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Show BY INEZ GERHARD T ARRY PARKS, who just finished "Jolson Sings Again" at Columbia, Colum-bia, shares a fondness for old songs with his wife, Betty Garrett. They have one of the largest collections col-lections of player piano rolls in America, also a foot-operated pianola. pi-anola. So a party at the Parks' means that everybody makes a beeline for the rumpus room; with LARRY PARKS cider and pretzels for refreshment, and Larry pumping the pedals, they lift their voices in old favorites favo-rites like "Sheik of Araby," "Whispering" "Whis-pering" and "Moonlight Bay." Incidentally, In-cidentally, "Jolson Sings Again" is repo'ed to be even better than the film that made Parks famous. Radio's Galen Drake has finally given in to the demands of his listening audience; for the first - time in his career, he has given a magazine permission to use his picture, (full color, at that!) with an exclusive story. His multitude of fans will be happy to learn that "This Is Galen Drake" will appear ap-pear in the September issue of Radio Mirror Magazine. For the first time in his life Danny Kaye is thinking of taking a nice, long rest. In "The Inspector Inspec-tor General," at Warners', he wrestled with professionals, had several sword fights and performed assorted acrobatics. Columnists are always reporting that Howard ("Sam Spade") Duff is engaged to somebody. The weirdest "engagement" was to a stage actress, Eloise Jansen Duff didn't know her, finally found the columnist had invented her. Betty Hutton was just recovering recover-ing from one injury she broke a finger while rehersing a dance routine with Fred Astaire for "Let's Dance'' when she broke a toe while playing on the beach at Mali-bu Mali-bu with her daughters. |