Show GE SCREEN ADIOS By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union FTER spending six months AFTER n in Hollywood airing his tremendously popular Take It or Leave It show and making a picture for Fox Century-Fox Phil Baker returns to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York with a pretty good idea of who's smarter West coast contestants contest contest- contestants contestants ants or those from the East But Buthe's Buthe's Buthe's hes he's a cagey soul when asked about the results of his own private survey he replied Americas intelligence is ii r PHIL BAKER nation Hes He's going to be ask ask- asking asking asking ing Take It or Leave It questions Sunday nights at the New York CBS studio Universal plans to cash in on the publics public's liking for being scared by giving us a series of Inner Sanctum Mysteries they Mysteries they bought the screen rights to the title but none of the radio stories will be used They'll make two a year the first Calling Dr Death starring Gale gaard and Lon Chaney will do Having Wonderful Crime Fox Century-Fox has bought that super- super the super mystery Stranger on Highway And Metros Metro's doing the shuddery Gaslight which as a play still runs in New York Columbia's taking a chance by I having Marguerite Chapman play a full-fledged full Nazi throughout most of I Appointment in Berlin Berlin on on the theory that too much sweetness and light hampers the up build-up of a anew anew i new feminine star They hope the public will agree with that theory Well it certainly worked in Bette Davis Davis' avis avis' case just case just see what an un un- unpleasant unpleasant un- un unpleasant pleasant role did for herl her Henry Koster and Joseph Paster Paster- nak are united again they're the 1 pair who worked together on many of the pictures that carried Deanna Durbin from obscurity to stardom Their first joint effort at Metro will willbe willbe willbe be Music for Millions starring Lana Turner California's oldest mission bell cast in bronze in Lima Peru in 1818 for La Purisima Mission at a Lompoc is the llie bell ben that tolls in For Whom the Bell Ben Tolls By the way though though you'll probably hardly glance at the pictures picture's main title when its it's flashed on the screen 35 men worked on it after William Cameron Menzies had designed it Nowadays theres there's a as sign saying No Women Visitors on the Cry Havoc set at Metro The 13 fem fem- feminine feminine feminine members of the cast had put in four weeks minus up make-up with I straight hair and wearing soiled overalls overalls and and Hedy Lamarr dropped in wearing white chiffon I life life- lifelong lifelong lifelong I Johnny Mercers Mercer's achieving a long ambition when he steps out on his radio program Tuesday nights For years the author of That Old Black Magic and Blues in the Night and many other song hits has wanted to be an actor Started when he was 17 11 but everybody turned him down wouldn't take him for musicals but always bought his Ws songs Now v at last hes he's getting what he wants Arthur Lake of the Blondie series se se- series series ries announced the other day that he has only a pint of blood left in his body Hes He's been to the blood bank six times in the past 18 months Abd Ive I've read that there are only seven pints of blood in ones one's body I says he Bob Hannon new NBC singing star is headed for an important role in Warner Bros Shine On Har Har- Harvest Harvest Harvest vest Moon the film based on Nora Bayes' Bayes life in which Ann Sheridan will have the leading role Dennis Morgan suggested him for the part ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Charles Charles Martins Martin's book on writing for lor radio will be be pub pub- published published within the next few lew weeks Alec Templeton s 's preparing a parody on Vic Vic- Victory Victory tory lory Gardens to 10 end all aU parodies on same Kate Smiths Smith's an autograph auto raph collector her latest is that of 01 Field Marshall travel Jr which she got when she sat next nest him at a night baseball game Forever and amI a aDay aDa aDay Day Da has a cast including 78 stars star all the big English ones ones Bob Dob Crosby and Company is the ITe title of 01 the youngest Crosby's Crosby new new- radio show to be heard Friday Fri Fri- Friday Friday day evenings over Oler NBC United Artists wants to 10 film Sammy Kayos Kayo's So You Rant rr ant to Lead a Band I |