Goodman," not the other way around. Well, no Blatter who gets top billing, it's I bound to be a good program. ODDS f.VD ENDS Eleanor Parker did so well as "Mildred" in the re- ; make of "Of Human Bondage' that WarnT Bros, have given her the lead- inn role in "Love and Learn" . . . Irene Dunne's figure hasn't changed more thun hull an inch m all the years she's , been making pictures. . . . Business ' women will hate their inning on the air Labor Day, when one of them will ! be chosen Business Girl "Queen fur a Day." ... IT e've had "Whistling in Brooklyn" "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" Brook-lyn" and "The Kid From Brooklyn" ; ! now Metro's starring Frank Sinatra, kathrm Grayson and Jimmy Durante in "It Happened in Brooklyn" ' |