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Show STAR DUST Joan Goes Shopping By INEZ GERHARD JOAN BENNETT, settling down in New York for six weeks with her family, found her apartment lacking pots and pans. With a baby and two small girls, meals had to be prepared pre-pared at home. The cook gave her a list and she and the little girls headed for a department store. They were fascinated by the escalator, so she told them to ride it while she Lux Theater, Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Stop the Music, Bob Hope and Mr. District Attorney topped him in the latest poll. The annual party launching a new year for Irene Beasley's "Grand Slam," was the best one yet. It was really a family party, not a big affair for the press. "We just asked the people we liked best," somebody some-body explained. Irene, one of radio's finest, proudly showed everyone every-one the beautiful diamond and garnet gar-net pin her sponsor had given her. With his difficulties with Columbia Colum-bia Pictures settled, and a new contract con-tract signed, Larry Parks is set as the star of "Jolson Sings Again." He will also make pictures for his own producing organization. He and his wife, Betty Garrett, plan to form a company to produce plays in which they will star, later adapting adapt-ing them for motion pictures. Children who like to pick out tunes on the piano with one finger should not be discouraged; they may grow up to be famous one-fingered one-fingered jazz pianists, like I t 1 i j " v I h ' '-! t -..'" j JOAN BENNETT shopped. They rode happily to the top floor, then were afraid to come down, and screams for mama echoed through the building to a lower floor till she heard and went to their rescue. Had other mothers recognized that pretty mother, fans would have mobbed herl David Butler put on make-up to direct himself in a scene for "Two Guys and a Gal" at Warner's. The plump director played himself as a director said his last appearance in films was 21 years and 80 pounds ago. Robert Fellows, who became a paramount director with "Wild Harvest" Har-vest" and recently did "Sealed Verdict," has come up the hard way. Starting with bit roles for De Mille, he has been everything from office boy to junior writer to assistant director. In 1941 he did two pictures simultaneously "Pittsburgh" for Universal and "Bombardier" for RKO. Lionel Hampton, the drummer. He displays this talent in "A Song Is Born." Sam Hearn, famed as "Schlepper-man" "Schlepper-man" on the Jack Benny air show, and his brother Lew, have been signed for featured comedy roles in "Happy Times," with Danny Kaye. Both were headliners in vaudeville in the old lush days. They'll be made up to look like twins, though there is really a difference of six years in their ages. The rest of the "Duffy's Tavern" cast stayed away from microphones this summer, but Florence Halop kept in trim for her "Miss Duffy" role by playing a young girl on "Meet Corliss Archer" and an older old-er part on "Steve Allen." The tame cougar used in Eagle-Lion's Eagle-Lion's "The Big Cat," which co-stars co-stars Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner and Preston Foster, attracted attract-ed so many unwelcome guests while on location that armed guards were posted. jfc Brian Roper, English child actor, came all the way from London to play one of the principal prin-cipal roles In "The Secret Garden" Gar-den" for MGM. Margaret O'Brien and Dean Stockwell head the very fine cast. Signs of the times: Governor Dewey, speaking on September 21 in the time spot held by "IIy Friend Irma," got a Hooper rating of only 12.7 several points lower than that usually won by the CBS Monday night program. Winchell, ODDS AND ENDS Even when he's off the air Raymond Scolt is on it he's a radio ham, operating station W2MEZ, on the 40 meters code band. 1 , . . Joe Dosh, actor and featured sing' ' er on "Your Hit Parade," has signed a long-term acting contract with Warner Bros. . . . Gary Cooper has Hollywood's largest collection of records of Ha waiian music; the "Good Sam" star has been collecting them for years. . , "Our Miss Brooks," that very amusing comedy series starring Eve Arden, now has a sponsor. . . .7 he hangar deck of the V. S. S. Philippine Sea became a movie theater for a press preview of MGM's 'The Secret tnd." i Released by VNU Feature. |