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Show Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD DON MacLAUGHLIN, "Dr. Jim Brent" of "Road of Life," is an ex-rolling stone who has gathered plenty of moss. At the age of ten he had gone to nine schools, in almost as many states; by the time he finished college he had attended four universities. His radio roles range from cowboy to district attorney to famous doctor but his trade career ca-reer includes working in a goldfish- fZWW'W,,'" '""' ; W'0y:: r ;':-: ';V . M :-'h DON MacLAUGIILIN ery, acting as farm hand, factory time keeper, 'hotel clerk, deckhand on a freighter, English teacher and .writer. Clifton Webb, famous as a dancer in Broadway shows before anyone knew he could act, has made, his name in pictures as an actor. But he returns briefly to dancing in "Sitting "Sit-ting Pretty," to do a rhumba with Maureen O'Hara. From eight to nine, EST, Sunday nights on ABC that's the time to sit by the phone and listen to "Stop the Music," the big new show whose prizes are all for home audience participants. par-ticipants. Name the tune just played by Harry Salter's orchestra and you win something worth at least $250. Then name the more difficult "mystery "mys-tery tune" and fabulous gifts will pour in. Switchboard operators pick names at random from all over the country. The historic 1936 Olympic games are presented in "Kings of the Olympics," Olym-pics," recently released by United Artists. Originally comprising 24,-000 24,-000 feet of Glm, it was acquired from the alien property custodian by L.;onid Kipnis of Westport International, Interna-tional, then edited, from the work of 600 cameramen. Hitler presided over the games, the last before the war. Many an actress Constance Bennett, Claire Trevor and Kay Francis, for example can't scream satisfactorily. Lauren Bacall can, not only for herself, but for others. She was on the "Key Largo" set when Mis"s Trevor had to do a screaming scene, and let. go with a sample that startled Humphrey Bo- gart and John Huston. So you'll hear her screams, not Claire's. - i You probably have heard Arthur Godfrey singing "The Thousand Islands Song." Well. Mayor Mitchell of Alexandria, N. Y., feels that Arthur Ar-thur has done so much for the Thousand Thou-sand Islands that he's given him one! Three of the country's, leading disc jockeys, Dave Garroway, Jack Eigen and Peter Potter, will be featured fea-tured in Columbia's "I Surrender, Surren-der, Dear," with Gloria Jean and David Street. Don McGuire has the comedy lead. Norman Brokenshire did the 6rst radio Interview with movie stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick-ford; Pick-ford; still recalls how she fainted away, from mike fright. He is credited cred-ited with a lot of radio firsts originating orig-inating the daily serial style of program, pro-gram, doing the first philosophical show, etc. He now is climbing to the top again, with "Theatre .Guild on the Air" and two NBC morning programs. The first Hollywood producer to add a helicopter to his standard studio equipment is Samuel Gold-wyn. Gold-wyn. It will be Gtted with a special gyro camera mount, to which a Regular camera will be affixed. Goldwyn predicts that it may Open entirely new techniques in film production, pro-duction, largely replacing the overhead over-head crane and making advances in various shots possible, Warner Bros, will send a special camera crew to New York, Chicago and Rio de Janiero for special backgrounds back-grounds for "The Fountainhead." Gary Cooper will star in the film version of the popular novel; King Vidor will direct. ODDS AND ENDS Ronald Col-man Col-man served notice that he will do no guest appearances other than on the Jack Benny show. . . . Frank Sinatra withdrew his FCC application for permit to build a radio station at Palm Springs. . . . The most English-sound' ing English T'len on "The Whistler" art' tiially played by Tom Collins, ubj has never been within 3,000 miles of LngUnd. . . . Victor Moore is now a regular on the Jimmy Durante show. . . Marjorie Walker, dancing in Eddie Cantor's "If You Knew Susie," made her tcreen bow as Wesley Barry's little tister in "Laddie," 17 years ago, when onv six. |
