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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE TACK PAAR, ex-G.I. come-Jdian come-Jdian who's under contrad to RKO, has just signed a six-year six-year radio contract, topping a career that began 12 years ago, when he was 16. You hear him now on the CBS "Vaughan Monroe" show Saturday nights; then you'd have heard him as a stall announcer and unintentional uninten-tional comedian. Announcing the Cleveland National air races, he did fine, except that he pronounced the i wrong plane as winner; looked i away for a minute and the winner j L St r ' F L I ' f'" ' f 1 " s . ' ' ! JACK PAAR he'd picked came in last. During the war he was a member of Special Services, entertaining troops on what he calls the fungus vaudeville circuit. Ingrid Bergman's been awarded the highest Swedish order for artists art-ists and scientists by King Gustaf oi Sweden. But seeing her going about New York you'd never suspect that she's a top-ranking movie star, and also the star of the town's best play. You'd see a pretty girl, wearing a mink coat, with a black hood tied over her head unrecognized by people peo-ple who'd clamor for autographs. After seeing visiting stars who spare Dothing and nobody in their efforts to be recognized even while they wail for privacy, she's refreshing. Gene Autry has formed his own independent producing unit, which goes to work at Columbia Pictures the first of April, with an exclusive contract to produce four high budget pictures per year for two years. Big outdoor musicals with Grade A stories, sto-ries, that's what he'll aim for. He should be able to turn them out, with all Columbia's facilities and his own music organization to draw on. Henry A. Reichold, the Detroit Industrialist, thinks there are two or three million people who want to listen lis-ten to straight classical music, with no interruptions or commercial Interferences. In-terferences. That's why he's sponsoring spon-soring that series of "Sunday Evening Eve-ning Hours," with the Detroit Symphony. Sym-phony. But he's deliberately bucking buck-ing Fred Allen and Edgar Bergen; has the same time on the air as two Df our best comedy shows I The Roscoe Karns are original; when they headed for Reno, on completion com-pletion of "Gallant Man" at Republic Re-public Studios thej were intent no1 on divorce, but on having a second sec-ond honeymoon; they've been happily hap-pily married for a quarter of a century. cen-tury. Oscar Bradley, conductor of "We, the People" orchestra, is pretty proud of Arnold Eidus, who recently competed in the international violin competition in Paris and took firsl place. He won a concert tour to 38 cities. When Eidus returns to this country, probably in April, Mr. Bradley plans to have him as a guest on the show. You see, the violinist till recently was one of the boys in the band. In "Undercover Maizie" Ann Soth-em Soth-em portrays a police woman and we're told (and it's hard to believe) that she spent several days at the Los Angeles Police Academy, undergoing under-going the strenuous routines prescribed pre-scribed for rookie cops; showing uf for setting-up exercises in a play-suit, play-suit, hitting the bullseye with a pistol, pis-tol, though she'd never fired one before be-fore in her life, etc., etc. Setting up a "Vox Pop" broadcast broad-cast is no cinch. Parks Johnson and Warren Hull often interview as many as 150 persons during the preliminary pre-liminary proceedings, determining the six who'll go on the air. Then Mrs. Johnson has to round up presents pres-ents for them. ODDS AND ENDS Veronica Lake is going to hide that eye under thai lock of hair again in Paramount1! "Saigon." . . . "National Velvet" ii tlaled to come to the air waves February Feb-ruary 3rd. . . . Marlene Aames, aged seven, who plays the daughter on tht Sunday "Blondie" show, made her film debut in "The Best Years of Out Lives.". . . Everyone ought to see "Cae tar and Cleopatra1 if only to see wha. "Glorious Technicolor" can be like when it's really glorious. . . . Mercede: McCambridge, of "Big Sister," is search ing for a voodoo drum player; bet husband gave her a drum from Haiti hut she doesn't know how to tlay it I |
