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Show By INEZ GERHARD -ITIRGINIA MAYO, on location at V Lone Pine, Calif., for "The Travelers," suggested a picnic when some friends from Hollywood came to visit. The party, which included her husband, Michael O'Shea, drove as far as possible into the High Sierra country, then walked for several miles. Starving hungry, they settled down for lunch But nobody had brought the bun? to go with the hot dogs, they couldn't find any wood that would burn, and a swarm of gnats moved in. They returned to Lone Pine ano a restaurant. Ronald Regan, who broke his lep in a charity baseball game las year, figures that it cost him $100, 000 on salaries he didn't earn while waiting for it to heal, But comf spring he figures he'll be playing baseball again. Kathi Norrls, fast-rising NBC television star, was bowled over when her husband, producer Wil bur Stark, showed her an eight foot shopping bag a fan had sent her. She couldn't think what to do with it. Daughter Pamela, aged live, solved the problem. The shopping shop-ping bag, turned upside down, became be-came a wigwam. Then Kathi had to dash out and buy her an Indian suit! The 10th annual Dr. Christian script writing contest, which began be-gan January 3, winds up February 28. Fifty-two prizes are awarded professional and non-professional writers. Top prize is $2,000, others scale down to the lowest, $250. J. Arthur Rank's production of Dlcken's famous "Oliver Twlat" 'will surprise a lot of people who did not realize what a thriller it is. Naturally, the book had to be cut but this was done so skillfully that the story's great appeal was not lessened. Almost all of the dialogue Is just as Dickens wrote it. The cast, headed by Alec Guiness, is excellent; the sets and costumes were designed after painstaking research. re-search. It was directed by David Lean, who did "Great Expectations." Expecta-tions." Eagle Lion is distributing It here. Lucille Ball, star of "My Favorite Husband" radio series, Is now our highest priced movie star. Her latest film, "The Magic Carpet," has a two-week hooting schedule. Paid by the picture, she'll get $85,000. "Kon-Tikl," the book telling of the 4,300-mile sea voyage in a balsam wood raft made by Thor Heyerdahl and five other men, will reach the KKO will release it. Heyerdahl and his companions took a IS mm camera cam-era with them, and the film has been processed into professional reels, bringing us one of the great adventure stories of our times. Actors who want to travel should sign with the two Bills Pine and Thomas. All their 1951 pictures will be made on location. "Cross-winds," "Cross-winds," with John Payne and Rhonda Fleming, is set in Florida. "Hong Kong" will be made in China. "The Rebel" will take a troupe to four mid-western states. "High Tension" is a railroad story; that company will ride about 10,000 miles on railroads. James Mason and Pamela Kel-lino, Kel-lino, who co-authored and co-produced a film in England called "I Met a Murderer," named their company Portland Productions for their daughter Portland, named for Portland Hoffa Allen, Fred's wife. Helen Hayes, whose last picture pic-ture was made In 1932, will return re-turn to the screen as the star of "My Son John," for Paramount. Para-mount. Though she won an academy award for "The Sin of Madelon Claudet," she has always preferred the stage. Betty Lou Delmont got paid to run her hands through Gary Cooper's Coop-er's hair, day after day. A hairdresser hair-dresser at Warner Bros.', it was her assignment to keep his locks properly disheveled nrhile the lanky star was making "Dallas." Meredith Wilson's "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You," heard always at the end of the terrific NBC show headed by Tallulah Bankhead, each Sunday, will end the shows done by Jimmy Starr and company in Europe for G.Is. ODDS AND ENDS . .'. Jans Russell's 22-year-old brother, Jaime, t will make his film debut in the Hal Wallis film, "That's My Boy," k which stars Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin . . . "Francis." the talking mule, is insured for $250,000 . . . Johnny Welssmuller, who stars in J two "Jungle Jim" features each year for Columbia, will report in i April for the next one. "Jungle e Jim and the Giant Killer" . . . I George Montgomery will scout lo- cations in Montana for "Cowpoke," starring himseli. i |