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Show I Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE ROSALIND RUSSELL certainly cer-tainly avoids monotonv! In Columbia's "The Guilt 'of Janet Ames" she wears one costume consisting of 3 3A pounds of diamonds and about 2V2 pounds of tulle, net and sequins. The diamonds are set in a huge necklace, earrings and a series se-ries of bracelets. Quite a change from her "Sister Kenny" costumes, and from those she'll wear in RKO'g i ... ' h i r 'h 1 t : ' 1 V ROSALIND RUSSELL version of the O'Neill play, "Mourning "Mourn-ing Becomes Electra"; she spent a couple, of weeks at Palm Springs resting up preparatory to working in that one, set to go before the cameras just about now. m Danny Kaye's 1947 picture is all set; called, at present, "That's Life," it revolves around the central character of a professor of serious music who becomes involved In an academic analysis of jazz. We hear it'll be Kaye's most elaborate musical musi-cal so far. Pat Buttram, comedian of the Saturday Sat-urday Night Roundup, wanted some patchwork quilts for his home, but the prices asked in antique shops appalled ap-palled him. So he wrote to friends in Alabama who used to make quilts by the dozen, found he could buy them for $3.50 and got started ordering or-dering quilts and couldn't stop. So now the situation's reversed he's looking for customers for patchwork quilts. m Ezio Pinza, Metropolitan Opera star who has added greatly to his popularity by doing guest shots on the. radio, has signed with United Artists for three years. You'U see him In "Carnegie Hall" before long; after that, in "Babes hi Toyland." Rise Stevens, star of the Sunday "Family Hour," tells this one on herself. One season when she was leaving Prague for an opera tour of Europe, Walter Surovy, whom she'd met there, said "Write to me when you have a chance. I'm collecting stamps." Not a line did he get from her, not a stamp. But he must have learned a more romantic approach somewhere she finally married him! Jim Backus, best known for his "Hubert Updike III" role on the Alan Young show, plans a club called "Millionaires Anonymous"; says it'll be made up of busy radio stooges whose names don't mean much to the public, but whose weekly week-ly incomes pass the four-figure mark. Take Jim's case; besides his Friday night stint with Alan, he's frequently heard with Fibber McGee and Molly, Bob Burns, Jack Carson and Jack Benny. Five-year-old Marcia Anne Northrop North-rop appears in Samnel Goldwyn's "The Bishop's Wife." Her mother, a Goldwyn Girl, appeared with Eddie Ed-die Cantor in "Palmy Days" way back in 1931. So Marcia Anne has been enrolled as a Goldwyn Girl, class of 1960. Three years ago Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy broadcast from Mexico City, the first time a major commercial program had originated outside the U. S. Now, on March 16th, they'll do it again. The entire troupe, including Ray Noble's No-ble's band and singer Anita Gordon, will be on hand for the broadcast. Professor Quiz (heard now on Saturday evenings) tells the inside story of how he got his first sponsor. Ten years ago the network was try-ing try-ing to sell an elaborate, costly program; pro-gram; since it's good policy to offer an alternate program with the one they're trying to sell, it was decided decid-ed to offer Professor Quiz as the sacrificial goat. So the sponsor heard both programs, chose the Professor. Pro-fessor. I ODDS AND ENDS Harry Jamei ' appears in one of the top sequences ol I "A Miracle Can Happen" with jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda. . . .. the I "Lower Basin Street" series, which was Dinah Shore's springboard to fame, and which a lot of us miss, may return to the air. . . . Major night-time radio shows are seldom carried by more than 180 stations on a "full network," net-work," but the ABC "hum 'n' Abner" series is heard over 265 outlets. . . Although Bing Crosby and the Andrew An-drew Sisters hat e been making recordings record-ings together for five years, they will appear together in a motion picture j lor the first time in "Road to Rio." |