Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-05-08

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MILTON BERLE
broadcast. The money is for the
Milton Berle Foundation OF the
Mems League in Aid of Crippled
Children. Oh yes-he wants to pile
up another million for the National
Children's Cardiac home in Florida.
Even Hollywood can't lure him
awayi
John Brown, starred as Melvin
Foster" on "a Date with Judy" is
easily distinguished in the halls of
.Hollywood's Radio City; he's usu-
ally running. Tuesday nights he
'sprints from Judy to Amos
m Andy" Immediately following.
Thursday nights he's frequently or
the Abbott and Costello show and on
the Eddie Cantor program, which
takes the air as A and c sign off.
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Singer Janis Carter, who has
never warbled a note in films
(she'h soon be seen opposite Glenn
Ford In "Framed"), will be publ
cized by Columbia Pictures in a
series of singing guest shots ON the
air. She was a runner-up in the
Metropolitan additions, so the build
up seems a natural for her. But
why hasn't Columbia let her sing
for the cameras?
Pine and Thomas forthcoming
Paramount release. Adventure Is
land" will contain several spots of
absolutely silent footage. so that
when bobby soxers squeal over
Rory Calhoun, as they did at the
preview, grown-up fans won't miss
out on the dialogue. Blank spaces
in the sound tract are to be called
scream footage." But-what if the
bobby soxers don't scream?
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| Radio actress Ginger Jones' most
priced keepsake came from cuff
of the trousers her husband, Les
Damon, wore at their wedding. He
found few grains of rice there,
had an old watch of hers made into
ring. with the rice in the watch
compartment, and gave it to her on
their first anniversary. Ginger is
the clever newspaper woman in
"The Right to Happiness"
s.
A few years ago Jean Pierre Au-
mont knew little English beyond
yes" and mo-" But wait till you
hear him in "Atlantisl" Seems he
spent a night in jail in small vir-
ginia town, during the war. because
he said Eyes" to the sheriff when he
should have said no." and was
jailed as spy. Right away he
made up his mind to learn to speak
English. as fast as possible.
When Amos and Andy sang a duet
! as gag during rehearsal of their
Tuesday NBC show recently some
body recalled that back In 1922 they
auditioned as vOcalists at Chicago
station and to their surprise got the
job. But after seven months they
quit Of their own accord; heard a
record of Bling Crosby singing with
Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys and
refused TO compete.
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| When Madge Meredith worked as
cashier in 20th-Fox's cafeteria she
made screen test. but had left the
studio by the time executives got
around to seeing it. But RKO saw
the test. signed her, and she's
prominently featured in Trail
Street"
Columbia used 3 extra fremen
when making scenes in Her Hus-
bands Affairs. THE reason: Several
hundred extras we're sporting boards
of inflammable crepe hair.
ODDS AND ENDS - Glenn Nc.
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ness, May 10. WsBfed to be Jockey,
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ebaiksd up as moi pery good. f. f. Those
beautiful bangs Eleanor Parker pe1y,
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be e0mbed suey epery might; Der bus.
hand dossHJ like them. /. !. That pistol
wifb wbieb Bette Darts killed CIaDae
Rains in Deception" UGs used bY, tb.H
same Rains 10 knoek of AUDREY TOT
ter in ''T'be UnsHspeefed." -. In 'T'be
Voice OF fbe Turtle" Ronald Reagan
ussrs fbs saiIorm made Tor Robsn
Hutton Tor LAME Gels Married"
Salary of Clifford, head of A. T.
& T., listed as S2O9.65 in 1916.