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Show By INEZ GERHARD I GLORIA SWANSON'S career has VJ been a series of triumphs, won I by plenty of hard work, a remarkable remark-able personality and unusual looks. 1 She began her movie career when i she was H. became a star in silent pictures, tackled the talkies and succeeded when others failed, did , the same with television. One of I GLORIA SWANSON her greatest victories was won when she refused to have her nose made over! When her picture ca- reer petered out in sne De- came a successful business woman wo-man and has made only three films since then; the latest, Paramount's "Sunset Boulevard," is so good that hardened critics have seen it three times. Once again she has proved she is the fabulous Gloria. "The Theatre Guild of the Air" vacations beginning June 4, but will return Sept. 10 on NBC for a 39-week period, again sponsored by U.S. Steel. Starting June 11. the same company will sponsor a 13-week series of broadcasts by the NBC symphony orchestra, as it did last year. Famous conductors conduc-tors and distinguished soloists will appear in programs of light classics. clas-sics. Bill Holden says his two young sons suffer from "Hopa-long "Hopa-long Cassidy-itis;" like thousands thou-sands of other youngsters, they never miss their idol's television televi-sion shows. Bill doesn't know it yet, but something new has been added to those Hopalong suits and guns that children now demand; it's "Hopalong Cassidy" wallpaper. Now will the paper hangers be busy all summer! MacDonald Carey, in New York to publicize "The Lawless," set a record when he appeared on 80 television and radio shows during the two weeks, and made 30 other appearances before press, public opinion and exhibitor groups. Five technical advisers were employed for scenes in RKO's "The Secret Fury," starring Clau-dette Clau-dette Colbert and Robert Ryan. They checked on sequences laid in a psychiatrist's office, a mental hosptial, a jail and county offices. Jan Sterling had to cope with rumors that she was engaged to Paul Douglas as soon as she began wearing those rings he gave her three gold bands, each set with a pearl topped by a tiny diamond. They fit over each other. Marlene Dietrich and Richard Rich-ard Todd's longest kiss In the romantic mystery thriller, "Stage Fright," lasts only eight seconds because at present we are not Involved In a war. Seems that experts at Warner Hros. figured out that, unless there's a war going on, film fans soon become bored by Icngthly osculations, so Marlene Mar-lene and Richard were held down. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz may soon be homeless; the star of Co-lumbia's Co-lumbia's "The Fuller Brush Girl" and radio's "My Favorite Husband Hus-band learned that their home is tney don t own oil rights! noris Dalto7irying the new role of ..Vivjan JarroU (new Is Nora Drake" on CBS, has had an impressive stage career. She Plas, played opposite John Bar-rymore Bar-rymore in "My Doar children." B'ng Crosbne.,, use nis 'our sons on broadcasts only about once a year. "From what I hear f-m their mother, that's enough " 0 ;t:Cd' ?iXk tats doom two weeks tn i about two weeks to ,7. 3 w-'ks to cool 'em off after they've done a show." ODDS AND FMw -t" niRnts- SW1 on NBC tlhott Lewis has signed a Harr s to conlmue ofeSy,;a-HHank Hope-bro wood KPWB " 7kCVn Hlly-cooriio Hlly-cooriio n. - - ' Joan Crawford's poodle, ci.quot. won't make his film debut n her "Th r, 1 D"'t Cry" after all h. landed on the am? SCneS 'e cutting room floor. |