Show S By INEZ GER GERHARD ARD CLAUDETTE LAUDETTE COLBERT won a popularity poll that really means a lot the lot the one conducted bythe bythe by bythe the Womans Woman's Home Companion her latest picture is Three Came Home June Allyson was second her The Stratton Story was voted last years year's best picture In third place Loretta Young fourth Olivia Olivia Olivia Oli Oli- via de Havilland Bing Crosby headed the mens men's list for the fifth time in succession then came Spencer Tracy his Adams Rib ib was the second best picture Third Cary Gary Grant fourth Clark Gable Jeanne Crain Grain got a special award for her Pinky performance Last year Ingrid Bergman Bergm n Irene Dunne and Bette Davis were the three lead lead- leaders leaders ers era among the women M-G-M M Is going to resurrect The Merry Widow again this time in Technicolor starring Lana Turner and Richardo They made it first in 1925 with John Gilbert and May Murray then in 1935 with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald Louis CaThern must be very happy hap hap- py py- Ever since he starred so successfully successfully successfully suc suc- on the stage in The Magnificent Yankee as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes he has wanted to do it in pictures Now its it's all arranged at Metro Wally Butterworth thought he had bad an easy name to remember remember remember ber but some of or the bushels of letters coming in to his Voices that Live treasure hunt have made him wonder Mail has come addressed to Walla Walla Valley WaterWorks Water WaterWorks WaterWorks Works Wally and Walter among others And hes he's acquired such first names as Roily nolly Art Perry and Olive Why oh why doesn't some record company persuade Pia and Ferrucio to record Lontano lontano It has brought the greatest listener response Inthe Inthe in inthe the history of the Telephone Hour whenever they sing it it Ed Tavern Gardners Gardner's first film production will be TheMan TheMan The TheMan Man with My Face Th Tho Thu r locale was a western frontier town but Ed changed it to Puerto nico hico where he now lives The police of ot Miami Fla were bewildered bev instead of getting official official cial orders on their radio-phone radio system they got instruction like Rush lunches to The Breaking Point unit at Newport Harbor Calif Calil John Garfield and Patricia Neal are getting mighty hungry They appealed to the Federal Communications Communications Com Com- Commission Commission and and Warner Warner Warner War War- ner Bros had their frequency changed Stanley Kramer wisely chose Mala Powers to play Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac Discovered Discovered ered by Ida Lupino Lupine her first picture picture picture pic pic- ture was Outrage Howard Hughes subsequently took over her contract Jose Ferrer predicts that In another ten years she will have so many Os Oscars cars in her pocket shell she'll be able oble to use them for book ends He took part in her tests a |