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Show Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD T UCILLE WALL'S voice is so dis- tinctive that the thousands of people who hear her every day on 'Tortia Faces Life" did not need the announcement that she was ill to tell them that someone was substi- I tutinjr for her. Miss Wall fell in her New York apartment, injuring her head and suffering a severe con- i cussion. She was rushed to a hos-j hos-j pital and Anne Seymour took over I during her absence. Miss Seymour I is also a radio veteran; she is best known for her lead performances in "Mary . Marlin" and "Women of America." In casting a scene for Dorothy Larnour's "Let's Fall in Love" at Olumlia, which shows newspapermen newspaper-men and phf tographers interviewing her, Director Douglas Sirk and Producer Pro-ducer Ttving Starr ignored one of Hollywood's oldest traditions. They insisted that the actors playing newspapermen be neat and "even distinguished something like younger members of the state department de-partment not drunk, sloppy, nor with hats on the backs of heads." Edward G. Robinson is top villain in Warner Bros. "Key Largo"; in private life he is a quiet-spoken gontleman who likes good music and collects good pictures. He has announced an-nounced that he is contemplating opening a revolutionary night club. "It would feature a symphony orchestra or-chestra and would have no bar, no drinks, no dance floor, no cigarette girl.," he says. And maybe no customers? cus-tomers? With a new arrival scheduled to join the family in June, Joan Bennett's Ben-nett's household is torn by discussion discus-sion over names. If it's a boy, daughter Diana wants to call him Roger; daughter Melinda picked Bartlcy; daughter Stephanie is holding hold-ing out for Louis, with Louis Jordan in mind. Four-year-old Stephanie ha a fine, flourishing crush on Jordan. Columbia plans to film Gene Autrey's life; the picture will get under way within the next few months, at an estimated cost of two million dollars. Which means that his career in "B" pictures made him famous enough to have his life screened as an "A." Incidentally, Gene's secretary, Louise Heisling, now wears his alarm-equipped wrist watch. It went off recently before the CBS mikes, ffid 6,000 letters poured in asking how it happened the alarm bell came into the middle of Gene's song. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Doris Day has been notified that she has a fan club in Sitka, Alaska, and the fans wonder if she can't drop in to visit them some time . . . Jimmy Stewart acquired that limping gait he uses in "Rope" by removing the heel from one shoe and tacking it on the oth-er oth-er one . . . That very timid hotel clerk in "April Shotvers" was played by Pete Kooey, a Congressional Medal of Honor man . . . Phyllis Calvert. Cal-vert. British beauty who co-stars with Melvyn Douglas in "My Own True Love," learned to make old-fashioned old-fashioned American flapjacks while working in the picture ... Claire Trevor plays a blotosy blonde in "Key Largo.". If ever you get a chance to be a contestant on Sammy Kaye's "So You Want to Lead a Band" program, pro-gram, take his advice, which results from experience with more than 50,000 amateur baton wielders. Sammy Sam-my has learned that the audience, which selects the winner by applause, ap-plause, turns thumbs down on the smart alec, no matter how competent, compe-tent, while the modest aspirant wins. Ed (Archie) Gardner of "Duffy's Tavern" is the only radio comedian represented in the current movie stats exhibit at the Los Angeles Hall of Art. His painting of a circus cir-cus horse is surrounded by pictures by Ella Raines, June Haver, Linda Darnell, Jeanne Crain, Marguerite Chapman, Jane Powell, Iloagy Car-michael, Car-michael, Reginald Gardiner, and other stars' work. During a County Fair broadcast, blonde and beautiful Pat McCann, ! production assistant, was leading an ! unsuspecting contestant to the microphone mic-rophone (contestant to be hit in the face with a pie) when a young voice ' in the audience cried "Look, there's teacher!" It was. Miss McCann teaches school in New York, does her stint on "County Fair" and I works as a model.' i Raymond Massey has purchased a home in Beverly Hills to solve his housing difficulties while making pictures for Warner Bros. and maintains a home in New York to solve housing difficulties while appearing ap-pearing in the Broadway theater. It wasn't too easy but Wanda Hendrix and Andrea King had to learn to walk swayback for their role? in Paramount's "Abigail, Dear Heart." The story is set in 1906, when wonen walked that way. |