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Show By INEZ GERHARD ED HERLIHY, during his 15 years at NBC, has moved steadily to the place where he is known as a triple-threat man, entirely through his own efforts and ability; the fact that he is Fred Allen's cousin has been deliberately suppressed. The Herlihy independence cropped up early; refusing help, he worked his way through high school and Boston College; had one of the most extensive exten-sive newspaper delivery routes in Boston. Now holding down one of ED HERLIHY radio's top assignments as emcee of "The Big Snow", he also is heard and seen on other important radio-and radio-and television programs, and as the voice of the Universal Newsreel. Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrell will appear again in "Seventh Heaven" on March 26, in a radio version of their popular picture of long ago which shot Janet to stardom. star-dom. This is their first appearance together on the air. Both have retired re-tired long since. Janet is the wife of Adrian, the dress designer; Charlie owns and operates the Racquet Rac-quet Club in Palm Springs. Geraldine Brooks, scheduled to make "The White Road" in France starting April first with Glenn Ford, plans to leave ahead of time in order or-der to visit Anna Magnani in Italy and be in Rome for Easter services at St. Peter's. Frank Sinatra has been signed by Universal-International to star in "Meet Danny Wilson", a modern romantic drama laid in New York and Hollywood. The studio has a non-exclusive option on his services for the next three years. When you see Walt Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" you'll recognize some familiar voices. Ed Wynn speaks as the Mad Hatter, and Jerry Colonna as the March Hare. Sterling Hollo-way Hollo-way does the voice of the Cheshire Ches-hire Cat, Richard Haydn is the Caterpillar. More than 30 well-known well-known people are heard, hut not seen in the RKO musical which is all cartoon. Samuel Goldwyn has given Farley Granger a new contract, with more money, though the old one had several sev-eral years to run. Goldwyn feels he is the most popular young man on the screen today. His next picture pic-ture will be "I Want You". Barbara Weeks, of "The Road of Life" and "Young Dr. Malone", has originated a new earring fad. She's had a jeweler make pairs of earrings ear-rings which are mated but, are different dif-ferent a bow and arrow set, a cat and mouse set, etc. Susan Peters, who has been paralyzed para-lyzed from the waist down since that hunting accident, has embarked em-barked on a third career. She returned re-turned to the screen in "The Sign of the Ram", after the accident, and has toured the country in two stage plays. Now she is seen five times a week on television in her own show, "Miss Susan", NBC's first television daytime serial. Princess Margaret will head the list of British dignitaries to be present pres-ent at the first showing of Warners' "Captain Horatio Hornblower" in London on April 12, for King George's fund for sailors. Sammy Kaye's office is deluged each week with at least 2000 requests re-quests for whatever poem he reads during his ABC "Sunday Serenade" program. They all appear in his two books, yet he never fails to answer the requests. After each "Strike It Rich" program pro-gram producer Walter Framer picks several children from the audience to be questioned by Warren Hull, for cash prizes. The children have been so interesting that now Framer is seriously thinking think-ing of building a Saturday morning show featuring youngsters interviewed inter-viewed during the week on the CBS radio show afterpiece. ODDS AN'D ENDS . . . Richard Derr, who has a leading role in "When Worlds Collide", is responsible responsi-ble for shortening the title of the George Pal picture to "Boing!" . . . Though the Talullah Bankhead-Meredith Bankhead-Meredith Willson ."The Big Show" has a low survey rating, NBC received re-ceived 5000 requests for tickets for a recent broadcast held in a studio seating 300 . . . Ralph Dumke, who scored as the politician with Brod Crawford in '.'All the King's Men", has rejoined him at Columbia in "Remember That Face." |