Show EN Released by Western Newspaper Union By VIRGINIA VALE VALET IT T SEEMS like sheer inspiration tion to team Eddie Brack Brack- Bracken en and William Demarest on the air as well as on the screen Nobody who saw them together er in The Miracle of Mor Mor- gans gan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero will ever forget the hilariously funny scenes they played together Now at Sunday evenings EWT on NBC we have haveThe haveThe haveThe The Story of ol Eddie Bracken sup sup- supposedly supposedly supposedly scenes from his life with EDDIE BRACKEN Eddie playing the bewildered youth caught in a whirlpool of events be be- beyond beyond beyond yond his control and Demarest as the voiced bull irascible older man goads Bracken into asserting him him- himself himself self sell finally causing the worm to turn IE Jerome Cowan reported on the set of Republics Republic's Return at Dawn one morning recently in high spirits Hed He'd gotten up early enough to have havea a real breakfast said he fruit he-fruit fruit cereal ham and eggs too bad said Director John English sympathetically Because in the th first sequence this morning youve you've got to eat a full turkey dinner from soup to dessert Claudette Colbert is in for another of those ageing screen roles Its It's the second time In her screen career that she's been shown going from youth to advanced age which is none too early its it's a matter of ef so much more than just up make-up and only a good actress can do it con con- But Claudette succeeded in Remember the Day and re re- repeats repeats re- re repeats peats in Internationals International's Tomorrow morrow Is Forever m When Shirley Temple was to appear ap ap- appear appear pear on that to coast-to-coast radio salute recently casting trouble arose Shirleys Shirley's career was to be traced from her er first picture to her latest one one and and who'd play Shir Shir- Shirley Shirley ley at the age of seven in Baby Take a Bow A casting director finally solved the problem problem and and the impersonator letter perfect turned up in the person of Mary Jane Wong aged twenty a full blooded Chinese i Bing Crosby was painting a life- life raft as part of his sailor chores in inHere inHere inHere Here Comes the WAVES As the scene progressed he laid on more and more paint Finally a gob visiting the set remarked If It he puts another coat of paint on that raft it'll sink the second it hits the water And what good news that Ingrid Bergman will do d The Bells of St. St Marys with Crosby Shell She'll portray a nun he a priest A Song to Remember is mar mar- marvelous marvelous marvelous technicolor good music and bad history This tale of Chopin and George Sand with Paul Muni and Merle l Oberon and with Jose Iturbi as the unseen Chopin is beautiful to look at t lovely to hear m When Cliff Arquette arrived in New York to bring Glamour Man Man- Manor Manor Manor or to the Blues Blue's Radio City studios he posed for some pictures pleading with a room clerk for hotel But when But when he asked about the reservation hed he'd made three weeks before he was told that the hotel was full no pleading did any good So for several nights Cliff slept on ona a a couch in a friends friend's room For more than 15 years Bradley Baker has barked neighed and quacked his way through radio And hes he's always longed to play playa a human being He got his chance the other night on the Ed Wynn show show but but as asan asan asan an Indian all he had to do was grunt three times Constance Bennetts Bennett's launched as a producer her first picture Paris Underground is under way with Constance Bennett star playing the lead Her wardrobes wardrobe's by Adrian Gregory is directing and Gracie Fields is billed as co star co- co tar ODDS AND Gloria ENDS Blondell star co-star eo star ol oj Hollywood Mystery Time rec rec- recommends recommends working marking in television as s a weight weigh reducer reducer she she lost ion 12 18 I Z pounds in III an hour under those hoJe lights Jimmy Durante plans for 1945 19 include m r new personality for lor himself instead of oj chasing the girls giru hell he'll ell let lei the girls gir chase him him him-he he hopes Film bad man Dan Duryea grows grates blue blue ribbon sweet swee peas There here was teas real blood at tI the Ike Inner Sanctum mystery broadcast when wilen Jack Jach Arnheim sound ef et effects feels man cut cu his hit finger while crashing cra hing glass Karl Marl Swenson of o f Grand Cen Cen- Central Central rat Station has hat one of 0 the he largest bee farms in New York state he sells sel the he heW wax W U to 10 Uncle Sam for Jar war use |