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Show STAGESCREEKJRADIO Rclrnsrd by Wcslrrn Newspnppr Union. By VIRGINIA VALE A LOT of New Yorkers would kick themselves if they knew what has happened lately. For Bing Crosby heads the list of movie and radio stars whom most people would like to see in person. And Bing can't resistthe sidewalks side-walks of New York. Wearing a slouch hat, smoking a, pipe, with the collar of his overcoat turned up on chilly days, he's travelled over miles of New York by foot; walked clear to the Battery one morning, and then rode all the way back uptown up-town on a crowded bus, but nobody recognized him, though that bus probably was jammed with his fans. Even the crowd waiting to see "The Bells of St Mary's" at the Music Hall didn't recognize himi Ginny Simms was guest of honor j at a scrumptious party for the press given by the Columbia Broad-1 casting system, at which, naturally, I all the men crowded around Ginny. But the girls gathered around Helmut Hel-mut Dantine, whose latest picture ififlfi. V.'. .iiiijitf . . .-X.-.-.-.-J . ...v..ftMfV&Yfr.r. GINNY SIMMS is "Shadow of a Woman." Ginny was cheering because Frank Gallagher, Gal-lagher, ex-army singer whom she introduced recently on the air in her "Give a Discharged Serviceman a Job" campaign, now has a radio show of his own. Every returned vet she's introduced has hit the professional pro-fessional jackpot. Ray Milland is convinced that the sailing yacht Santana, which he Tused to own, has star appeal. He .got interested in fishing, wanted a cruiser, so sold the yacht to Dick Powell, who honeymooned on it with June Ailyson. Then Powell sold it to Humphrey Bogart. , The youngster you'll see In "The Strange Woman," playing Hedy La-rnarr La-rnarr as a child, Is the star's own -discovery. She's Arianne Castle, -daughter of Edgar Ulmer, also a Lamarr discovery. She chose him .as director of her first independent film venture, then talked him into 'letting his daughter appear in the picture also Hedy says Arianne ilooks exactly as she did at the age of eight. "Holiday and Co.," which replaces re-places "It Pays to Be Ignorant" on the air, is true to life. The story of -ex-vaudevillians who played on bills with Jack Benny, Fred Allen, etc., ;its main characters, Tim and Shirley Shir-ley Holiday, are played by Ray J1aher and Edith Evans, who know that background perfectly. It looks like one of the most promising of the year's new radio shows. Loretta Young's stand-in In her mew picture, "The Stranger," is Virginia Vir-ginia Griffith, an old friend. The .girls went to grade school together; now Virginia works when Loretta Lor-etta does, and falls heir to a good TOany of Loretta's picture costumes. "The Tcentimera Club," heard Saturday mornings over NBC, has been cited by the American schools and colleges association as the outstanding out-standing program for young people in the high school age group. The scries won its honors for "good, clean entertainment used as a vehicle ve-hicle for straight, colloquial talks on tolerance," according to the citation. T Following a recent "Truth or Consequences" broadcast the operator op-erator on NBC's night switchboard in Hollywood reported that more calls had flooded the board than on either V-E or V-J Days. They were all from people requesting tickets to the Ralph Edwards show, so that they could try to identify that mysterious mys-terious voice and win those fabulous fabu-lous .gifts. People as far east as Buffalo phoned, offering to pay their fare west if they could be assured of a chance on the program which, of course, they couldn't be ODDS AND EN'DSJimmie Melton't friends presented him with a 2 gallon container of custard ice cream, his favorite dessert, before a recent broadcast. broad-cast. . . . You'll hear Ann Sothern doing comedy dialects on all the "Maisie" programs now; those she's done so far have been real laugh getters. . . . Fred Waring"! delighted to have Stuart Churchill out of the army and back with the Pennsrlvanians ; Churchill shared a tent at Camp Upton with Burl Ives, and Ives taught him tg play the guitar. . . . Dinah Shore and George Montgomery Montgom-ery have an unusual collie on their En-cino En-cino ranch; they know somebody's com-; com-; 'fg when he stops barking. V |
