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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE JINX FALKENBERG and J her husband, Tex McCrary, are doing such an outstanding outstand-ing job on their husband-and-wife radio program that it's too bad they're not on a coast-to-coast hookup. Maybe NBC will do something about it; now they're just on the New York station, WEAF. Recently Re-cently they did their broadcast from a plane that hovered over New Jersey and Connecticut while they talked. Jinx, who's forsaken the movies at least until the stork ar- f x - JINX FALKENBERG rives, looked lovely in a coral-colored coat, with a twist of colored stuff in her hair. McCrary's newspaper news-paper experience, plus his work during the war, add tremendously to the value of their program, of course. If NBC dbesn't have Fred Allen repeat the broadcast he and Talul-lah Talul-lah Bankhead did on May 5, there'll be a lot of disconsolate people wailing wail-ing for months because they missed it. It was hilarious. Those who did hear it are still talking about it, and repeating bits of dialogue for those who didn't. It was one of Fred Allen's Al-len's best, which is saying plenty. Bob Hawk, CBS quipmaster, not only pinch-hit for ailing Arthur Godfrey on the latter' s morning broadcasts, he's also substituted for Godfrey in the Broadway revue, "Three to Make Ready" marking mark-ing his debut on the New York stage. For his starring role in RKO's "Nocturne" George Raft will have the benefit of advice from one of Broadway's most famous detectives, detec-tives, Barny Ruditsky. Producer Joan Harrison, a stickler for realism, real-ism, wants Raft to be an authentio replica of a real detective, not one of those unbelievable creatures we often see on the screen. Ruditsky worked on cases involving famous gangsters for 20 years. The National Barn Dance originates orig-inates from McLeansboro, 111., Saturday, June 8, when the gang joins the American Legion in a national na-tional homecoming celebration for National Comdr. John Stelle, which will end with an old-fashioned barbecue bar-becue at midnight. Bob Burns had to turn down an Invitation to head the Hoboes' Association Asso-ciation of America, but he does hold a life membership card in the association, having fulfilled the two big requirements hoboing in every ev-ery state of the union and totaling 100,000 miles. Barbara Jo Allen, who created the man-chasing "Vera Vague" and then turned "Vera" into a dramatio star on a recent CBS "This Is My Best" broadcast, creates still another an-other character in the picture, "Earl Carroll's Sketchbook," now in production. In the movie she portrays por-trays a wise-cracking designer, but one who has do designs on any man! Parks Johnson and Warren Hull will return from vaction with a new sponsor, broadcasting "Vox Pop" at a new time they'll replace re-place the CBS "Inner Sanctum." Meanwhile Parks is resting on his Texas ranch, and Hull's doing, some experimental television shows. -T That Hollywood smallpox scare sort of wrecked Alan Hale. His vaccination vac-cination not only took hold of his left arm, it took a bit of the arm with it, leaving quite a wound. Hale was temporarily out of the "Cheyenne" "Chey-enne" cast. ODDS AXD EA'DS Producer Seymour Sey-mour hcbfnznl discovered, in searching search-ing for a fat Chinaman to play a heavy in "7 he Chase" that tlicre's a shorlaxe of ihem, so he's changed the script and is testing ofese Chinese women. ... Heese '1 aylor, of "Young Dr. Ma-lone" Ma-lone" has been in radio 14 years, but he still suffers badly from mike fright. ! . . . Tex lienekc and the Glenn Millet ! band have ten netuxtrk uires weekly j noil-; they're featured on "Matinee at Mcadoit brook" Saturdays, in addition to night-time programs. . . . Dirk NeU son ("Life Can Up, Beautiful" J has his I epitaph ready "Here Lies an Actor. j Is thai unusual?" |