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Show By INEZ GERHARD TWTICHAEL RABIN, 14-year-old violionist, will probably make August 10th a day to remember, when he makes his network debut on The Telephone Hour. Rodzinski, directing the Havana Philharmonic when Rabin made his world debut last April, said "He is marvelous, fantastic. He has a tremendous future!" fu-ture!" Jascha Heifetz and other , V 4 J - L famed musicians have also advised and encouraged this young genius. Not that Michael thinks of himself as one; his bicycle is one of his most prized possessions, he likes to swim and collect stamps and play ping pong, looks forward to having a car. That he may be one of the world's greatest violinists is no concern con-cern of his. Male stars who've felt smug about the two hours' make-up and hairdressing the girls require should be warned by what happened to Mel Ferrer. The star of Robert Ros-sen's Ros-sen's "The Brave Bulls," for Columbia, Co-lumbia, needed a full two hours and 15 minutes each time he dressed in the matador's costume for bullfighting scenes with four aides assisting him. The U.S. State Department has endorsed the Walter Huston Memorial Memor-ial International Scholarship now being set up to finance the education educa-tion of two English speaking students stu-dents from Trikkala, Greece, at the University of Arizona. Fibber McGee and Molly have a kitchen wall that is really a kitchen, which makes it all too easy for Fibber to indulge his love for cooking when they give a party. The August Woman's Home Companion's picture layout lay-out shows what a fine idea this is; that wail has everything from a barbecue to a sink, and affords privacy from the neighbors neigh-bors as well. Hollywood homes are among the country's most attractive, thanks to top decorators. But any clever woman can copy the charming arrangements ar-rangements of curtains in the homes of Betty Hutton. Burns and Allen, the Bob Cobbs, Gale Gordons and Cedric Gibbons, as they are shown in this same Companion. The Burns' sun room and dining bay are especially effective. Mala Powers, scored so notably during the first few days of her starring role in "Outrage" that she was signed for roles in Goldwyn's "Edge of Doom" and Stanley Kramer's "Cyrano de Bergerac" before "Outrage" was completed. Ted Mack and the "Original Amateur Ama-teur Hour," which filled Madison Square Garden for their benefit for the New York Foundling Hospital, Hos-pital, will stage their next benefit from San Francisco for the Disabled Dis-abled American Veterans. Len Doyle, "Harrington" of "Mr. District Attorney," built his own home in Milford, Pa, exactly to suit him; did everything from clearing the land to putting in the plumbing and refusing to have a telephone doesn't like phones. To reach him in a hurry Ed Byron, the show's director, has to notify the state police and have somebody tell Doyle. Because he has so much difficulty dif-ficulty getting away for vacations. vaca-tions. Ben Grauer has signed a 10-year lease on a Bucks County, Coun-ty, Pa., farm. His hundred acre retreat is about 2 hours drive from NBC studios, and Ezra Stone is a neighbor. All available expert swordsmen were rounded up by Director Michael Mich-ael Gordon for filming a mass dueling sequence in Stanley Kramer's Kram-er's "Cyrano de Bergerac." Script called for Jose Ferrer to take on 100 men simultaneously. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Joan Fontaine's Fon-taine's favorite year is 1941, when she won an Oscar and the New York Film Circle's award as best actress, learned to fly a plane and shot a hole in one in golf . .. Paramount Para-mount will film "About Mrs. Leslie," Les-lie," new book by the author of "Bad Girl," Vina Delmar a guod story that will have to be rewritten rewrit-ten to pass the censors . . . Herbert Her-bert Rawlinson, "Hollywood Star Playhouse" host, made his first picture pic-ture in 1912. |