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Show By INEZ GERHARD BLANCHE THEBOM rushed from " Paris to Hollywood last summer sum-mer on a moment's notice, to appear ap-pear in "The Great Caruso" with Mario Lanza; she sang four songs in the film, two of which she had to learn overnight, and loved doing it. Now she is vacationing at her cabin in Canada and preparing for her Fall concert tour and her season at the Metropolitan Opera. In 1938 she was a private secretary in Canton, ' 5 ' & u . ' . - hlamii. .w . t ? . .... . M BLANCHE THEBOM Ohio; recalling what aid in her career ca-reer meant to her six years later she joined the Met she formed the Blanche Thebom Scholarship Foundation Foun-dation in 1949, a non-profit organization, organiza-tion, to help young singers who cannot can-not afford proper instruction. Patricia Medina recently took a two-day bath at Monogram-Allied Artists. Stepped into a DeMille-ish palace pool in the morning for a lengthy bathing scene for Walter Wanger's "Aladdin and His Lamp", co-starring John Sands. CBS Radio Network's "Let's Pretend", the oldest children's program pro-gram in radio, celebrates its 21st birthday in September. Since author-director-producer Nila Mack originated the fairy tale series in 1930, the program has been cited 40 times as the best of its kind. Phyllis Chalzell was one of its first child actresses; now her daughter, 7, is in the cast. |