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Show Strictly For the Girls I trees. He'll grumble that they'll still be there at noon, and go away and let him sleep." Miss Ball is now half-way through production of "Miss Grant Takes Richmond" at the-Columbia the-Columbia Pictures studios. It's a comedy with a background of good dramatic plot, which she likes in both movies and radio. "I call it dramedy," she is quoted as saying. "That's not original with me. Jack Oakie coined that word years ago, and it fits this story perfectly." end of famed San Fernando Valley. Val-ley. Above the smog and miles off on a side road away from the boulevard noise, Miss Ball lives there with a housekeeper while her husband is away. Arnaz will be home soon, Swisher says, but returns to New York in the fall for a Theatre Guild musical. Early Riser According to Swisher, even on nights when Miss Ball doesn't get to bed before one o'clock, she's always up at six. "That's the finest time of the day to her," he says. It's the one thing on which she and her husband don't agree. Swisher quoted Miss Ball as declaring: "When he's home, I'm always yelling for him to get up at daylight and look at the new buds on the LUCILLE BALL . Lucille Ball, vivacious star of movies and of CBS' domestic comedy series "My Favorite Husband," sets an intense pace among hard-working Hollywood actresses who combine screen and radio careers, working all day in a movie studia, spending three evenings a week rehearsing rehears-ing and broadcasting her air show. No matter how late it is, Miss Ball always scoots back from Hollywood to her ranch in neighboring San Fernando Valley Val-ley when she's through work. "It's quite a scoot," Harold E. Swisher, United Press radio editor, edi-tor, points out in his radio feature. fea-ture. "Twenty-two miles from Hollywood and Vine. But the drive made alone since husband hus-band Desi Arnaz is on tour is well worth it, Lucille insists." Time To Think "It gives me time to clear out the cobwebs," the Columbia star is quoted as saying. "I take 40 to 50 minutes for the trip, and while I'm driving I think of what I'm to do the next day, compose letters, and settle all my problems." The Ball-Arnaz ranch is in the Northridge section at the far |