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Show By INEZ GERHARD J-VA GABOR is beautiful, charm- ing, wealthy end works as hard as any ambitious extra girl, maybe even harder. More than anything else, she wants to be a good actress. Typed at first as a Hungarian countess coun-tess in pictures, because she was Hungarian and just learning English, she phys a countess again in "Abigail, "Abi-gail, Dear Heart" at Paramount, although al-though she speaks perfect English now. She has been studying drama and dancing and working in little theaters. "I've taken every part I was offered," she says. Vacationing in New York, she saw plays, read plays for directors, concentrated on the goal she is sure to attain being a really good actress. When Humphrey Bogart was training train-ing with paratroopers in the Coloradc desert for "Sahara" he encountered John Derek. Now Derek, with nc previous film experience, is to be HUMPHREY BOGART seen in Columbia's "Knock on Any Door," in an important role as a sullen young killer. Bogart has the star role of the lawyer who defends him. The "Theatre Guild on the Air" has not attained its reputation as one of our very best radio shows by accident. Homer Flckett, director, di-rector, rehearses the cast of each broadcast as carefully as if for a Broadway production. In fact, it's said to be the most rehearsed program on the air. Top stars of stage and screen, carefully selected select-ed plays and able direction make the broadcasts outstanding. And it adds no little to even the best actors' prestige to appear on the show. With Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada contemplating or implementing implement-ing laws which would tax movie locations. lo-cations. Gene Autry has purchased a California ghost town which will be used for his Columbia productions and leased to other companies. Eleanor Parker's "motherhood gift" from her husband was a pair of jeweled clips combining diamonds, emeralds and rubies; each clip is in the form of a turtle dove, commemorating com-memorating her latest screen drama, "The Voice of the Turtle." Gene Kelly will do two of his song and dance numbers from "Pal Joey," the stace musical that made him famous, in "Words and Music," picture based on the lives of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, who wrote "Pal Joey." A special network is being established estab-lished in Philadelphia by Mutual for its coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions in June and July. Forty-five commentators and newscasters will broadcast from convention con-vention hall during these weeks, and the entire city will be linked to Mutual's special master control unit for complete coverage. In his first screen role, Larry Parks got second billing to a camel. It was in a Biblical short. "I didn't mind getting only $3 a day." said he, between scenes for "The Gallant Gal-lant Blade," "until I found the came) got $50." Odds and Ends . . . willard Wa-tcrhan Wa-tcrhan of "The Guiding Light" achieved a golfer's dream by mak-m? mak-m? a hole in one now wonders what is left for him to conquer . . . Sydney Grcenstrcet says actors are more temperamental and more inclined in-clined to scene stealing than actresses; ac-tresses; he should know, as he has w-en an actor for nearly 50 years As a teen-ager, Una Merkcl took elocution lessons in Cincinnati Cincin-nati from a teacher named Pasha Reaum-better known today as tho mother of Tyrone Power . . . Johnny John-ny Mercer of the CBS Dinah Shore-"arry Shore-"arry Jamc show has written hundreds of lyrics ,d soncs Dut can t read a note of music. One momcnt we hear that notQdv wants to see war pictures any more. toe next moment a new one is World uar I, will d Sci-dron." VVor,d War II eqdva Do?cLE7f0"s diamond bro Ben?" rUr Wears in "Lulu diamond Jim" Brady It nn .. by Johnny Elwood. |