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Show Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD JOAN DAVIS was the most excited member of the audience at the Laguna beach playhouse on the opening open-ing night of "Junior Miss." Her daughter, Beverly Mills, was appearing with the rest of the CBS cast of the radio show in the stage play of the same name. Though I JOAN DAVIS Joan had taught Beverly the special spe-cial Davis comedy technique, she had never realized how perfectly Beverly had picked up all mama's gestures and tricks. Said Joan at the end of the first act, "I'll sue that kid!" Cathy Lewis, who had been 111 most of the summer, was ordered off at least the first few "My Friend Irma" broadcasts by her doctor, whereupon husband Elliott Lewis pared his air schedule to two shows, "Gregory Hood," on Mutual, and the role of "Frankie Remley" on the Phil Harris show. Joan Banks stepped in as substitute for Mrs. Lewis opposite Marie Wilson. Those scmi-documentarlcs are growing more and more popular. popu-lar. Eagle-Lion has one coming com-ing up, "He Walked by Night," based on ft case in the Los Angeles An-geles police department flies, which will star Richard Base-hart Base-hart and Scott Brady. After a cross-country trip, Ted Malone reported that the radio personage the most people asked about was Eloise McElhone, the firebrand of "Meet the Girls." Recently, Re-cently, when the show moved to Hollywood and she stayed back in New York, the public demanded her return till she gave in. And she was chosen in the first place because be-cause "she looked so sweet!" To the women who ask if that little wasp hates men because she's never had a beau she has plentyl She'i pert, pretty, and no man-hater. After completing his first western, west-ern, "Black Velvet," Howard Duff hung up his spurs in preparation for his next film, an untitled documentary-type picture about an International In-ternational gang of thieves, his fifth in little more than a year. American history will bob up all over the air this season. "Cavalcade "Caval-cade of America" presents it on Mondays on NBC; Sundays, "Carnegie "Car-negie Hall" brings Dr. Frank Black, soloists and commemoration of an historical event, with Gene Hamilton's Hamil-ton's commentary and appropriate music. And there'll always be historical his-torical sketches on other programs, of course. According to the Motion Picture Pic-ture Herald's poll of movie theater the-ater operators, the number one star of tomorrow Is Jane Powell Pow-ell of "A Date With Judy" and "Luxury Liner." Cyd Charlsse Is second, Ann Blyth third. Robert Rob-ert Ryan, only man in the first ten, Is fifth. Those men who run our theaters really know what they're talking about, too, as polls of the past prove it. After five years as a blonde on the screen, Marilyn Maxwell turned brunette to co-star with George Raft and William Bcndix In "Race Street." She says she'll wait to see what the fans think before deciding to turn back. Listening to an announcer's description de-scription of the California climate on the 1028 Rose Bowl game broadcast, broad-cast, Ken Carpenter decided to move to California. He'd been In advertising. There were no openings open-ings In that field so he became a radio announcer. His first full-network job was another Rose Bowl game, In 1934. In 1933 the Blng Crosby program mado him an actor, ODDS ASD ENDS The bmlle u orn by Alexis Smith in "Montana," at Warners,' is made of pUilic and uat invented by Alio Anderson, de signer of film fashions, . , . Alan Young, set for the Jimmy Durante show, expects to open on bit own tomtdy air show in January, , , , Joitph Colten u anted to be a tinus doun; now collects books, pictures, coslumet, information about clowns, . . . Hugh Herbert "A Song It Born") started bis profesiional ta reer speaking all the lines of tbe male players in silent films. . , , Singer llene Woods has a new bobby between radio rehearsals tbe knits or gyle socks. |