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Show By INEZ GERHARD HEDY LAMAR R has never been more beautiful and seductive than in Cecil B. DeMille's "Samson "Sam-son and Delilah", with magnificent magnifi-cent costumes designed by Edith Head largely responsible. A good deal of credit should be given, too, to the sets and to the excellent m fsr" Pi m WillS HEDY LAMARR color effects. In fact, this is a picture in which art directors, photographers pho-tographers and others who never appear are among the stars. The scenes actually photographed in the Holy Land, Algiers and Morocco Moroc-co are beautiful and memorable. Film star Van Johnson and bandleader band-leader Elliot Lawrence are dead ringers for each other. Their resemblance resem-blance is so remarkable that sometimes some-times it's difficult for them to convince con-vince autograph seekers they're not each other. Dan Seymour never visits Hollywood, doesn't have to to see movie stars; he sees as many in a year as a head-waiter head-waiter at Ciro's. During the past 12 months, on "We the People", Dan has interviewed such celebrities as Sir Cedrio Hardwicke, Glenn Ford, Dick Haymes, Kirk Douglas, Janet Blair. John Payne. Marie Wil- son, Linda Christian, Tyrone Power, among others. Jane Wyatt was puzzled when crowds of visitors arrived at the Samuel Goldwyn studio to see her work in "Our Very Own". She discovered dis-covered that her 12-year-old son, Christopher, was responsible. He had been promising a trip to see his famous mother with every new subscription to a local paper he delivers. Ann Blyth, Farley Granger Grang-er and Joan Evans co-star. The power of radio has never been better demonstrated than in the success of the fund raising project to aid the fight against polio which is being conducted on Horace Heidt's "Youth Opportunity" Opportuni-ty" and Ralph Edwards' "This Is Your Life" shows. Helen Hayes' appearance as one of the guest speakers on the former was touching, touch-ing, since her daughter died of polio. No matter how he switched plane and train schedules, Don Ameche couldn't figure a way to get his whole family together for Christmas. Christ-mas. So he will have an early celebration cele-bration with his two boys in school in Iowa, then spend Christmas Day in New York with his wife, who accompanied him East for the Manhattan broadcasts of the Jim-mie Jim-mie Durante show |