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Show I Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE WHAT started as a radio ra-dio audition script for Groucho Marx a few years I ago is now a successful radio I show, and will soon be adapt- ed for the stage, screen, tele-1 j visionandacomicstrip. Irving Brecher, producer of NBC's "The Life of Riley," put it Into his trunk after Marx used it I ! in try-outs. It stayed there till Brech-j Brech-j er heard that William Bendix was being considered for a radio series; : : then it became "The Life of Riley," i I developing into one of the top comedy com-edy shows on the air. Ruth Warrick's performance in Columbia's "Perilous Holiday" puts! ' her high on the list of actresses who ! 1 are getting somewhere. It's her RUTH WARRICK first picture break since "Knute i Rockne." Pat O'Brien starred in that j j one, took an Interest in Ruth's work and saw to it that Columbia did too. , Following an old European cus-1 cus-1 torn, a tiny pig was given Mrs. I Paul Henreid on New Year's Eve. The Henrieds meant to dispose of It, but their small daughters took things in charge. The pig, Fifl, now lives in a basket in their nursery, and is fed from a bottle. Henried says that when Fifl grows out of her basket she must go. The children chil-dren are ominously silent about that. Dorothy O'Hara designed a lovely love-ly evening gown for Diana Lynn to wear In "Easy Come, Easy Go," but Director John Farrow said the girl Diana played couldn't afford such clothes. So Diana bought it; it's the one she wore to that ball at the White House. When you see Vivian Leigh and Claude Rains In Bernard Shaw'i "Caesar and Cleopatra" you'll see the most expensive picture ever made. Not just because it was a ; six million dollar investment; al- j most unsurmountahle difficulties ' were overcome. Buzz-bomhings, la- I bor shortages, rationing of mate-! rials Gabriel Pascal had to face all of them In making the picture, j Months were spent on research; even the constellations are replicas of those that shone in October, 48 B. C. Costumes and sets are authentic au-thentic in every detail. Even the Sphinx had to be reproduced; the! original was too worn. Janet Blair, Carole Landis, Durante, Dur-ante, Hildegarde and other celebrities celebri-ties each contributed a chapter to Abner Silver's book, "All Women Are Wolves." It'll be filmed, probably prob-ably by 20th Century Fox, who've offered $200,000 for the icreen rights. Robert E. Donahue Sr., RKO Patfae News cameraman and veteran veter-an of 30 years of news coverage, it the first newsreel cameraman to leave on assignment to cover the atomic bomb tests. He expects to spend five months in the Pacific, on "Operation Crossroads." Gene Autry will have to find a new leading lady June Storey says she's given up being a horse-opera horse-opera ingenue. When Gene went Into the army, Jane quit, after making mak-ing 12 pictures with him, and made j a radio career for herself. Then she was given an interesting character j role in "The Strange Woman," with Hedy Lamarr, and she'll take only j j good, meaty roles from now on. Walter Greaza, who's "Inspector Ross" of "Crime Doctor," had to shave off his mustache when he made a commercial movie. Some of the members of the CBS radio show have worked with him every Sunday for the past six and one- half years but nobody noticed the ; change in his appearance! ODDS AND ENDS-Karen Hale, ttaughter o veteran acfw Alan Hale, mukes her screen debut in Warner uros. "Cinderella Jones." . . . Busby Berkeley says that of the 1,500 beautiful girls he's brought to the. screen in the last 15 years, 1,4" hat deserted films for marriage, motherhood and house-mjery. house-mjery. . . , , Mrlpy of ..WfW . l ife got into radio by a fluke he walked into an advertising agency to ask lor a job and was given an audition. . . When John I'ettersson auditioned I ,or the F" Waring Glee club he urn j very nervous; Fred suggested a game ; of table tennis, interviewed him while they played, signed him up. |