Show E CREE RADIO 10 i By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union LEANED from Metros Metro's pub G GLEANED VJ of a f ago Clark Gable would be one of the country's crack skeet shots if he had time for tournament com corn petition James Stewart took Katharine Hepburn up in his putt- putt putt plane and nearly ground looped his ship in a two-point two land land- ing Robert Taylor set his plane down in a watermelon patch Today Today To To- day Gables Gable's heard from England over BBC telling how skeet shooting shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing is invaluable training for gun gun- ners Stewarts Stewart's piloting a Flying Fortress Taylor will soon be eligible eligible eligible eli eli- gible for the Transport Command Ferry Command or as an instructor instructor tor after completing his training for fore forthe forthe the e navy air force Jack Benny returned from that mile tour overseas entertaining entertain entertain- ing the armed forces with duffle bags full of f telephone numbers Sw r JACK BENNY Hes He's using them now Hes He's calling Mom Mom many many a Mom Please just tell Mom Im I'm fine finer the boys would say and Jack is doing it as fast as he can Virtually every nationality in the world is represented in REO's Gangway for Tomorrow it has speaking parts But none of the cast portray their native country country- men A Russian is played by a Pole a Czech by an Austrian a Pole by a German a Frenchman by bya a 11 Russian Richard Ryan an Irishman Irishman Irishman Irish Irish- man plays a German officer Mar Margo go born in Mexico l plays a French girl Just Hollywood k T Tt I t- t I.-An I. An n embarrassing moment came to Carleton Young Fox Century-Fox contract player at the Silver Theater Theater Theater Thea Thea- ter dress rehearsal after the announcer announcer announcer an an- had read an elaborate buildup buildup buildup build build- up which was given him The entire cast including Loretta Young salaamed Before Florance Halop made her fortunate appearance talent scouts I Ifor for the new series were so hard pressed to find a new Miss Duffy to replace Shirley Booth that they resorted to ads in the Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood papers t Sound effects proved better than the real article when Parks Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son and Warren Hull visited the oil refinery ry workers at the eastern terminus of the Big Inch pipeline They wanted to introduce the show with the gurgling of gasoline flowing from a filling station pump and had hada hadn a n real one set up on the stage But they they finally used an ordinary egg eggbeater eggbeater eggbeater beater and a hand bell f Dont Don't be surprised if Charlie McCarthy's McCarthys McCarthys McCarthy's Mc Mc- Carthy's rather elderly old-maid old relative Ophelia becomes a regular regu regu- Jar lar member of that gang Maybe laybe you heard her when she made her to coast radio debut recently recently recently re re- re- re on the new RCA New program Listeners loved her and Edgar Bergen thinks she might make a good permanent companion for Charlie and Mortimer L LFrances Frances and Richard Lockridge authors of Mr and Mrs North are probably unique among novelists novelists novelists novel novel- whose works have been adapted for radio Usually authors insist on editing all scripts often to the dismay of script writers producers and actors The have been inside the studio just once since the s series ries started on NBC They Usten listen listen lis Us- ten to the program at home After eight years as a CBS staff conductor Lyn Murray quit to free free- lance His orchestra and chorus are doing a new series on CBS hes he's conducting conducting conducting con con- ducting the orchestra on the new Gertrude Lawrence show and is i. i choral director on both Hit Hit 1 Y v Parades Parades hes he's hes d doing ng all right r J f ODDS AND ENDS NBC's baritone crooner Tommy Taylor wu was u about to give up his career when NBC took him off oD a 0 milk truck A If new Sinatra fan Ian club with headquarters in Pitts Pius Pa Po cal calls itself The Society o of f Souls Suffering From tie Oddest bond sales combination in inthe inthe inthe the recent John drive John D. D Rockefeller and Dick Haymes star of the airs air's Heres to ro Romance Joe Yule Mickey Rooney's Rooneys father lather has been cast in Kismet his part at Metro Joan Davis whose click an un her new radio program has hU all Hollywood Holly I wood bidding for her services has signed to 0 o play the tIle lead part in Show Busi- Busi t. t f less 1 ar t i. i 7 1 |