The midland journal., 1946-06-14

HERBERT MARSHALL
programs, surprising many year.
round standbys. Returning June 18,
It will be heard for IA weeks on the
Hope time Tuesday evenings. Leon
Belasco will again be heard in the
role of "Mr. KS" aide.
Screen tests were recently sent
to Australia for a movie executive
to see; bids for the services Of
several American actors resulted.
One, offering $3.50 weekly salary and
transportation, was for the un-
named comedian in test 10, but the
deal fell through. The comedian"
who'd played an unimportant part
in the Mervyn Leroy directed
without Reservations" was Pro-
ducer-Director Leroy.
Richard Long, the Hollywood high
school lad who made his film debut
in Tomorrow Is Forever" makes
his second appearance in "The
Stranger" for International, an
RKO release. He'll play the young
brother of Loretta Young. It's Hol-
lyw00d talk that Long is considered
one of the most promising juvenile
actors to turn up since Lew Ayres
leaped to stardOm in "All Quiet on
the Western 'FRONT.'
For scene with Jennifer Jones
in "Duel in the Sun" the camera
caught only the back of Gregory
Peck's head. "No one will recog-
nize you," somebody told him.
eyes, they will" said Peck. "Since
those 'Spellbound' ads with Ingrid
Bergman my neck is famous"
Maybe Peggy Cummins wasn't so
wise when she agreed to come to
Hollywood. First, there was the
Forever Amber" disappointment.
Then she was announced for Bob,
Son Of Battle"; that was cancelled.
The latest is that she'll play the
daughter in ''The Late George Ap-
ley," which seems like bad casting;
the little Irish girl doesn't quite fit
as the stif1y Bostonian family, even
though Eleanor Apley does finally
break away.
Shirley Temples delighted be.
cause she's to be starred in David
o. Selznick's forthcoming "What
Every Young Bride Should Know"
It's scheduled to start after she
completes her starring role with
Cary Grant in "The Bachelor and
the Bobbysoxer."
"The Big Noise" by Fielden Far.
ringtcn Grown Publishers) neatly
takes the hide off the radio bust
ness; insiders claim to recognize
more than one famous character
under another name. Mr.. Earring
ton is the announcer of CBS' "The
Romance of Helen Trent" and "The
Armstrong Theater of Today"-that
is, at present he is. Maybe after
that book gets around he won't be.
Barbara Bel Geddes, the young
actress who's one of the toasts of
Broadway for her performance in
deep Are the Roots" will make
her screen debut in "A Time to
Kill" Her RKO contract allows
her to alternate between stage and
screen.
Fright Down Your Alley" a real
ly different kind of quiz program.
which has contestants bowling in a
regulation alley to determine the
amount of their prizes CASUALLY
they're better at bowling than at an
swering questions), has made a ten
strike. Starting as a sustainer on
American sBroadcasting, the pro-
gram picked up a sponsor after only
nine Sundays on the air.
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ODDS AND ENDS-Lnny Ross fam,
knosO that he spent three years in The
army before starting his current ~Lanny
Ross Sing" feso know that as a boy
he serred an apprenticeship as merchant
seaman. :. During his pacati0n this year
Ron Rascs0R OF Life Can Be Beautiful"
sCiN take busman's holiday and an
noance the IOiOa, Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin state fairs. j. Queen for Day" may
sound like a simple program to listening
audiences, bus H takes the efforts Of So
staff members to get the sh0i0 ON the air.
= Bob Hope and Dorothy Lanour yiU
aQ-star IN 4The Pripate Eye,s produced 81
Hope Enserprises, Inc.