Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-20

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ture does not give Miss Fontaine
much scope for her talents, but it
does give her an opportunity to wear
beautiful clothes and play opposite
the new French sensation, Louis
Jourdan. Warning-there's a sad
ending, she dies, he will soon.
Marjorie Hughes, vocalist on
frankie Carries new radio show,
''Carle Comes Calling" has to be
stand-out as singer, because she
is Frankie's daughter. Too many
people would be eager to say that's
the reason she got the job if she
didn't prove at every performance
that she's deserving of it. Just as
many are cheering her return to the
air after serious illness.
Something new in cinema fights:
Robert Ryan's battle with Michael
Harvey in RKO's Berlin Express"
takes place in the interior of .
beer vat. Director Jacques Tour
neur had it shot by three cameras,
SO there would be no re-takes.
Arthur Patrick Lake, five-year-
old son of Arthur Oagwood) Lake
of the Sunday CHS Blonde" show,
has been placed under contract to
his fathers film producing company
and will have part in Lakes next
film, white Devils"
Robert Shaw's chorus of 30 pro-
fessional voices will take over for
Bergen and Mccarthy this summer.
Although Shaw is only 81. he has
conducted everything from ballads
to Brahms and is one of the fore
most choral conductors in the coun-
try.
Harold Peary, 1.-THE Great Gil
dersleeve," had to cancel his
scheduled personal appearance
tour of the country. So many of
the principals of the cast had
summer commitments that he
couldn't assemble the right group.
Priscilla Lane, youngest of the
three Lane sisters of movie fame,
returns to the screen after a year
and half to play the feminine lead
in RKO's "Bodyguard," opposite
Lawrence Tierney. She retired in
1914 when she married, but returned
briefly to play the lead in Fun on
a Weekend" in 1916 when her son
was five months old. "Bodyguard"
is directed by Richard Fleischer.
Ed Byron, producer, director and
co-author of Mr.. District Attorney"
and Adventure with Christopher
Wells" still is amazing the radio
world by his dramatization of events
that make headlines either simultan-
eously or few days later. Byron
credits his scoops to his knowledge
of crimes and the ways of criminals.
He has kept a file of newspaper
crime stories for 10 years.
Odds and Ends Jimmie Du-
rante will not have the same spon-
sor next season, according TO the
latest report Mark Warnow's
return to ''Sound-On" is very in
definite, because of i'll health =.
Arnold Moss c'Road of Life" and
young DIR. Mal0ne') Is called the
educated actor" by his collea CUES.
He has a b. A. In Latin and Greek,
NJ, A. in Old French, Phi. d. in 1.-THE
Art of Acting" That palomino
you'll see ridden through ball
room in THE Great Gatsby" is
veteran OF California" "Thc vir-
ginian' and "Incendiary Blonde"
Arthur Godfrey's Tale
Scouts" will be absent from the air
from June 81 to August 20.
MIC interviewed s,074 persons in
l947; 100 passed these additions, 20
were heard on the air. Robert
Adams, talent auditioner Of NBC.
teurs almost never make the grade.
And Elaine Rost. ("Inza" on THE
Adventures Of Fsank Merriwell, -
says the best way TO get dramatic
experience is singing with band
She did it for 10 months, studyini
acting meanwhile. then came TO New
York and landed on Just Plair
Bill"