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Show STkESCREEN&ADIO Released by WNU Features. Dy INEZ GERHARD HAIL and farewell to Parks Johnson, who for 14 years has been radio's "Vox Pop." He will still own the program, which will be revamped around Warren Hull, his interview- ing partner, but Parks and his delightful de-lightful wife, Louise, will satisfy a j three-years' ambition and retire to ! Texas to join their son in operating j i ! f'irn - . ! PARKS JOHNSON the Johnson ranch and other real estate holdings. Two of the finest people in radio, they have brought happiness to thousands of people as they traveled over the country. The broadcasts from veterans' hospitals hos-pitals alone made the program an -outstanding one. May they have the -best of everything, always! "Madame Bovary," one of the great novels of all time, will no doubt undergo considerable adapta-" tion (with an eye on the censors) "before its two versions reach us this year. Claudette Colbert is slated to star In it on the first Ford theater thea-ter broadcast of the season and Lana Turner is booked for MGM's screen version, with Vincente Minnelli producing. pro-ducing. Waitresses in Warner Bros.' commissary com-missary will never forget James Stewart's lunches, when he was making "Rope." After scanning the menu he'd ignore the fancy dishes and order grilled hot dogs, day after day. Which reminds me of John Lund, lunching at New York's famous 21, where the quality and variety of the food is terrific. ter-rific. Lund read the menu, said lie didn't know why he bothered both-ered as he always ate scrambled eggs anyway! Rival companies are dazed at KKO's accomplishment in landing an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Metro-politan museum. De Monvel's portrait por-trait of Ingrid Bergman in "Joan of Arc," the armor she wears in the picture, color transparencies of scenes from the film and props used in it, all are on exhibition at the great art gallery for an extended period. In his role as a tough army officer in "A Bell for Adano" on the "Theater "Thea-ter Guild of the Air," Robert Montgomery Mont-gomery had to make some very un-complimentary un-complimentary remarks about the navy in which he served as a commander com-mander in the last war. At the end of the broadcast he whispered into a dead microphone, "Listen, fellas, if you navy guys were listening, I was only kidding." RKO advertised for "a talking dog, bear or horse to narrate animal ani-mal film in well-known documentary documen-tary series. Must have good voice. No birds or cows." Now comes the complaint that they're exhausted because be-cause they received so many replies. Suspicious persons suggest that maybe may-be it was done to call attention to "Friend of the Family," an RKO Pathe release. Janet Barrett, pretty dancer who broke her back 15 months ago in a fall from a horse, is launching a come-back at Warners Warn-ers with two roles a director's secretary in "Two Guys and a Gal" and a newspaperwoman In "The House Across the Street." When Robert Sterling finished his role in "Roughshod" he took some visiting wartime friends on a sightseeing sight-seeing bus tour as the best way to show them Hollywood. The bus driver driv-er recognized and introduced him to the other passengers, who were skeptical. "He's a phoney," said one man. "No star would travel on one of these buses." Suited Sterling perfectly. ODDS AND ENDS "Life begins st 80," originally scheduled as a summer sum-mer replacement and thought by some to be s dubious experiment), will carry over into the fall season, on Mutual, it's said. . . . Jim Ameche. announcer and assistant host on ABC's "Welcome Travelers," has participated in more than 12,000 broadcasts since he began his radio career 15 years ago. . . . "A Foreign Affair" ranks as one of the highest grossing pictures released by Paramount during the past year, on the basis of a series of pre-release engagements. . . . George Sidney will direct the lovely story, '"Vespers in Vienna," for A1GA1. |