Show E CRE By VIRG VIRGINIA NIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union as if Warner Bros L agreed with Jack Benny when on his return from the European battlefronts he declared declared declared de de- that the trip was the best vacation hed he'd had in years Humphrey Bogart was just well on his way to entertain servicemen in that area when the company announced announced announced an an- that as soon as he returned hed he'd start work on To Have and to 4 v r r HUMPHREY BOGART I I I I I I I I I I I I Have Not by Ernest Hemingway Its It's a tale about the running rum-running skipper of a yacht operating off the Florida Keys sounds Keys sounds very Bogart- Bogart ish That wide nation-wide search for the voice which most nearly approximates approximates mates that of the famous Nellie Melba wound up with the selection of year old Jean Forward who'll sing in Rene Clairs Clair's It Happened Tomorrow She moved to Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles two years ago and before that had bad sung leading roles with the Golden West Opera company the Southern California Opera company and the American Opera company Her voice was selected from hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- by Robert Stolz who's serving as musical director for the tion When Janet Wilde Vilde was in Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood she appeared in a mere handful handful handful hand hand- ful of pictures mostly Westerns She switched to radio and was chosen chosen cho cho- chosen sen to portray Corliss Archer in the new comedy series series and and now the film folk want her back not for me says Janet 1 Tom Coats is a stunt double whose services are hired for extraordinary feats of horsemanship He worked in Riding High and one chore was to impersonate Cass Daley driving a heavy wagon at full tilt over a desert road He had to wear weara a wig with a pompadour so that in long shots hed he'd look like Cass Cass and and that wig above his rugged face practically practically practically ruined the members of the crew r. r His outstanding work in films nIms and andin andin andin in radio guest appearances has won William Bendix a starring air show of his own the Blue Networks Network's Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day afternoon drama comedy-drama The Life of Riley It was those guest appearances that attracted the radio radio radio ra ra- ra- ra dio moguls' moguls interest To present a broad inclusive picture picture picture pic pic- pic- pic ture of American youth in wartime and to show v how bow youth itself is meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing the challenge of increased juvenile juvenile juvenile ju ju- venile delinquency the National Broadcasting company has announced announced an an- a week 13 series of programs programs programs pro pro- grams Heres to Youth which will be heard Saturdays from one oneto oneto oneto to thirty one Eastern War Time beginning January 15 The broadcasts broadcasts broadcasts broad broad- casts will vill be presented in cooperation cooperation cooperation tion with 10 major voluntary youth organizations with a total youth membership of 31 million 1 At 66 Charles Coburn veteran of stage and screen not only sings for forthe forthe forthe the first time in films but also engages engages engages en en- gages in his first screen romance The girl is blonde Constance Dowling Dowling Dowling Dowl- Dowl ing who with Coburn and Nelson Eddy is starred co-starred in Knickerbocker Knickerbock er Holiday As Governor Peter Stuyvesant Coburn not only wears a peg leg but does a dance as well tElla t I Ella Raines was considered too typically American to play the English English English Eng Eng- lish girl in The Uninvited Uninvited Gall Gail Russell got the role Ella was thought too sophisticated for Our Hearts Were Young and Gay Gay Gail Gail got the part But But Ellas Ella's Ellas set as leading leading lead lead- ing woman in Hail the Conquering Hero in which shell she'll play opposite opposite opposite site Eddie Bracken Bracken and and its it's a Preston Preston Preston Pres Pres- ton Sturges picture I ODDS AND ENDS ENDS With that lucky y alarm clock back on the V fox Vo o. o Pop show Parks Johnson and Hull lull are icon won dering again what wha will trill happen i if i f it ever goes off 00 during the commercial would commercial the sponsor get the 10 SID or would i it go to the announcer they ask ask Clifford Cliford Goldsmith author of 0 The Tho Aldrich Family has been asked to repeat some of 0 hi his especially popular pop ular scripts scripts scripts-an an innovation in radio if iliac he does floes it Renee Terry of 01 CDS CBS Bright Horizon has been awarded service stripes stripe as a nurses nurse's aide Theres There's been an aia ava avalanche lanche of 01 suggestions that Fred Allen and Lauritz lauriz Melchior do that now famous stunt srun of 0 theirs in pictures u |