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Show By INEZ GERHARD TLENE WOODS, singer on the CBS "Steve Allen" show and the voice of Walt Disney's "Cinderella," "Cinderel-la," was a radio personality in Portsmouth, N. H., her home town, when she was 11. For singing on two local programs she was earning earn-ing $11 a week. She was on a network net-work show before finishing high school; then Paul Whiteman engaged en-gaged her. Two Hollywood-produced . f , i I s ' ' ' x j ILENE WOODS shows took her west. Her husband is a musical arranger there, and they have a two-and-one-half year old daughter. Miss Woods' break in the "Cinderella" movie came as a result of her helping one of the Disney organization staff make some test records. Hers was perfect. Lloyd Bridges stopped in New York only a day on his way from Rome to Hollywood recently. In Rome he starred in "Three Steps North"; is now joining in promotion promo-tion for "The Sound of Fury," made before he left. Lucille Ball, whose "My Favorite Husband" is now heard over CBS Saturday nights, says she learned the hard way not to take life seriously. se-riously. At 15 a dancing teacher told her she had no talent but she spent three years trying to be a chorus girl, then had an auto accident acci-dent and was told she'd never walk again. That's when she worked out her philosophy. Ezra Stone is well launched on this year's triple career. He Is back on the air as "Henry Aldrich" Thursday evenings on NBC. Behind the scenes, he will soon take over the direction direc-tion of a new musical that will open late this year on Broadway. Broad-way. Still farther behind them comes his role as farmer, lived on his big farm in Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. Don't think you are seeing Gary Cooper in the small role of a stagecoach stage-coach driver in Dennis Morgan's "Raton Pass." It's Cooper's stand-in, stand-in, Ted Mapes, who resembles the lanky star and has many of the same mannerisms. George Pal, whose science fiction film, "Destination Moon," is breaking break-ing box office records, has been signed by Paramount to produce "When Worlds Collide" depicting the annihilation of the earth by atom bombs. ' When gathering clouds halted location lo-cation scenes for "Only the Valiant," Val-iant," at Gallup, N. M., director Gordon Douglas asked 200 Navajo extras to do their famous Sun Dance. They danced, the sun came out and Douglas learned they'd really done their rain dance, hoping to prolong their careers and make more money. Gregory Peck stars in this Warner release. Arthur Lubin, the director who made a mule talk in the highly successful "Francis," has been signed by Paramount to do the story of "Rhubarb," a cat who inherits thirty million dollars and a baseball base-ball team. "Edge of Doom" was selected for showing on the maiden voyage voy-age of the French liner, SS Lib-erte; Lib-erte; the French line made a special request for it. The Samuel Sam-uel Goldwyn drama, released by RKO, stars Dana Andrews, Farley Granger and Joan Evans. Casting about for a quiet vacation vaca-tion spot, Nila Mack, director-author-producer of CBS's "Let's Pretend" Pre-tend" series, now in its 20th year, came upon a New England travel circular with a convincing, nostalgic nostal-gic appeal. One of the photograph! was a local scene where Miss Mack acted in the film "War Brides," in 1916. She made a reservation immediately. im-mediately. ODDS AND ENDS ... On the New Mexico location of "Ace in the Hole," Paul Douglas presented his wife, Jan Sterling, with a belated engagement present, a ring set with 28 diamonds . . . Olivia De Haviland is said to be yearning to appear on Broadway in "Romeo and Juliet" but at a movie star's salary . . . Fred Astaire has bought a ranch . . . Claudette Colbert will star in a quarter-hour daytime series on NBC . . . Felix Knight, of the Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Opera, is back for the third season. |