Show fir l y yS S E C CRE RE N RADIO 10 0 liy y VIRGINIA VALE by Western Newspaper Union from Metros Metro's publicity files of a few years ago Clark Gable would be one of the country's crack skeet shots if he had time for tournament t competition comp James ijames Stewart took Katharine Katharine Katharine Katha Katha- rine Hepburn up in his putt- putt putt plane and nearly ground looped his ship in a two-point two land land- Ing Robert Taylor set his plane down In a watermelon patch Today Today To To- day Gables Gable's heard from England over BBC telling how skeet shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing is u Invaluable training for lor gun gun- ners hers Stewarts Stewart's piloting a Flying Fortress Taylor will soon be eligible eligible eli eli- gible gable for the Transport Command Ferry Command or as an Instructor tor after alter completing his training forthe forthe for lor the navy air force 1 t Jack Benny returned from Irom that mile tour overseas entertaining entertain entertain- ing jag the armed forces with duffle duffie bags full lull of ol telephone numbers h t y e l 4 se ti 4 r JACK BENNY Hes He's using them now Hes He's calling Mom many Mom many a Mom Please just tell Mom Im I'm fine the boys would say cay and Jack Is doing it It as fast last as he can 1 I Virtually every nationality In the world Is represented In i Gangway for Tomorrow It has I speaking parts But none of the cast portray their native country countr- men A Russian Is played by a I Pole a Czech by an Austrian a Pole by a n German a Frenchman by bya a Russian Richard Ryan an Irishman Irishman Irish Irish- Irish Irish-I man plays a German officer Margo Marge born In Mexico plays a French girl Just Hollywood 1 An embarrassing moment came to Carleton Young Fox Century-Fox contract player at the Silver Theater Theater Theater Thea Thea- ter dress rehearsal after the announcer announcer an an- had read an elaborate buildup buildup buildup build build- up which was given him The entire cast including Loretta Young salaamed i 1 Before Florance Halop made her fortunate appearance talent scouts for the new series were so bard hard pressed to find a new Miss Duffy to replace Shirley Booth that they resorted to ads in the Hollywood Holly Holly- wood papers T I ISo So Sound d effects proved better than the real article when Parks Johnson John John- son and Warren Hull visited the oil oU refinery workers at the eastern terminus of the Big Inch pipeline They wanted to introduce the show with the gurgling of 01 gasoline flowing from a filling tilling station pump and had hada a real one set up on the stage But they they finally us used cd an ordinary egg eggbeater eggbeater eggbeater beater and a hand bell beU i i Dont Don't be surprised If Charlie McCarthys McCarthy's McCarthy's McCarthys Mc Mo Carthy's rather elderly old-maid old relative Ophelia Ophella becomes a regular regu lar tar member of that gang Maybe you heard her ber when she made mad her to coast-to-coast radio debut recently re re- on the new RCA What New program Listeners loved her and Edgar Bergen BerJen thinks she make malte a n good permanent companion for or Charlie and Mortimer I prances fiances lances and Richard Lockridge authors a of Mr and Mrs North are probably unique among novelists novel flits whose hose works have been adapted for lor radio Usually authors insist Insisi on editing all scripts often to th thi th dismay of script writers producer producers and actors The have hav been Inside the studio Just once since the series started on NBC They listen lis Us ten to the program at home tAfter t- t I Alter After eight years as a CBS stall stab conductor Lyn Murray quit to free free- lance His IDs orchestra and chorus art arc doing a new series on CBS CDS hes he's conducting conducting con ducting the orchestra on the ne new Gertrude Lawrence show and li ii choral conductor on both Hii Hi Parades Parades hes he's hes doing all right I ODDS AND ENDS ENDS NBC baritone crooner Tommy Taylor was about to u give Hive up h his career when NBC took look him hint himoff himon hinto o off on a milk truck 4 A new Sinatra fan an club with headquarters headquarter in Pius Pitts Pa calls itself The Society of 01 Souls Stif SuI f feTing eying From Oddest bond sales alel combination in the recent drive drive- John J. J n D. D Rockefeller and Dick f of 01 the airs air's Heres to w Romance Joe Yule ule Mickey father has haI been cast in Kismet Kismer h his tan paT at Metro Joan loan Davis whose whale click did didon on her new radio program has ha all 1101 lywood bidding for her Ier services hoi haJ signed to play the lead in Show Busi s. s |