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Show STAGE v SCREEN MdIO BY INEZ GERHARD IAN MINER admits that it Is a rather odd distinction she seems to have received more wedding wed-ding cakes than anybody else, although al-though she's not married. She has been wed eight times on the air, and each time fans have sent her wedding cakes. Currently starring as "Beth Lambert," alias "Carol ; " r . J JAN MINER Brent", In "Road of Life", Jan looks forward to the day when she can retire to her home in New Hampshire. The farm is on a strictly commercial basis, except for a few of her pet animals, one a horse, "Dr. Malone". Rosalind Russell will be lured to the Broadway stage, if playwright George Kelly can do it. He wrote "Craig's Wife", one of her most successful movies and recently outlined out-lined his new play to her on the set of "Tell It to the Judge." Randolph Scott credits the late William S. Hart with launching him on the road to screen success. Hart visited him when the star of Columbia's "The Nevadan" was workng in "Roberta". "Randy," said he, "Why don't you get out of that monkey suit and into a western outfit? There's gold in them thar picture hills." Scott recently re-cently said he'll make nothing bu' Westerns now. Joe DeBona, winner of the 1949 Bendix air race, has been signed by producer Lindsley Parsons for a leading role in "Smoke Hunters", the story of parachuting fire-fighters. The U. S. Forestry Service will cooperate co-operate on it. Since a pre-view audience stood up and cheered him at a showing of 'The Hasty Heart", young Richard Todd is being hailed around Warners' as the screen's newest star. An Englishman, he was one of the first British para-troop para-troop officers to jump into Normandy Nor-mandy on D-Day. As a boy he was bedridden for three years with rheumatic fever, regained his health by playing football! Unaccustomed as she is to roles In which she doesn't sing, Doris Day has been given a chance to branch out; Jack Warner has assigned as-signed her to a straight dramatic part as Ginger Rogers' married sister in "Storm Center". Before he turned to show business busi-ness Charles Correll ("Amos 'n' Andy",) was a stenographer in the Illinois state government offices. He still types like mad; does all the final drafts of the radio scripts limself. Armand Denis has been producing pro-ducing real - life adventure films for 20 years; he made "Goona-Goona" In 1929. "Sav-. "Sav-. age Splendor", his latest, in Technicolor, involved travelling travel-ling 22,000 miles by car and truck, twice across Africa by new routes. Director Ed Byron told it at a ' rehearsal nf "Mr. Distrirt At- torney" seems one time in Ho-boken, Ho-boken, N. J., a police precinct tried to get in touch with one of its radio cars. No luck. After five minutes the captain sent another car to look for it. The special car found the "lost" car had turned off the police call set to listen to "Mr. District Attorney". Paramount has bought "Roman Holiday" for a Frank Capra production. pro-duction. It is all about a modern princess who, tired of her guarded existence, runs away from a castle, falls in love with an American newspaper reporter, who becomes her partner in adventure. All of which, of course, could not possibly pos-sibly have been suggested by the stories about England's Princess Margaret! ODDS AND ENDS . . . Gordon MacRae and his wife stayed at the Waldorf during their New York vacation, the hotel where he once was refused a job as bellhop . . . Julia Faye, who was Cecil B. De-M'.e's De-M'.e's leading lady in many a silent si-lent film years ago, has been added to the cast of the Pine-Thomas "Outrage", at Paramount . . . Albert Crews, who was formerly head of radio for General Mc-Arthur Mc-Arthur in Japan, is now director of production for the Protestant Radio Commission, in this country. |