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By DALE BANKS
Binnie Barnes joined Abe on Breakfast with Burrows, Men. at 9 P. M. on CBS.
J. Carroll Naish, writer-producer Cy Howard and Mary Jane Croft rehearse for CBS's series, Life With Luigi.
County Fair M.C. Win Elliot and company proved it can be done when Mole Hill, W. Va., was re-christened Mountain.
gossip From Hither and Yon. . . . Larry Gelhart and Larry f J Marks are back pounding out gags for the Bob Hope airer. . . . Columbia Pictures has signed to do a series of flickers based on Counterspy. . . . Wendell Holmes turning down film offers coming in the wake of his fine performance in "Lost Boundaries" because of radio commitments. . . . George Petrie to be starred in a movie role based on his CBS radio stanza, Call the Police. . . . Jack Mangan, emcee of the popular Ship's Reporter, writing a book based on the interviews he does for that air show.
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Once Mark Twain, America's Number One humorist of another day, made a bet with an editor that people didn't really read when they were looking at words in books and magazines. To prove it, he wrote the most preposterous three paragraph beginning to a story that was ever put down on paper, full of silly things like trees with little known names floating in the sky, the weather hot, cold and sunny and raining within three sentences. Well, Twain won his bet. He got only one letter questioning one of his silly facts. Now we can ask the same question about people listening to radio. Do listeners really hear when they're listening? The producers of the Scattergood Baines show are willing to bet they don't. Evidence is in their mailbag practically every day. Mail has come to them addressed to "Scatterblood Baines," "Scatterhook Haines," "Slattery Baines," "Smattering Baines," "Scudda-hoo Baines" and "Scattergood Jane." These are all seemingly well-intentioned mistakes. The would-be comedians always seem to pick "Scatterbrains Good."
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Mr. and Mrs. Radio, otherwise Cathy and Elliott Lewis are working in top supporting roles in their first feature picture together. They'll be seen in "The Story of Molly X," starring June Havoc. The flicker marks Cathy's return to pictures after an absence from studio sound stages of close to nine years. For Elliott, it will be his first major role in any movie other than one calling for him to act as narrator, or "unseen voice." His most recent film job was as the voice of the horse in "The Winner's Circle."
Polish up on your bebop. Maestro Hot Lips Page, the old-time radio favorite, is readying a program for one of the networks based on a fifteen-minute quiz format, but posing questions only about bebop.
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In case bookers have been wondering why Stan Lee Broza, manager and, by the way, father of bandleader Elliot Lawrence, sometimes turns down some very alluring bookings, they'd better take a gander at climatic conditions before trying to sign Lawrence's band. Seems Elliot suffers from hay fever and papa takes good care of him by never signing for dates in lowland, sneeze producing areas during any poUenation season anywhere.
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Morey Amsterdam came up with a spur of the moment quip recently that had the audience at a benefit show rolling. When Lucy Monroe, whose name has become almost synonymous with the "Star Spangled Banner,"
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