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Show By INEZ GERHARD pLORENCE FREEMAN has been playing prominent parts in radio dramas since her debut in 1335. Currently Cur-rently she is helping to celebrate the first anniversary of "Wendy Warren and the News," in which of course, she is "Wendy," "A Woman of America," "Valiant Lady," "Aunt Jenny," "Young Widder Brown" that's a partial list of her assign-ments. assign-ments. She is a college graduate taught for a year before deciding to be an actress. In real life she is a clergyman's wife, has two daughters, daugh-ters, 7 and 9, and lives in New Jersey In a lovely old house which has just been remodelled with the active participation of the entire family. In the film based on the radio sketch, "Sorry, Wrong Number," Barbara Stanwyck is heiress to a drug fortune, so Edith Head tried BARBARA STANWYCK to imagine what the richest girl in the world would wear for a wedding dress, and Barbara wears it Since Rudd Weatherwax, owner-trainer owner-trainer of Lassie, announced during rehearsal of the "Lassie" show that she had had seven pups, he has been snowed under by reque'sts for a puppy. One already has been given to Claude Jarman, the youngster who is co-starred with Lassie in the M-G-M film, "Sun in the Morning." Morn-ing." Nobody can say that Ray Mil-land Mil-land won't put his shoulder to the wheel when he's asked to. During a week's visit hi New York he appeared ap-peared on five radio shows to help advertise and exploit his new picture, "So Evil My Love." One of the best of "The Big Story" broadcasts was the recent one based on material supplied by Bill Pinney of Pensacola, Fla., Journal. It dramatized drama-tized the police reporter's trapping of the perpetrator of a crime that endangered the lives of 250 innocent inno-cent persons. Pinney received a $500 award from the program's sponsor. Carmen Cavalerro has hit on something new for his Tuesday NBC broadcasts. A psychiatrist has been engaged to make sure the musical programs are relaxing, as the sponsor spon-sor ordered. A week beforehand, each program is tried out on three different groups at a veterans' hospital. hos-pital. Sounds like a bid for publicity, pub-licity, but Carmen and the doctor say It's true. Four members of Hollywood's most exclusive club, the John Ford Honorary Stock company, appear in Ford's "Fort Apache." To be eligible, aetors must have been In pictures at least 20 years. The roster Includes Maurice Cos-tell Cos-tell o, noot Gibson, Frank Mayo and J. Farrell MacDonald, who were stars when Clark Gable was felling trees and Dot Lamour was an elevator girl. Peggy Ann Garner, made famous by "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," is now 17 and gets her first grownup grown-up role in Eagle Lion's "The Big Cat." Columbia will film the highlights In the career of columnist-commentator Drew Pearson in a semi-documentary flm tentatively titled "The Washington Story." He will narrate and appear in important sequences. Odds and Ends . . . Warner Baxter kisses his 100th leading lady in Columbia's Co-lumbia's "Gentleman from Nowhere and his leading lady. Fay Baker, gets kissed by her first film leading man . . . Hollywood reports that Blng Crosby has been advised to lay off television for at least one more year . . . "Leonard SHIman New Faces," on NBC Thursday evenings, eve-nings, is a good show-and, as an added attraction, has no master or ceremonies. Mary Rolfe, Henry's sister on The Aldrich .Family." ii very happy. Her husband. Lyle Bettge . is home after four months in Chi cago in "John Loves Mary and a Cape Cod vacation Is scheduled for the summer. Elliott Lewis has been deluged with "gag gifts" since he did the feature narration of the voire of the horse in "The Winner . .Circle One wag even sent him a bag of oat collect. |