Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-12-07

stead OF just SeLtnS tneIn gong,
as he was hired to do. He kidded
his sponsor and the product, telling
everybody they were insane for tun-
ing in. Listeners loved it, the spon-
sor was swamped by rush of GUS
toners, and today Godfrey has 80
sponsors! He ad Ibis most of his pro-
grams-makes notes on Matchbox
covers, then loses them.
Seems as if Confidential Agent"
should have been titled Cruelty to
Lauren Bacan." She's badly mis-
cast, as the daughter of an English
coal baron, and she's up against
such expert actors as Charles Boyer,
Katina Paxinou, Peter LORE and
George Coulouris. Maybe she can
win back her public in "Stallion
Road; in that one she'll have Hum
phrey Bogart opposite her again.
Joan Lorring, Warner Bros. &C.
tress who'll be seen soon in 1.-THE
Verdict" with Sydney Greenstreet
and Peter LORE, has been informed
that her father, Fred Ellis, has been
released from the Japanese prison
camp where he has been interned
for four years.
Alan Ladd and Gail Russell were
set to do long scene, showing
their first meeting in Paramount's
"Calcutta." So the crew made up a
pool on the number Of "takes" each
man thought the scene would re-
quire. Each put up a dollar; the
guesses ran from 10 to 20, since the
scene was five times the length Of
the average one. Ladd and Russell
did it in one "take."
Nick Castle, directing the ice bal
lets in Glamour Girl" in which
Monogram stars Belita, fell down so
often that finally he invented some
non-skid boots - golf shoes whose
soles are equipped with rubber
plugs. He offered to lend pair to a
newspaper photographer who want
ed to photograph Belita in action
but the smart guy just donned his
own ice skates.
Johnny Sands, 18-year-old Texan,
makes his screen debut in 1.-THE
Dream of Home; he'll play the
teen-age sweetheart of Jean Porter.
He's under contract to David o.
Selznick, who's had him taking les
sons in acting by way of breaking
him in.
Parkyakarkus has been asked by
a Chicago philologist to send him a
recording of that Greek dialect
heard on "Meet Me at Parky's";
the records to be added to those in
collection of foreign accents.
Parky, who majored in English
at college, will oblige.
1.-THE Sparrow and the Hawk"
CHS aviation serial, draws hum
dreds of letters from flying enthuSi-
asts-and they're not all from anna
teurs, by any means. Some of the
top men in the aviation industry
have congratulated the programs
makers.
Ralph Edwards should be remem-
bered as the only performer In this
country who, for the entire duration
of the war, voluntarily contributed
the services of himself and his cast
for the purpose of selling war bonds.
He teed of the Eighth Victory loan
drive with his appearance in Wi
chita, Kan. Two and one-haf million
dollars worth Of bonds were sold
as the direct result of that Truth
or Consequences" effort.
ODDS AND ENDS-Vero Vague, OF the
Bob Hope shoiU. goes dramatic in Colum-
bias "Snafu.". Rem Johnson, coIuboy
hostler, has been ,oorking for Hank Potts,
pho furnishes horses for motion pictures;
noip the movie bug has bitten him-heU
make his screen debut in RKO's bad.
mans Territory" Perry Como. star Of
NBC's Supper Club" sho,o, 81 one Of hte
busiest men in radio-does his ten broad.
casts ,oeek and has neper turned do,Dn
request to appeu, at benefit or on a
bond shoio il he could possibly grant it.
:. Guy Lombardo's sponsor i, offering
SIOyO00 in cash prizes ior naming a song.
Carmen Lombardo's Writins the song, Guy