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Show STAGE'SCREENRADIO liy VIRGINIA VAI.K RADIO, which so often looks to tho movies, theaters thea-ters Mod cafes for its stars, has glanced at its own front parlor and brought outj Georgia Gibbs for the sum-! mer replacement of "Hall of j Fume" on Sunday nights. Georgia, who got her start on the air a few ye;irs ago, has gone straight ahead as a singer; she's appeared on the Jimmy Durante-Gary Moore show I r-' """"""""'"'"""""""'1 1 I : ' " J i ' ., ' ':. ' -I - I . ' jl GEORGIA GIBBS j since its Inception. But now she's branching out as a flongstress-of-ceremonies; she Is being co-starred with Paul Whitman over the Blue Network. Don DeFore (of Paramount's "You Came Along") plans to take a busman's holiday this summer in his home town, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He'll do some acting In a play for the Sinclair Memorial Church's drama group. The rest of the cast consists of his brother and his three sisters. And the director Is his mother. If acting doesn't actually run In that family it certainly has a good start! When he was a Mack Sennett star, about 29 years ago, Chester Conklin used to pick up a youngster who had no car and drive him to the studio; the lad worked for $5 a day, with a three-day-a-week guarantee, i Ills name was Eddie Sutherland, ' and, as director of RKO's "Having J Wonderful Crime," he was delighted j when he found a role suited to Conklin, and signed him. When George Marshall, director of "Murder, He Says," started In pictures pic-tures 33 years ago, he shared a room with two other $3-per-day actors. I But they all changed professions the others were William Seiter and I Frank Lloyd, also directors, and good ones. Gig Young, the promising young actor who took a "rain check" with Warner Bros, for duty with the coast guard in the South Pacific, came back on furlough and added his bit to the list of how-small-the-world-is stories. He met a marine officer named Obringer on Guadalcanal, and asked him if he knew Roy Obringer of Warners' legal department. depart-ment. "Sure," said the other. "He's my father." j Harriet O'Rourke, soprano soloist of "Steel Horizons," has a parrot, Sammy, who's the envy of her singing friends. Sammy practices right along with Harriet, and has developed a good ear for music she says he squawks whenever she makes a mistake. What Charles Boyer did for the movies, Jerry Wayne, star of his own show in the Blue, will do for the stage. He'll appear with Joan Roberts in a new musical, "Marin-ka," "Marin-ka," a musical version of the film, "Mayerling," in the role of "Prince Rudolph." I It's becoming an old story to Dinah Di-nah Shore, this business of being named the No. 1 radio songstress of the nation, in a newspaper poll. So far this season it's happened 11 times but to Dinah it's still pretty thrilling. Probably the most carefully guarded plot in Hollywood was that of "Notorious," Ingrid Bergman's picture, which Alfred Hitchcock will direct for David 0. Selznick. Hitchcock Hitch-cock and Ben Hecht wrote most of the story in a hotel room in New York. Only they and Selznick knew for some time what sort of role Miss Bergman would ' jpay- Among the many accomplishments accomplish-ments of Felix Mills, band leader on "The Man Called X" the summer replacement for the Bob Hope show is the ability to play every instrument instru-ment in the band. He can also read music upside down though just why, he can't say. I ODDS AND ENDS The "tall tales" submitted by wounded servicemen and featured on the Kale Smith hour will eventually appear in book form. . . , Frankie Carle says he knows he's a sue-' sue-' , cess he got a fan letter asking him to lend the sender $1,000. . . . One of the j extras in Columbia's "The Fighting t Guardsman" is Gertrude Astor, who was Thomas Meighan's leading lady about 25 years ago. . . . Johnny Slack Brown, Monogram Western star, is making a personal appearance tour of southern theaters. . . . Ozzie Nelson, costar of s "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" j over CBS, has another picture on the list: Paramount's "People Are Funny." |