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Show Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD ALAN LADD estimates that if all the fist fights he has had in his screen career ca-reer were lumped together they would take 90 minutes, the equivalent of a 30-round professional pro-fessional bout. Paramount's "Beyond "Be-yond Glory" is the first film in which he doesn't have a fight with i U) 7 j ALAN LADD some other character. Incidentally, the Distinguished Service Cross he wears in that picture was loaned to him by Audie Murphy, World War II's most decorated soldier, who makes his screen debut in a featured fea-tured role in "Beyond Glory." ' Speculation concerning James Mason's first film in this country ended when Enterprise studios .snared him for the movie version of "Wild Calendar," co-starring Barbara Bel Geddes and Robert Ryan. Mason studied a number of scripts before deciding on this one, in which he will have a sympathetic role, that of the other man in the inevitable triangle. There's one advantage in drlv ing a bus exclusively for musicians: mu-sicians: You (tot music lesson free. So says the lad who is chauffeur for the Vaughn Monroe Mon-roe orchestra (CBS Mondays). He claims ho has picked up hints on how to play the piano and the trumpet from Monroe's boys; now he wants to take singing sing-ing lessons from the boss! Just about the time his new fall radio series for a new sponsor gets started, Jimmy Durante also will be seen on the screen in an M-G-M film entitled "This Time for Keeps." That title might apply to his sponsor, spon-sor, as the cigarette company which formerly had him under contract con-tract gave him up to another sponsor, spon-sor, but now has signed him up again. The new March of Time deals with the "career girls"; tells how these young working women get their start, what sort of jobs they hold, how they manage their finances fi-nances and their social lives, their attitude toward marriage. The talc Is that a talented little pig was signed for comedy com-edy role opposite Bette Davis and Robert Montgomery In "June Bride." But Director Brrtaigne Wlndust of the New York Theater guild noticed that the pig's tail didn't curl. Fearing Fear-ing audiences would think It a dog disguised as pig, he had the make-up department take over, tape the pig's tail to curly wire. H Since making his screen debut in f'The Big Punch," Gordon McCrae, young radio singer, has signed to continue his air show, tripled his production of recordings, bought i new car and a new house. Joined the Lakeside Golf club, got a starring star-ring role In "Look for the Silver Lining." He sayi as a radio singer he collected only travel lores and a bank account. Jay Seymour, official photographer photogra-pher for more than half a dozen quii shows, standi by to snap the winners, win-ners, then rushes to his studio to work all night, developing and printing pictures for newspapers, magazines and wire services. He'll never forget the week when contestants con-testants hit the Jackpots on "Break the Bank." 'Hit the Jackpot," What's My NameT" and "The Bob Hawk Show." ODDS ASD ENDSW nuty it tun Chit Rorgltt on lb ttrttn John Lund in "A Mik lor Lucrttis" mid Onnn VCtlltt in "Print 0 Foxi." md in luly. ill uk Lund. . . . Tb Ldi Show hit bun rtntutd or J2 uttki on KRC, d lift nw film tcrifl' btint. prtpirid for ih most fnpnUr tmmM in mnntJom tint Kin Tin Tin. . . . U'btn Rtndy Stall d IIU Kmnn mud Tb W'Jkint liillf for C ulumhid thty prnl 1 I dy in th und dnnrt ol Dttlh Vtllty, uilh uindilormt up to 80 mittt tn bnnr mnd Itmprrnlurti uhith wmrlimtt t tried 60 dtgrm in tingl dty. |