Show E N By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union GLEANED G LEANED from Metros Metro's pub of a few f years ago Clark Gable would be one of the country's crack skeet shots if he had time for tournament com com- petition James Stewart took Katharine Ka tharine Hepburn up in his putt putt- putt plane and nearly ground looped his ship in a two point land land- ing Robert Taylor set his plane down in a n watermelon patch To To- Today Today Today day Gables Gable's heard from England over BBC telling how skeet shoot shoot- shooting shooting shooting ing is invaluable training for gun gun- ners Stewarts Stewart's piloting a Flying Fortress Taylor will soon be eli eli- eligible eligible eligible gible for the Transport Command Ferry Command or as an instructor tor after completing his training for forthe forthe forthe the navy air force I Jack Benny returned from that mile tour overseas entertain entertain- entertaining ing the armed forces with duffle dume bags full of telephone numbers j r r F JACK BENNY Hes He's using them now Hes He's calling Mom Mom many many a Mom Please just tell Mom Im I'm fine the boys would say and Jack is doing it as fast as he can Virtually every nationality in the world is represented in Gangway for Tomorrow it has speaking parts But none of the cast portray their native country country- men A Russian is played by a Pole a Czech by an Austrian a Pole by a German a Frenchman by bya a Russian Richard Ryan an Irish Irish- Irishman Irishman Irishman man plays a German officer Margo born in Mexico plays a French girl Just Hollywood An embarrassing moment came to Carleton Young Fox Century-Fox contract player at the Silver Thea Thea- Theater Theater Theater ter dress rehearsal after the an an- announcer announcer announcer had read an elaborate build build- buildup buildup buildup up which was given him The entire cast including Loretta Young salaamed I Before Florance Halop made her fortunate appearance talent scouts for the new series were so hard pressed to find a new Miss Duffy Dully to replace Shirley Booth that they resorted to ads in the Holly Holly- Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood wood papers Sound effects proved better than the real article when Parks John John- Johnson Johns Johnson son s n and Warren Hull visited the oil refinery workers at the eastern terminus of the Big Inch pipeline They wanted to introduce the show with the gurgling of gasoline flowing lowing from a filling station pump and had hada a real one set up on the stage But they they finally used an ordinary egg eggbeater eggbeater eggbeater beater and a hand bell Dont Don't be surprised if Charlie Mc Mc- McCarthy's McCarthys McCarthys McCarthy's Carthy's rather elderly old-maid old relative Ophelia becomes a regu regu- regular regular regular lar member of that gang Maybe you heard beard her when she made her to coast-to-coast radio debut re re- recently recently re- re recently on the new RCA That's New program Listeners loved her and Edgar Bergen thinks she might make malte a good permanent companion for Charlie and Mortimer i Frances and Richard Lockridge authors of Mr and Mrs North are probably unique among novel novel- novelists novelists novelists whose works have been adapted for radio Usually authors insist on editing all scripts often to the dismay of script writers producers and actors The have been inside the studio just once since the series started on NBC They lis lis- listen listen lis- lis listen ten to the program at home nome After eight years as a CBS staff conductor Lyn Murray quit to free free- lance His orchestra and chorus are doing a new series on CBS hes he's con con- conducting conducting conducting ducting the orchestra on the new Gertrude Lawrence show and is choral director on both Hit Parades Parades hes he's hes doing all right ODDS AND ENDS NBC baritone crooner Tommy Taylor Talor was Ua about to give gite up his hi career when u NBC took him off 00 a milk truck A A new Sinatra fan club with lc th headquarters in Pits Pitts Pa Po cans calls itself The Tho Society of Souls Soul Suffering From tie til Oddest bond sales alel combination in inthe inthe the Ille recent dritt John drive ohn John D. D Rockefeller Rockefell-cr and Dick star tar of the Uie airs air's ai Heres ere 1 to Romance Joe Yule rule Mickey Rooneys Rooney's y father has been cast casl in ill Kismet his hiJ part parI at 01 Metro Joan Davis Da i whose click on on her new radio program has hOJ all Holly i Jol bidding for her ller services ert ce has haJ signed to u u play day I ay the Ille lead part par in Show Bus Dusi- It |