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Show By INEZ GERHARD SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S ability as a mimic did a lot toward making mak-ing her a child star, and she is still using it as a help in learning the various dialects she's had to master. She has a southern drawl and a Scandinavian accent down pat, but had a bit of trouble with the Irish brogue needed for Warners' "Always Sweethearts." p -s., - SHIRLEY TEMPLE More than once she has confused her mother-in-law by using one of the three when answering the phone; even her own mother can't tell sometimes whether a new southern maid, a Scandinavian one or an Irish colleen is on the other end of the wire when she calls her daughter. John Dall and the King brothers are discussing rights to Jonathan Latimer's novels featuring detective Bill Crane. They would allow Dall to continue con-tinue his screen life of crime, but on the side of law and order. The picnic staged recently by the American Federation of Radio Artists Art-ists was quite a shindig; raised $3,000 for its relief fund. Lum and Abner ran the bingo tables and organized or-ganized square dances. Frank Nelson, of "Blondie," auctioned off supporting roles on such shows as "Sam Spade" and "Philip Marlowe" Mar-lowe" to ambitious newcomers who bid high for them. Jane Wyman reports from Lon don that she had her first comfortable comfort-able voyage; usually gets seasick even when canoeing on a smooth lake. This time, on her way to star in "Stage Fright" for Alfred Hitchcock, Hitch-cock, she had some new anti-seasickness anti-seasickness pills, developed by Canada's medical corps evideply they were effective in her caso at least. |