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Show By LYNN CONNELLY WILLIAM BENDIX has been the target for so many thrown missiles in his latest picture that he wonders how they failed to hurl the kitchen sink at "ak r Recently, J in his role as an 1 -$ umpire for Colum- Vp bia's "Kiu Um" , s pire," he had a W k blizzard of seat t cushions hurled at . y.' j him by 445 extras I .. i . playing baseball iJAEJi spectators . . . The next 'day, 150 ex-BENDIX ex-BENDIX tras bombarded him with over-ripe fruit and an assortment of vegetables vege-tables . . . When the scene was over, Bendix with 8 good portion of the missiles clinging to him, turned to Director Lloyd Bacon and snapped: "I think I was miscast in this baseball picture ... I should have been a catcher.' Bill was in town recently and moaned to the press that he would be ostracized in Brooklyn when that popular burg sees him as an umpire um-pire . . . He, who was a baseball bat boy in New York in his teens and who later portrayed the great Babe Ruth . . . "They'll think I'm a traitor," he said woefully . . . Bill takes hi3 baseball seriously, also his new grandchild, of whom he is extremely proud even though he had hoped for a boy in the family fam-ily .. . He also enjoys his "Riley" role in radio and hopes to be doing it on TV this coming fall . . . Big, lovable Bill has just signed a new movie contract and is riding the waves of success these days. PLATTER CHATTER MERCURY Richard Hayes follows fol-lows up his current successes with nice rendition of "Truly" with "Thunder in My Heart" on the flip ... If you happen to be a Dixieland devotee, you'll want to latch on to Bobby Sherwood's "Dixieland Ball" and "Muskrat Ramble" . . . Eddie Howard comes up with a beautiful arrangement of "The Girl That I Marry" with "Brother Bill" on the reverse. CAPITOL Next to Godfrey's recording re-cording of "Candy and Cake" the best rendition we've heard of it so far is Ray Anthony's . . . "Where In the World" is on the reverse. |