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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THE glamorous ladies ol Hollywood, perhaps learning learn-ing from the example of old-time old-time stars like Corinne Griffith Grif-fith and Ruth Roland, look upon real estate as a sound investment. Paulette God-dard God-dard revealed on the set ol "I Love a Soldier" that she owns four houses, which she rents she bought them for her mother to rent and manage. Lovely Georgia Carrol, between singing with Kay Kyser's band and appearing appear-ing with it in such films as Columbia's Colum-bia's "Battleship Blues," has re-finished re-finished and sold ten houses during the past year. But before she married mar-ried Kyser she lived in a rented apartment with .Marguerite Chapman Chap-man she preferred to let the landlord land-lord worry about keeping her home in order! Gracie Fields, who's been part ol Hollywood for several years, is still . 1 puzzled by the Hollywoodites. The T way they hire other people to do for them things that are fun to do yourself, your-self, like driving your own car, or arranging parties. "It's a place X i4 h Sv St GRACIE FIELDS where girls like meself from the workin' classes get into the movies and suddenly decide they came over in the Mayflower," says she. The famous English comedienne, now replacing re-placing Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on the air, firmly established estab-lished herself in movies in "Holy Matrimony." Remember the famous sleeping bag which Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman shared in "For Whom the Bell Tolls"? Well, Fred MacMurray tucks himself into it for several scenes in Paramount's "Practically Yours" with a small Cairn terrier named Piggy. Apparently success in radio means more than success on the Broadway r stage, at least to Kenny Baker. He ' gave np his leading role in a smash hit, "One Touch of Venus," to take over the Groucho Marx program on CBS for the summer, and after the summer series is over Baker plans to remain with the show, both as a singer and as co-comedian with Marx. Georgia Burke was all set to leave the cast of "When a Girl Marries" and go to Hollywood for the filming of the stage production, "Decision," in which she also appears. Preparations Prepara-tions were made to write her out oi '' the radio script, bid her farewell and speed her on her way when it was announced that the play would be filmed in New York, after all. It's for United Artists release. Pity poor Ann Thomas, who plays "Casey" in NBC's "Abie's Irish Rose." She's cutting her sixth wisdom wis-dom tooth. "Most other people settle set-tle for four," she complains, "But I always have to be different." With all her stage and radio engagements, maybe she needs two extra ones! Jl Replicas of "Duffy's Tavern" are popping up all over the various fighting fight-ing fronts. The first was a palm-thatched palm-thatched hut on a South Seas island. Now they're everywhere, and Ed "Archie" Gardner is sending autographed auto-graphed pictures to adorn their walls. Remember when Ralph Edwards asked a "Truth or Consequences" audience to send pennies to Mrs. Dennis Mullane, and she was practically prac-tically snowed under by 300,000 of them? Recently Edwards received , a letter and a snapshot from the Mullane sons, Dennis Jr. and Jos- eph, both marines, who were reunited re-united on a small island in the South Pacific. They said they were "famous" "fa-mous" even there because of those pennies. ODDS AND ENDS -Double or Nothing" gels a stream-lined format., with everything new but the quizmaster, quizmas-ter, John Reed King. . . . 77ie "Superman "Super-man cast's favorite pre-broadcast game is making a lot of words out of one they got 32 out of "eupsychics" recently. recent-ly. .. . "Fibber McGee and Molly," originally scheduled to take a vacation after the June 20th broadcast, postal post-al poned it; their replacement is "Theater of War." . . . And Sinatra returns August 16lh. . . . Get your windshield sticker saying, "No Black Market Gas for Me" by writing to Michael West, of the CBS "Bright Horizons." |