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Show By INEZ GERHARD txrlTH the "Stop the Music" ! growing and growing growing, Bert Parks has bel one of the most sought-after! In the country. Everybody I says, wants to know the na'r the Mystery Melody, people! him in the street to ask what neighbors call him at homel BERT PARKS friends beg for "just a little ! Between shows he tries to I there is such a tune; he talks about it at home, never tions it to his wife. Since the gram was launched he has i along hundreds of thousands of prizes and then gone ha home to his wife, his twin aged three, and his unlisted phone. Hollywood civic groups gone into a huddle, without fare, to form a committee will pick writers, a producer story properties for a radio gram slanted to do a good p relations job for the film c A rumor has been going a: that the sponsor of "Curt M; Time" was auditioning a shot! replace it. Whereas their s ratings top anything else the n sor has ever had on the air injl daytime spot, and Curt and Mil Tilton are set through April.! Curt is getting chuckles out 9 fan letter saying "You sing I i think I sing in the bathtub!" Last July the censors in b Union of South Africa ban e the magnificent "Home of b Brave" on the ground that 1 might disturb the peace". 1 o, the first time the censors J; board of Southern Rhodesia I ; reversed the censors' decisi l but natives and children i '.. be excluded from showings c the picture. United Artists x gaged counsel to appeal Ir Soutb African ban. The second annual "Toys Tots" campaign, to provide Carl mas toys for underprivileged fhf ren, sponsored jointly by Win Bros, and the United States rnr: corps reserve, was offi launched by Virginia Mayoi Col. J. O. Brauer. I Joan Crawford has four lek men in 'The Victim". For u reason or other her kissing t with each one were filmed betk Monday morning and Friday if noon, on location at Palm Sprp And they do say that it warn, hot at the famous resort that air blowers had to be turne every take to lower the terr.j ture enough to make it bear! "Riders in the Sky" filled air waves and Gene Autrey ti it into a Columbia picture, s . body was surprised when the sal thing happened to the ever-prfK, "Mule Train". Sheila Living' who recently completed work ! "The Cowboy and the Indiim with Autrey, plays the femtaf lead; John Miljan and Robertp ingston have leading roles. . Groucho Marx, of the CBS "You Bet Your Life", says tt Marx brothers used to trawj with their mother for oaB fare. Everything went well IB a conductor found Harpo shr ing and Groucho smoking c,r- f Vincent Sherman, never wiftJ( a cigar In his mouth when I directing Hollywood movies, jJ to revise his working habits 1 filming "The Hasty HeartJ London. Nobody can smok British sound stages-not ever boss. I John Payne will go on am making Pine-Thomas pictures, dently. After a sneak previe f 'The Eagle and the Hawk" j and Thomas signed him for more films, to be made durtai next three years. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Tbe who has been dressing Bar Stanwyck's hair for some 20 3 is now wearing a mink coa , present from Barbara Godfrey first used his "l"d ) commercial" style when be r, handed a copy describing ' l lingerie . . . Loretta Young f , to be the favorite guest star or "Lux Radio Theatre"; w'10 y J pearances she's one ahead of -Ameche and Fred MacMurray Arlene McQuade. "Rosalie, knitting Xmas presents. f |
