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Show By INEZ GERHARD TDA LUPINO, currently seen in "Woman in Hiding", is the first motion picture actress to shatter the calm of James Hilton, English author associated with Hallmark Playhouse. Recently she was to play an Italian role on a Playhouse broadcast. A perfectionist in the pictures she produces as well as those she acts in, she hired a voice coach and worked so hard that her doctor told 'her to let up. Finally, less than 24 hours before air time, she threw over the whole idea said she couldn't master those Italian intonations. A new script was hastily prepared for her, and Hilton was a candidate for the Shangri-La which he invented years ago. Ralph Edwards has a large staff for getting details of the lives of people used on his NBC "This Is Your Life", but anyone may suggest sug-gest a candidate. Need not be a well-known name, either. To be a talent scout for the program, you need only write a note to Ralph Edwards in Hollywood, outlining the reasons why your friend or neighbor's life would make an interesting in-teresting story. Bing Crosby, who has no love for appearing at big shindigs, will attend at-tend the dedication of a new athletic ath-letic field, "Bing Crosby stadium", at Front Royal, Va., this spring. A poll of the 7,000 citizens chose him as "The Most Popular Entertainer of the Half Century" and he accepted. ac-cepted. Crosby will appear for good causes, not for mere advertising advertis-ing or publicity. Louis Calhern is growing younger. In "Nancy Goes to Rio" he appears as Jane Powell's Pow-ell's grandfather, but In "The Tender Hours" he will be seen as her father. Ann Harding returns re-turns to the screen as Jane's mother. Bob Hope fought to record his shows, but lost out. Then Charles Luckman, his sponsor's president, resigned. So Hope, hoping again, tried again, and again lost out with the new executives. His show will be taped only when necessary. I |