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Show Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD JOAN DAVIS was the most excited member of the audience at the Laguna beach playhouse on the opening open-ing night of "Junior Miss." ler daughter, Beverly Mills, was appearing with the rest of the CBS :ast of the radio show in the stage lay of the same name. Though JOAN DAVIS loan had taught Beverly the spe-:ial spe-:ial Davis comedy technique, she lad never realized how perfectly 3everly had picked up all mama's "estures and tricks. Said Joan at the end of the first act, "I'll sue thai cid!" Cathy Lewis, who had been ill most of the summer, was ordered Dff at least the first few "My Friend Irma" broadcasts by her doctor, whereupon husband Elliott Lewis pared his air schedule to two shows, "Gregory Hood," on Mutual, and the role of "Frankie Remley" on the Phil Harris show. Joan Banks stepped, in as substitute for Mrs. Lewis opposite Marie Wilson. Those semi-documentaries are growing more and more popular. popu-lar. Eagle-Lion has one coming com-ing up, "He Walked by Night," based on a case in the Los Angeles An-geles police department files, which will star Richard Base-hart Base-hart and Scott Brady. After a cross-country trip, Ted Malone reported that the radic personage the most people asked about was Eloise McElhone, the firebrand of "Meet the Girls." Ee cently, when the show moved tc Hollywood and she stayed back in New York, the public demanded hei return till she gave in. And she was chosen in the first place because be-cause "she looked so sweet!" To the women who ask if that little wasp hates men because she's never had a beau she has plenty! She's pert, pretty, and no man-hatsr. ?cz After completing his first western, west-ern, "Elack Velvet." Howard Du2 hung up his spurs in preparation for his next film, an untitled documentary-type picture about an international in-ternational gang of thievei, his fifth in little more than a yea?. American history will bob up all over the air this season. "Cavalcade "Caval-cade of America" presents it on Mondays on NBC; Sundays, "Carnegie "Car-negie Hall" brings Dr. Frank Black, soloists and commemoration of an historical event, with Gene Hamilton's Hamil-ton's commentary and appropriate music. And there'll always be historical his-torical sketches on other programs, of course. According to the Motion Picture Pic-ture Herald's poll of movie theater the-ater operators, the number one star of tomorrow is Jane Powell Pow-ell of "A Date With Judy" and "Luxury Liner." Cyd Charisse Is second, Ann Blyth third. Robert Rob-ert Ryan, only man in the firs ten, is fifth. Those men who run our theaters really know what they're talking about, too, as polls of the past prove it. After five years as a blonde or the screen, Marilyn Maxwell turned brunette to co-star with George Rail and William Bendix in "Race Street." She says she'll wait to sec what the fans think before deciding to turn back. Listening to an announcer's de scription of the California climate on the 1928 Rose Bowl game broad cast, Ken Carpenter decided tc move to California. He'd been ir advertising. There were no open ings in that field so he became s radio announcer. His first full-net work job was another Rose B?w: g;r.e. in 1934. In 1935 the Bn Crosby program made him ar actor. ODDS AND ENDS The bustlt worn by Alexis Smith in "Montana' at Warners,' is made of plastic ana was invented by Milo Anderson, designer de-signer of film fashions. . . . Alan Young, set for the Jimmy Durantt show, expects to open on his own comedy air show in January. . . . Joseph Coilen wanted to be a circu. clown; now collects books, pictures, costumes, information about clowns. . . . Hugh Herbert "A Song 11 Born") started his professional career ca-reer speaking all the lines of the male players in silent films. . . . Singer Hem Woods has a new hobby between radio rehearsals she knits arevle socki |