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Show STAGESCREENAdlO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE BARRY FITZGERALD, rehearsing re-hearsing for his role of "Judge Fitz" in "His Honor the Barber," remarked "If I'd known how much, work radio is I'd never have gone nto it." Guest appearances ladn't prepared him for all hat toil. Incidentally, they lad a deal of trouble finding he right microphone for that brogue f his finally found an old one that Iters some of it out. But the brogue omes in handy in "Third Avenue," le Paramount picture he's working i with Sonny Tufts and Diana Lynn. It was only after a long, long ;arch that William S. Keighley was hosen to succeed Cecil B. DeMille s producer of that radio theater rogram. Keighley did some fine I , WILLIAM S. KEIGHLEY pictures "George Washington Slept Here," "The Man Who Came to Dinner," etc. before he went into the army. He's working now on "I Love You Truly," based on the life of Carrie Jacobs Bond. m Maureen O'Hara's sister makes her film debut in RKO's forthcoming forthcom-ing British production, "Hotel Reserve." Re-serve." Her name's Clare Hamilton, and like her famous sister, she attended at-tended the Abbey Dramatic school, Maureen's next is "The Spanish Main." On location for Bob Hope's new picture, '.'Monsieur Beaucaire, ' Director George Marshall demonstrated demon-strated to Patric Knowles just how he .was to skip from rock to rock across a stream. And fell in, of course, acquiring a bruised shin. Knowles did it perfectly. Olga San Juan has an odd claim to fame she's Fred Astaire's last screen dancing partner, as he's retiring re-tiring from picture-making after "Blue Skies." But Gene Kelly, whose dancing is as inspired as Astaire's, saves the day for movie-goers. Both the "Alter Ego" number in "Cover Girl," in which he danced with himself, him-self, and the sequence in "Anchors Aweigh" in which he dances with an animated cartoon character, were conceived, staged and directed by .Kelly. Furthermore, the lad can act who can ask for anything more? An animated cartoon character, "Nixie," steals Colurnbia's "She Wouldn't Say Yes" right out from under the noses of Rosalind Russell, Lee Bowman and Adele Jergens. People are saying it's the best one since Mickey Mouse was born. Dinah Shore's trying something different the singing hostess of "Dinah Shore's Open House," over NBC, will star in Sinclair Lewis' "Bongo" for Walt Disney. She'll act as narrator, sing several songs, and appear before the cameras. Charity tennis matches to be played by Walter Pidgeon and Van Johnson next spring will get a preview pre-view when "Holiday in Mexico" is released. They'll play a practice game for the cameras. Pidgeon goes all out as an athlete in this one swims, plays golf, rides horseback. He plays the American ambassador to Mexico, just as a change from being Greer Garson's husband. Betty Hutton saved her boss. Producer Pro-ducer B. G. DeSylva, a nice sum in wardrobe rental costs for "The Stork Club." She was to wear a mink coat. The wardrobe department depart-ment had trouble finding one thai was swanky enough. So Betty volunteered vol-unteered to wear her own value, $10,000. As soon as Ed "Archie" Gardner's young son had his curls cut he began making the rounds of Hollywood Holly-wood children's parties within week he went to one given by Anr Rutherford's youngster and another, a costume party, given by the Lee Bowmans for their son. UniS AM) EXDS Games unrd J that llirift Crosby will probably retitri to the uir the first of the year 4c cttnlinit to the latest reports. Art Link letter's CHS "House thirty" has the high 1 est sponsor identification o an (lav j time shtnv on the air. . . . f,pn Gotchrr called the icorhrs champion squart dance caller, and his tcife, IT innie, ap pear in lK(l's "Madman's lerritor.' . . . Carol Stenart, vocalist on Maihr Hurt's "llciiluh" show, tins a sound et feels pirl only five months ano : she s re cently sinned a 2lhh Coatur tin con tract. . . . Those u ho'ie seen "Tn's am $lurs" say Alfred Iha e's better in I than he Nvr in "Okb.honin " |