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Show By INEZ GERHARD lyrONA FREEMAN, pretty, hazel- eyed, blonde, is 24; in "Dear Wife" she plays a 16-year-old girl, in "Copper Canyon" she is a young widow. She prefers adult roles, but teen-age ones haunt her, because she looks the part in real life. Probably Prob-ably her favorite role, however, is ' .... MONA FREEMAN that of mother. Her daughter, Mona, who must be enchanting, is three. One of the year's most pleasant interviews in-terviews was the recent one with Miss Freeman and her husband, in New York for "Dear Wife", which was barely mentioned, because the stories they told about their little girl were so completely delightful. When two "Truth or Consequences" Conse-quences" contestants failed to complete com-plete a consequence falling asleep in Chicago's Union Terminal for a $5,000 prize Ralph Edwards received re-ceived an avalanche of letters. More than 350 listeners said they could fall asleep in the railroad station without half trying, and asked for a chance to prove it. Jack Buetel got into the movies with no trouble at all. Three weeks after he reached Hollywood and began be-gan trying for a screen career, Howard Hughes picked him to por-tiay por-tiay Billy the Kid in "The Outlaw " Jean Hersholt (renewed as "Dr. Christian" for five years) really needed a doctor when he finished signing 2,500 copies of his translation of Hans Christian Chris-tian Anderson's fairy tales for the Heritage club. Incidentally, the awards in the 1.0th annual Dr. Christian radio script contest con-test will be announced May 17. Prizes so far awarded total $110,000. Esther Williams and Red Skelton will be teamed for the third time by Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer in "The Carnival Story". The red - haired comedian and the swimming star have done "Bathing Beauty" and "Neptune's Daughter" together. Listeners to the Perry Mason program are shown how a marijuana mar-ijuana ring operates within a crime syndicate, with situations closely paralleling actual case histories; the research staff of the program used material supplied sup-plied by the bureau of narcotics. narcot-ics. The program's aim is to educate the public to realization realiza-tion of the danger of the marijuana mar-ijuana problem. Marx again writer Bill Morrow told Bing Crosby this one. Groucho Marx hailed a taxi; the driver looked at him and remarked, "Say, mister, you look like one of the Marx brothers." To which Groucho replied "Well, so do you." When Robert Cummings and Diana Lynn did honeymoon scenes for "Paid in Full" at the luxurious Bel Air hotel in Beverly Hills, more than 100 extras ex-tras had the time of their lives, swimming and sun-bathing, for good pay! Bert Parks had changed his phone number at least seven times recently; re-cently; it's unlisted, yet people keep calling for tickets to NBC's "Break the Bank". "I've thought of doing without a phone, but they'd probably probab-ly get to me by carrier pigeon," he says. A woman in Wilmington calls regularly, pleads poverty Parks wonders who pays for those longdistance long-distance phone calls. Dana Andrews planned a long cruise after finishing "Edge of Doom" for Samuel Goldwyn, had to cancel it when he started "Where the Sidewalks Ends" almost immediately. im-mediately. So he has his two boats, an 85-foot ketch and a 55-foot cutter, up for sale, though he doesn't want to part with both says whichever one is sold first, he'll keep the other. ODDS AND ENDS ... A woman who signs only "Lizzie" has been writing weekly fan letters to Errol Flynn from London for more than right years . . . Betty Hutton is definitely defi-nitely set at Paramount to star in the Mabel Normand-Mack Sennett story Joan Crawford has one of the shortest hair-cuts in Hollywood; she had it cut moderately short for "The Victim," then had it sheared off again . . . Despite rumors that he might switch to CBS. Phil Harris has signed again with NBC. |