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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union, j By VIKGIMA VALE ' THOUGH June Lockhart, j daughter of the well-!' known Gene, is only 21, she's j already had quite a career, j She made her debut at the ( MetroDolitan Opera House when she was eight; since then she's been appear-1 ing in pictures oft and on, when ! It didn't interfere with her school work. "All This and Heaven Too." i "Sergeant York," In which she played Gary Cooper's young sister, and others were sandwiched in be-' tween being cheer leader at school ; JUNE LOCKHART and becoming the best diver on the swimming team. "The Yearling" i and Eagle-Lion's "It's a Joke, Son," i with Kenny Delmar, are her latest; films. And her chief interest is a former fighter pilot who's a student i at Dartmouth. j ! When Ralph ("Truth or Conse-j quences") Edwards and his de- j lightful wife were guests of honor at ; a cocktail party in New York the other day some strangers ep- j peared; seems they expected to rehearse re-hearse for a wedding In that hotel suite, at that time. Edwards swore he knew nothing about it, but the suspicious guests, all newspaper people, didn't believe him, and kepi waiting for the gag to come off. A few days after "The Private Affairs cf Bel Ami" was finished, Ann Dvorak of the cast, divorced Leslie Fenton. Then Angela Lamsbury divorced Richard Cromwell. Crom-well. The film colony waited for the third split-up it was the star, George Sanders, and his wife. New Yorkers have been having a fine time since Edgar Bergen arrived, for of course Bergen takes Charlie McCarthy to parties, and Charlie doesn't mind whom he insults, in-sults, or how. Didn't pull his punches punch-es when NBC gave a press lunch eon for him Charlie opr.ied 1 proceedings by exploding at one o( the broadcasting company's vice presidents, and then went on from there. Janis Paige, star of Warners' "The Time, the Place and the Girl," has been chosen "Goll Queen," to reign over the Los Angeles An-geles twenty-first annual open tournament tour-nament in January. And Polly Craus, script girl on "My Wild Irish Rose," at the same studio, has been selected for the United States fencing team, for international competition com-petition during the 1948 Olympic games. It's never happened to anyone but Anne Jeffreys. The day she starred in "La Tosca" at the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Academy of Music, with her name on the marquee, it was also on the marquee of a movie house there, where they were showing RKO's "Vacation in Reno." b After Joan Crawford had given Van Hell in four resounding slaps on the cheek for a scene In War- nets' "Possessed," Van asked, j , "Have you looked at page 121 In the script?" She hadn't. "Well." ' said he, "on page 121, I slap you!" . Ida Lupino says her current role in "Deep Valley" is one of the ' toughest assignments she's ever undertaken. She plays an unedu-I unedu-I cated girl of the mountains who's I afflicted with a stammer. "I have I very little make-up and no fancy wardrobe to help me," Ida said. "It'll be all acting." She's had plenty or those frustrated girl roles J on the screen, does them so well ' that people remember them. I I Jean Sablon, the Gallic baritone, I Is getting a Sinatra type buildup, I to take him out of the highbrow department and endear him to the other folks. His new CBS show is piling up a good Hooperating, lm-l lm-l pressing the rad'o world. I ()IIS AD KS - Tha Dick ' I'ourll hut mid thrir $chotmtr and I art filing in far flyinfnlrmily hurt lu o plane, and hal t ordvrrd two mnrt, . , . ".W f'ut orife Urunrllt" Imifc VrtvT l.orrr to Paramount for th firtt time in 12 years, complvtina hit rrcurd of I M'orfciNK ol rer i;ir fmio. . . . 7 hnl irninrff ruliiir you'll r in Slillr' "Vuronuuerrav' mi fund $100 ! (fnv ml far tiffins, on a ife o ruina. ' ... tt'hrn Aildirw Troffff kiv h tins I horn in iolirt. III., und propl mnk I rrnrfV iimf het hrint ronnrrlrd n iih th priwn lorulrd thn, Awlm mirs ' omf ' " r",,l, vil ' Sl th pri"l '' I'lr" ir!" |