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Show agescreenMdio Released by Western Newspaper Union. . By VIRGINIA VALE "TthEN Mary Pickford VV was picked by the winning win-ning contestant on the Mutual Mu-tual network's "Queen for a Day" program as the person the "Queen" wanted to have tea with, Mary liked the idea of the program so much that she invited the mother of Mer-vyn Mer-vyn LeRoy to hear it broadcast. Mrs. LeRoy enjoyed the broadcast so much that she promptly called her son, and talked so enthusiastically that he decided to make a Technicolor Techni-color picture on the "Queen for a Day" idea of creating 24-hour Cin-derellas. Cin-derellas. Monogram played host to "Queens" on the successive days. They watched Peter Cookson, Warren War-ren William and Anne Gwynne work on the "Suspense" set, then visited the night-club set of "Swing Parade." Pa-rade." Susan Hayward has left Paramount, Para-mount, where she got her start, and signed with Walter Wanger for seven years. Her first picture will be the technicolor Western, "Can- r""" V7 ' i i - : I ; -.5 rv" f , f f , SUSAN HAYWARD yon Passage," with Dana Andrews and Brian Donlevy. She'll be working work-ing at Universal, right along with her husband, Jess Barker, who's playing a featured role in "As It "Was Before." There's a fine new radio show scheduled to start September 11. Cornelia Otis Skinner and Roland Young will be heard in more of the delightful "William and Mary" sketches, written by Miss Skinner, which were heard on the air a while ago. Barry Wood will be the singing sing-ing master of ceremonies, and Ray Block's orchestra, a mw mixed choral group, and a guest star will complete the program. "A Night In Casablanca" will launch the Marx Brothers as independent inde-pendent film producers, and the Marxes will try it out on a stage tour of Pacific coast theaters and service camps. That Is, they'll do five sketches that have been developed devel-oped from the script, about 400,000 persons will see them, and the material ma-terial that gets by with this critical audience will go into the picture. Jack Douglas, writer and actor on ihe Phil Harris radio show," was giv-en giv-en a baby shower by Harris and the cast when John Douglas Jr. arrived. ar-rived. One gift was a cradle which has rocked the babies of the Pvonald Colmans, Ruth Hussey and Constance Moore, respectively. William Goetz, head of International Interna-tional Pictures, is "agin" long feature fea-ture films, so his "Tomorrow Is For--ever," starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and George Brent, will reach the screen in less than 30,000 feet will run less than two hours. Twentieth Century-Fox plans to remake that lovely story, "Berkeley Square," in which Leslie Howard and Heather Angel originally appeared. ap-peared. It ii t the story will be rewrit-y rewrit-y y ttcn, and this time Maureen O'Hara; ' Nrcgory Peck and Jeanne Crain will i tVC ",e leading roles. "The Strange Adventure" has an Academy Award line-up; Clark Gable, Ga-ble, Greer Garson, Thomas Mitchell, Mitch-ell, Director Victor Fleming and Cameraman Joseph Rutenberg have all won their Oscars. The chickens which chase the actors have no Oscars, Os-cars, but they're prize stunt hens. Want to appear on a quiz show? Then take a tip from Quizmaster Fred Uttal, who selects guest contestants con-testants for the Wednesday night CBS "Detect and Collect" show. Fred says he looks the audience over and picks those with "the most eager hands." ODDS AD EXDS Cpl. Mickel Patiturff is spontJitifi his 30-riay furlousli working in ''fright and )uv" nt War- nvrs' -iftt'r two and a half years in the Coast Guard, Gig Young returns to U 'urnvrs'; hp was last sren in "Old Acquaintance," Ac-quaintance," uith Bette Davis, . . . 20th Ccntury-h'ox has re-optionrd AUvn oi-lyn oi-lyn for another year he's ntnently appearing with I'ecisy Ann Garner in the film version of ' Junior Miss". . . . I)ix Davis, "Randolph" on the fr'BC "Date With Judy" program, has signed for the role of Hugh Herbert's son in the Sunday CHS "That's My Pop". . . . RKO will have two Danny Kaye technicolor techni-color comedies in 194S-46. |