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Show By INEZ GERHARD PVEN after appearing in more than 25 pictures John Beal was still hoping for a big break, the one role that would take him straight to the top. It was given to him by Stanley Kramer, the star maker; Kramer called him, in New York, to ask if he'd like to play the prison psychologist in "My Six Convicts", at Columbia. Beal says he reacted very calmly except that he still has a lump on his head from hitting the ceiling of his hotel room. Between Be-tween films he has done radio, television, and appeared on the New York stage; two plays he starred in were bought tor the movies, but someone else was gjv-en gjv-en the roles he created. Just how valuable are movie stars In radio? "Pulse of New York", a top research organization, has reported re-ported the result of its survey. The week all those M-G-M programs lea-turing lea-turing such stars as Bette Davis. Ann Sothern, Lionel Barrymore and t - i ( sr i) BETTE DAVIS Lew Ayres started on the Mutual network, listening audiences increased in-creased an overall total of 17 over the previous week. The University of Michigan's Men's Glee Dub makes its screen debut in the RKO Pathe Special, "Songs of the Campus". Fourteen of the nation's top colleges are represented rep-resented in this compilation of popular popu-lar college songs. |