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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. , By INEZ GERHARD YVONNE DE CARLO says she'fell literally as well as figuratively for her fiance, handsome Howard Duff, who is "Sam Spade" on CBS Sunday Sun-day evenings. It happened durnig the filming of their first , scene together in his first picture, "Brute Force." Director Jules Das-sin Das-sin told them to rush together in a passionate embrace, but something went wrong; Yvonne's chin crashed against Howard's forehead, she saw stars, and would have fallen flat if - ; 1 - i' YVONNE DE CARLO he hadn't held her. Incidentally, Yvonne and Howard play man and fe1 wife in "Brute Force" roles they'll soon be playing In real life. And when they kiss each other now their timing is perfect! I Believe it . or not, Bob Ripley draws upside down! Maybe that's why, when he worked as a cartoonist cartoon-ist for $8 a week, he was fired for asking a $2.50 raise. He's unbelievable unbeliev-able himself has five cars but can't drive one, has never played , cards or smoked; was the first to broadcast ship to shore, to send a cartoon by radio, and first to broadcast broad-cast simultaneously around the world. "Nobody but Jolson can follow Bing." That's what they've been saying in radio circles since "The Jolson Story" started Al on the most spectacular come-back in the history of the entertainment business. busi-ness. Jolson is saying it, too, now, since he has signed to take over the Music Hall spot that Crosby made so popular. He starts October 2. With a swarm of sponsors after him, he offered himself for the spot, because he likes its air time. Meanwhile Mean-while the movie companies are hot on his trail. When Joan Lorring gave Douglas Fairbanks Sr., her letter of introduction intro-duction she had high hopes. He wasn't interested till he heard her telling dialect stories then he .signed her up, but died before he could do anything for her. She did a lot of radio, signed with Metro, was ignored, returned to radio-finally radio-finally got a break, after many disappointments, dis-appointments, in "The Corn Is Green." Radio is certainly a springboard for aspiring actors. The daytime serial, "Big Sister," has had as bit-part bit-part players in the last ten years Orson Welles, Garson Kanin, Agnes Moorhead, Diana Barrymore, Han-ley Han-ley Stafford and Alexander Kirk-land. Kirk-land. 4 Don McLaughlin, who is the star of "David Harding, Counterspy." is a crusader at heart. He likes nothing noth-ing better than exposing people like the housing racketeers who victimized victim-ized veterans. He gets steamed up, phones Phillips Lord, who writes the "Counterspy" scripts, and an effective broadcast is the result. For the first time in several years Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 will tie broadcast in its entirety August 5, over ABC, from the Berkshire Music festival held in the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts. Dr. Serge Koussevitsky will conduct the Boston Symphony orchestra consisting consist-ing of 100 pieces. For the sake of realism, the first scenes of "Green Grass of Wyoming," Wyo-ming," 20th Century-Fox, were shot in Ohio, to portray the harness races. Then Utah had its turn, because be-cause the author's "My Friend v Flicka" and "Thunderhead" were made there. For three months a jinx has pursued pur-sued Alexis Smith. She broke her foot, her best furs were stolen, she was thrown by a horse. To top everything, she was knocked down by a run-away wheel chair while working in Warner Bros.' "Whiplash"! "Whip-lash"! ODDS AND ENDS Bob Stanton, singer on NBC's "Village Store," who now has his own program, is Dick Haymes7 kid brother Ann Sheridan and Zachary Scott, co-starring in Warners' "The Unfaithful," were born on the same date, Feb. 21, in neighbor ing towns in Texas. . . . Paulena Car ter, young pianist on the Meredith t Willson "Showroom!' makes her bou in pictures soon as the lead in "Counterpart." "Coun-terpart." . . . Economy notethe 50C strawberry jam sandwiches you'll set the extras "eating" in "Two Guys from Texas" were really thin blocks ol wood, with a red stripe painted around the edge oi each. |