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Show STAGECSCREENkADlO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE JAMES MASON, who recent ly won a national poll as "England's most popular motion mo-tion picture actor" for the second time, is likely to chalk I up similar honors for himseli in America. You'll see him in "The Man in Gray." released bj Universal Pictures and probablj In American-made pictures as well, due to that tieup between Univer i, 1 : ' ! JAMES MASON sal and J. Arthur Rank of England, Eng-land, Leo Spitz and William Goetz. Mason's known as "The English Humphrey Bogart," which givei you an idea of the kind of roles he plays; he's murdered many young ladies on the screen, In a variety of ways, but says that the way he extinguishes Margaret Lockwood in "The Man in Gray" is the worst of alL "Two Hours of Stars" (stars from stage, 1 screen and radio) will be broadcast on the afternoon of Christmas Day over the full Columbia Colum-bia network. The list Includes Bob Hope, Vera Vague, Ginny Simms, Jack Benny, Artur Rubenstein, Alan ("Falstaff") Reed, and many others, with Don Ameche as master mas-ter of ceremonies. There may be a comedy skit done by famous stooges Vera Vague, Jerry Colon-na, Colon-na, Reed and Rochester, among others; oth-ers; people so clever they're stooges no longer. It seems as if everybody's singing sing-ing in "The Bells of St. Mary's." The famed boys' choir, St. Luke's Choristers of Long Beach, will sing. Bing Crosby, naturally, will sing-five sing-five numbers, including "Adeste Fi-tlells." Fi-tlells." And Ingrid Bergman will lift her voice In song for the first time an the screen; she'll do a Swedish ( folk song. The picture's a Christmastime Christmas-time release. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Ba-call, Ba-call, who like to wear matching gray flannel slacks and red flannel shirts, also each wear a tiny gold whistle hers on a bracelet, his on his watch chain. They said they'd never take them off for any reason. But it wasn't long before she went into "Confidential Agent," and had to take off her bracelet for romantic closeups with Charles Boyerl Nice goings-on Ginny Simms, who raises prize pigs on her ranch, traded a young porker to Dorothy Lamour, in exchange for a turkey from Dorothy's prize stock. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, Ginny's going to have a 30-foot circular staircase constructed entirely of lucite in that new home she's building; it'll rise from the I center of a 30 by 40 foot hall. It takes conductor Nat Novick and pianist Tom Howard Jr. more than four hours to arrange and orchestrate or-chestrate that weird music you hear on "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; nothing noth-ing is left to chance, every discordant discord-ant effect is .carefully prepared. Charles Boyer says his imitators are all wrong' when they present him as saying to Hedy Lamarr, "Come wiz me into ze Casbaa-aah," presumably in Hedy's screen debut In this country. Matter of fact, in She picture he didn't ask her to go inywhere with him, I ' "Marlln Hurt, star of the Sunday 2BS "Beulah" program, would Have gone right on tripling for him-lelf him-lelf if he hadn't been talked Into ac-;epting ac-;epting credit on the air. It was Producer Helen Mack who talked , lim Into acknowledging that he's "Beulah," himself and "Bill." Director Frank Borzage ordered Maureen O'Hara to hit Binnie Barnes hard, really hard, for a icene in "The Spanish Main." Maur-en Maur-en did, again and again 11 times. The last time Binnie, stunned, .anded In a blazing fireplace; that's the shot you'll see. ! - ODDS AND EN Db Margaret O'Brien't pretty pleased about being :hosen queen of Mexico's float in Pasa-lena't Pasa-lena't Tournament oj Roses. . . . Those ash pre-war days have definitely re-3irned re-3irned to Hollywood; 20th Century-Fox eill spend $200,000 on settinxs for "Anna and the King of Sim." . . ilan Ladd's squabble with Paramount brought him a raise f7S,0U0 a picture 'or seven years, with the price going up jter three years. . . . John . Anthony's housands of listeners will increase in utmber, now that his program goes out iter the full Muluul network. . . Alan Mowbray wrote a story, sold it to Mono-tram, Mono-tram, and will star in it. |