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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE i NEXT time Gregory Peck is cast to play opposite a short girl, sympathize with him. He stands six-feet-three, and declares that kissing a short girl, over and over, for the cameras, means keeping his neck craned and his knees bent four or five hours a day, and it's no fun. Now, kissing Ingrid Bergman for "Spellbound" was fine; she's 5 feet, 7 inches, just the right height. As a matter of fact, those kissing scenes drew crowds from all parts of the Selznlck lot; workers flocked around to watch, till Anally the performers per-formers grew self-conscious, and the set had to be closed. Incidentally, since Ingrid won her Oscar, Swedish papers are finally ecstatic about her. When Anne Gillis broke into pictures pic-tures Carole Lombard was her idoL Carole had had a run of terrific bad luck, as Carol; a numerologist urged her to add that final "e" to her name, and fame and fortune fol- -ANNE GILLIS lowed. Anne, the ingenue of Ee-publlc'i Ee-publlc'i 'The Magnificent Mr. M.", has just recovered from an automobile auto-mobile accident, as Carole had, and she's launching a new career and she's now Anne instead of Ann. . Ona Munson's tired of living in a trunk, after two decades in show business. So she's bought a house In the Hollywood hills not too far from the studio where she's making mak-ing "The Magnificent Mr. M.", for the radio studio where she has her own program. Bill Goodwin, comedian on the Frank Sinatra air show, has turned movie actor; he has an Important role in "The Stork Club." But says he, while he was in New York City he tried to get into the Stork Club and couldn't it was crowded and he had no reservation. - Ever since Ethel Barrymore got her Oscar for her performance in "None But the Lonely Heart," the star of radio's "Miss Hattie" has been swamped with phone calls from Hollywood producers. Looks as if RKO would sign her for a picture pic-ture called "Miss Hargreaves." When Sammy Kaye, whose "Varieties" "Vari-eties" you hear on the Blue Network, Net-work, began reading verse over tHe air, skeptics told him it was a sure way to lose listeners. But he received so many requests for copies of the poems that he decided to publish them in book form. It's just 10 years since the first issue of The March of Time appeared ap-peared on the screens of 417 theaters; the-aters; today it's shown In more than 12,000. In Vol. II, one subject showed a rising political figure, Adolph Hitler. It also had a screen scoop, pictures of Sir Basil Zaharoff ; a cameraman got those by disguising disguis-ing himself as a fruit peddler and hiding his camera under a bunch of bananas. One of the oddest sights at La Guardia airport in New York occurs oc-curs whenever James Melton is outward out-ward bound. The "Star Theater" tenor drives up in his 1910 Locomobile, Loco-mobile, whose top speed is 25 m.p.h. to enter an airliner that can do 200 without half trying. Janet Blair and Marc Piatt, seen now in "Tonight and Every Night," will have the top roles in Columbia's Colum-bia's "Tars and Spars." The coast guard musical will be filmed with established screen personalities and with coast guard and SPARs personnel, per-sonnel, Joan Davis has signed a five-year contract with the company that will sponsor her in a new air show next season, starting late in September or early in October, on a new network net-work and at a new time. ODDS AND ENDS Cheryl DarUne, four-year-old daughter of cowboy star, Roy Rogers, trill have a part in "The Fabulous Texan,1 starring trillion Elliott. . . . When Kate Smith made her first recording 14 years ago. Jack Miller's orchestra accompanied her; today it's still Miller's orchestra on her Sunday night variety programs. . . . Charlie McCarthy Mc-Carthy wore a cowboy costume when broadcasting from New York, but when he stopped in Arizona on his icay home he wore tails. . . . Lisa Golm, who's specialized in portraying Nazi spies and refugees since her escape from Germany, "Way. Helmut Dantinc's American si'er Ik "Shadow of a IT oman." i |