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Show STAGESCREENADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE ANDRE BARUCH, telephoning tele-phoning to announce his son's arrival, was so exuberant exuber-ant that he could hardly talk. "Of course it's a boy!" said he, as if there couldn't have been any doubt about that. Young Wayne Edward will, have to be famous, with two such parents. Andre was tops in radio before he Joined the army and chalked up an outstanding record; now he's announcing on "Your Hit Parade," the Lombardo and Harry James nights for "Spotlight Bands," and several others. Mama Bea Wain has long been known for her perfect per-fect diction as well as her distinctive distinc-tive style in singing; she's been on "Your Hit Parade" and other big radio shows. Now that Wayne's arrived, ar-rived, she'll be on the air again. Joan Edwards estimates that she spends about 20 hours a week working work-ing out technical problems, prior to her actual singing time of 12 minutes min-utes on "Your Hit Parade"; being a thorough musician, she works with arrangers on musical details of the I ii ' i ' ' ' : ' i I ' " -i - ' 1 k;.-j -,k.-,i , ,,t - JOAN EDWARDS orchestral backgrounds to her songs, rehearses in various keys to get the right one, spends hours on getting a good mike balance between be-tween her voice and the orchestra. Next time you hear Joan's effortless effort-less performance, remember that j she put a lot of hard work into making mak-ing it seem so casual, m A role- in "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber" lured Reginald Regi-nald Denny back to the screen; he's been too busy to act. He made model planes as a hobby, then during dur-ing the war he made them for the army, for identification purposes. Finally he converted his plant to make jet propulsion models. m Lanny Ross scored a hit at a recent re-cent concert in Chicago when he i sang Strauss' 'Emperor Waltz." One critic said his performance wag better than the lyrics deserved not , ; knowing that Ross wrote the lyrics himself, under the name of Robert Matthews! ! X It sounded fine, that plan to paint ! Betty Hutton and the girls of a cho- j rus line with gold lacquer for the Casino de Paris finale in Para-mount's Para-mount's "Perils of Pauline." But it had to be abandoned Betty and 12 I of the 18 dancers were allergic to the gold paint. Fred MacMurray was to eat real caviar in a scene in "Suddenly It's Spring," but most of the "caviar" ; on the table was buckshot bathed ! in axle grease looks just the same on the screen. A prop man stopped MacMurray just as he was about to take a mouthful of the imitation. "That's all right," said he. "Caviar tastes like buckshot and axle grease to me, anyway." ! Sara Haden is playing her 42nd i hard-boiled secretary to a star in "Mr. Ace," as handmaiden to Syl- ! via Sidney. Sara says her frigid mien has made her one of the busiest busi-est players in the film colony, and "At the end of a day's work as a frozen-face, I go home and sit in front of the mirror and just laugh my head off. It's the best way of relaxing, especially when I know that next morning 111 have to freeze up again." Shortly after Warner Brothers brought sound to motion pictures, some 20 years ago, a stage dancer arrived in Hollywood to give Joan Crawford some special instruction. He was tested as a possibility for pictures, and given this rating "Difficult to photograph. No dra- ' matic quality. Thin hair. Poor I speaking voice. Not a romantic type. Dances." His name was j Fred Astaire! OnPS AND EKDS Marilyn Max-well Max-well wilt wear a balliing suit the first time on the screen in "Carnation Charlie"; lied Skelton, who'll appear in the same sequence, doesn't expect to be noticed at alt . . . John i.und, of "To Euch His Own, is haunting rummage rum-mage sales, looking for an old-fashioned leather library chair for his home . . . Signe Husso plays her most important im-portant romantic scene with Dob Hope in "If here There's Life," wearing an old-fashioned woolen night shirt . . . Allie, young son of Robert Alda, CP nr. ners star, is earning $2 a day by panning pan-ning gold in the hills of his father's ranch in Sunland, Calif. |