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Show Released by Wtitern Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE THE radio industry's been breaking out in a rash of birthday and anniversary celebrations, like the "Highways "High-ways in Melody" cocktail party at New Fork's 21, when the program began its 21st ! year on the air. But the nicest one was Just for fun a luncheon at the Plaza given by NBC for Kay Kyser. The "College of Musical Knowl-edge" Knowl-edge" man is wonderful when he's turned loose among friends, a top-notch top-notch entertainer, a delightful per. son. He got laughs from even the ' t Ik l " ,wl(&Mhi 1U hii.iV Trif il(Mr'm ll siM.i3LjsMMsi KAY KYSER hardest-boiled newspaper people who write about radio year in and year out and are definitely allergic to everything but the best broadcasts broad-casts and sometimes even to those I No matter where you turn, there's Bob Hope in pictures, doing benefits bene-fits and guest shots, starring in his own program. He's pretty pleased about hitting the top in the Hoover-atings Hoover-atings repeatedly, because people wondered whether he could reconvert recon-vert to civilian audiences after his concentrating on entertaining servicemen serv-icemen and war workers for so long. It took a little time, but he's done it. Cute Gale Storm has been seeing New York, in company with her husband, and New York's been seeing see-ing Allied Artists' "It Happened on Fifth Avenue," in which Gale stars. Born Josephine Cottle, of Texas, she won the feminine division of Jesse Lasky's "Gateway to Hollywood" Holly-wood" radio talent search back in 1939; in 1942 she signed a seven-year seven-year contract with Monogram, and she's definitely on her way up. All of ds who've been missing Jean Arthur during her absence from the screen are cheering loudly because at last she's going to make another picture. Sounds like a perfect per-fect role for her, too In "Foreign Affairs" she'll be an American con-gresswoman con-gresswoman Investigating the morale mo-rale of V. S. occupation troops In Germany with Billy Wilder writing the piece and Charles Bracket! producing, pro-ducing, for Paramount. The CBS "The Adventures of Sam Spade" is sprinkled with star dust First, Lurene Tuttle was picked for a role in her first picture, "Heaven Only Knows." Now Howard Duff, who's "Sam," has been signed for "Brute Force," to be made by Uni versal. As an angel come to earth In "Heaven Only Knows" Robert Cum-mings Cum-mings is indifferent to gunfire because be-cause he knows no bullet can hit him. But it took all his control to play a scene nonchalantly, as expert riflemen placed bullets all around him! Cathy and Elliott Lewis are quite a pair; she dors all the trading ladies on "Suspense" when male stars are scheduled; he gets star billing on "The Case Book of Gregory Greg-ory Hood." They wrote "The Thlr-teenth Thlr-teenth Sound," which Agnrs Moor-head Moor-head did on "Suspense" recently but wrote themselves out of It. And they've written a half-hour show, In which they would star, which should hit the air waves before long. Seems there's a shortage ut camels. None hove been imported in the Inst ten years, because there was an epidemic of hoof and mouth disease In North Africa. Which may not affect you but Seymour Ncbcr zal needs 18 for "Atluntis." Doesn't care whether Uiey're one or two humps, just so they're camels. Vaughn Monroe and his band are no strangers to pictures; you'll see and hear them In "Carnegie Hall." But twice In two weeks Vaughn hni been screen-tested at 20th Century-Fox Century-Fox fur a starring role In a musical, minus the band. t ODDS ASD LSDSDon'l know bow I utr got nlont without tbt "It-formtilio "It-formtilio I'let't" AlmtnM, tJilrJ hy John Kitrsn; li'i ttrrifit. , . , f)nw AUr LtHghlin, iur of "DttiJ lltrdtng, C.ounttripy," ii tlillrd boxer, trret-ller trret-ller 4h4 liu-jitm irtitt; uf Uughi by Puis in tbt IDI. . . . Apnl 2f trurli lh$ litfmniHg of lh 17A yrr on I ft tir for Imm tnd Ahnrr Moil tbt "iff ! iit llollyuood" tudiemt trt uomtnbul you ihnulJ it bow mdty mm try bti to ft on tbt pro tram. , , , Out of Humphrey Uogart'i fat orilt Jirttlort, Wilier dnrmtn, bl fmiiktn llolhuoni to Uh up itriph ing for tbt CDS "Young Dr. MJontS i |