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Show Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD THAT FAVORITE line of radio masters of ceremonies, "Almost anything can happen, and probably will," certainly applies to the entire Industry at the beginning of the new year. Jack Benny, the only star who actually owned his own timo, switched from NBC to CBS after 17 JACK BENNY years at the .old stand, leaving s worried network behind him. W'tii Fred Allen again muttering about retirement and Al Jolson joining in the chorus, with Edgar Bergen bowing bow-ing off the air with an eye on television tele-vision the whole set up is changing. chang-ing. Only the daytime serials, with high audience ratings despite tho critics' jibes, promise to go on for ever. In case you missed Perry Como's Christmas Eve "Supper Club" show Perry's eight-year-old son, Ronnie, Ron-nie, was to introduce his fellow-choristers fellow-choristers from their church to Perry, and jcin them in singing. But he got stage fright. When Perry asked him to introduce them he wouldn't. Trying to help, Perry asked ."But you know these boyj' names, don't you?" Said Ronnie, "No!" Samuel Goldwyn announces that he will make "The Gold-wyn Gold-wyn Girl" a super-musical, this year. Star alumnae Guld-wyn Guld-wyn Girls include Be,tty Grable, Lucile Ball, Panlette Godd.it d, Virginia Bruce and Jinx Falk-enburg. Falk-enburg. Lou Bunin's "Alice in Wonderland" Wonder-land" is done as the famous stor should be screened, with Alice a real girl, and the imaginary characters char-acters she meets, puppets. These are special puppets, created by Bunin, a sculptor with extensive experience ex-perience in movie-making. His nvp-pets nvp-pets representing famous characters charact-ers were seen in MGM's "Ziegfeld Follies". The film is released by Eagle-Lion. Olivia DeHaviland seems sure uf an Oscar for the year's best performance per-formance by an actress. The Nevr York Film Clitics gave her weir award, as did the National Board of Review, which selected "The Snake Pit" as one of the 10 best pictures. New York's critics chose "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" as the best, though "The Snake Pit" was among the first four. Ann Blyth thinks it was prophetic. pro-phetic. Recently she bought a new home. Previous owners had cut a huge shamrock in the front gate Immediately after moving in, Ann was signed for the very Irish "Top o' the Morning." Morn-ing." The new "Take It or Leave 7t" j procedure means that you're on the air if you are lucky enough to have Garry Moore call you. But you will have a whole week in which to prepare pre-pare for winning that $640 jack.pot. Cast and crew members of "The Second Mrs. Burton" pay a fine if they're late, fluff lines, etc. Learning that a recent fam-i. fam-i. y counselor Mrs. L. V. Doug's Doug-'s -Mas, was principal of a public j school which has special classes for handicapped children, thi-y j emptied the money box and gave j her its contents $50 to be used for presents for the youngsters. His best friends won't be sumris-I sumris-I ed if Groucho Marx some day ap-? ap-? Pears on the legitimate stage in a ! Shakespeare play. Gr6ucho, one cf the best ad-libbers of our time, thoroughly thor-oughly enjoys his weekly ABC siint on "You Bet Your Life." But he has been a student of Shakespeare , for years ana cherishes a secret ambition to appear in one of the t Bard's plays in a straight role. . : This year the American Medical f association joins NBC for the 17th consecutive season in production of a public service series. "Your Health Today' will employ a variety var-iety of techniques, including dram:i and discussion . Nobody can accuse Meredith Will-son Will-son of not taking his commercials I S(mously. He not only talks about , his product and has guests sing about it;, he has his wife bring a huge bowl of the dessert to be eateji J after the broadcast. |