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Show By INEZ GERHARD TEN GRAUER, currently celebra-ting celebra-ting his 20th anniversary in radio, has no special classification at NBC except as the man who can do everything, and do it well. The outstanding special events reporter re-porter of the air. he is also a sports commentator, narrator, moderator ii.. v.-.-.v.-.-. x-:'.---v---.-:-;-.-- - - '..AS.''. ...... BEN GRAUER and emcee. He has broadcast in 11 countries on four continents; he flew the airlift and reported from Berlin, was the first radio reporter in Israel to air the news when Count Berna-dotte Berna-dotte was assassinated. His favorite fan letter "Dear Mr. Grauer, You talk too much on the air. Don't bother to answer this. Just shut up!" Hollywood has seen some gaudy cars, from Tom Mix's, with steer horns on the radiator cap to some like the one Gloria Swanson uses in "Sunset Boulevard." Bill "Hop-along "Hop-along Cassidy" Boyd has joined the parade; his has white leather upholstery, up-holstery, black and white leather accessories, and a silver radiator cap showing "Hoppy" on his favorite fav-orite horse. Eve Arden, now in "Goodbye, My Fancy," says the best way for a girl to make a movie career is to stay single because if an actress is married to an actor he's jealous of her career, but a non-professional is even more jealous. Park Levy, head writer of the "My Friend Irma" air show, Is the envy of all radio row. He will write, direct and produce an airshow which he tailored for Gloria Swanson, whom everybody has been pursuing pur-suing with contracts with nn luck. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Wendell Holmes, radio actor featured in "The Road of Life" and "Young Dr. Malone," leaves for Hollywood soon for his first movie role . . . Gloria Holiday, who plays "Gloria," the PBX operator on the .."Harold Peary Show," formerly worked on the switchboard at CBS, Hollywood that was before she became Mrs. Peary . . . Rumor has it that the script for Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on" a Train" is scarier than anything else he has done for the screen. |