Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union FTER AFTER spending six months X in Hollywood airing his tremendously popular Take It or Leave It show and making a picture for Fox Century-Fox Phil Baker returns to NewYork NewYork New NewYork York with a pretty good idea of who's smarter West coast contestants contestants contestants contest contest- ants or those from the East Buthe's Buthe's But Buthe's hes he's a cagey soul when asked about the results of his own private survey he replied Americas intelligence is S J S S PHIL BAKER nation Hes He's going to be asking asking asking ask ask- ing Take It or Leave It questions Sunday nights at the New York CBS studio t tr r. Universal plans to cash in on the publics public's liking for being scared by giving us a series of Inner Sanctum Mysteries they Mysteries they bought the screen rights fights 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 gaard and Lon Chaney will do Having Wonderful Crime Fox Century-Fox has bought that super- super super mystery Stranger on the Highway And Metros Metro's doing the shuddery Gaslight which as a play still runs in N New ew York K Columbia's taking a chance by having Marguerite Chapman play a full-fledged full Nazi throughout most of Appointment in Berlin Berlin on on the theory that too much sweetness and light hampers the up build-up of a anew anew anew new feminine star They hope the public will agree with that theory I Well Vell it certainly worked in Bette i Davis' Davis case just case just see what an unpleasant unpleasant un un- un- un pleasant role did for herl her Henry Koster and Joseph Paster Paster- nak are united again they're the pair who worked together on many of the pictures that carried Deanna Durbin from obscurity to stardom Their first joint effort at Metro will willbe willbe willbe be Music for Millions starring Lana Turner 7 Cal California's ornia's oldest mission bell cast in bronze in Lima Peru in 1818 for La Purisima Mission at Lompoc is the bell that tolls in For Whom the Bell BeU Tolls By the way though you'll probably hardly glance at the pictures picture's main title when its it's flashed on the screen 35 men worked on it it after William Villiam Cameron Menzies had designed it I Ir r. Nowadays theres there's a sign saying I No Women Visitors on the Cry Havoc set at Metro The 13 fem fern feminine feminine mine members of the cast had put in four weeks minus up make-up with straight hair and wearing soiled overalls and overalls and Hedy Lamarr dropped in wearing white chiffon 4 Johnny Mercers Mercer's achieving a lifelong lifelong lifelong life life- long ambition when he steps out on his radio program Tuesday nights For years the author of That Old Black Magic and Blues in the Night and many other song hits has wanted to tobe be be an actor Started when he was 17 but everybody turned him down wouldn't take him for musicals but always bought his songs Now at last hes he's getting what he wants t. t Arthur Lake of the Blondie Blondle Series series series se se- ries announced the other day that he has only a pint of blood left in his body Hes He's been to the blood bloo bank six times in the past 18 months And Ive I've read that there are only seven pints of blood in ones one's body bodyl I says he t Bob Hannon new NBC singing star is headed for an important role in Warner Bros Shine On Harvest Harvest Harvest Har Har- vest Moon the film based on Nora Bayes' Bayes l life e in which Ann Sheridan will have the leading role Dennis Morgan suggested him for the part ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Charles Charles Martins Martin's book on writing for lor radio will be published pub within the next few weeks Alec Templeton's preparing a parody on Victory Victory Vic Vic- tory Gardens to end all parodies on same Kate Smiths Smith's an autograph collector her liar latest is that of oJ Field Marshall M Jr which she got when she sat Jat next him at a night baseball game Forever and a aDay aDay aDay Day has a cast st including 78 stars all the big English Engl h ones Bob Crosby and Company is the title of the youngest Crosby's Crosby new radio show shore to be heard Friday Friday Priday Fri Fri- day evenings over NBC United Artists Ar wants to film Sammy Kayet Kayes So You Yon Want Tarn to t Lead a Band |