Show S GE ADIOS BY INEZ GERHARD BILL DILL CASSIDY Boyd is probably one of the 10 most popular men in the United States both youngsters and adults are now tuning their radios to Mutual at 4 pm p.m. Sundays to hear the program he launched on New NewBill NewBill Bill BUI Cassidy Boyd Years Year's day Bill started in pictures as an extra in 1919 in C. C B. B De- De DeMille's DeMille's DeMille's Milles Mille's Why Change Your Wife in 1934 he really hit his stride starring in the Cassidy series and has never played any any- anything anything thing else since I fell in love with withe the e part he says the part has piled up a fortune for him And the way the public almost mobs him himat himat himat at personal appearances is proof of his popularity I Back in in the days of silent films Jane was a star in many manya a William S. S Hart movie she was the gal who gazed into the sunset at the end with Bill and his horse In Paramount's The Furies she is again linked with the West she plays a frontier mother Walter Huston Barbara and Wendell Corey are starred co-starred in inthis inthis inthis this dramatization of Niven Busch's both As you probably know Ralph Sigwald won the finals on the Horace Heidt Heidi show and was awarded the prize a gold championship belt that wasn't wasn't- big enough enough and and the dubious honor of having baving a size full-size statue of himself erected in his home town Charleston SC It does seem as if that lovely city could put the statues statue's cost to better use if permitted Jerry Ambler worlds world's champion bronc rider of 1946 and 47 who makes his living staying on a horse is getting paid to be thrown off one in Columbia's Beyond the Purple Hills Hell He'll do special falls in the Gene Autry Chester Conklin of the walrus mustache and rimless spectacles made his screen screen- debut in 1912 and won fame in Mack Sennetts Sennett's com com- edies He tackles his first straight role in Come Share My MyLove MyLove MyLove Love as caretaker of a ram ram- ramshackle ramshackle ramshackle shackle ranch Another timer old-timer is Tarzan Tarzan who first appeared in print 35 years ago Author Edgar Rice Bur Bur- Burroughs Burroughs Burroughs roughs his creator attended a party on the set of Sol Lessers Lessors Tarzan and the Slave Girl and met Lex Barker current Tarzan Before any stunt is tried on ona ona ona a contestant during Ralph Ed Ed- Edwards Edwards' Edwards Edwards' Edwards Edwards' wards' wards Truth or Consequences it is tested pre-tested by Fred Car Car- Carney Carney Carney ney the prop man He lie lists the recent Mule Train stunt as the toughest toughest had had to fasten a paper horn to his head and see if a whip cracking expert could pick it off within an inch of his nose For safety's sake Fred had it tried out on him him- himself himself self sell twice As a result of learning to sing dum dee in place of the title when warbling tunes on Stop the Music Kay Armen and Dick Brown have found themselves skipping the words of song titles while singing on their other shows Radio editors in Motion Picture Daily's annual Fame poll pon named Gordon MacRae most promising star of tomorrow and his pro pro- program program program gram NBC's The liThe Railroad Hour of equal rank with Fred Waring's as a musical show The leading newspaper of Caracas Venezuela voted Ruth Roman the lithe most striking striking striking ing new screen personality 1949 in a poll of its it readers Charles Laughton meanwhile was appreciated by the Paris po po- po- po lice The National gave him himan himan himan an honorary diploma after he completed com com- completed his study of French police methods for tor his role in The uThe Man Manon on the Eiffel Elliel Tower ODDS AND ENDS Pine and Thomas have advised John Payne that they will honor him by hold hold- holding holding holding ing the world premiere of Cap Captain Captain tain China in which he stars In his home town Roanoke Va Red Skelton has developed more than different comedy sketches which he can perform at the drop of a hat his fans tam like best the Guzzlers Gin and Irish Tenor routines Colum Colum- Columbia Columbia Columbia bia pictures has purchased the screen rights to the radio serial David Harding Counterspy |