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Show HeleaMd by WtiUra Nvwipaptr Union. By VIRGINIA VALE SIX top cinema stars will shine on the Hollywood Players programs, beginning September 3 Tuesdays at 9:30 p. m., EDST, and continuing con-tinuing for 38 Tuesdays thereafter. there-after. They are Claudette Colbert, Col-bert, who'U launch the series, Bette Davis, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, John Garfield and Gregory Greg-ory Peck radio's greatest list of stars as program regulars. Each will be heard several times during CLAUDETTE COLBERT the 39 weeks; they'll select their own vehicles, choosing hit movies, stage successes, best-seller novels and short stories in which they've appeared or wanted to appear. They'll be given the greatest possible pos-sible leeway in selecting their material. ma-terial. What a set-upl With practically all movie start yearning to try their luck on the stage, via summer theaters, Jeff Donnell received a bid that others longed for. The highly successful Playhouse at Ognnqult, Me., asked her to guest-star In a play of her own choosing, with her husband, Dialogue-Director Bill Anderson, directing It. And she had to turn It down because she's playing the second feminine lead In Columbia'! "Mr. District Attorney," now shooting. shoot-ing. She's asked for a rain check for next year. Stuart Erwln (star of the CBS "Phone Again Flnnegan") and hit wife, June Colly er, recently celebrated cele-brated their 18th wedding anniversary anniver-sary by entertaining Allan Jones and Irene Hervey, whose 10th anniversary an-niversary came that same week. The scenic Roosevelt highway i along California'! Malibu coast, near Los Angeles, Is the setting for much of the action of RKO's forthcoming "Step by Step." Anna Jeffreys and Lawrence Tierney have the top roles. James Melton will replace Raymond Ray-mond Massey beginning October 6 ss star and master of ceremonies cere-monies of the "Harvest of Stars." The program's format will change with more emphasis placed on music than formerly, though a dramatic story of American contemporary con-temporary life or a historical highlight high-light will be Included In each broadcast broad-cast Melton's contract is for five years. It sounds wonderful Bob Hope replacing Clayton Collyer as radio's ra-dio's "Superman," with Paulette Goddard supporting him as "Lola Lane," the girl reporter. But the general public won't hear It It'a a burlesque program recorded for "Command Performance"; Jhe show will be used for transmission to our armed forces overseas and for veterans In hospitals. Barbara Hale and Bill Williams, RKO contract players who did so well they were elevated to stardom, star-dom, are back In Hollywood after a cross-country honeymoon during which they travelled 7.400 miles 8.000 by automobile, the rest by air. 1 Harry Carey Jr., son of the veteran vet-eran actor, has been assigned a key role in "Pursued." United States Pictures' drama cf the early southwest. It will be filmed in technicolor tech-nicolor near Gallup, N M., with Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson and Robert Mitchum. Though benny Goodman Is terrifically ter-rifically popular, that new air show will be called "The Victor Borge Show, starring Benny Goodman," not the other way around. Well, no mailer who gets top billing, it's I bound to be a good program. I OlUtS AM) HMtS-rMnnor Wfccr ciicf lo urll ai "AfiirrcT in thl r itmk of "Of llunuin llondntr" ihul V'utnrr llrnx. h.iie stern hrr tht Irad-in Irad-in mli in "I oi r and l.nitn? . . . rrne liinne'i fimirt num'l changed more fmn in cm im h in all th yniM ihe't firm ni'iAin inriurrt. . . . lluunrs Mimirn it ill hai r thrir inning on th air labor lv, uirn one of ihem ttif r rirn inimci Girl "hiren for iv.n . . . If'r'i s rW "U hiilins in riAn.'' ".f Trr (.'roue in llrtmk-ln" llrtmk-ln" and "The Kul From Itronkhn' ; now Vrfro'i Kurring trunk Sinatrt, : iWhrtn Gro)vn imi tmmv Durante in "It aiwnrj in lirooklyn"! |