Show y no noBy By INEZ GERHARD EILEEN OFARRELL is the the perfect perfect perfect per per- soloist for the Telephone Hour flour on St St. Patricks Patrick's Day so she is being announced way ahead of time This broadcast will be a special special special cial event broadcast from Carnegie Hall where she scored a brilliant success with her recital in 1950 The daughter of Irish parents formerly billed in vaudeville as The Singing Singing Singing Sing Sing- ing she has fulfilled SiA A Si n X EILEEN OFARRELL their dreams by becoming one of our outstanding dramatic sopranos But she is not one of our temperamental prima donnas she refuses to be glamorized and will let nothing interfere interfere interfere in in- with her home life with her husband Robert Reagan and her herson herson herson son Robert Reagan Jr Fred Heider producer of The Paul Whiteman Revue received a congratulatory telegram after a recent recent recent re re- re- re cent broadcast It came from an anold anold anold old friend in Hollywood Gordon MacRae they shared a locker when they were page boys at NBC Brigadoon is to be filmed at last by I. 1 with exterior scenes filmed in Scotland as they should be he This lovely musical musical musical musi musi- cal was not as satisfactory as it sh should have been on the stage though it had a long run It is perfect for pictures The authors authors au thors Alan Jay Lerner and a n d Frederick Loewe will do the screen play and score and Gene Kelly will have a leading role Richard Beedle William Holdens Holden's brother will make his movie debut in Paramount's 17 Its It's his first attempt at acting He has been working in a laboratory owned by his father before that operated a flying schooL The size of the audience reached by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on television was proved by the result of an appeal for funds to support research in muscular dystrophy which they made recently The appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal brought in more than responses There were scores of letters from dystrophic victims who never knew there was a Muscular Dystrophy association despite wide publicity June Jeffery the year old actress actress ac ac- actress ac- ac tress who recently completed the second leading role in Charles Chaplins Chaplin's Chaplins Chaplin's Chap Chap- lins lin's forthcoming Limelight has been signed to play an important role in Paramount's Botany Bay She was featured in The uThe Fighter It took about three months and interviews requiring the use of four recording companies before before before be be- fore Phillip H. H Lord selected Don MacLaughlin for the role of David Harding in CounterSpy CounterSpy CounterSpy Coun ter Spy Lord is a perfectionist which probably is one reason why t this his h i s popular NBC radio show is about to celebrate its anniversary He knows just what he wants and gets it Del Wood the new pianist with a boogie beat who recently made her debut on Grand Ole Opry is a native of Nashville a housewife and anda a clerical worker Until she hit success success success suc suc- cess with her first record a year ago she played with a local band When making the film Roman Scandals before the war Eddie Cantor noticed a beautiful redhead who was breaking up the cast with her comic antics He advised her to try professional comedy instead of being just a show girl Her name is Lucille Ball a star of the screen television and radio Now she and Eddie with their own shows have the same sponsor Susan Whitney II who has a major role in Warners' Warners The Miracle of Our Lady Fatima started her career as a photographers photographers' photographers photographers' raphers' raphers model at the age of 3 when she became one of the youngest magazine c cover o 0 v e r girls in the country ODDS AND ENDS Hedy Lamarr La La- marr who said shed she'd quit pictures picture for good now says shed she'd like t to make some in Europe Tonight We Sing a Fox Century-Fox production pro pro- will give music lovers a treat with the famous pianist Arthur Ar Ar- thur playing himself in m a cast that includes Ezio Pinza an and md d J Jan an Peerce Dayton Lummis a veteran of the Broadway stage will portray the late Graham McNamee McNamee Mc Mc- Namee the radio broadcaster in i n Alexander the Big Leaguer it i is s reported o v. v w Q ii I Y e P X 4 M Mt skill VV t kAw n DOCTOR ACCUSED In Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Dr Charles Herband select selective selective tive live service psychiatrist st was accused accused accused ac ac- of extorting from a potential draftee to classify him asa as asa asa a sexual deviate The FBI FlU caught him accepting payment In the draftees draftee's home F Y w Nl I Al AMBASSADOR President Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man nominated George F. F Kennan Henan above a career diplomat and Russian expert to be American ambassador to the Soviet union At the same time Truman accepted the resignation of former envoy Admiral Alan Kirk d f C 1 y 1 Gri fra r x Z s BROTHER SISTER MEET Cindy Ames American actress who is going to make a picture in Italy visits her brother Merwin l Koeppel Beverly Hills Calif who is stationed in Frankfurt Germany with the United States forces of occupation r n M y 4 S wt 1 LJ d di i r y oe r y n IL ILHAS HAS CONSCIENCE Anthony Leonido a at destitute young father who lost his fingers recently when the tips caught In a press was set setto setto setto to stage a holdup in Brooklyn but buthis buthis buthis his conscience made him go to police police po po- lice with his sawed off shotgun t v v v t so i v P o t f I 1 x A y t yA 1 f tact Yf t w MISSING ACE Major George Davis Jr Lubbock Texas top US U.S. air ace in credit Korea Kore with 12 enemy planes to his credit credit Is missing In action His Ills wife said the army had bad promised to send him home after his bis last victory and then refused ik J d. d w q vIa Lt s Ya x 3 xa c a S K aS RESCUED FROM FROl GAS FUMES FUl In Milwaukee still frightened from Imprisonment in a refrigerator room where she took refuge from lung- lung scaring gas fumes in the Borden ice cream plant after an explosion Miss Delores Heisler clings tightly to a fireman rescuing her Ammonia gas swept through the second floor of the plant overcoming Live five others of the women employees at the plant Also two firemen were overcome by the fumes and another worker at the plant was burned by flames F a i aka 4 t. 1 i iF r i Y y tr s COMMUNICATIONS CENTER In Washington DC D.C. Major George McNally commanding officer of the White House signal branch sits at atthe atthe atthe the main console control panel of President Truman's new communications communications com com- mum car for the presidential train The car is equipped for radio telephone radio radio-facsimile radio transmission teletypewriter and communication communication communication com com- between the cars that make up the presidential train when he be is on a trip The car weighs pounds I y- y r j t i f J t il I Ix f v 1 K Xi h J v vr r ilE i- i lE y td W V x Y o lr t. t I l N a t r xia aa as 4 r k o i CAUGHT Lt Robert McLeod airborne South Carolina hangs in a tree after his parachute got entangled in the branches Danger has been the keynote at Camp Drum NY recently as paratroopers have been leaping through the air on maneuvers An air force C 46 cargo plane jammed with 32 paratroopers crashed during its takeoff at Wheeler-Sack Wheeler Field killing three persons The army's parachute maneuvers have been named by officials Operation Snowdrop p Et W y y yEt r Sy s' s ta y r Cf e K y ys r vy r x 1 v a a r s C t t S. S Q i s iA ay ayt 8 r bC r r r 4 raA y S e t r r C BIRTHDAY PARTY LAUNCHES BOOM l In Detroit Governor Mermen Mennen Williams and his wife wilc are arc cutting the birthday cake calce at the gala birthday party given for the governor by partisan non Democrats who paid 50 each to celebrate the Michigan governors governor's birthday He Dc received a boost toward the White House with speeches by Senator Blair Moody D. D Mich and Senator Brien linen McMahon of Connecticut He also received bills which be he will use for educational purposes |