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Show STAGE5CREENiM5lO Heleased by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE 1ISTENERS to a recent - "Johnny Presents" broadcast broad-cast never even suspected that in the studio the sort of thing was happening that speeds radio performers and Eroducers toward nervous reakdowns. Ginny Simms was singing when 'a man walked up on the stage and headed toward her. Since, when a big show like that one is produced, there are so many people on stage, no one realized just at first that the man didn't belong there. Then Ken Roberts, the announcer, spotted him. Just before the man reached Ginny, Roberts reached him; he took the stranger by the arm and led him off itage, whispering in his ear very confidentially all the while. Credit Ginny with never missing a notel In more than six years In pictures Geraldine Fitzgerald practically always al-ways lost out romantically, with the other girl getting the man. In "Wil-eon" "Wil-eon" she won out, and decided to leave Warner Bros, and strike out ' ' - ' i . f ' ' i ' . '' ' j s ' f jr .VS ; f" ''' 4 i , 4 ; , " v- ;. v-'s .. . . -:t : . ' '-7'J'- v -' 1 : y i ;.; f : - 1 ; . " T-,' h LiA awl f nl n ''TI tJ GERALDINE FITZGERALD for herself. So they let her win John Garfield In "Nobody Lives Forever," ts a parting gift. On her own, she went into "Uncle Harry," for Universal Uni-versal doesn't get her man, but goes to the gallows for trying! All of one day Hollywood was filled with rumors that RKO and Paramount had merged a big gate was opened between the two studios and that was enough for the gossips The fact of the matter was that Leo McCarey was shooting exteriors with Ingrid Bergman, Henry Trav-ers Trav-ers and several extras on a Paramount Para-mount lot for Rainbow Productions' "The Bells of St. Mary's," being made at RKO. Eddie Cantor's still untitled Western West-ern Comedy at RKO will retain for Cantor and Joan Davis the same character names they used In "Show Business," though there's no similarity simi-larity between the pictures; they'll keep the same names Just for luck Oliver Wallace, who composed "Hundustan" during the last war and "Der Fuehrer's Face" during tills one, provides the score for Wal: Disney's new short, "African Di ary," which RKO is releasing. This time Goofy Is starred. Lauren Bacall has a difficult task ahead of her; she's finished "The I Big Sleep," her second picture, in which she appears opposite Humphrey Hum-phrey Bogart; for her third assignment assign-ment she'll have the feminine lead In "Confidential Agent," which piny an English woman. A different differ-ent accent, a different male lead, she'U have to work hard. Fred MacMurray and Leslie Fen-ton Fen-ton launched their new enterprise. Mutual l'roductlons, recently, beginning begin-ning work on "Fardon My Tast." It's a comedy, and MacMurray plnys twin brothers who never meet, but whose effect on enoh other's existence ex-istence Is disastrous. Marguerite I Chapman Is Fred's leading lady; Aklm TatulrolT, Wllllnm Demurest, Harry Davenport and Douglas Dum-brlllo Dum-brlllo have strong roles. An nlr-forco friend is responsible for Abbott and Costello'i signing Bob Mathews as a vocnllst on their Thursday nl'ht NUC programs. Tho friend, on furlough, was asked to Costollo's one Sunday for a swim; i ha took along a record of Mathews' and played it for Lou. A special concert mads up of re-I re-I quests from our triios overseas will be brondenst by the New York riillhnrmonlo-Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodr.lnskl conducting, over CHS on Sunday, July 1. Requests ro being cleared by tho Armed Forces Rndlo Service. (.S AM) r.W'S On his Smi.l.n mkIio ))ritrm r:in Rulsun riy W Rtd riit (o tnkfi jicrriri'iiii'n into llit'ir nmii'i mit M'iefl hi not hom oiiik (fin( ni'. rWiJ'i'i hod fiIi'if tlm nun with j(Mii7. iimJ jijioi.t. . . . In "Mnitjltrnnlfi itt MiMiVd" iirn(iv JwfiiHir it'fiirj fl sit t'limhnrd mhfir luithinn suit. . , . Joml lleniivtt n-i' .ifiir in "If (Mfiiin in ri If imh'" on tli limliit Thrnttr 7n rif l.'t. . . , It r'iiMir'i Sttri,(l ('ar.iini, o'4" If iM('n ,(urt ill tii'pvil into the nfinto'l hoinilnl or art (Miw in ; on fnt irnv oiif h hit n.i ni'nj on a tifin, nml luul to so f.n K tor fjf'itntrnt. |