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Show BY INEZ GERHARD H SINGER has to be something more than just wonderful to make her professional debut on "The Telephone Hour." 20-year-old Barbara Gibson did it September Septem-ber 12, and will be heard again on the program in February. Gladys Swarthout promptly phoned her praise; Lily Pons, who had missed : ; ; BARBARA GIBSON the broadcast, asked for recordings. record-ings. Like Lily, Barbara is a coloratura col-oratura soprano. Unlike her, she's a young American girl likes to swim and ski, makes her own clothes. Walter Magill, producer of "The Telephone Hour," was at CBS the day she auditioned, heard executives raving about her voice; after hearing her sing he gave her her big chance. Columbia will release "All the King's Men" some time near Christmas, to get maximum consideration con-sideration for Academy Award nomination. Paramount is banking on "The Heiress"; 20th Century-Fox Century-Fox has "Pinky"; Eagle-Lion, "Passport to Pimlico." Before designing "Mortimer Snerd," CBS' Edgar Bergen spent months in research on phrenology. He made a complete list of all physical characteristics associated with stupidity, then combined them ' all in "Mortimer." The University of Denver has adopted Paramount's "M y Friend Irma" as the basis of a course in film production and appreciation. The script, still, production and publicity photos pho-tos and a number of minature sets used in the picture are being used as visual aids, and sets created by Hans Dreier and Henry Bumstead are on display in the college library. Lucille Ball is back at RKO, the first time in six years, to make ' "Easy Living," with Victor Mature. Ma-ture. It was at RKO that she met her husband, Desi Arnaz, eight years back, when they were the principals of "Too Many Girls." Florence Freeman expected to be home awaiting the stork's arrival ar-rival the last week of September, and the script of "Wendy Warren and the News" was written so as to give the star a vacation. But her son didn't know that in radio everything has to be done right on time. He put off greeting his parents par-ents and two sisters until October 6. |