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Show STAGESCREENStlArjIO Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD THE new "Family Hour," to be launched October 3, will bring us drama instead of the musical programs so many people have looked forward for-ward to on Sunday afternoons. Emanating Em-anating from Hollywood on CBS at the old time, "The Prudential Family Hour of Stars" will present six top film stars Humphrey Bo-gart, Bo-gart, Bette Davis, Gregory Peck, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Davis. But instead of presenting old plays or dramatizations dramatiza-tions of motion pictures, as is usual with this type of program, this one will branch out with original plays written especially by the foremost writers of plays and sketches for radio. John Dall hit the Hollywood jackpot jack-pot with "The Corn Is Green." He had six years of stock and three Broadway appearances behind him, if ' JOHN DALL fcut even with such training some actors have failed to follow one movie success with another. Dall has done it consistently. Now, in Hitchcock's "Rope," he gives one of the best performances of this or any year. There is a little group called "Hitchcock's Younger Generation," consisting of Dall, Joan Chandler, Farley Granger, Dick Hogan and Douglas Dick. Their average age is below that with which the famous director usually works, but he feels that they will go far, and deserve special attention. "Rope" may be the springboard to the fame he predicts for them. William Grant Sherry, Bette Davis' husband, had always re- j fused to sell his paintings till Rosalind Russell, in the east I to welcome her husband home from Europe and promote their picture, "The Velvet Touch," ,alked Sherry Into selling her two landscapes. They show the countryside around her family home in Connecticut, so she had to have them. 1 The first picture to start at RKO j since the upheaval will be "Follow Me Quietly," all about a young police lieutenant who tracks down a mystery killer. Seems to fit How- I ard Hughes' theories of what the public wants. , Helen Hayes cannot get back from i London for the first three "Electric Theater" broadcasts, but her substitutes sub-stitutes rank right with her theatrically. theatri-cally. October 3 Henry Fonda, October 10 Basil Rathbone and October 17 Margaret Sullavan. Lex Barker enlisted in the army as a private, emerged as a major. His movie break came In "The Farmer's Daughter." The role of Loretta Young's big brother in that picture brought him his "Tarzan" assignment, one picture a year. Robert Mitchum was right at home when required to play a guitar for RKO's "Rachel and the Stranger;" he once appeared ap-peared in a Reno night club as a singer, where he accompanied himself on the guitar. "The Masked Spooner" was well set to keep his identity secret during dur-ing his first New York appearance on "We, the People." With a mob of fans waiting outside the theater to see him, he wore two masks I Dorothy Lamour is delighted with her new radio show, replacing "The Village Store" on NBC. And it's a fine thing, having those top stars who are guests receive a token payment, pay-ment, so that the bulk of their pay goes to set up a fund to take care of indigent radio performers. In all these years there has been no such provision for them. ODDS AND ENDS Reliahlt rumor ru-mor bat'e it thai lnny Rosy will be signed lor m IS-minutt program, five time a week on Mutual tnjormal stuff, with talk and songs by l-anny, ol course. . . . Disc Jockey Jim Haw thorne went from $8i a week ai m Pasadena station to $-)0,00() a year, for five years, at ABC. . . . When the Edgar Bergens were flying into Berlin Ber-lin recently, a Russian fighter plane flew right along beside them. Frances Bergen reports that it was anything but pleasant, . . . Bette Daiis says that she was known as "Clothes Hanger" to her grammar schoolmates "l was that scrawny," says Belle. |