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Show STtesCREEfOAfclO Rvlrmil by Western Newapniier Union. By VIRGINIA VALE ORSON WELLES is always news. Rip.ht now, vacationing vaca-tioning from the movies and the stage, he's radio's first "head man." The title's unofficial, un-official, but it exactly describes de-scribes his new radio stardom on "This Is My Best," Tuesday nights on CBS. He serves as host, narrator, and plays leading man opposite op-posite Hollywood's top-notch stars when he's not being starred himself. The hnlf-hdur offerings are based on the best stories published by American writers, as you know If I . - ! i! OKSON WELLES you've heard the program, and ! Welles plays anything from a star ' role to a character part. Network officials couldn't decide how to describe de-scribe his job, so they finally decided de-cided just to call him ."head man." "With Abbott and Costello" is the title of a forthcoming film for Bud and Lou, heard Thursday nights on NBC. In it they'll introduce Bob Haymes as juvenile lead; he's the brother of Dick Haymes, and has just been discharged from the army. Bob Hope will soon be represented In Madame Tussaud's famous London Lon-don wax museum. The star of "The Princess and the Pirate" recently received word that he'll join the immortals im-mortals of history whose effigies have been seen by millions. But Bob won't be homesick, for a friend of his, Bing Crosby, now working in "The Bells of St. Mary's," will be similarly honored. American naval officers rescued Iby Rangers in the raid on the Cabanatuan prison camp on Luzon will be seen in RKO's "The Invisible Army." Arriving at San Pedro by navy PBY boat from San Francisco, Fran-cisco, they were taken to the studio, where motion pictures of them were made before they departed for some. One of the film's highlights will be a re-enactment of the raid on the camp. "Truth or Consequences," the radio ra-dio show, has been signed by RKO for "Radio Stars on Parade," musical musi-cal with Wally Brown, Alan Carney and Frances Langford. Ralph Edwards Ed-wards and company also appear In "Seven Days Leave". His Majesty's Canadian Grenadiers, Grena-diers, famous military band, will represent the Dominion of Canada In Andrew Stone's musical, "Pan American Sensations- of 1946." It's scheduled for early fall production, and will combine theatrical talent - of both North and South America, filmed against authentic backgrounds. back-grounds. That new Glnny Simms show is doing a lot for discharged veterans who were professional entertainers entertain-ers before they went into the service serv-ice and are now trying to pick up the threads of their pre-Pearl Harbor Har-bor careers. They're heard by a coast-to-coast radio audience, and a drive is made to interest producers, pro-ducers, agencies, etc., and get contracts con-tracts for the veterans appearing on the program. "America's Town Meeting" will extend its spring tour to include San Francisco, originating its April 26th broadcast there, while the United Nations peace conference is in session. ses-sion. Originally California was included in-cluded in the summer tour. Jimmy Durante, starred with Garry Moore on CBS Friday nights, won't go overseas till he has his summer vacation, but his famous voice is heard on recordings at the battlefronts. Portraying the role of "The Mole," notorious gangster, Durante recorded an hour-long adventure ad-venture of "Dick Tracy," with an all-star cast; the records will be shipped overseas. ODDS AND ENDS A lot of people drew a long breath of relief when it uias announced that, after all, "It Pays to lie Ignorant' had been renewed by its sponsor, and would go right on tame show, same cast same laughs. . . . Ted Osborne, who appears weekly in character parts for "Mystery Theater," estimates that he's appeared on every single program on the air; sounds im-possible. im-possible. . . . Robert Sully has solved the material problem on the new guest house he's building on his property in Brentwood. He's using discarded boxcar box-car walls, instead of new lumber, and is doing all the work himself. He's a former engineer. |