| Show IE tt i ie e g RE REi i Released by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALE p. p LL through the year we hear tales about how popular this this or that movie star is is- is L then along comes news of RYA brought in the most money at atthe ca I t the he box office The national poll of motion picture exhibitors exhibitors tors taken annually by Showmen's Showmen's Show Show- mens men's Trade Review shows RI ab that Greer Garson and Van ry Johnson topped the 45 1944 list Bing Crosby first last year was second followed by Spencer Tracy 01 Gary Cooper and Roy Rogers The actresses ran Judy Garland Betty tc Grable who led the list the last three years Betty Hutton and Mar Mar- garet OBrien And the picture that topped all the others was Thirty ty Seconds Over Tokyo with Na ar Velvet in second place 3 If Bob Hawk can keep a secret For three years the idea for his current 1 Monday night series the CBS Bob Hawk Show was locked in a safe t pending the end of the war His Thanks to the Yanks was splendid Y 1 I R NIo- NIo e C 4 S' S at ShY ah 1 F w y w 1 m BOB HAWK I for wartime but no now v hes he's the big five and with contestants five and man VI answering five questions for their is Ji first prize and one question with five parts for the second half ar Its It's being told around that little Margaret OBrien O'Brien is getting awfully awful awful- ly tired of plaintive little girls she has to play play especially especially since Jimmy Durante taught her to sing I Want Vant II to 10 Be Happy in his own special U style But the poor childs child's typed typed- at rat her age ft i Louis Haywards Hayward's s 's postwar screen career leaped forward when he was signed for one of the top roles opposite op- op f polite Hedy lIedy Lamarr in The Thea a Strange Woman that came as a result of the sneak preview of Hunt Stromberg's Strom bergs berg's Young Widow in ino o 0 which hes he's starred co-starred with Jane Russell lie He put in three years with the marine corps as captain of a photographic unit he filmed the battle battIe battle bat bat- tle tIe of Tarawa 1 Sheik the Palomino R Ray y Milland rides in California had to have I. I tw two stand ins stand one one for rearing one for falling Its It's a technicolor picture pic- pic I ture so they had to be dyed to match Sheik But as they were both F dark horses they had to be bleached first t. r r. k That science series Exploring ling ing ing the Unknown is receiving new tf honors Selected by the armed servIce service ice forces as one of the most popular t lar transcription programs for GIs overseas the Sunday series is being be- be ing distributed ing-distributed distri bated by the N New ew York unit uni- uni t film library to schools throughout the country and the I American Cancer society is using one of the broadcasts in its educational educational work t One hundred thousand people I have persuaded Kate Smith to tot t broadcast before a studio audience again agam they all asked f for r tickets So she's now doing her Friday night Li H F Kate Hate Smith Sings program from CBS's LBS's Playhouse 4 its it's largest seating 1100 The repeat broadcast J for the West coast will take care of p another Bother 1100 so in about 45 weeks Kate will have caught up with the accumulated accumulate d requests I FOn F On his Dave Elman's Radio Auction Wednesday nights on Mun Mut Mu- Mu t ual Elman has bas auctioned every every'S S thing n from Hitler's personal dice to Marie Marie Antoinette's pillow slips with proof before they were sold that the articles were authentic The Radio Writers association voted it the most novel show on the air Hes He's Sd just sent eight people off to scour the world for fora a year for historical curios to be auctioned later I |
