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Show made formal application to the State Department for restoration of her citizenship. Bob Hope signed a new television contract with Frigdaire before hopping to his native England. Bob plans to spend a few days abroad, since he took 105 pieces of luggage along with him. Didja know Mario Lanza was born in Philadelphia and not in Italy, as Metro would make you believe. Incidentally, Lanza Lan-za is a big hit wherever he goes on his current personal appear 7 ance tour. In Omaha he sang before an audience of 9560, grossing gross-ing $21,556.20 for his one-night stand there. Ava Gardner has been assigned by MGM to a starring role opposite Clark Gable Ga-ble in "Lone Star." Gable preferred pre-ferred to have Jane Russell as his leading lady, but RKO wanted $200,000 for her loan-out. loan-out. If the State Department refuses to admit Maurice Chevalier Che-valier to the U. S. as a result of his communistic ideologies, his next movie, "New Kind of Love," may be filmed in Canada. Can-ada. FLASH!!! The FBI has finally located the "Big Nine" and other Hollywood refugees hiding in Mexico City. So long for now, see you next week. (Copyright, '51, by John J. Mas-gay.) HOLLYWOOD Watch for a perjury indictment to be issued against John Garfield as a result re-sult of his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Garfield's replies to the committee's inquijries were a little on the deceptive side. You can now buy a complete com-plete r ecording of General Douglas MacArthur's speech to Congress via Columbia records. rec-ords. And speaking of General Gen-eral MacArthur, nearly every studio in town is trying to buy the film rights to his biography.' biog-raphy.' Should be a great movie. Now that "Valentino" is such a big success at the box office, Hollywood will produce a movie based on the life of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. And as a result of the indicating box office success suc-cess of "The Great Caruso," starring Mario Lanaz, Paramount Para-mount will release two silent featurse starring the great Caruso Ca-ruso himself that were filmed in 1918. When Margaret Truman made her acting debut via a radio play opposite James Stewart last week, the local critics appraised her dramatization dramati-zation as adequate and competent. com-petent. Par better than her singing ability. J HERE-say: Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer celebrated cele-brated its 28th year of motion picture making. Since then the studio has turned out 1534 full-length full-length features plus over 3000 short subjects. Barbara Hutton |