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Show ST.'.SS SK-HK RariO BeU Syndicate. WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD tttHEN no one else at the lunch-eon lunch-eon table noticed Ray Mil-land's Mil-land's gorgeous gold cigarette case he directed attention to it himself. "My wife gave it to me to mark 16 12 years of marriage," he explained. ex-plained. "Which is something, in Hollywood." Unlike many a movie star, he shied away from talking shop, but did admit that "The Big Clock," to be released soon, was a good picture which, he added, he wouldn't say about some of his vehicles. ve-hicles. His enthusiasms, besides his family, include sailing, good cars and ' i t 1- fishing from the island where he has a summer home. He would like to own a jeep, but can't; people, he thinks, would think he was showing off when they saw hinf in it! Joan Davis (RKO's "If You Knew Susie") is intent on promoting her 14-year-old daughter Beverly's screen career. Beverly made her film debut in "George White'3 Scandals'-!, several years ago. She won a role in "Mickey" with her mother's assistance. Seems that Joan went into a huddle with the producer, told him, "Beverly does everything I do only cheaper." Although he wanted a musical career. Jack Berch (NBC's "Jack Berch Show") had to turn salesman, sales-man, selling tea and coffee from door to door. But a prospective customer was the wife of WBKN's program manager in Youngstown, Ohio. She heard Jack singing as he approached her door, amazed him by asking her husband to audition audi-tion him. He came to New York about nine years ago, with "Jack Berch and His Boys." The "boys" Included names that became famous fa-mous Mark Warnow, Jerry Colon-na, Colon-na, Raymond Scott and Johnny Williams. Harriet Parsons is the youngest of Hollywood's seven women film producers. pro-ducers. Her "I Remember Mama" is a picture that puts her at the top of the list. Her famous mother, Louella, gave her a gay, happy childhood, but Harriet says she1 was lucky in having an old-fashioned grandmother, to crack down on her when necessary. Her "Screen Snapshots" Snap-shots" started her as a producer. In 1943 she hit the big league with "Joan of Ozark," then did "Night Song," "Enchanted Cottage" and now, "Mama." Maybe William Powell will get one of those Oscars next year. He's been up for the Academy Award three times now. In 1934 he was nominated for his performance in "The Thin Man," in 1936 for "My Man Godfrey," and this year for "Life with Father." Claude Rains realizes both ultimate ulti-mate ambitions of most actors in his starring role in "Abagail, Dear Heart." He goes crazy, and he dies. His plans include a trip to London in the near future, to star in "The Passionate Friends," for J. Arthur Rank. Ann Todd, seen in many English pictures, and in "So Evil My Love," with Ray Milland, plays opposite him. Odds and Ends . . . Bob Hope tries out the jokes for his Tuesday Tues-day night broadcasts on his family; fam-ily; says they're the toughest audience au-dience he ever had . . . Elspcth of "Big Sister" says lack of family fam-ily funds introduced her to the theater. From the age of six she went to everything with the family fam-ily because they couldn't afford a baby sitter . . . Actual Frenoh and German backgrounds were used for the action of RKO's "Berlin "Ber-lin Express" . . . Valli makes her 36th screen appearance as co-star of "The Miracle of the Bells;" the first 34 were Italian films . . . Mae Marsh, silent film star, is seen again in Argosy Pictures "Fort Apache." Herbert Marshall ("The Man Called X") received a letter recently recent-ly on which the "postmarks served as the address. Sent by Myron Rull-man Rull-man Sr. of Washington, S. C, it had only the two postmarks as address-Herbert, address-Herbert, Ala. and Marshall, Mich. Fanny Brice's friends think the "Baby Snooks" star might as well build a projection room in her home and buy a print of "The Naked City" she saw it three times in one week. |