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Show BY INEZ GERHARD JAN MINER admits that it is a rather odd distinction she seems to have received more wedding wed-ding cakes than anybody else, although al-though she's not married. She has been wed eight times on the air, and each time fans have sent her wedding cakes. Currently starring as "Beth Lambert," alias "Carol 7 Y , , ?v y t . JAN MINER Brent", In "Road of Life", Jan looks forward to the day when she can retire to her home in New Hampshire. The farm is on a strictly commercial basis, except for a few of her pet animals, one a horse, "Dr. Malone". Rosalind Russell will be lured to the Broadway stage, if playwright George Kelly can do it. He wrote "Craig's Wife", one of her most successful movies and recently out' lined his new play to her on the set of "Tell It to the Judge." Randolph Scott credits the late William S. Hart with launching him on the road to screen success. Hart visited him when the star of Columbia's "The Nevadan" was workng in "Roberta". "Randy," said he, "Why don't you get out of that monkey suit and into a western outfit? There's gold in them thar picture hills." Scott recently re-cently said he'll make nothing but Westerns now. Joe DeBona, winner of the 1949 Bendix air race, has beea signed by producer Lindsley Parsons for a leading role in "Smoke Hunters", the story of parachuting fire-fighters. The V. S. Forestry Service will cooperate co-operate on it. Since a pre-view audience stood up and cheered him at a showing of "The Hasty Heart", young Richard Todd is being hailed around Warners' as the screen's newest star. An Englishman, he was one of the first British para-troop para-troop officers to jump into Normandy Nor-mandy on D-Day. As a boy he was bedridden for three years with rheumatic fever, regained his health by playing football! Unaccustomed as she is to roles in which she doesn't sing, Doris Day has been given a chance to branch out; Jack Warner has assigned as-signed her to a straight dramatic part as Ginger Rogers' married sister in "Storm Center". |