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Show Relcawd by Weitero Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE JAMES MASON, who recently recent-ly won a national poll as "England's most popular mo-tion mo-tion picture actor" for the second time, is likely to chalk up similar honors for himself I in America. You'll see him in I "The Man in Gray." released by Universal Pictures and probably j in American-made pictures as well, j due to that tieup between Univer- trr - f ... . T , A J JAMES MASON sal and J. Arthur Rank of Eng land, Leo Spitz and William Goetz Mason's knovn as "The English Humphrey Bogart," which givei you an idea of the kind of roles he p.jys; he's murdered many younj ladies on the screen, in a variety of ways, but says that the way he extinguishes Margaret Lockwood ir "The Man in Gray" is the wors'j of all. I "Two Hours of Stars" (stars from stage, screen and radio) will b broadcast on the afternoon of Christmas Day over the full Colum bia network. The list includes Boh Hope, Vera Vague, Ginny Simms Jack Benny, Artur Rubenstein Alan ("Falstaff") Reed, and man others, with Don Ameche as mas ter of ceremonies. There may be s comedy skit done by famoui stooges Vera Vague, Jerry Colon na, Reed and Rochester, among others; oth-ers; people so clever they're stoogei no longer. It seems as if everybody's sing; Ing In "The Bells of St. Mary's." The famed boys' choir, St. Luke'i Choristers of Long Beach, will sing. Bing Crosby, naturally, will sing-five sing-five numbers, Including "Adeste Fidelia." Fi-delia." And Ingrld Bergman will lift her voice In song for the first tlmi on the screen; she'll do a Swedish folk song. The picture's a Christmastime Christmas-time release. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Baca Ba-ca 11, who like to wear matching gray flannel slacks and red flannel shirts, also each wear a tiny gold whistl hers on a bracelet, his on hii watch chain. They said they'd never take them off for any reason. But it wasn't long before she went intc "Confidential Agent," and had tc take off her bracelet for romantic closeups with Charles Boyerl Nice goings-on Glnny Simms. who raises prize pigs on her ranch, traded a young porker to Dorothy Lamour, in exchange for a turkey from Dorothy's prize stock. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, Ginny's going to have a' 30-foot circular staircase constructed entirely of lucite in that new horns she's building; it'll rise from the center of a 30 by 40 foot hall. f It takes conductor Nat Novlck and pianist Tom Howard Jr. more than four hoars to arrange and or cheatrate that weird music you heat on "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; noth-Ing noth-Ing Is left to chance, every discord-ant discord-ant effect Is carefully prepared. Charles Boyer says his imitator! are all wrong when they present! him as saying to Hedy Lamarr.j "Come wiz me Into ze Casbaa-aah,"i presumably In Hedy's screen debut' In this country. Matter of fact, in the picture he didn't ask her to ge anywhere with him. Marlin Hurt, star of the Sunday CBS "Beulah" program, would have gone right on tripling for himself him-self if he hadn't been talked into accepting ac-cepting credit on the air. It wai Producer Helen Mack who talked him Into acknowledging that he's "Beulah," himself and "Bill." Director Frank Borzage ordered Maureen O'Hara to hit Binnit! Barnes hard, really hard, for s scene In "The Spanish Main." Maureen Maur-een did, again and again 11 times The last time Blnnie, stunned, landed in a blazing fireplace; that's the shot you'll see. 4 ODDS AND ESP! - Mariarti (TBriin't pretty plmttf shout O'ina thitn qun of Motiro'i float in I'ata j dtnt't Tour nam rnt o Kimi-i, . , , Thou i Uuh prtut rfiivi hut dtjinMj r turned to Hollywood i tOth Ctntiiry Fix will iptnd 1200,000 on Mltinsi or "Ann and thi King of Sinm." . , . Alan lAdft iquahbU with Paramount broutht him rail -$?SflO0 a pittur fot letvn yvws, with tha prica going up alter three years. . , , John J. Anthony t ihoumndi o littrneri will intrant in mmbar, now thai hii program gori out tr lh full Mutual nrtuvrk. . , , Alan Mowbray wrota a ttory, told It to Mono tram, and mil iter in it |