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Show Released by WNU Feature. By INEZ GERHARD JOIN the Bob Hope show and see the world! Returning Re-turning from his Christmastime Christmas-time jaunt to Berlin, Bob is off on a month-long tour of this country, planning to start in the south and work his way up to Washington Wash-ington in time for the inauguration. i . , - BOB HOPE There's money in those tours. Hope , thinks he may exceed the $500,000 made on a similar tour two years ago. Reminder: The "Dr. Christian" script contest is on again, till March 2. The $2,000 award is given for the best script suitable for the program. For details write the Dr. Christian Award, 17 State street, TIew York 4. Edith Head, top dress designer for Paramount, came to New York "on a spying trip," as she put it. She covered the haunts of young , business women as Betty Hutton's clothes for "The Broadway Story" must be just right. Delightful, dynamic dy-namic Miss Head, commenting on the costumes for "Samson and Delilah," De-lilah," said she couldn't let Delilah's Deli-lah's be too authentic or the censors would never pass them. But those for "The Heiress" are historically perfect right down to the underwear. under-wear. According to the Motion Picture Pic-ture Herald, the top-grossing pictures of the 1947-48 season, 1 September to September, are "Ihe Bacheloi and the Bobby Soxer," "Cass Timberlane," I "Green Dolphin Street," "Life Wlt'i Father," "Mother Wore I Tijhts," "Road to Rio" and I "Unconquered." A list the coun try's motion picture critics would never have compiled. U. S. Attorney General Tom Clark makes his film debut in Universal-International's Universal-International's "Illegal Entry." He and Commissioner Watson B. Mill-r Mill-r appear in the prologue. The e first documentary film made with "the cooperation of the immigration I 4 department, it is dedicated to the 43 i. immigration officers killed in the 0 line of duty. f $ Helen Craig, featured in "They i- Live by Night," became a star in -a Broadway play in which sha " spoke no lines. After years of a studying diction, she was cast as J 'the deaf mute in the stage's version of "Johnny Belinda." 1 Robert Cummings and his family plan to live three months in Paris, 'three in Rome, while he makes two pictures. He expects to come home to find his new house ready with a diving board from his bedroom overhanging the pool. I i, Memories of '48 Having Ray Mil- land "borrow" an oyster from me u at lunch, before his arrived and lorgetting to pay it back. Having John Lund tramp blocks through ) the driving rain to find me a taxi. Hiding on a crowded subway with J Irene Beasley, who was carrying a canary. Hearing Scott Brady tell about the prayer that carries him -over bad moments and brings sue- It ess- D 1(j u Betsy Drake was afraid RKO j)" . would make her pluck her eye-si eye-si y brows too thin and change her ,o name before she made her Him to debut in "Every Girl Should Be ;b Married." So she ate a lot of k. candy, to calm her nerves. J - 1 Henry Hull can't believe it. Two IS years ago he rented his California home to the Joel McCreas who have 4' 'two young sons. Henry expected to find everything much worse for wear when he moved back recently. fi But everything was in perfect con-jl con-jl dition, and the house had been polished pol-ished from cellar to garret. Henry ' says he's going to join a McCrea fan club. ' ODDS AND ENDS . . . Danny Hoy's picture, "Tbt Kid From Brook-k Brook-k lyn," is ptaying in Rome under tbt tU "l Pretir a Cow." . . . Glenn Ford, who has taken or given beat- mg in every picture he's ever made, fishes Columbia would assign him to just one peaceful one. . . . Busy m though she is, Penny Singleton found time to learn to fly, now takes ber family on regular week-end flights. ' ' c rankie Carle's crew will appear tn five pictures this year, made during o a four-months' stay in California. . . . " Eleanor Powell will sail in February to do a command performance for the king of England. I |