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Show STAGESCREENADIO ii) viKtuxiA v.vi.i: ONE your ago D n r r y 1 Zanuck, of 20th Century-Fox, Century-Fox, selected five comparatively compara-tively unknown young players play-ers nnd predicted that within 12 months each would be a star. He was right. Jeanne Crain, Dick Haymcs and Vivian Vivi-an Blaine are currently starring in the new technicolor musical, "State Fair" though they don't seem exactly stellsr material. June Haver is seen in "Where Do We Go From Here?" with Fred MacMurray, will be seen witli Betty Grable in "The Dolly Sisters." William Eythe played opposite Tallulah Bankhead in "A Royal Scandal," and will be seen in a starring role in "The House on Ninety-Second Street," the F. B. I. -atomic bomb news-drama. Alec Templeton, the blind pianist-satirist pianist-satirist of the air's "Star Theater," recently returned to New York from Hollywood, where he completed li "I Mfi iV I L A -iii'nrt -t jniTi-f --Nv.'a ALEC TEMPLETON work on a Metro film, "Cabbages and Kings." He composed the score, will introduce the music on the air. When the "Confidential Agent" company at Warners' had to shoot around Charles Boyer, who was ill. the studio announced that he'd had a severe summer cold and subsequent sub-sequent laryngitis. Unromantic gossips gos-sips reported that he really had lumbago. Many radio stars among them Carol Bruce, Ann Sheridan, Ezra Stone, Eileen Barton, Yvette, Mar- .. . Ion" Loveridge and Bobby Hookey-got Hookey-got their professional start on the Children's Hour program; they owe much to the astuteness of Mrs. Alice Clements, who produces it, and who encouraged them. Marion has her own program now, on NBC. ' For the first time since his Vienna eong-and-dance days 10 years ago. and for the first time on the screen, Paul Henried sings In "The Spanish Span-ish Main." The song is "Taunton Dean," first heard in a play, "The Jolly Crew," in London in 1641. II Jater became a favorite of pirates in the inns of Tortuga island, West Indies In-dies hence its selection for the picture. ' Because the army asked Kay Kyser to extend his Pacific entertainment enter-tainment tour several weeks after the Japanese surrender, the "College "Col-lege of Musical Knowledge" is only now returning to the air. The ole professor had no time off when he got back; he was scheduled to star in a- new film musical, "How to Be. -a Wolf," and Hollywood was waiting for him. J ' When the new comedy, "Mr. Cooper's Coop-er's Left Hand," opens in New York next month the first row will have ' an organized cheering section, made up of the entire cast of the air's "The Aldrich Family." The author of the play is Clifford Goldsmith, creator cre-ator of the successful radio show. And the star of the play is House Jameson, who plays "Sam Aldrich" in the radio series. All these years that Guy Lorn-liardo Lorn-liardo and his orchestra have been playing for the public it never occurred oc-curred to them that their facial expressions ex-pressions made a hoot of difference; they just concentrated on their mu- ! sic. But .that's been changed. Holly-wood's Holly-wood's changing it. On the coast to ! make "No Leave No Love," the Royal Canadians are being coached 1 on how to make faces like musicians. musi-cians. For the 'first time Artur Rubinstein, Rubin-stein, famous pianist, will play for a picture. He will record the entire piano score for Frank Borzage's "Concerto," for Republic, which features Rachmaninoff's second piano pi-ano concerto and will receive $35,000. ODDS AND ENDS Dennis Morgan, of "Christenus in Connecticut" was once a soda jerker at a drug store in Prentice, Pren-tice, If is. says he invented a banana split that made him famous locally . . . Alan "Fulsiuff Upinshaw" Reed has joined "Duffy's Tavern"; he isn't re-' re-' turning to the Fred Allen show becausa he prefers to live on the West Coast . . . Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard celebrate cele-brate their tenth wedding anniversary in October . . . Tommy Dorsey was figuring fig-uring the cost of his Victory Garden during rehearsal of the RCA program the cold hard figures revealed the sad fact that each tomato cost approximately fix dollars- |