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Show STAGE "SCREEN ?RSDI3 Released by W estern Newspaper Union, j By VIRGINIA VALE j WORK m a picture with ' Bob Hope or Bing Crosby and you're likelv to turn into j a golfer. Signe Hasso learned ! the game between scenes of Paramount's "Where There"s Life"; her instructor, co-star i Bob Hope, turned a corner of the sound stage mto a green for the pur- I pose. Joan Caulfield, now in "Dear Ruth," caught the fever when she made "Blue Skies" with Bing and . got herself a teacher. He told her not to count her strokes, but she i counts the ones when she s par or j under; says it helps a lot. ! .,. 1 Willie Howard, the famous come- dian who'll soon celebrate the completion com-pletion of 40 years in show business, busi-ness, is going strong his life story's . ..... ... I ; ' 5 i' s n : ' , I f s " - ! WILLIE HOWARD being filmed, he's writing his autobiography, auto-biography, and plans to star in a revival of one of his old hits and then appear in the film. Ken Roberts and the producer! of Mutual's "Quick as a Flash" have been wondering which sex reactt quicker to the excitement of com. petition so Fordham university's psychologists arranged to attacb electrodes to a man and a girl contestant con-testant and record the results. Virginia Mavo, a Samuel Goldwyr featured player, achieves star status sta-tus In December with the release of "The Best Years of Our Lives.'1 It was produced simultaneously will "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," In which she co-stars with Dannj Kave so during a four-month peri od Virginia was on call most of thi time. Yet she gained eight poundi says it was because she ate sens! bly and got nine hours' sleep ever night. But when the pictures wen completed she was still on call foi fashion stills and color layouts am lost 15 pounds! As if the language of high schoo students hadn't acquired enough by words, William Bendix's "The Lifi of Riley" has added two more "What a revoltin' development thii Is!" greets many a minor tragedy And they've also adopted the greet tag offered by "Digger O'Dell," thi friendly undertaker character "Hullo there, you're looking fine veddy natural!" Everybody knows that Edgar Ber gen got hi.-, start in radio on Rud; Vallee's program; few know tha Rudy learned ventriloquism fron Bergen, and is now fairly proficient He has three dummies Sally Ann Linoleum and Ezra Snerd, brothe: of the famous Mortimer. Sunday afternoon seems to bi Metropolitan Opera stars' time three of them are featured on thei own programs starting at 2:00 p m. on NBC there's Robert Merrill half an hour later James Melton ha his own program, and at 5:0 along comes Patrice Munsel. Ruby Dandridge, who's Judy Ca nova's maid on the radio, will ap pear as Lillian Russell's maid ii "My Wild Irish Rose," starring DeB nis Morgan. Evidently she docsn' mind being typed; she's played mail roles in 15 consecutive pictures! Paul Lavalle has organized am conducted many types of orches tras; now he's organizing a tin pa: band. The conductor of the Frl ' day night "Highways in Melody,1 co-operating with the New York Chi) dren's Aid society, is getting togd! er an orchestra of youngsters fou to eight years old; they'll learn basi music rhythms by beating on ti pans and kettles. I Gene Kelly and June Allyson wii ; be teamed in Metro's "Cabbage j and Kings"; he'll play a Coney Ii land sideshow barker who falls 1 love with her, a modern Alice i : Wonderland. ODDS AD F.ypSVirir Shznh Inlnl srrrrn nftpfiranrp i a cti-lar i HKO's "Sinhnd the Sniltir.". . . Drnn, ., Wrrcim hdi jtnl mnde. hirnsflj a brir j licirlrcur ; noic all he nfeth it th mf-nl In fin uith it. . . . lUnny Goat mnn. nr tl ho if ttir llnTsn Siitw, trill 1p one o thrre jurlir in a n tirn-uiflc ctinlc.l to fh-rt th brt ton hv an amutfuT h'Ht'tl r,n thn mmi ! "Ihtrl in the Sun". . . Jimmy W'allin, ten etimnlp thtit he's annrmnre ; nhriul l'tOtdO radio shtiu in his xi-m I hrfnre the mihe. . . . Marlrne i j rich't to he jf-nturrd al an arlrcsn, nt I a siren, in "Gnlrl'-n Earrings." |