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Show STto SCREEN! KAtilO Ity VIRGINIA VAl.K ilc;sM nv V(frn Ncwsi'jiiirr llntim. 1,W1KY odmothors must h:vo stood three deep around Florence Freeman's cradle when she was an infant; in-fant; certainly she seems to have just about everything now. If vou listen to "The Open Door" (it's on the air on N1!C five nuM-nin.r.s a week, and is considered one of tho'bost of the radio socials you know her ns "Lisa Arnold." She's bountiful, nn excellent actress, the wife of a minister min-ister and the mother of two children. chil-dren. She takes an active part in church activities. Watching a broadcast, broad-cast, it was fascinating to see how she and the other members of the company worked; gestures and facial expressions made me long for television! After appearing In more than SO pictures, lovely Lynn Bari gets her chance to satisfy a long standing ambition to sing in a picture. It's ; x j i . . . ...... ; ii ! a ! LTXN BARI United Artists' "The Bridge of San Luis Key." But she's booked to sing romantic Peruvian ballads in their original tongue! Nothing daunted, Miss Bari studied Spanish for three weeks and learned the songs, native dialect and all. Margo, J. Carrol Naish, Ton Neal and other members of the cast of EKO's "Behind the Rising Sun" have their own reasons for hating the Japs. They had to wear Japanese Japa-nese shoes for the picture both the soft, flat-soled sandals and the wood-- en clogs and as a result they de-' de-' veloped blisters and callouses during the first week of shooting. Rosalind Rcssell thinks you ought to know that there'll be do man shortage in "Ten Percent Woman." Both her leading men top the six-foot six-foot mark, Brian Ahcrne by two Inches, YVillard Parker by four. Parker, signed by Columbia after his performance with Gertrude Lawrence Law-rence in "Lady in the Dark," will be easy for new fans to remember he'll be one of the tallest men in pictures. pic-tures. After Bob Hope took a terrific beating from Betty Hutton for a scene in "Let's Face It," Director Sidney Lanfield asked him if the same thing had ever happened to him on his air show. "Only," cracked Bob, "to the audience." Gary Cooper nearly knocked the Paramount still department cold when he actually asked to have his picture taken; first time he'd ever done that. It turned out that he needed a passport photo in order to get permission to fish off tho coast of California. After motion picture executives had coaxed and coaxed Ingrid Bergman Berg-man to come to Hollywood, some of ' them looked upon her with alarm I when she finally appeared. She stands five feet inches! And in the past movie stars have come in small sizes. "They looked at me and said: 'Put her on a diet,' " said she. "I suppose they thought a diet would shrink me!" I Mel Blanc, who plays the Happy Postman on the Burns and Allen I show, is star, quizmaster, stooge I and sound effects operator on a twice-weekly quiz show which is re- 1 corded for our overseas fighting men; rings bells, toots horns, has a ' swell time. When the Jack Benny-Larry Adler troupe made its first stop-off on the journey to Africa and points beyond, be-yond, the commanding officer saw what a reception they got and sent coded messages ahead to commanding command-ing officers; decoded, they read: "Buck Benny Rides Again." ODDS AND ENUSICllery Queen continues to lead all evening programs on the Pacific coast, according to the latest Uooter ratings . . . Virginia Sale's seven-year-old twins have been signed by RKO for feature spots in "Curse of the Cat People" . . . Ame pictures will face the canwras at RKO during October Octo-ber . . . Geoffrey liurnes, amateur criminologist crim-inologist and seUer of scenes for the airs "Mystery Theater," estimates that one detective novel is bought every minute of every day in New York City alone . . . Hichurd Powers of "The Navy Way" used to be Tom Kcae. the western west-ern star. |