Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-12-17

nitely. Can she be contemplating
an operate career, with the TIA
liam opera house as spring
board for later appearances at
our own Metropolitan?
When President Truman was
in Los Angeles on his campaign
tour, Dorothy Lamour, star of
Columbia's Slightly French, I"
got his autograph for her son by
reminding him that when he
was Senator Truman she gave
him hers for Margaret.
4 Fifty years ago George Bern
ard Shaw insisted that a young
British actor be hired for one of
his plays, never dreaming that
one day his protege would win
an Academy Award-which Ed
mund Gwenn did as Santa Claus
in Miracle on 34th Street" He
will recreate the role on the
Christmas broadcast of the Lux
Radio Theater, December 20, on
CHS, with the other members of
the original cast.
Edmond O'Brien is through
with practical jokes. During
showing of an old horror picture
in his home he painted his face
green, flashed a flashlight on it
and shouted "Boo!" Mary Hatch
er tainted.
Bing Crosby is always willing
to oblige a friend. When AL Jar
Wis, the disc jockey, wanted to
impersonate Bing in Columbia's
make Believe Ballroom" he
phoned to ask permission. Cros-
by not only gave his okay but
also sent Jarvis a battered hat
and a brilliantly checked sports
jacket, to add authenticity to the
performance. Gave everything
but his voice!
The second round of the match
between Jack Dempsey and Luis
Firpo in 1922 was used as a mo-
del for one of the prize fight
sequences in RKO's "The Set
Up" starring Robert Ryan. Di-
rector Robert Wise studied more
than 200 reels of professional
bouts, and concluded that the
second round of that one con-
tanned some of the heaviest hit
ting ever seen in the prize ring.
way back In 1880, Teri heane
and Michael O'Day worked to-
gether as two of the original ten
New York radio juveniles. Now
they are back together again
but this time they appear as hus-
band and wife on CBS's big
Sister"
Il
Three years ago Glenn Ford
and his wife, Eleanor Powell,
were entering a theater when
15-year-old girl asked for his
autograph. He was late, so he
gave her a nickel, told her to
phone him when she was 18, and
he'd show her around the studio.
During the filming of Return
of October" he was called to the
phone by the girl. Where are
you?" asked Ford. Just look a
cross the set and get ready to
escort Terry Moore on tour
of the studio" said Terry, who
plays opposite him. And thanks
for the nickel" she added i'm
pishly.
Two-year-old Guy Mansfield,
son of Arthur Godfrey's Talent
Scouts" producer, Irving, may
live to regret this. Walking
Through Central Park with his
father, he was chucked under
the chin by Greta Garbo-and
he turned his back on her!
ODDS AND ENDS-Barbara
Whiting of CHS Junior Miss"
is getting her hair back to its
normal Irish brown"-had it
dyed for her role in the screens
"Amboy Dukes" Hedy La
MARI made her first technicolor
test for Samson and Delilah."
Skeets Gallagher returns to
the movies after four years alb
sence, in Republics Duke of
Chicago" -. Michael Chaplin,
one of the kids on the Phil Har-
ris-Alice Faye radio program,
will play the son in RKO's Sam
Wynne." Sterling Hayden
will play the lead in his first
western, "El Paso," starring
John Payne.