Show By INEZ GERHARD RONALD COLMAN has emerged em ilso so completely from professional retirement that nobody would be bc surprised if it he returned to his first l ve the stage sage where Lilian Gish discovered him years ago and had him engaged as her leading man manin manin manin in The leThe White Sister His radio show The leThe Halls Hans of Ivy Wednes- Wednes RONALD COLMAN day nights on NBC was the first step Next came the hilarious United Artists picture Cham Champagne pagIe a for Caesar his first film in three years Colman is wonder wonder- wonderful ful as a or nothing quiz contestant con con- contestant contestant who runs his take up to a jackpot Even the tal tal- talented talented tal- tal talented parrot who plays Caesar cant can't steal scenes from him quite him quite a feat Lowell Thomas CBS newscaster had quite a week recently The doctor let him discard the crutches hed he'd been using for seven months ever since he was thrown from a horse while trekking trekking- through Tibet And his son was married with Thomas as the best man The beautiful wedding took place in a charming church in in Greenwich Conn James Melton sang Jan Ian Sterling's standing at Paramount was boosted so high by audience reaction to her work in United States Mail lUaU and Union Station when they were shown at sneak previews that she was given a top assignment inAce in inAce inAce Ace in the Hole Mona Freeman has been wor wor- worried worried worried ried she's so little and looks so young that she feared shed she'd never get roles where she could look her age age 25 25 I could just see my daughter growing up said she And going to the movies with a aboy aboy aboy boy friend pointing to a bobby- bobby bobbysoxer bobbysoxer bobbysoxer on the screen and saying my mother But now Monas Mona's happy she looks her age in Branded Phyllis Thaxter found an easy way to rent a seashore home for forthe forthe forthe the summer She merely rented the one Warner Bros rented at Balboa Calif for her wifely scenes with John Garfield in The Breaking Point The company moved move out her family moved in Francis Universals Universal's talk talk- talking talking ing in mule whose of that name has made so much money is slated to go on and andon on on Francis Goes to the Races will come next hell he'll talk to race horses of course Then comes conies Francis Goes to Washington Stewart Granger is going to be stuck in costume pictures for a along along along long time to come M-G-M M was de de- delighted deli de- de delighted lighted li with his performance in inKing inKing inKing King Solomons Solomon's Mines Mine and will now turn him into a swashbuckling hero He will do Robinson Crusoe Cru Cru- Crusoe Crusoe soe Ivanhoe in full-blown full Technicolor followed by that old favorite and a n d then will don uniform for Kipling's Soldiers Three In a scene for Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Barbara Peyton was to hurl an aluminum coffee pot at James Cagney She was warned not to hit him but to miss him as closely as possible She threw the coffee pot hit the assistant tor Gene Kelly is back after spend spend- spending spending spending ing a week in Paris where he went to test singers and dancers and select locations for his forthcoming ing musical An CI An American in Paris Kelly hopes to get as as good atmospheric shots of Paris Parts as he did of New York City where most of the exceptionally good goodon goodon goodon on the Town was filmed An American in Paris cant can't possibly be better ODDS AND ENDS Marion Morgan has been signed as a perm perm- permanent permanent permanent anent replacement on Stop the Music in place of Estelle Loring who has left with the national touring company of South Pa Pa- Pacific Pacific Pacific Fred Allen has signed to do a series of records but has hos not yet decided what kind of ma ma- material material material hell he'll record Jose Ferrer star of ot Cyrano de has just tried out his false nose for the part It is reported Fibber McGee and Molly are thinking of re re- re retiring tiring |