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Show W0 STGESCREENADIO By INEZ GERHARD pHE PRESENCE of studio audi-ences audi-ences at the CBS Saturday night broadcasts of "The Goldbergs", for the first time in 20 years, rather startles author-star Gertrude Berg. She had felt that the program's effectiveness ef-fectiveness would be spoiled if, for instance, an audience saw the sound GERTRUDE BERG man open a window when she was supposed to do it. But the thousands of requests to see the show in the studio prove that people are eager to see "Molly", "Jake", "Rosalie" and "Sammy" in person and don't give a hoot who opens windows. They have become so real during all these years that nothing can possibly possib-ly destroy the illusion. Pretty little Vanessa Brown, who was so thrilled over getting the role of the Irish maid in "The Heiress", has been signed for a top role in "Three Husbands", for United Artists. Art-ists. Also signed for a leading role is Emlyn Williams, well known playwright, stage and screen star. "Three Husbands" is by Vera Cas-pary, Cas-pary, credited with "A Letter to Three Wives". Pierre, a 5-year-old chimpanzee, will make his motion picture debut in Hall Wallis' "My Friend Irma Goes West", now shooting at Paramount. Para-mount. A native of the Jungle Village, Vil-lage, he will play most of his scenes opposite Jerry Lewis. Cornel Wilde and Maureen O'Hara rehearsed eight hours on two consecutive days for their fencing sequence in the opening scenes of RKO's "Sons of the Musketeers". Their rehearsals re-hearsals Involved a fight routine rou-tine to be shot in one take, requiring re-quiring three and one-half min- utes to film. Wilde is a skilled fencer; Maureen had had intensive in-tensive coaching for weeks. The announcement of Bob Hawks' engagement came as a surprise to a lot of people. He will marry Mary Rechner, executive assistant to Dore Schary, head man at M-G-M, as soon as a replacement for her can be found. "The Tattooed Stranger" RKO's mystery drama, follows the trend of using New York for backgrounds, which was so successful with "The Window". Script calls for scenes everywhere, from the Bowery to the Bellevue morgue. Ezra Stone could use a 50-hour day. He is "Henry" on "The Aid-rich Aid-rich Family", of course, also is producer-director of its television counterpart, an assignment that came to him while he was appearing appear-ing on the stage in "She Stoops to Conquer". And now he is doing preliminary pre-liminary production work on a musical mus-ical show he will be staging on Broadway this spring. Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz have Individual Ideas on cooking; and both enjoy whipping whip-ping up fancy dishes. But they were always getting into arguments, argu-ments, till the "My Favorite Husband" star had an extra kitchen built. . Charlton Heston was appearing on the New York stage in "Stained Glass Window", not a very good play, but Hal Wallis saw him and signed him for "House of Mist". Wallis thinks he will rank with Burt Lancaster and Wendell Corey. Meanwhile, M-G-M plucked Bob Sherwood out of another play, "Mr. Roberts"; he was tested in New York, probably will appear in "The Running of the Tide". Just published is "The Brown Derby Cookbook", containing the favorite recipes of the stars' favorite favor-ite restaurants in Hollywood. It's said these are the only eating places featuring gefulte fish and Irish stew the same day. ODDS AND ENDS . . . "Tell me something about Stromboli" that is the question that clogs the mails at RKO's home office at present. . . William Demarest, featured in Bing Crosby's "Riding High", put on blackface and wore Scottish kilts to attract the attention of booking agents when, trying to break Into show business . . . Teresa Wright went to six hairdressers to get 8 hair-do that would satisfy Director Fred Zinnemann, before beginning "The Men", and finally cut hei hair herself. |