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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union, By VIRGINIA VALE WHEN Jackie Coogan was five he skyrocketed to fame in "The Kid." He was making his second picture, pic-ture, "Peck's Bad Boy," when the car taking him to the studio crashed; he was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull, and he's been totally total-ly deaf in one ear ever since, a fact he's just revealed. He faked his way into the army, made an en- - ....ulu.hu, a f '''' ! : ' . ! ! ' '"Nn vV ' f- - t.WN. d JACKIE COOGAN viable record as a second lieutenant lieuten-ant in the army air forces. Now 31, he's been discharged, and is on the air with his own radio show, "Forever "For-ever Ernest," on CBS Monday nights. He broadcasts from Hollywood, Holly-wood, and is all set to return to pictures pic-tures has a new film scheduled to start In June. Pretty good for that wistful infant, "The Kid"l David Rose, 20th Century -Fox musical director, never goes to bed before 5 a. m. can't compose in daylight. Yet he thinks a good musical musi-cal piece can be dreamed up on a street corner or a bus I That new composition of his, "Gay Spirits," which you heard on his Wednesday night radio program, is the result, he says, of playing his popular "Holiday for Strings" backward. Doreen Taylor, who for the past four years has done the singing for many a famous non-singing movie queen, at last sings In her own right on the screen In RKO's "From This Day Forward." They finally tested her and discovered that she's very photogenic. For Universal's "So Goes My Love," Myrna Loy had to get used to moving about In the burdensome costumes of 1870, but she says it needed no adjustment to play the young woman who planned to marry a rich man, won Hiram Maxim, the famous inventor, piloted pilot-ed his career and raised their children. chil-dren. For, says she, girls employ those same stratagems today. "Exactly four years ago," said Gregory Peck on his recent birthday, birth-day, "I spent my birthday washing dishes In a New York restaurant." Now he's on top; David O. Selznlck has signed a new contract with him, will star him In "Benedict Arnold." Ar-nold." It will go into production late this year, will be done In technicolor, techni-color, and on the same scale as "Gone with the Wind" and "Duel In the Sun." The story of radio since Its Inception Incep-tion will be the basis for a two and one-half million dollar film tentatively tenta-tively titled "Magic In the Air." Jcr-rold Jcr-rold T. Brandt, who produced the "Scattergood Baines" series before he entered the service, and made 150 training films while In the navy, will produce the film, bringing to the screen the top personalities of radio since the days of crystal sets. Anne Francis, 15, who plays "Kathy Cameron" on NBC's "When a Girl Marries," has been signed to a seven-year contract by MGM. Anne made her radio debut In 1938 on the children's program, "Coast to Coast on a Bus," and has been acting ever since. When Mutual comes on the air with its four separate broadcasts of the Indianapolis Speedway race on Decoration Day, a record number num-ber of nine announcers will be on hand at various positions around the track. Bill Slater and Ford Pearson Pear-son among them. When Fred Waring and his Penn-sylvanians Penn-sylvanians take over the Fibber Mc-Gee Mc-Gee and Molly time on NBC for the summer, starting June 18, Fred will probably be setting a record; with his five morning programs, he'll be doing six half-hour shows a week on a network. ODDS AND ENDS In "Suddenly It's Spring" Fred MacMurray luid to take six falls and said: "V'ii's picture is misnamed; it should be 'Suddenly It's Fall'" . . . Boris Karloff plays m dramatic role in a comedy for the first time in the Danny Kaye picture, "The Secret Life of Waller Milty." . . . A fan who asked I'erry Como for his script after a recent "Supper Club" broadcast was told he'd need it for the repent for the West Coast, but she could have the script if she wanted U wait; to his astonishment there she was, four hours later. . . . Vaul Lavalle has been given three dachshund pups, named lluch. Ueelhoven and Urahms. |