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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. AFTER spending six months in Hollywood, airing his tremendously popular pop-ular "Take It or Leave It" show and making a picture for 20th Century-Fox, Phil Baker returns to New York with a pretty good idea of who'l smarter, West coast contestants contest-ants or those from the East. But he's a cagey soul; when asked about the results of his own private survey he replied "America's intelligence is : 'A ; Av f- - A PHIL BAKER nation-wide." He's going to be asking ask-ing "Take It or Leave It" questions Sunday nights at the New York CBS studio. Universal plans to cash in on the public's liking for being scared by giving us a series of "Inner Sanctum Mysteries" they bought the screen Tights to the title, but none of the radio stories will be used. "They'll make two a year, the first, "Calling Dr. Death," starring Gale Sonder-gaard Sonder-gaard and Lon Chaney. RKO will do "Having Wonderful Crime"; 20th Century-Fox has bought that super-auper super-auper mystery, "Stranger on the Highway." And Metro's doing the huddery "Gaslight," which, as a play, Btlll runs in New York. Columbia's taking a chance by having Marguerite Chapman play a full-fledged Nazi throughout most of "Appointment In Berlin" on the theory that too much sweetness nd light hampers the build-up of a new feminine star. They hope the public will agree with that theory. 'Well, It certainly worked In Bette Davis' case just see what an unpleasant un-pleasant role did for herl Henry Kostcr and Joseph Pasternak Paster-nak are united again; they're the pair who worked together on many f the pictures that carried Deanna Durbin from obscurity to stardom. Their first Joint effort at Metro will tie "Muslo for Millions," starring Lana Turner. California's oldest mission bell, cast in bronze In Lima, Peru, in 1818 for La Purlsima Mission at Lompoc, Is the bell that tolls in "For Whom the Bell Tolls." By the way, though you'll probably hardly glance at the picture's main title when it's flashed on the screen, 35 men worked on it, after William Cameron Menzies had designed it. Nowadays there's a sign saying "No Women Visitors" on the "Cry Havoc" set at Metro. The 13 feminine fem-inine members of the cast had put In four weeks minus make-up, with atralght hair, and wearing soiled overalls and Hedy Lamarr dropped In, wearing white chiffon! Johnny Mercer's achieving a lifelong life-long ambition when he steps out on Ills radio program Tuesday nights. For years the author of "That Old Black Mnglc" and "Blues In the Night" and many other song hits has wanted to be an actor. Started when ho was 17, but everybody turned him down; wouldn't take him for musicals, but always bought his songs. Now at last he's getting what ho wants. Arthur Lake of the "Blondle" series se-ries announced the other day that he has only a pint of blood left In his body. He's been to the blood bank six times In the past 18 months. "And I've read that there are only seven pints of blood in one's bodyl" says he. Bob Hannon, new NBC singing star, is headed for an Important role in Warner Bros.' "Shine On, Harvest Har-vest Moon," the Dim based on Nora Bayes' life, in which Ann Sheridan will have the leading role. Dennis Morgan suggested him for the part. ODDS AXD ESDS Charles Martin's Mar-tin's book on writing for radio trill be published within the next few weeks . . . Alec Templcton's preparing a par-odv par-odv on l ictory Gardens to end all parodies paro-dies on same . . . Kre Smith's an autograph auto-graph collector; her latest is that of field Marshall (T arell, which she got when she sat next him at a niht baseball base-ball game . . . "Forever and a Day" has a cast including 78 stars, all the big English ones . . . "Bob Crosby and Company" U the title of the youngest Crosby's netv radio show, to be heard Friday evenings, over A DC . . . United Artists wants to film Sammy Kaye't "So Yoa Want to Lead a Band." |