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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Brlt:iscd by Western Newspaper Union. FAIRY godmothers must have stood three deep around Florence Freeman's cradle when she was an infant; in-fant; certainly she seems to have just about everything now. If you listen to "The Open Door" (it's on the air on NBC five mornings a week, and is considered one of the best of the radio serials) you know her as "Lisa Arnold." She's beautiful, an excellent actress, the wife of a minister min-ister and the mother of two children. chil-dren. She takes an active part in church activities. Watching a broadcast, broad-cast, it was fascinating to see how she and the other members of the company worked; gestures and facial expressions made me long for television! After appearing In more than 30 'pictures, lovely Lynn Bari gets hex chance to satisfy a long standing ambition to sing in a picture. It's " vvvi - : LYNN BARI United Artists' "The Bridge of San Luis Key." But she's booked to sing romantic Peruvian ballads in their original tongue! Nothing daunted, Miss Bari studied Spanish for three weeks and learned the tongs, native dialect and all. Margo, J. Carrol Naish, Tom Neal and other members of the cast of EKO's "Behind the Rising Sun" have their own reasons for hating the Japs. t They had to wear Japanese Japa-nese shoes for the picture both the soft, flat-soled sandals and the wooden wood-en clogs and as a result they developed de-veloped blisters and callouses during the first week of shooting. Rosalind Russell thinks you ought to know that there'll be no man shortage In "Ten Percent Woman." Both her leading men top the six-foot six-foot mark, Brian Aherne by two Inches, Willard Parker by four. Parker, signed by Columbia after his performance with Gertrude Lawrence Law-rence in "Lady in the Dark," will be easy for new fans to remember he'll be one of the tallest men in pictures. pic-tures. 1 After Bob Hops took a terrific beating from Betty Hutton foe a scene in "Let's Face It," Director Sidney Lanfleld asked him if the same thing had ever happened to him on his air show. "Only," cracked Bob, "to the audience.". ' Gary Cooper nearly knocked the Paramount still department cold when he actually asked to have his Picture taken; first time he'd ever done that It turned out that he needed a passport photo in order to get permission to fish off the coast of California. After motion picture executives had coaxed and coaxed Ingrid Bergman Berg-man to come to Hollywood, some of them looked upon her with alarm when she finally appeared. She stands five feet TA Inches! And In toe past movie stars have come In small sizes. "They looked at me and said: 'Put her on a diet,' " said she. "I suppose they thought a diet would shrink me!" Mel Blanc, who" plays the Happy Postman on the Burns and Allen show, is star, quizmaster, stooge and sound effects operator on a twice-weekly quiz show which is recorded re-corded for our overseas fighting men; rings bells, toots horns, has a 'well time. When the Jack Benny-Larry Adler troupe made its first stop-off on the journey to Africa and points beyond, be-yond, the commanding officer saw what a reception they got and sent coded messages ahead to commanding command-ing officers; decoded, they read: "Buck Benny Rides Again." ODDS AND ENDS Ellery Queen continues to lead all evening programs on the Pacific coast, according to the totes! Hooper ratings . . . Virginia Sale's 'even-year-old twins have been signed h RKO for feature spots in "Curse oj 'he Cat People" . . . A'ine pictures will face the cameras at RKO during Octo-... Octo-... Geoffrey Barnes, amateur criminologist crim-inologist and setter of scenes for the "irj "Mystery Theater," estimates tliat one detective novel is bought every Minute oj every day in New York City "'one . . . Richard Powers o "The Navy "V used to be Tom Keane, tlie west-err west-err 'tar. |