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Show Rtleawd by Writern Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE JACK PAAR, ex-G.I. comedian come-dian who's under contract to RKO, has just signed a six-jyear six-jyear radio contract, topping a career that began 12 years ago, when he was 16. You hear him now on the CBS "Vaughan Monroe" show Saturday nights; then you'd have heard him jas a staff announcer and unintentional uninten-tional comedian. Announcing the Cleveland National air races, he did 'fine, except that he pronounced the wrong plane as winner; looked! away for a minute and the winner kJ V5E? ? JACK PAAR he'd picked came in last. During the war he was a member of Special Services, entertaining troops on what he calls the fungus vaudeville circuit. Ingrld Bergman's been awarded the highest Swedish order for artists art-ists and scientists by King Gustaf of Sweden. But seeing her going about New York you'd never suspect that she's a top-ranking movie star, and also the star of the town's best play. You'd see a pretty girl, wearing a mink coat, with a black hood tied over her head unrecognized by people peo-ple who'd clamor for autographs. After seeing visiting stars who spare nothing and nobody in their efforts to be recognized even while they wail for privacy, she's refreshing. Gene Autry has formed his own independent producing unit, which goes to work at Columbia Pictures the first of April, with an exclusive contract to produce four high budget pictures per year for two years. Big outdoor musicals with Grade A stories, sto-ries, that's what he'll aim for. He should be able to turn them out, with 'all Columbia's facilities and his own ! music organisation to draw on. Henry A. Reichold, the Detroit industrialist, thinks there are two or three million people who want to listen lis-ten to straight classical music, with no Interruptions or commercial interferences. in-terferences. That's why he's sponsoring spon-soring that series of "Sunday Evening Eve-ning Hours," with the Detroit Symphony. Sym-phony. But he's deliberately bucking buck-ing Fred Allen and Edgar Bergen; has the same time on the air as two of our best comedy shows! The Roscoe Karns are original; when they headed for Reno, on completion com-pletion of "Gallant Man" at Republic Re-public Studios they were Intent not on divorce, but on having a second sec-ond honeymoon; they've been happily hap-pily married for a quarter of a century. cen-tury. I I Oscar Bradley, conductor of "We, the People" orchestra, is pretty proud of Arnold Eidus, who recently competed In the International violin competition in Paris and took first place. He won a concert tour to 38 cities. When Eidus returns to this country, probably in April, Mr. I i Bradley plans to have him as a guest j Ion the show. You see, the violinist Jill recently was one of the boys In the band. f In "Undercover Maizic" Ann Soth-cm Soth-cm portrays a police woman and we're told (and It's hard to believe) that she sent several days at the Los Angeles Police Academy, under going the strenuous routines prescribed pre-scribed for rookie cops; showing up for setting-up exercises in a play-suit, play-suit, hitting the bullscye with a pistol, pis-tol, though she'd never fired one before be-fore in her life, etc., etc. j. , M Setting up a "Vox Pop" broadcast broad-cast is no cinch. Parks Johnson and Warren Hull often interview as many as 150 persons during the preliminary pre-liminary proceedings, determining 'the six who'll go on the air. Then j Mrs. Johnson has to round up presents pres-ents for them. ODDS ASD ESDSVtromct Ll, it foi'ftf lo iiit thtU tyt undtt that loch of buir gdi in Pirsmomti't "Ssiton.". , . "Ktlioml Vh tt" it Uitd to torn lo tht mr uttn f efc-rtmry efc-rtmry )rU. . . , Mdrltnt Attmtt, grj turn, u bo pUyt lb d-wghlir o tht Sunity "Blondi" thou; mJt btt film dtbul id "lb Ittsl Yttrt o Our Lit !.''. , . EveryoH ought to in "Cite-xr "Cite-xr tnd CUnpdlrd" if only to tr m bsl "Gloriom 1 ichnitolor" tsn bt Itkt uhn it't tidily tlorioHt. , . . Mirttdn MtCdmbrulgt, of "Big Sitter,'' it ttdrtb-if ttdrtb-if for tooJoo drum pldytr; her huhdd tdii her o drum from lldili, Sul iht dorin't know how to pUy it. |
