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Show BY INEZ GERHARD NEXT OCTOBER the Lux Theater The-ater of the Air will celebrate its 15th anniversary on the air; the whole studio could be filled with stars who have appeared on the program, with a special section of young actors and actresses who made their dramatic debuts in radio on it. Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Ginger Rogers, Robert Tay- tin i-' , ; &wn,iiiwaifnnAii.,j,i fammmr&ieiM&A GREGORY PECK lor, Barbara Stanwyck, Wanda Hendrix, Ray Milland, Walter Huston Hus-ton and many others have been starred on the theatre. Margaret O'Brien was about the youngest when she made her debut. As she had not yet learned to read, she had to memorize her lines. Next year's line-up of stars will be impressive, im-pressive, as usual. Thousands of feet of on-the-spot action for "The Big Wheel" were obtained at the Indianapolis races last Memorial Mem-orial day. Mickey Rooney, after finishing "Quicksand" goes right Into this auto racing film, with Llna Romay. When James Mason bought the old Buster Keaton home in Beverly Hills he found there was no way to change the light globes beneath , the swimming pool except from underneath. So all through making "The Blank Wall" at Columbia he looked forward to excavating around the pool, with the idea of finding out whether there really was a hidden room somewhere some-where under it. James Melton will take a combined com-bined pleasure and business trip to the Hawaiian Islands while the NBC "Harvest of Stars" show is on an eight-week vacation. He plans to take his family along, and to give four concerts. One of the prettiest items owned by the wardrobe department at Warner Bros, is a rose-point lace bridal veil has a sweep of 10 yards, is valued at $3,000. You'll see Patricia Neal wearing it In "The Fountainhead." |