Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-11-15

presents fascinating and little
known stories about places all over
the country 1O:45 to HOO a. m. EST.
RKO's 1.-THE Bachelor and the
Bobby-Soxer" is the first picture in
which a giant Constellation will ap-
pear. Cary Grant just happened to
mention that big transport plane
was needed, and Howard Hughes
promptly lent them one.
Claude Rains should change his
name to Claude Reigns," New
Yorker remarked recently; Rains
name was up in lights on the mar
quees of three Times Square thea
tiers. He was co-star with Vivien
Leigh in United Artists Caesar
and Cleopatra" co-starred with
Paul Mum in their "Angel on My
Shoulder" in which Anne Baxter
also appears; co-star with Bette Da-
Wis in Warner Bros Deception"
A little matter of $50 a month
kept Gene Autry from becoming
professional baseball player. When
he was playing prO-ball, in the '20's,
Branch Hickey offered him a job
in the Texas league. But the sal
airy was S100 a month, and Autry
was making $50 as a railroad tele-
graph operator. Autry says "Be-
sides, l was player that might
be referred to as good hit-not
much field"
Ohio's Governor Frank J. Lausche
is one of the radio fans of Joe Soda,
gigantic electric guitarist on the
Fred Waring show over NBC. Soda
used to be one of an instrumental
trio accompanying Josephine
Lausche, vocalist, on a program
over a Cleveland station. The 9TH
er two musicians were DR.. Bill
Lausche, pianist, and Charles
Lausche, violinist.
Berne Surrey scalded Peter LORE
to death in a turkish bath, struck
Robert Montgomery dead with
bolt of lightning, gassed Dana Clark
and staged a train wreck to get Or
son Welles. All done with sound
effects, of course, on the CHS "Sus-
penSe.' Of course the stars don't
get hurt, but Surrey sometimes does
as when he fell across table full
of dishes to sound like Marsha Hunt
collapsing.
The 1916 Thanksgiving Day 1.-TWO
Hours of Stars" is getting under
way at CHS; as usual, music, COM
edy and drama will be featured, the
show will originate in Hollywood
and be shOrtwaved all over the
globe. Don Ameche, Lauritz Mel
chior and Jack Benny are the first
stars to be signed, with Ameche act
ing as host, as usual. This is Anne
che's fourth year in that capacity.
Producer Carey Wilson, Director
Victor Saville and the cast of
Green Dolphin Street." as well as
other Hollywood celebrities, will ap-
pear as themselves in a magazine
serial now being written by Leslie
Ford, the well-known writer of muir
der mysteries. The set of the pic
ture and other parts of the M-G-M
studio will provide the background,
and there'u be at least one corpse,
of course.
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ODDS AND ENDS-Hs reported that
Creta Carbo has refused an offer to do a
network dramdfic series at $4,000 sho,U.
-. EdiUard Arnoids spent many years as
contract player at M-C.M, but he faces
the color cameras for the first time in
1.-THE Birds. and the Bees. Henry
Morgan may move his air sho,U to the
West coast: several motion picture com.
panies are after him to make film.
Marion Shockiey, star Of "Road Of Life"
toon her first radio job on the strength Of
her ability to impersonafe Judy Garland
and Katharine Hepburn. Joan Fon.
tame has been boohed for her second ap.
Pearance on "Holl,roood Players" this
month.