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Show STAGE SCREEN RADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE JAMES MASON, who recent ly won a national poll as "England's most popular mO' tion picture actor" for tht second time, is likely to cnalk up similar honors for himsell in America. You'll see him in "The Man in Gray," released bj Universal Pictures and probablj In American-made pictures as well due to that tieuD between Univer v JAMES MASON sal and J. Arthur Rank of England, Eng-land, Leo Spit? and William Goetz. Mason's known as "The English Humphrey Bogart," which gives : you an idea of the kind of roles he plays; he's murdered many young ladies on the screen, In variety of ways, but says that the way he extinguishes Margaret Lockwood in "The Man in Gray" is the worst of all. "Two Hours of Stars" (stars from stage, screen and radio) will be broadcast on the afternoon of j Christmas Day over the full Colum bla network. The list includes Bob Hope, Vera Vague, Ginny Simms, Jack Benny, Artur Rubenstein. Alan ("Falstaff") Reed, and many others, with Don Ameche as master mas-ter of ceremonies. There may be a comedy skit done by famous stooges Vera Vague, Jerry Colon-na, Colon-na, Reed and Rochester, among others; oth-ers; people so clever they're stooges no longer. It seems as If everybody's sing-Ing sing-Ing in "The Bells of St. Mary's." The famed bays' choir, St. Luke's Dhoristers of Long Beach, will sing. Bins; Crosby, naturally, will sing-five sing-five numbers, Including "Adeste I I lolls." And Ingrld Bergman will lift her voice in song for the first time sn the screen; she'll do a Swedish folk song. The picture's a Christmastime Christmas-time release. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Ba-call, Ba-call, who like to wear matching gray flannel slacks and red flannel shirts, ilso each wear a tiny gold whistle hers on a bracelet, his on his watch chain. They said they'd never take them off for any reason. But it wasn't long before she went into 'Confidential Agent," and had to take off her bracelet for romantic oloseups with Charles Boyerl Nice goings-on Ginny Simms, who raises prize pigs on her ranch, traded a young porker to Dorothy Lamour, in exchange for a turkey from Dorothy's prize stock. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, Ginny's going to have a JO-foot circular staircase constructed entirely of lucite in that new home she's building; It'll rtee from the center of a 30 by 40 foot hall. It takes conductor Nat Novick nd pianist Tom Howard Jr. more than four hours to arrange and or-ohestrate or-ohestrate that weird music you hear n "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; nothing noth-ing Is left to chance, every discordant discord-ant effect Is carefully prepared. Charles Boyer says his imitators are all wrong when they present lim as saying to Hedy Lamarr, 'Come wiz me into ze Casbaa-aah," presumably in Hedy's screen debut In this country. Matter of fact, in !he picture he didn't ask her to go anywhere with him. Marlin Hurt, star of the Sunday 2BS "Beulah" program, would lave gone right on tripling for him-telf him-telf if he hadn't been talked into ac-.-epting credit on the air. It was Producer Helen Mack who talked Urn into acknowledging that he's Beulah." himself and "BUI." Director Frank Borzage ordered Maureen O'Hara to hit Binnle Barnes hard, really hard, for a icene in "The Spanish Main." Maur-en Maur-en did, again and again 11 times, rhe last time Blnnie, stunned, anded In a blazing fireplace; that's he shot you'll see. ODDS AND F.N Db - Margaret JBHen't pretty pleated about being huten ) ' Mexico's float in Puo-lena't Puo-lena't Tournament oj Rotes. . . . Tkote ush pre-war days have definitely re-umed re-umed to RaHyttood; Mth Century-Fog nil spend $100,000 on netting, for 'Anna and the King of Stan. . . . limn Laddtt aquahble with Paramount nought him a roue -$7SX)0 a picture or taven yeart, with the price going up Iter three years . . . John J. Anthony's i in liS of liotenan will incroaee in mmbor, now that his program goes out ivor the fuM Mutual network. . . . AUn Wowbray wrote a story, sold it to Mono-jam, Mono-jam, and will star in it. |