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Show STAGE' SCREEfivRADlO liy VIRGINIA VAUC C 10 V V. N y o a r a a go the Cumrn.'t f;i:;t-r;) broko up tlif.-ir vaudeville act to follow ucparatf.' patlis. Nov they're hack toM-th-r aain, working for Metro. The eloV-.st, Sue, joined the fan rriail department depart-ment when her army husband wag Kent far away. The second, sec-ond, Jinirnli!, became a script Rlrl. The youngest shot rli-iht to the top us an actress. She's Judy Garland, and her latest picture, "Presenting Lily Mars," gives tier a chance to use all the talents that have made ber so popular. Harriet Ililliard has to Btand for he goings-on of Red Skelton's "Junior" "Ju-nior" on the air's 'Tied Kkelton and Company" but Just let her own young sons try to cut such copers! i '- ' ' ; t , ' ; L.IX. .. . tttL. -..i i HARRIET MILLIARD Mearly two years ago she dismissed Jieir nurse, and now David, 6H, and Eric, are brought up by Mama. "I think well-raised children are Jie most Important things In the world," says she. Tommy Dix, who makes his icreen debut in Metro's "Best Foot Forward," has been signed to a long-trm long-trm contract. He's the lad who uTote the March of Dimes song for resident Roosevelt's birthday party. You'll see the most famous night ipots of the past and present in Columbia's "Cover Girl," which itars Rita Ilayworth and features .he 15 outstanding magaiine cover rirls of the country. For the Gay S'ineties scenes, Director Lionel Banks has completed models of Rector's, Rec-tor's, Tony Pastor's Music Hall and die old Madison Square Roof Gar-len. Gar-len. For present-day sequences, an ;xact replica of New York's Stork Iub is being built. The cover girls ire all successful New York models. They're learning their ABC's the lard way, those 27 Hollywood youngsters, young-sters, aged from four to seven, who ippear in "Russia" with Robert Taylor. They have to recite the alphabet, al-phabet, not in English, but in Russian! Rus-sian! As some of them don't know t in English yet, that makes things i bit difficult, especially as there ire six more letters in the Russian jne than in the English. When Gerard Darrow appears for Jie "Quiz Kids" broadcasts there's suspense till the cast learns what livestock he's brought with him. Recently he showed up with a lamster, sent him by a Philadelphia !an. A hamster is of the mouse lamily, but lives like a gopher. "I should have called him Hitler, I ;uess," said Gerard, "as long as ne's a European rodent." A dream will come true for Dinah Shore this summer when she sings in the famous Hollywood Bowl during dur-ing its summer concert series. She lias been successful in other fields f musical endeavor, but she won't be happy until she sings in the Bowl. Barry Wood, radio's singing star, lives on a Connecticut farm where 1,500 chickens are being raised. But not content with that, he recently bought an old distillery in the neighborhood, neigh-borhood, and is converting it into a home for 5,000 Barred Rocks and Plymouth Rocks. With this promising promis-ing start, Wood expects before long to be one of the major chicken raisers rais-ers of southern New England. Amazonian Hope Emerson got a lucky break when Jimmy Durante gave her a nickname the first time they appeared together on the program pro-gram he does with Garry Moore Thursdays on NBC. He nicknamed her "Miss Bongshook" and the next day the phone calls began pouring In, offering her engagements on other oth-er shows. She says she used to be a blacksmith, but she doesn't look it. ODDS A'D E'D Eddie "Roches-ler" "Roches-ler" Anderson has a business interest outside of movies and radio; the company com-pany he heads makes parachutes . . . They handcuffed George Sanders the other day for a scene in "Appointment in Berlin" and then spent two hours trying to get the handcuffs off . . . It's the wardrobe woman who watches Ann Miller dance most anxiously in "R hat's Buzzin' Cousin?"; Ann's wearing precious pre-cious opera-length nylons . . . Robert Sterling's been elected Cadet Major of his flying class at Tlmnderbird Field, I'hoenix, Ariz. . . . Shirley Booth of radio's ra-dio's "Duffy's" will appear in the movie version of the show. |