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Show stagecreenMcio By INEZ GERHARD HUMPHREY BOGART proudly boasts that some day his two-year-old son, Stephen, will be paying pay-ing enormous income taxes. Bogart has made sure of that by setting up a trust fund for Stephen, into which will go the $5,000 weekly which the 'tough guy of the movies will re- HUMPHREY BOGART ceive for starring in the Ziv Company's Com-pany's transcribed radio series, "Bold Venture". When reminded jthat Stephen will have to contribute heavily toward the upkeep of Uncle iSam, Bogart retorts that he'll be able to afford it. Margaret Sheridan, discovered five years ago by Howard Hawks, has been studying hard all this time In preparation for a picture icareer. She makes her debut as the feminine lead in Hawks' "The 'Thing", for RKO. Bob Hope's present plans Include sailing for England in mid-April for a two-week engagement at the London Palladium; he'll get the highest salary they've ever paid an jactor. Afterward he will entertain American and British troops in England, then fly to Germany and France to put on shows for the iGI's stationed there. Right now he's , working in "My Favorite Spy". Those jokes about how women love to suffer as they listen to day time serials don't apply to the first 'television counterpart, "The First Hundred Years". It is light, frothy domestic comedy, the story of a ;young married couple and their parents the kind of people we all ;know. It is expertly performed by a cast headed by Jimmy Lydon and Olive Stacy. Robert Alda, very busy in the jstage hit, "Guys and Dolls", is not (neglecting his movie fans. Eagle-Lion Eagle-Lion will shortly release his "Mr. lUniverse", and he has just finished I "Two Guys and a Gal" for Laurel Films. Thelma Ritter's first starring ifilm, "The Mating Season", has a fine cast, good direction, and a (familiar story. Miss Ritter was better bet-ter as a supporting actress. Gene Tierney, John Lund and Miriam 'Hopkins are excellent. Phyllis Thaxter had to learn to draw and twirl a gun, also do some rapid shooting, for "Fort Worth". 'She worked at it at the studio and got instruction at home from an expert, ex-pert, her five-year-old daughter, a 'Hopalong Cassidy fan. More than 2,000 extras have been used so far in RKO's Technicolor Tech-nicolor musical, "Two Tickets to Broadway", starring Tony Martin, Janet Leigh, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken and Gloria DeHaven. There are 109 speaking parts. Patricia Medina took dancing and ;dramatic lessons for years in the hope of some day portraying a Sgypsy dancer on the screen. It paid ,off when she was cast in Columbia's "Valentino". She aids the star, played by Tony Dexter, to win his famous role in "The Four Horsemen Horse-men of the Apocalypse" by dress-'ing dress-'ing as an Argentine cantina girl ,and dancing with him. Dale Van Sickle gets himself killed for the 100th time in Warners' "Storm Warning"; he specializes in stunt work, especially in dying spectacularly. Says it's ouite a science sci-ence to fall just right if you're shot; nobody would believe you were dying dy-ing if you just fell down, as people do in real life. He demonstrates this in "Storm Warning", w7hen a bullet gets him. Jerome Courtland wears a special spe-cial wig for his blackface skit in Columbia's "Sunny Side of the Street"; was the one worn by Al Jolson when he was with the Dock-stader Dock-stader Minstrels, in 1906; Larry Parks wore it in "The Jolson Story". ODDS AND ENDS . . . Hugh Sanders, San-ders, who has one of the top featured fea-tured roles in "Storm Warning", was a radio announcer for a San Bernardino, Calif., station just a few months ago ... So many people commented on the beauty of Stardust, Star-dust, the only platinum blond horse in pictures, when Randolph Scott rode him in "Colt .45" that Scott rides him again in "Fort Worth" . . . Pianist Stan Freemen, recently recent-ly returned to ABC's "Piano Playhouse", Play-house", is auditioning his own 15-minute 15-minute radio program. |