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Show STAGE?SCREEroteo Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE VyHEN Joan Edwards' first .n,,Plcture "Hit Parade of 1947, is released she'll make only one personal appearance m connection with it. She plans to appear gratis at the neighborhood neigh-borhood theater in Washington Heights, New York City, where she attended movies during her childhood child-hood days. She had already made up her mind to break into show business; as she sings so delightfully, delight-fully, "It Comes Naturally," what with her being the niece of the famous fa-mous Gus Edwards. And, being Joan, she'll give one of the best performances per-formances of her life in that little theater and perhaps inspire some other youngster to work as she has to win success. Though Burl Ives was never chosen cho-sen as the boy most likely to succeed suc-ceed at the Eastern IDinois State Teachers College, he certainly was the most famous member of his class when he attended its reunion. J i 1 ' Y , . I t i-'"' BURL IVES Hailed as America's mightiest ballad- singer, Burl has starred on i Broadway, has been featured in 20th Century-Fox's "Smoky," and now he ( has his own radio program, heard Friday evenings over Mutual. 1 "Mrs. Hudson," Holmes' housekeeper house-keeper in "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" over NBC, is being be-ing portrayed by an English actress, Marjone Bennett. Mary Gordon, who played "Mrs. Hudson" for the past several years both on the air and screen, is now m Scotland making mak-ing a picture, "Bonnie Prince Char-he." Char-he." Incidentally, many people believe be-lieve that Holmes actually lived; not long ago someone sent a calabash pipe to Nigel Bruce, who's "Dr. Watson," Wat-son," declaring that it's one Holmes smoked many times when he lived at 221 Baker Street. William Gargan, the screen star, is winning new laurels as hard-hitting Russ Dolan, the private investigator inves-tigator on "I Deal in Crime" over ABC Saturday nights. But he isn't neglecting his screen career; "Till j the End of Time" is his latest. Rumors certainly were flying j when Fred Allen nosed Bob Hope out of first place in those popularity ratings. The latest Hooperatmg looks familiar, with Fibber McGee j and Molly in first place, followed in .j order by the Charlie McCarthy show, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and j Fred Allen. Jack Benny's ninth, Amos 'n Andy thirteenth. Which doesn't mean that a lot of us don t still prefer Allen. Adolph Menjou gets a fine break, playing the title roie in Columbia's 1 film version of radio's "Mr. District j Attorney." The cast includes Marguerite Mar-guerite Chapman, Dennis O'Keefe, Michael O'Shea and George Cou-louvis, Cou-louvis, and Sam Bischoff is producing. produc-ing. When Sherman H. Dryer books important guest stars for his science-drama series, "Exploring the Unknown," Sundays on Mutual, he's responsible for the appearance of many famous people in the audience. audi-ence. Kay Francis brought Grace Moore, the opera star, and Elsa Maxwell along when she appeared And on one week's session Pat O'Brien was accompanied by William Wil-liam O'Dwyer, the mayor of New York. Henry Morgan, ABC's mad humorist, humor-ist, complained, so much on the air about not having a place to live that toe National Housing Authority got Sm to make a series of two-minute inscriptions for countrywide attribution at-tribution to radio stations. Marilyn MaxwetTl-G-M actress and featured songstress of the Abbott Ab-bott and Costello air show, wn.es songs as a hobby. ODDS AM' f;;; thry r,, fan, wilt !"' JauZie ball, harth. . . . i-.W"" rnme,1 show; in addition ro "N- ,r.r Judy Car ind . ,n CH "Suspense. . h F 1 fvnn'. er Say Goodbye. , ., , discovered ah , " h,nn |