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Show STAGESCREEfOADlO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE RADIO, which so often looks to the movies, theaters thea-ters and cafes for its stars, has glanced at its own front parlor and brought out Georgia Gibbs for the summer sum-mer replacement of "Hall of Fame" on Sunday nights. Georgia, who got her start on the air a few years ago, has gone straight ahead as a singer; she's appeared on the Jimmy Durante-Gary Moore show GEORGIA GIBBS since Its Inception. But now she's branching out as a songstress-of-ceremonies; she is being co-starred with Paul Whitman over the Blue Network. Don DeFore (of Paramount's "You Came Along") plans to take a busman's holiday this summer in his home town, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He'll do some acting in a play for the Sinclair Memorial Church's drama group. The rest of the cast consists of his brother and his three sisters. And the director is his mother. If acting doesn't actually run in that family it certainly has a good start! When he was a Mack Sennett star, about 29 years ago, Chester Conklin used to pick np a youngster who had no car and drive him to the studio; the lad worked for $5 a day, with a three-day-a-week guarantee. His name was Eddie Sutherland, and, as director of RKO's "Having Wonderful Crime," he was delighted when he found a role suited to Conklin, and signed him. When George Marshall, director of "Murder, He Says," started in pictures pic-tures 33 years ago, he shared a room with two other $3-per-day actors. But they all changed professions the others were William Seiter and Frank Lloyd, also directors, and good ones.' Gig Young, the promising young actor who took a "rain check" with Warner Bros, for duty with the coast guard in the South Pacific, came back on furlough and added his bit to the list of how-small-the-world-is stories. He met a marine officer named Obringer on Guadalcanal, and asked him if he knew Roy Obringer of Warners' legal depart-, ment. "Sure," said the other. "He's my father." Harriet O'Rourke, soprano soloist of "Steel Horizons," has a parrot, Sammy, who's the envy of her singing friends. Sammy practices right along with Harriet, and has developed a good ear for music she says he squawks whenever she makes a mistake. What Charles Boyer did for the movies, Jerry Wayne, star of his own show in the Blue, will do for the stage. He'll appear with Joan Roberts in a new musical, "Marin-ka," "Marin-ka," a musical version of the film, "Mayerling," in the role of "Princo Rudolph." It's becoming an cfld story to Dinah Di-nah Shore, this business of being named the No. 1 radio songstress of the nation, in a newspaper poll. So far this season it's happened 11 times but to Dinah it's still pretty tli rilling. Probably the most carefully guarded plot in Hollywood was that of "Notorious," Ingrid Bergman's picture, which Alfred Hitchcock will direct for David O. Selznick. Hitchcock Hitch-cock and Ben Hecht wrote most of the story in a hotel room in New York. Only they and Selznick knew for some time what sort of role Miss Bergman would play. Among the many accomplishments accomplish-ments of Felix Mills, band leader on "The Man Called X" the summer replacement for the Bob Hope show is the ability to play every instrument instru-ment in the band. He can also read music upside down though just why, he can't say. ODllS ASD EMSThn "u!l tnhC I tuhmtttrd by woitndrd SPrviermrn and , featured on the Knte Smith hour will i eventually appear in book form. . . . FranUie Carle snvs he known he' a sue- cem he not a fan letter a.'init him to lend the sender $l.'h"l. . . . One of the extra in Columbia's "The Fifihtmn Guardsman" is Gertrude AUtr, u ho uas Thomas Meichan's lending lady ahoul 2:7 years ago. . . . Johnny Mack lit own. Monogram Western star, is making a persona! appearance tour of southern theaters. . . . Ozzie !'ehon, cottar of "'I he Adi enlure.s of Ozzie and Harriet' over CHS, has another picture on the list: Paramount' "I'tople Are Funny." |