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Show STAG E vS C R E t NvvR ADI 0 Released by Western Ncwspnper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE HALF on hour spent witt Edward G. Robinson ij 60 stimulating that for days other people look pretty drab. He's been having a brief vacation vaca-tion in New York, after finishing finish-ing "The Red House," while waiting for the script of his nexi picture to be prepared as co-pro-ducer he has a special Interest ii both of them. "Vacation" meant teeing friends and relatives, looking look-ing at paintings, giving interviews, doing guest shots on the radio everything but resting. "I have U v . ': EDWARD G. ROBINSON come to New York about three limes a year, to get re-charged," said he. Though his success on the stage was unquestioned, he's not yearning to go back; to make bet-:er bet-:er and better pictures will satisfy satis-fy him. Katharine Hepburn, on the other land, won't give up the theater. But whatever she does on the stage, she says, must be in the nature of i challenge, or something different !rom anything she's attempted be-'ore. be-'ore. After making "Undercurrent," A-ith Robert Taylor, and five days later starting "The Sea of Grass," with Spencer Tracy, she too headed for a vacation, in her Connecticut iome. Barbara Brltton's theme song ,.. should be "I Love a Parade"; after she rode on a float in the 1941 Tournament of Roses procession her , picture appeared in a local paper, Paramount auditioned her, and she ;vas all set In the movies. From . -ninor roles she worked up to the ead opposite Ray Milland in "Til j. We Meet Again"; she'll co-star with Randolph Scott in "Albuquerque." Groucho Marx is afraid he may nave a hit on his hands. He has a play, "The Middle Ages," which le'd like to do on the New York stage. But experts have read it and ihink it will have a long run. If it Joes, and he appears in it, that will mean that he'll have to be iway from Hollywood indefinitely. He wrote it with Norman Krasna, io he may just rest on his laurels as :o-author. Mercedes McCambrldge shocked everybody at a rehearsal of "The dventures of the Thin Man" by announcing that she's quitting radio, maybe forever. She's decided to settle set-tle in the West Indies with her nov-ilist nov-ilist husband, William Fifield, and John, her five-year-old son. It's good news that Katina Pax-nou Pax-nou Is to appear in another pic-;urc; pic-;urc; dropping her after her magnificent magnifi-cent performance in "For Whom -he Bell Tolls" was one of Hollywood's Holly-wood's glaring mistakes. She re-ienlly re-ienlly returned to this country to play the role of Raymond Massey's ife In RKO's screen version of 'Mourning Becomes Electra," by Eugene O'Neill. Dudley Nichols ligucd her. Congratulations! Thelma Ritter had a fine reason 'or omitting playing "Bernice" on i recent "McGarry and His Mouse" iroadcast. Last Thanksgiving she played a small role in "It's Only Human," starring Maureen O'Hara uid Edmund Gwenn, when some icenes were shot in New York. When the film was developed in Hol-O'wood Hol-O'wood her comedy scene was so !unny that her role was enlarged, io she flew to the coast for new icenes. Two of the outstanding radio pro-irams pro-irams for children are guided by men who are childless. Robert Maxwell Max-well produces the trail-blazing "Superman," "Su-perman," and Jack Barry is the originator and moderator of the illarious "Juvenile Jury." Maxwell's Max-well's married, Barry's a bachelor. ODDS AND ENDS Recent reports ihow "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" program is fourth in listener popularity in Canada. . . . The first lime Burt Lancaster ("Desert Fury") ipoke stage lines was while performing perform-ing in "Stars and Gripes," the army 'how, in Italy during the war. ... No inly will Rosalind Russell star in ber irst Independent Artists production iheaded by Miss Russell, ber husband and Dudley Nichols) but she's also written the story, a comedy called "Madly in Love." , . . William Holden likes to don skis and have a friend tow V'n over a turf field behind a jeep. |