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Show By INEZ GERHARD EVERYBODY but Columbia Pictures Pic-tures has plans for Rita Hay-worth; Hay-worth; her home studio is just waiting wait-ing for her to report for work. With a large part of the American public agog to see her because of her much publicized romance, they could put her into a dramatization of the alphabet and make millions. Virginia Van Upp has completed two stories for Rita, and It is rumored ru-mored that Metro wants to borrow her for "The Merry Widow". What would really make the customers storm the box offices would be a re- m irnri rrin ---nni in t m pi j I ah - V 1 .LJ RITA II AY WORTH make of "The Shlek", co-starring her with Tony Dexter, of "Valentino" "Valen-tino" fame. Or would that come dangerously close to being autobiographical? auto-biographical? Gertrude Astor begins her S7th year in pictures by playing the role of the landlady In "The Dark Page". She says she must have appeared ap-peared in 1400 films, beginning in 1914 when she went to California to work in "Under Two Flags". Jackie Kelk, "Homer" of "The Aldrich Family", has Just received an offer of more than $5,000 for his extensive postage stamp collection; it was made by Louis Ramvuela, who owns cattle ranches in Argentina. Argen-tina. Kelk hates to sell it. Meredith Willson's "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You", written as a theme song for "The Big Show" and introduced six months ago, has been recorded by top artists, become be-come a standard item on programs of Ezio Pinza, Gracie Fields and Jan Peerce, is used for assembly closing in schools, colleges and churches, and is the song most popular with GI's In Korea. Joan Fontaine got very little publicity pub-licity when she curtsied to Madam Peron, did somewhat better when she did Paris with Prince Aly Khan, whose marriage to Rita reaped headlines for her. |