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Show mm STAGED SCREEN : RADIO Kolrnsi-d by Wstrrn Newspaper Union. H- VIKC1MV VAI.K TT'IIKN Mary IMckford was picked by the winning win-ning contestant on the Mutual Mu-tual network's "Queen for a Day" program ns the person the "Queen" wanted to have tea with, Mary liked the idea of the program so much that she invited the mother of Mer-vyn Mer-vyn LeRoy to hear it broadcast. Mrs. LeRoy enjoyed the broadcast so much that she promptly called her son, and talked so enthusiastically v ' that he decided to make a Technicolor Techni-color picture on the "Queen for a Day" idea of creating 24-hour Cin-derellas. Cin-derellas. Monogram played host to "Queens" on the successive days. They watched Peter Cookson, Warren War-ren William and Anne Gwynne work on the "Suspense" set. then visited the night-club set of "Swing Parade." Pa-rade." Susan Hayward has left Paramount, Para-mount, where she got her start, and signed with Walter Wanger for seven years. Her first picture will be the technicolor Western, "Can- . , ,7 I SUSAN HAYWARD yon Passage," with Dana Andrews and Brian Donlevy. She'll be working work-ing at Universal, right along with her husband, Jess Barker, who's playing a featured role in "As It Was Before." There's a fine new radio show ; scheduled to start September 11. Cornelia Otis Skinner and Roland Young will be heard in more of the t- w delightful "William and Mary" - sketches, written by Miss Skinner, which were heard on the air a while ago. Barry Wood will be the singing sing-ing master of ceremonies, and Ray Block's orchestra, a new mixed choral group, and a guest star will complete the program. "A Night in Casablanca" will launch the Marx Brothers as independent inde-pendent film producers, and the Marxes will try it out on a stage tour of Pacific coast theaters and service camps. That is, they'll do live sketches that have been developed devel-oped from the script, about 400,000 persons will see them, and the material ma-terial that gets by with this critical audience will go into the picture. Jack Douglas, writer and actor on the Phil Harris radio show, was given giv-en a baby shower by Harris and the cast when John Douglas Jr. arrived. ar-rived. One gift was a cradle -which has rocked the babies of the Ronald Colmans, Ruth Hussey and Constance Moore, respectively. William Goetz, head of International Interna-tional Pictures, is "agin" long feature fea-ture films, so his "Tomorrow Is Forever," For-ever," starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and George Brent, will reach the screen in less than 10,000 feet will run less than two hours. Twentieth Century-Fox plans to remake that lovely story, "Berkeley Square," in which Leslie Howard and Heather Angel originally appeared. ap-peared. But the story will be rewritten, rewrit-ten, and this time Maureen O'Hara, Gregory Peck and Jeanne Crain will have the leading roles. "The Strange Adventure" has an Academy Award line-up; Clark Gable, Ga-ble, Greer Garson, Thomas Mitchell, Mitch-ell, Director Victor Fleming and Cameraman Joseph Rutenberg have all won their Oscars. The chickens which chase the actors have no Oscars, Os-cars, but they're prize stunt hens. Want to appear on a quiz show? Then take a tip from Quizmaster Fred Uttal, who selects guest contestants con-testants for the Wednesday night CBS "Detect and Collect" show. Fred says he looks the audience over and picks those with "the most eager hands." ODDS AND ENDS Cpl. Mickel Po.na.ir I) is spending his 30-dtiy furlouuli uorhing in "A''i( and Day" at Warners'. War-ners'. . . . After two and a half years in the Coast Guard, Gig Young returns to Warners'; he was last seen in "Old Acquaintance," Ac-quaintance," with Belte Dat-is. . . . 2thh Century-Y ox has re-optioned Allyn Jos-lyn Jos-lyn for another year he's currently appearing with Peggy Ann Garner iV the film version of Junior Miss". . . . Dix Dai is, "Kandoliih" on the NliC "Date With Judy" program, has signed for the role of llttgh Herbert's son in the Sunday CHS "1 hat's My Pop". . . . PKO will linve two l)nnny Kaye lechni-olor lechni-olor comedies in PJ45-46. |