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Show By INEZ GERHARD T"EE ENGELBACH, producer-U producer-U director of CBS' "Hallmark Playhouse," may not be a star-maker, star-maker, but Joan Fontaine, Irene Dunne, Gregory Peck and many other stars agree that he gets out-standing out-standing performances from actors who might not give them otherwise. Miss Fontaine did "Random Harvest" on the Playhouse Play-house and asked to have him direct di-rect her next picture. Peck had JOAN FONTAINE fought off requests to play Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln, saying he was a cinch to be typed as Lincoln and wanted to postpone it but could not refuse the role, in "The Prairie Years," with Engelbach directing. "Tactful but forceful direction" that's what they say they get from him. Hollywood has lured two of "The Guiding Light" cast into its fold. Willard Waterman, "Ray Brandon", Bran-don", starts work as Bing Crosby's stuffy brother-in-law in "Riding High", and Betty Gerson, the female fe-male lead, will have a leading role in a picture at Republic that's unnamed un-named so far. This will be Miss Gerson's first film venture, so Here's luck to her. The new "March of Time" may ?ive you a lot of ideas, if you don't mow where to spend your next vacation. va-cation. Or it may show you a place you've already enjoyed. The film shows a cross-section of American holidays cruise ships, big and little hotels, camping trips dude ranches. Americans spend some 11 billion dollars on vacations; here is how they do it. Kid Chissell, one of the ex-prizefighters ex-prizefighters in RKO's "The Set-Up", Set-Up", used to work out in a Cleveland Cleve-land gym in 1925 with an amateur tighter named Packy East. Then Packy took the long count, gave up fighting, and Chissell didn't know what had become of him. Didn't see East until some years later in Hollywood. Packy had won quite a reputation there as Bob Hope |