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Show i KcJeased by Western Newspaper Union. WITH his work in a major role in "The Razor's . Edge," the film based on the ; Somerset Maugham book, be-i be-i hind him, Herbert Marshall is all set to return to the air for the summer in "The Man Called X." Replacing the Bob Hope i show last year, it climbed to fourth place in audience ratings of all . ' -: j !; , 7 ' I HERBERT MARSHALL j programs, surpassing many year-I year-I round standbys. Returning June 18, it will be heard for 14 weeks on the Hope time Tuesday evenings. Leon Belasco will again be heard in the role of "Mr. X's" aide. Screen tests were recently sent to Australia for a movie executive to see; bids for the services of several American actors resulted. One, offering $150 weekly salary and transportation, was for the un- . named comedian in test 19, but the deal fell through. The "comedian" who'd played an unimportant part in the Mervyn LeRoy - directed "Without Reservations" was Producer-Director LeRoy. Richard Long, the Hollywood high school lad who made his film debut in "Tomorrow Is Forever,' makes his second appearance in "The Stranger," for International, an RKO release. He'U play the young brother of Loretta Young. It's Hollywood Hol-lywood talk that Long is considered one of the most promising juvenile actors to turn up since Lew Ayres leaped to stardom In "All Quiet on the Western Front." m For a scene with Jennifer Jones in "Duel in the Sun" the camera caught only the back of Gregory Peck's head. "No one will recognize recog-nize you," somebody told him. "Yes, they will," said Peck. "Since those 'Spellbound' ads with Ingrid Bergman my neck is famous." Maybe Peggy Cummins wasn't so wise when she agreed to come to Hollywood. First, there was the "Forever Amber" disappointment. Then she was announced for "Bob, Son of Bat'Je"; that was canceled. The latest is that she'll play the daughter in "The Late George Ap-ley," Ap-ley," which seems like bad casting; the little Irish girl doesn't quite fit as the stiffly Bostonian family, even though Eleanor Apley does finally break away. Shirley Temple's delighted because be-cause she's to be starred in David O. Selznick's forthcoming "What Every Young Bride Should Know." It's scheduled to start after she completes her starring role with Cary Grant in "The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer." i "The Big Noise" by Fielden Far-rington Far-rington (Crown Publishers) neatly takes the hide off the radio business; busi-ness; insiders claim to recognize more than one famous character under another name. Mr. Farring-ton Farring-ton is the announcer of CBS' "The Romance of Helen Trent" and "The Armstrong Theater of Today" that i;., at present he Is. Maybe after that book gets around he won't be. Barbara Bel Geddes, the young actress who's one of the toasts of Broadway for her performance in "Deep Are the Roots," will make her screen debut In "A Time to Kill." Her RKO contract allows her to alternate between stage and screen. "Right Down Your Alley," a really real-ly different kind of quiz program, which has contestants bowling in a regulation alley to determine the amount of their prizes (usually j they're better at bowling than at answering an-swering questions), has made a ten t strike. Starting as a sustainer on American Broadcasting, the program pro-gram picked up a sponsor after only nine Sundays on the air. ODDS AISD ENDS Larmy Kosj' know that he spent three years in the army before starting his current "l.anny Ross Sinus"- but few know that as a boy he served an afifrenticC' hi) us a merchant seitmun. . . . Uur-inn Uur-inn his vacation this year lion Hanson il "Life Can lie lleantitnl." nill lake a busman's holiday and announce the loua, Minnesota and II isronsin state fairs. . . . "(tueen for a Day" may sound like a simjile program to listening auiliences, but it takes the efforts of 59 stal members to get the show on the air. . . . Hob Hope and Dorothy La' mour icill co-star in "The I'rivatc Eye" produced by lope Entcrprisest Inc. |
