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Show stagescreenMdio Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE KATHARINE HEPBURN was nearly drowned at sea while making a picture George Zukor directed; it was in scenes for "Sacred and; Profane Love" that Greer1 Garson was swept into the sea at Monterey, with Zukor directing. Not getting to be a habit with him, we hope! Well, he's directed the great of stage and screen Ethel Barrymore, Laur-ette Laur-ette Taylor, Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, with great success and no casualties. "All these women are ! ; h ' I '-,? W ' s - ) GREER GARSON unlike any you ever saw before," be says, "and when first you see them, you are not sure that you like them. But once people become accustomed to peculiarities of strikingly strik-ingly individual actresses, thousands try to be like them." Kenny Baker steps in as emcee and star of "Glamour Manor" September Sep-tember 30, on ABC. The show will have the same format as last year; story three days a week, audience participation Tuesdays and Thursdays, Thurs-days, Baker every day. Denmark's "Viking Girl," who'i signed a long-term contract witl Hall Wallis productions, has tin leading feminine role In "The Beggars Beg-gars Are Coming to Town." She and her family were among the last to leave Denmark before the Germai occupation. Jane Withers got her start in filmi in a Shirley Temple picture, "Bright Eyes." Now that they'r both grown-up, Jane says she'd like to make another picture with Shir-lev. Shir-lev. She proves what a real actress she is as a reporter in "Danger Street." William Wyler can't see why the doctor said it was just "a common cold" that laid him up during the filming of Goldwyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives." He figures that the cost of halting production for a day costs exactly $5,326.15. Oi course, that included the salaries of stars, extras and technicians. As for the extra 15 cents that was for a box of aspirin. m Peter Lind Hayes, considered by a lot of people the best comedian now at large, reports to Hollywood in the fall for his first picture role; he'll play a press agent in Nunnally Johnson's "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid." Radio row still is gaping gap-ing over the very sensible stipulations stipula-tions he made when first radio offers of-fers were dangled before him $100 a week for himself, $3,000 for scripl writers. He learned the importance of writers after an unfortunate ex-! ex-! perience with the Beatrice ' Kay show. Tommy Dorsey, working in "The Fabulous Dorseys," (United Artists j release) is prepared for anything. I "The way Hollywood does things," said he, "I'm not sure they won't ask my brother Jimmy to portray me, and then ask me to play Jimmy I" The "experts" on "It Pays To Be Ignorant" are frightfully disappointed disap-pointed not a single romance has j developed between contestants who've met when appearing on the program. More than a hundred couples have been introduced to each other; Friday after Friday, a young man and a young woman lhave been selected from the audi- ence and brought to the stage. Bui Tom Howard still has hopes. Marsha Hunt and Felix Bressart will be seen in good company in "Carnegie Hall" the cast includes Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Rubenstcin, Lily Pons, Rise Stevens and Benny Goodman, Boston Symphony orchestra, orches-tra, New York Philharmonic and Vatican choir. ODDS AND ENDS-When Curtis Rrrnhardt, directing "I'ossvssvd" at W arncr's, calls "Joan!" he gets responses re-sponses Irom Joans Crawjord, Win-field. Win-field. Chandler and l,oring. . . . Vice contract Robert Taylor's signed with M G-M ; it's lor 15 years, no options, and he can produce and direct ij something some-thing spoih his looks tor acting. . . . Dennis Day breaks in a new radio program, pro-gram, "A Day in the Li1e of Dennis Day," on October 3 MIC, Thursday evenings. . . . Frank Wilcox, featured in " Cover the Big Town," became inlerested in acting uhen a salesman told him about a little theater group. |