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Show STAB DUST He's Off Again By UNEZ GERHARD JOIN the Bob Hope show and see the world! Returning Re-turning from his Christmastime Christmas-time jaunt to Berlin, Bob is off on a month-long tour of this v- country, planning to start in the south and work his way up to Washington Wash-ington in time for the inauguration. , - I V 7 ' o t J J : -y j would never pass them. But those for "The Heiress" are historically perfect right down to the underwear. under-wear. U. S. Attorney General Tom .Clark makes his film debut in Universal-International's Universal-International's "Illegal Entry." He and Commissioner Watson B. Miller Mill-er appear in the prologue. The first documentary film made with the cooperation of the immigration department, it is dedicated to the 43 immigration officers killed in the line of duty. Helen Craig, featured in "They Live by Night," became a star in a Broadway play in which sh-: spoke no lines. After years of studying diction, she was cast as the deaf mute in the stage's version of "Johnny Belinda." Robert Cummings and his family plan to live three months in Paris, three in Rome, while he makes two pictures. He expects to come home to find his new house ready with a diving board from his bedroom overhanging the pool. Betsy Drake was afraid RKO would make her pluck her eyebrows eye-brows too thin and change her name before she made her film debut in "Every Girl Should Be Married." So she ate a lot of candy, to calm her nerves. Henry Hull can't believe it. Two years ago he rented his California home to the Joel McCreas who have twj young sons. Henry expected to find everything much worse for wear when he moved back recently. But everything was in perfect condition, con-dition, and the house had been polished pol-ished from cellar to garret. Henry says he's going to join a McCrea fan club. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Danny Kaye's picture, 'The Kid From Brooklyn." Brook-lyn." is playing in Rome under the title "I Prefer a Cow'' . . . Glenn Ford, who has taken or given a beating beat-ing in every picture he's ever made, wishes Columbia tvould assign him to just one peaceful one. . . Busy though she is, Penny Singleton found trme to learn to fly, now takes her family on regular week-end flights. . . . Prankie Carle's crew will appear in five pictures this year, made during a four-months' slay in California. . . Eleanor Powell will sail in February to do m command performance ior the king of England. Released bv WNU Features. BOB HOPE There's money in those tours. Hope thinks he may exceed the ?5UU.UUu made on a similar tour two years go. Reminder: The "Dr. Christian" script contest is on again, till March 2. The $2,000 award is given for the best script suitable for the program For details write the Dr. Christian Award, 17 State street, New York 4. According to the Motion Picture Pic-ture Herald, t.e top-grossing pictures of the 1947-48 season, September to September, are "lhe Bacheloi and the Bobby Soxer," "Cass T mberlane," "Green Dolphin Street," "Life W't'i Father," "Mother Wore Tights," "Road to R'o" and "Unconquered." A list the country's coun-try's motion pict-re crit.es would never have compiled. Edith Head, top dress designer for Paramount, came to New York "on a spying trip," as she put it. She covered the haunts of young business women as Betty Hutton's clothes for "The Broadway Story" must be just right. Delightful, dynamic dy-namic Miss Head, commenting on the costumes for "Samson and Delilah," De-lilah," said she couldn't let Delilah's Deli-lah's fc'.e Jan ,i 't pnlip ,or tiiL1 ccn.urs |