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Show stagescreenmdjo By DTEZ GERHARD pvICK HAYMES likes working on - his Thursday night CBS radio show ("We all sort of lend a hand in writing it") and in movies, but his real enthusiasm comes out when he talks about his plane and the palomino palo-mino horses he raises on his ranch, j He has taught his children to ride : the full-grown horses; doesn't be-j be-j lieve in starting them on ponies. And : ha flew his plane to New York recently re-cently ("Saw more of this wonderful wonder-ful country than ever before") when he, Martha Tilton and the musical director felt they had to see the new shows and talk business at the fountain foun-tain head; that was why the whole show moved east for two weeks. Don McNeill finds it hard to believe, be-lieve, but his "Breakfast Club" has v -I - f i don McNeill a 15th anniversary coming up In June. The show started in 1933 as "The Pepper Pot," without an audience; au-dience; nobody dreamed that it would assume its present form. One of the bright spots on the air last summer was that of Xex and Jinks, replacing "Duffy's Tavern." Tav-ern." So it's good news that the most entertaining married couple on the air will replace "Duffy's" again this summer. Perhaps we had to wait too long for "Arch of Triumph"; perhaps extensive ex-tensive cutting was too much for it' Maybe we expected too much of Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and the rest of the distinguished cast. The picture is good; it will make money. ' Boyer's performance is excellent, ex-cellent, as are Charles Laughton'i and Louis Calhern's. Go to see it but don't expect too much! Crew members of "My Dream Is Yours" surprised Doris Day by stopping work suddenly the other day, then surprised her again by producing a huge white cake topped by 24 red candles to celebrate her 24th birthday anniversary. Their gift topped it all a gold slave bracelet. brace-let. "My Dream" is her second picture pic-ture for Michael Curtiz productions or for anybody, for that matter! The Andrews sisters have sung some rapid tongue twisters In their time, but Fatty Andrews says "Sabre Dance" Is the hardest yet. Merely humming it is a task because be-cause of the tempo and melodio range. The vocal velocity is seven syllables a second and the breathing breath-ing intervals are especially hard to master; hours of rehearsal are needed. But "Club 15" listeners love it. Clifton Webb may be getting a lot of publicity as a baby sitter on the screen, but Danny Thomas recalls that one of his earliest cash-paying jobs was as a baby sitter, in Toledo, Ohio. Danny, aged 11, took care of a vigorous little five-year-old who since has made a name for himself Mickey Eooney, star of the movies and the radio series, "Shorty Bell." The home of Bette Davis, at Wood's Cove, Laguna Beach, Calif., directly faces the stretch of beach where Lana Turner frolicked in that famous white bathing suit for scenes In "The Postman Always Rings Twice." Speaking of Bette, it's nice news that she will be teamed with Robert Montgomery in "June Bride." Odds and Ends ... Producer Jerry Jer-ry Wald didn't get off the set fast enough when a man-made hurricane was turned on in "Key Largo" and he was blown into a sizable mud puddle ... It took two seamstresses two weeks to sew 40,000 sequins onto a party dress Evelyn Keyes wears for two minutes in "The Mating of Millie" ... Burgess Meredith gave Paulette Goddard Meredith two monkeys when she finished "Hazard"; "Haz-ard"; she named them Bing and Bob ... Ray Miltand has had hundreds hun-dreds of requests for the earrings he wore in "Golden Earrings," which he unfortunately lost in the Columbia Colum-bia river on the last day before the cameras. Jack Paar, who probably will be acclaimed some day as one of the best of radio comedians, (Jack Benny Ben-ny firmly believes he will) will make his screen debut in a featured role with Joseph Cotten and Valll iD RKO's "Weep No More." Rogers and Hammerstein are preparing pre-paring a new musical, with Jo Stafford Staf-ford in mind for the leading role. They wanted her for the road version of "Annie Get Your Gun," but radio eommitments made that impossible. |