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Show STkESCREErOADlO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. BY THIS time, if you're a Charlie McCarthy fan, you've met Effie, Edgar Ber-gen's Ber-gen's newest dummy. Effie is the result of the combined efforts ef-forts of a number of people. Bergen submitted some Effie recordings to a dozen or more Disney-Schlessinger cartoonists, and the final result is a composite of the best features of all their drawings. 1 EFFIE le :chiro, a well-known portrait artist, ralade up her face. Bergen, who has d a female dummy under con- leration for some time as a foil Charlie, hopes we, the public, I h like Effie. VUlen Jenkins, character come- in who left Hollywood more than ear ago and has since traveled Vi 000 miles entertaining the armed noces, will return to the movies in ""he Wonder Man," the Samuel jh'ldwyn comedy starring Danny fr.ye. Now in North Africa with a 7N"0 camp show, Jenkins cabled ac-1 sf'uiptance of a gangster role similar the one he did for Goldwyn in .all of Fire." l ; John Neshbitt, who broadcasts his f 'assing Parade" over CBS three ;hts a week, has just finished a 'tro "Passing Parade" movie t tjrt, "Moments that Made His- : yf It highlights discoveries of ' stethoscope, sulfanilamide and i vulcanization of rubber. j ean Jagger, who served as chap- , me on the Blue network's "Blind i jte" recently, was spending his t evening in this country. He flew i England the next day to begin 1 rk on a picture for the British , eminent, which is designed to ' "'imote good will between England i i the United States; when com- i ted, the film will be released in s country. yDnsign Jay Robinson, U. S. N., o won the $500 cash award in a iy.ion-wide contest for the best lerican conception of Salome, used model for the portrait so now ector Mervyn Leroy is trying to ,r 1 somebody who looks like it, to Jmy the Salome role in "The Robe." jonwill be more prominent in the .0 picture than it was in the 1 lely read book. jl Nt looks as if Jeanette MacDonald r' 'l Nelson Eddy would have to ap- 1 ir together in pictures and on the J forever. Their second costar- I m0!S appearance on the air, in the I ,3 it of this year's DeMille theater 1 binWams, was the result of an ava- iche of mail requesting it. August Daytime Network J toperatings reports that "When a 3 JtjH Marries" leads the list of "Topi weekday programs. "Ma Per- s" is second, and "Our Gal, Sun- :1 f" third. Then come "Big Sister," , omance of Helen Trent," "Life Be Beautiful," "Stella Dallas," 1 Soung Widder Brown," "Kate f ith Speaks," and "Breakfast at i di's." ( lie "I-G-M is going to launch King JJ. lor's "An American Romance" in ts le befitting the elaborate produc-l n- a. On October 27, according to ' :fent Plans, the picture will have i Je tial showings in each of the state 1 jo Jitals and the national capital. 1 ior says that he's been thinking i ;lt ut this picture for 18 years, ever i N")ce he made "The Big Parade" J "typifying the spirit of America. 1 Jhose battered shoes which Ed' 'nn wears to his broadcasts have.' r -' ne him through 42 years of stage, ! S' 'een and radio stardom, so of U irse he got them out for his new JaPPy Island" radio program, originally purchased for S3.50, 'tin figures that they've cost him Bui000 for upkeep, but he refuses - Part with them the rationing Jat'n 'S his Iatest excuse. cb,.0nS AND EI'DS-"The Shadow," "2! r",io's mst chillinp dramas, re-Z"S re-Z"S '.hB air via Mutual September plh - - - 1 he new band leader for Mrt- di Screen Test" Ted Steele, started " radio as an NBC pane boy. . . . aptrfuprite Chapman has the lead op VJ"? '"uni in "Counter-Attack"; "sit"" play a Russian guerrilla. . . . Ktrothy Lanwur ht her hair return to ' natural dark brown shade fnr het rB P"'""1" f"'r' n "A Medal fori j"1V' ' " ' "'"'1? ,cn years ago Fred' Acwurrny made his first l'aramnunl iJ'urc, the "Gilded Lily." with Claud- e Colbert; their latest costarrer, Ymirt " ,' har tntott. |