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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. LOOKS as if Warner Bros, agreed with Jack Benny when, on his return from the European battlefronts, he declared de-clared the trip was the best vacation he'd had in years. Humphrey Bogart was just well on his way to entertain servicemen in that area when the company announced an-nounced that as soon as he returned he'd start work on "To Have and to " - 'te-tt, " ' " " ' ' r sty HUMPHREY BOGART Have Not," by Ernest Hemingway. It's a tale about the rum-running skipper of a yacht operating off the Florida Keys sounds very Bogart-ish. Bogart-ish. HS That nation-wide search for the voice which most nearly approximates approxi-mates that of the famous Nellie Melba wound up with the selection of 22-year-old Jean Forward, who'll Blng in Rene Clair's "It Happened Tomorrow." She moved to Los Angeles An-geles two years ago, and before that had sung leading roles with the Golden West Opera company, the Southerns California Opera company, and the American Opera company. Her voice was selected from hundreds hun-dreds by Robert Stolz, who's serving as musical director for the production. produc-tion. When Janet Wilde was in Hollywood Holly-wood she appeared in a mere handful hand-ful of pictures, mostly Westerns. She switched to radio, and was chosen cho-sen to portray Corliss Archer in the new comedy series and now the film folk want her back. "That's not for me," says Janet. Tom Coats is a stunt double whose services are hired for extraordinary feats of horsemanship. He worked in "Riding High," and one chore was to impersonate Cass Daley driving a heavy wagon at full tilt over a desert road. He had to wear a wig with a pompadour, so that in long shots he'd look like Cass and that wig above his rugged face practically prac-tically ruined the members of the crewl $ His outstanding work in films and in radio guest appearances has won William Bendix a starring air show of his own, the Blue Network's Sunday Sun-day afternoon comedy-drama "The Life of Riley." It was those guest appearances that attracted the radio ra-dio moguls' interest. To present a broad, inclusive picture pic-ture of American youth in wartime and to show how youth itself i'A meeting meet-ing the challenge of increased juvenile ju-venile delinquency, the National Broadcasting company has announced an-nounced a 13-week series of programs, pro-grams, "Here's to Youth," which will be heard Saturdays from one to one-thirty. Eastern War Time, beginning January 15. The broadcasts broad-casts will be presented in cooperation coopera-tion with 10 major voluntary youth organizations with a total youth membership of 31 million. At 66, Charles Coburn, veteran of stage and screen, not only sings for the first time in films but also en- gages in his first screen romance. The girl is blonde Constance Dowl-ing, Dowl-ing, who, with Coburn and Nelson Eddy, is co-starred in "Knickerbocker "Knickerbock-er Holiday." As Governor Peter Stuyvesant, Coburn not only wears a peg leg, but does a dance as welL X Ella Raines was considered too typically American to play the English Eng-lish girl in "The Uninvited" Gail Russell got the role. Ella was thought too sophisticated for "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" Gail got the part. But Ella's set as leading lead-ing woman in "Hail the Conquering Hero," in which she'll play opposite oppo-site Eddie Bracken and it's a Preston Pres-ton Sturges picture! ODDS AND ENDS With that lucky alarm clock back on the Vox Pop show, Parks Johnson and Warren Hull are wondering again what will happen if it ever goes off during the commercial commer-cial would the sponsor get the $10, or would it go to the announcer, they ask . . . Clifford Goldsmith, author of "The Aldrich Family" has been asked to repeat re-peat some of his especially popular scripts an innovation in radio if he does it . . . Hence Terry of CBS' "Bright Horizon" has been awarded service stripes as a nurses aide . . . There's been an avalanche of suggestions sugges-tions that Fred Allen and lauritz Mel-chior Mel-chior do their stunt in pictures. |