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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE WORK in a picture with Bob Hope or Bing Crosby and you're likely to turn into a golfer. Signe Hasso-learned the game between scenes of Paramount's "Where There's Life"; her instructor, co-star Bob Hope, turned a corner of the sound stage into a green for the purpose. pur-pose. Joan Caulfleld, now in "Dear Ruth," caught the fever when she made "Blue Skies" with Bing and got herself a teacher. He told her not to count her strokes, but she counts the ones when she's par or under; says it helps a lot. Willie Howard, the famous comedian come-dian who'U soon celebrate the completion com-pletion of 40 years in show business, busi-ness, is going strong his life story's ! - .-. 6 . f :. i X, -if ; ' f , i: . .. ... r-n-v ' ' ' MMH jVr- r -. . AwLwt, v' fr- --- WILLIE HOWARD being filmed, he's writing his autobiography, auto-biography, and plans to star in a revival of one of his old hits and then appear m the film. Ken Roberts and the producer! of Mutual's "Quick as a Flash" have been wondering which sex reacti quicker to the excitement of com. petition so Fordham university's psychologists arranged to attach electrodes to a man and a girl contestant con-testant and record the results. Virginia Mayo, a Samuel Goldwyi featured player, achieves star sta. tus in December with the release of "Hie Best Years of Our Lives.'' It was produced simultaneously witl "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," in which she co-stars with Dannj Kaye so during a four-month period peri-od Virginia was on call most of th time. Yet she gained eight poimdi says it was because she ate sensi bly and got nine hours' sleep even night. But when the pictures wen completed she was still on call foi fashion stills and color layouts am lost 15 pounds! As if the language of high schoo students hadn't acquired enough by words, William Bendix's "The Lift of Riley" has added two more "What a revoltin' development thlj is!" greets many a minor tragedy And they've also adopted the greet ing offered by "Digger O'Dell," thi friendly undertaker character "Hullo there, you're looking fine veddy natural!" Everybody knows that Edgar Ber gen got his start in radio on Rudi Vallee's program; few know tha 'Rudy learned ventriloquism fron Bergen, and is now fairly proficient He has three dummies Sally Ann Linoleum and Ezra Snerd, brothe: of the famous Mortimer. Sunday afternoon seems to bi Metropolitan Opera stars' time three of them are featured on thei own programs starting at 2:00 p m. on NBC there's Robert Merrill i half an hour later James Melton ha j his own program, and at 5:0 along comes Patrice Munsel. i Ruby Dandridge, who's Judy Ca nova's maid on the radio, will ap pear as Lillian Russell's maid ii "My Wild Irish Rose," starring Den nis Morgan. Evidently sh-; doesn' mind being typed; she's played mail roles in 15 consecutive pictures! Paul Lavalle has organized am conducted many types, of orches tras; now he's organizing a tin pa: band. The conductor of the Fr! day night "Highways in Melody,' co-operating with the New York Chii dren's Aid society, is getting togeth er an orchestra of youngsters fou to eight years old; they'll learn basi music rhythms by beating on ti pans and kettles. Gene Kelly and June Allyson wij be teamed in Metro's "Cabbage and Kings"; he'll play a Coney Ii j land sideshow barker who falls i I love with her, a modern Alice i j Wonderland. ODDS AD EXDS Victor Slfruc I lafrsl scrffn afipruriiHce is as co-slftr i HKO's "Sinbud the S'lilttr", . . Dcnm lnrgnn lias just made himself a brie 1 barbc-cuc; note all he npads is th j mt'al to go villi it. . . . Itrnny Com j man. star oi "Ilia I irtnr liorge Show, ti ill bp one of three judges in a n tion-u ide contest to select the best son by -an amateur based on the mnvl "fluel in the Sun.". . . Jimmy Wallin, 1 Ion estimates that he's announce about 150,000 radio slums in his yem before the mike. . . . Mnrlene Die rich's to be featured as an actress, ru a siren, in "Golden Earrings." |