| Show N I 1 by VIRGINIA VALE released by western newspaper union LEANED from metros publicity GLEANED files of few e years ago clark gable would be one of the count rys crack skeet shots if he had time for tournament competition james stewart took katharine hepburn up indis putt putt plane and nearly ground looped his ship in a two point landing robert taylor set his plane down in a watermelon patch today gables heard from england over BBC telling how skeet shooting is invaluable training for gunners stewarts piloting a flying fortress taylor will soon be eligible for the transport command ferry command or as an instructor after completing his training for the navy air force jack B benny enny returned from that mile tour overseas e entertaining the armed forces with duffle bags full of telephone numbers A av R adiv X vol RM JACK BENNY hes using them now hes calling mom many a mom please just tell mom im fine the boys would say and jack is doing it as fast as he can virtually every nationality in the world is represented in gangway for tomorrow it has speaking parts but none ol of the cast portray their native countrymen A russian is played by a pole a czech by an austrian a pole by a german a frenchman by a russian richard ryan an irishman plays a german officer margo born in mexico plays a french girl just hollywood an embarrassing moment came to carleton young century fox contract player at the silver theater dress rehearsal after the announcer had read an elaborate buildup which was given him the entire cast including loretta young salaamed sala amed ak before florance halop made her fortunate appearance talent scouts for the new duffas Duff ys series were so hard pressed to find a new miss duffy to replace shirley booth that they resorted to ads in the hollywood papers sound effects proved better than the real article when parks johnson and warren hull visited the oil refinery workers at the eastern terminus of the big inch pipeline they wanted to introduce the show with the gurgling of gasoline flowing from a filling station pump and had a real one set up on the stage but they finally used an ordinary egg beater and a hand bell dont be surprised if charlie mc carthas Car thys rather elderly old maid relative ophelia becomes a regular member of that gang maybe you heard her when she made her coast to coast radio debut recently on the new RCA new program listeners loved her and edgar bergen thinks she might make a good permanent companion tor for charlie and mortimer anerd frances and richard lockridge authors of mr and mrs north are probably unique among novelists A whose works have been adapted for radio usually authors insist on editing all scripts often to the d ismay dismay of script writers producers a and nd actors the Lock ridges have been inside the studio just once since the series started on NBC they li listen s to the program at home after eight years as a CBS staff conductor lyn murray quit to free lance his orchestra and chorus are doing a new series on CBS hes conducting the orchestra on the new gertrude lawrence show and is choral director d on both hit parades hes doing all right 1 |
