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Show STAGESCREEN?ADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE THE radio industry's been breaking out in a rash of birthday and anniversary j celebrations, like the "High- t ways in Melody" cocktail party at New Fork's 21, when the program began its 21st year on the air. But the nicest one was just for fun a luncheon' at the Plaza given by NBC for Kay Kyser. The "College of Musical Knowledge" Knowl-edge" man is wonderful when he's turned loose among friends, a top-notch top-notch entertainer, a delightful person. per-son. He got laughs from even the ' f - - " ' , , I 1 ; 1 y ? ? ' - ' f -: - I KAY KYSER hardest-boiled newspaper people who write about radio year in and year out and are definitely allergic to everything but the best broadcasts broad-casts and sometimes even to those! No matter where you turn, there's Bob Hope in pictures, doing benefits bene-fits and guest shots, starring in his own program He's pretty pleased" about hitting the top in the Hoover-atings Hoover-atings repeatedly, because people wondered whether he could recon- vert to civilian audiences after his concentrating on entertaining servicemen serv-icemen and war workers for so long. It took a little time, but he's done it. - Cute Gale Storm has been seeing New York, in company with her husband, and New York's been seeing see-ing Allied Artists' "It Happened on Fifth Avenue," in which Gale stars. Born Josephine Cottle, of Texas, she won the feminine division of Jesse. Lasky's "Gateway to Hollywood" Holly-wood" radio talent search back in 1939; in 1942 she signed a seven-year seven-year contract with Monogram, and she's definitely on her way up. All of us who've been missing Jean Arthur during her absence from the screen are cheering loudly because at last she's going to make another picture. Sounds like a perfect per-fect role for her, too in "Foreign Affairs" she'll be an American con-gresswoman con-gresswoman investigating the mo-, rale of tl. S. occupation troops in Germany with Billy Wilder writing the piece and Charles Brackett producing, pro-ducing, for Paramount. The CBS "The Adventures of Sam Spade" is sprinkled with star dust. First, Lurene Tuttle was picked fori a role in her first picture, "Heaven Only Knows." Now Howard Duff, who's "Sam," has been signed for "Brute Force," to be made by Universal. Uni-versal. As an angel come to earth In "Heaven Only Knows" Robert Cum- mings is indifferent to gunfire because be-cause he knows no bullet can hit him. But it took all his control to play a scene nonchalantly, as expert riflemen placed bullets all around him! & Cathy and Elliott Lewis are quite a pair; she does all the leading ladies on "Suspense" when male stars are scheduled; he sets star billing on "The Case Book of Gregory Greg-ory Hood." They wrote "The Thirteenth Thir-teenth Sound," which Agnes Moor-head Moor-head did on "Suspense" recently but wrole themselves out of it. And they've written a half-hour show, in which they would star, which should hit the air waves before long. Seems there's a shortage of camels. None have been imported in the last ten years, because there was an epidemic of hoof and mouth disease in North Africa. Which may not affect you but Seymour Neben-zal Neben-zal needs 16 for "Atlantis." Doesn't care whether they're one or two humps, just so they're camels. Vaughn Monroe and his band are no strangers to pictures; you'll see and hear them in "Carnegie Hall." But twice in two weeks Vaughn has been screen-tested at 20th Century-Fox Century-Fox for a starring role in a musical, minus the band. ODDS AXD ESDS Don't know bow I ever got along without the "Information "In-formation Please" Almanac, edited by John Kieran; it's terrific. . . . Don Mac-Laligblin, Mac-Laligblin, star of "David Harding, Counterspy," is a skilled boxer, wrestler wres-tler and jiu-jitsu artist: was taught by pals in the FBI. . . . April 26 marks the beginning of the 17th year on the air for Lum and Abner. . . . Most of the "Breakfast in Hollywood'' audience are women but you should see how many men try hard to get en the program. pro-gram. . . . One of Humphrey Eogart's favorite directors, Walter Gorman, has forsaken Hollywood to take up scripting script-ing for the CBS "Young Dr. Malon." |