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Show STKECSCREEfiaiADiD By INEZ GERH'ED GERALDINE BROOKS' stage career ca-reer began when she was in her 'teens, and was pretty impressive impres-sive she toured in Shakespearian productions for the Theatre Guild before Hollywood grabbed her and glamorized her. You saw her in "Possessed" and "The Reckless Moment", among other pictures. But her big thrill came when she I ''' ;' V..,;s:Vs!'!::;J,..J'ijs,;1:.;r;s ' ' . - i , GERALDINE BROOKS was taken to Italy to make "Volcano", "Vol-cano", with the famous Anna Mag-nani, Mag-nani, which will be released by Eagle Lion. They worked on a barren bar-ren island, next to the one where "Stromboli" was being made. There was no water but the sea, only the peasants' food, but Geraldine says that she loved every minute of it. "Theatre Guild on the Air" will continue, this new year, to present outstanding theatrical successes as magnificently as in the past. The best casts, the best productions, are insisted on. For instance, in "Carousel" "Carou-sel" Gomel Wilde and Patrice Mun-sel, Mun-sel, of the Metropolitan, co-starred, and John Baker, also of the Met, had the male vocal lead. Allene Roberts does a fine job as the blind girl in "Union Station", playing a heavy emotional role. Her career began when, at a tender age, she was named America's "Most Charming Child" in a big newspaper competition. The new "Steve Wilson" on the "Big Town" show was right at home from the start in the role that Edward Ed-ward G. Robinson created in 1937 and Edward Pawley took over in 1943. Walter Greaza has an impressive impres-sive record of performances on both stage and screen; you saw him in "Street .with No Name", "The Great Gatsby" and "Boomerang". An ex-newspaper man, now he's playing one. Ruth Roman stormed Alfred Hitchcock's office five years ago, when he was casting "Spellbound", to ask for a part, and he turned her down; said she wasn't the type. But she was exactly right for his new picture, "Strangers on a Train." Despite his radio and television committments Vaughn Monroe expects to return to Hollywood to make more pictures; bis first, "Singing Guns", did fine at the box office. Next time he wants to take the family along. Ruth Hussy and David Niven, making their television debuts on the "Nash Airflyte Theatre", joined the long list of stage and screen stars who have made this CBS show one of the best. Bill Gaxton does a fine job as host, Marc Daniels puts in a seven-day week of rehearsals and production work to bring dramatizations dram-atizations of the best short stories of famous authors to the TV screen. Faith Domergue, who's co-starring with Robert Mitchum in "Where Danger Lives", had four flamingos as household pets when she lived in Buenos Aires while her husband directed a picture. Now she has only four dogs and two cats! Rosemary Clooney certainly kept open house at the hospital when she had that operation for appendicitis recently; nearly every radio and TV star in town dropped in, from Guy Lombardo and Skitch Henderson Hender-son to Morey Amsterdam and Ray Bloch. Those who couldn't, sent wires. Rosemary liked best the one from Percy Faith "Sorry that I can't possibly attend your opening." Lonesome Gal, who now is heard on 57 radio stations across the country, coun-try, is quite a person; always wears a mask in public, has sung her way into thousands of hearts with her greeting "Hello, muffin, this is your Lonesome Gal". In her warm, throaty voice she talks and sings, like "Your Lover" of some years ago, always late at night. Gets tons of mail, mostly from men. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Hopalong Cassidy, who thrilled children with his appearance on the big Thanksgiving Thanks-giving parade in New York, will appear New Year's Day in Pasadena's Pasa-dena's Tournament of Roses parade . . . Irene Dunne has starred in 38 pictures and been on location only twice in San Francisco for "I Remember Re-member Mama" and on a ranch for "Never a Dull Moment" . . . Victor Borge will be heard soon in a five times weekly, five-minute program on Mutual. |