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Show RclFesMl by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE IT'S just a matter of time till the movie moguls talk j Gordon MacRae into making j pictures. Like Gregory Peck, he was an NBC page boy for a while, in 1940; he got an audition with Horace Heidt, and a job singing with Heidt's band. A singing baritone, he'd had experiencesang experi-encesang with Harry James' and ' Les Brown's orchestras at the N. Y. World's Fair. After a stint with the army air forces he started over j agaiii radio sustaining, Broadway ' miM?als,. CBS commercials. Begin- ' nlng May 19th, he'll be heard .-y.--.K-: k-jMWlwfc- -..;.-..; WflWsV'Wta, ' Jf '& - - Jr GORDON MAC RAE j over 320 stations coast to coast 220 ' transcribed; he's heard now on the "Teentimer's" program. Tall, good looking, he's definitely star material. mate-rial. Phil Baker received a fan letter the other day that proved how well known he Is. The envelope was addressed ad-dressed simply with a sketch of an accordion and a large question mark; Immediately it was delivered to the 'Take It or Leave It" quizmaster. quiz-master. XV Wllliam Kelghley, movie director and Radio theater producer (his latest picture is .the Shirley Temple Franchot Tone "Honeymoon"), say. "Inexperienced actors and ap tresses have a 100,000 to 1 chance of getting anywhere in motion pictures, pic-tures, and it's even harder to break Into radio." He recommends dramatic dra-matic school and summer stock at. training; "too much dramatic equipment Isn't possible." Marjorle Reynolds' first "bad girl" rale tlnee she started la flliiu t the age of six comes at a strange time. She plays a shady lady in Seymour Nebensal'i "Heaven Only Knows," which co-stars Robert Cumminga anil Brian Donlevy and It's her first picture since the birth of her first child, Linda, who waa . "born last November. A fine break for a lovely young mother! The deadliest moment in radio comes when sound effects fail, saya William Spier, sound effects man. Ifs happened to him twice on "Suspense," "Sus-pense," when guns didn't go off as scheduled. Once an actor ' cried "Don't shoot me!", nothing happened, hap-pened, and another actor came to the rescue by exclaiming "Okay, I'll use this knifei" Recently, when William Bendlx did "Three Faces for Midnight," two guns balked; finally fi-nally one delivered the fatal bang. t George "Gabby" Hayes, showed up at the Saturday night "Roundup" "Round-up" rehearsal the other day looking slightly green around the gills. He'd spent the entire morning riding a stagecoach in Paramount's "Albu-' querque," and just couldn't take the motion. ... Parks Johnson and Warren Hull the famous Vox-Pop team, feel, like a lot of us, that radio commercials com-mercials have their place and shouldn't mesa up a broadcast. When the matter came to a showdown show-down between them and their sponsor, they lost the argument,, and quit. More power to them! So, beginning May 20th, they're released re-leased from their contract, replaced re-placed by Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. Don't miss the new March of Time, "Fashion Means Business." It shows backstage views of new Paris and New York collections, shows New York's huge garment center at work, lets you see designers de-signers in their studios, gives the Inside of the fashion business. Lamenting the difficulty of finding a singer to replace Betty Barclay, Sammy Kaye said "I'm not fussy; all I want Is a girl who can sing like Dinah Shore, with a face like Lana Turner, a figure like Betty Grable's, and the natural poise of Ingrid Bergman! " ODDS AND ENDSUnivtrssl-l-ernational Pictures has bought "Tb Wistful Widow of Wagon CP" if Abbott nd CotttUo . . . Nit$ timing; within tht Past jt months "David Harding Counttrspy hat had four shows on thtmat which mad front pages tht day before the broadcast . . . The reason so many well-known stage stars appear on "Crimes of Careless' nest" is that Producer-Director Jim Sheldon has to many good friends in the theater . . . Cass Daley, comedy star of Paramount's "Variety? collects antiques bought an 1880 clock r-cently, r-cently, and found an old five-dollar 1 bill inside it) |