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Show 0TAGESCREEN?ADIO Beleascd by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE CREDIT the fact that radio stations have been built solely to entertain the G.I.s to Major Andre Baruch, who set up the first one and went on to establish seven more. He'd been with CBS for eight 1 years as announcer, director and producer, then operated on a freelance free-lance basis on all four networks; producing radio shows from early morn till taps was easy for him. He i also got stories from men at the I front and dramatized them on the ' air; Incidentally, he's seen plenty of combat service, and has the ' ' ; - .- & : $ 4 r ( : i MAJ. ANDRE BARUCH Purple Heart. The men complained because they didn't hear commercials, commer-cials, so he invented some. In addition addi-tion to military duties he directs "Weapons for Victory," heard on CBS Thursdays. m Producer Charles R. Rogers launched Jane Powell, the 15-year-old singer, in "Song of the Open Road," then cast her in another musical, "Delightfully Dangerous," with Ralph Bellamy. So now Metro, from whom he borrowed her, is prompting her career. They hit on something new at Republic Re-public Studios when six dressing rooms, exactly alike, were set np alongside the sound stage where "Bells of Rosarita" is being filmed the dressing rooms were for Roy Rogers, the star, and for the five Western stars doing guest appearances ap-pearances in the picture. The novel note was the six hitching posts provided pro-vided for the stars' favorite horses. In 1940 an ex-barker from the World's Fair applied to New York's Neighborhood Playhouse for a scholarship; schol-arship; after a test he received a $500 scholarship and $50 a month to live on; he added to that by guiding tourists through Radio City. Recently Recent-ly the Playhouse receiveda large check for their scholarship fund from Gregory Peck, the lad who was helped In 1940, now a Hollywood Holly-wood success as a leading man. David O. Selznick's research department de-partment recently received an astonishing inquiry from the famous fa-mous Haskins Information service of Washington; Haskins wanted to know the title and name of the author of the poem read by Lionel Barrymore in "Since You Went Away." The researchers replied that in Hollywood the poem was known as "The Star Spangled Banner," Ban-ner," written by Francis Scott Key. Remember Ernie Pyle's beautifully beautiful-ly written description of the soldiers' sol-diers' farewell to Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Belton, Texas, after his death? When directing that scene for "Story of G.I. Joe," William Wcllman merely read the men that description. The scene was perfect in one take. Lawrence Tibbett got two swell fan letters from Guadalcanal, one from his son, Larry Jr., one from tjark Burghard, his step-son; they'd .Luned in "Your Hit Parade" and fTwere amazed to hear him singing. I 1 They said his1 "Don't Fence Me In" ,jjally pleased the boys. i When the play in which Mary Astor appeared in New York closed, people lamented, for she looked so lovely that they hated to have her disappear from Broadway. So it's good news that she's at least going to do another picture soon Metro's "Blonde Fever," a sophisticated comedy based on Molnar's play, "Delilah," In which Philip Dorn will appear with her. Madeline Lee, blonde, five feet two, does those baby's cries and gurgles you hear on "Mr. District Attorney" and a lot of other programs; pro-grams; she specializes in them. The different expressions of moods depend de-pend on how much handkerchief she has pressed to her mouth! ODDS AXD EM)SAmos V Andy don't have finest stars on their program every week because unless a guest star is type cast for the show they wont invite in-vite one, . . . Jack Carson finished his chores in "Mildred fierce" and went into in-to "1'he Time, The Place and The GirT the same day. . . . Humphrey Bogarl's to play opposite somebody else than Lauren liacall for a change; he and llarhara Stanwyck will share the top roles in "The Two Mrs. Carrolls. , . . Lloyd (Vonn. the sympathetic neighbor, hood cop of "A 7 ree Crows in Brooklyn," Brook-lyn," is walking the beat again for 2Cllh Century-!- ox, as a postman in "Circum-ttantial "Circum-ttantial Evidence." |