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A FAVORITE alibi of Jacques Ren•* ard's has just been knocked into a pile of old, discarded cocked hats. Jacques, who is the rotund band leader for Eddie Cantor, has always claimed that Mrs. Renard's cooking was responsible for about a hundred of his 274 pounds. Late this summer Mrs. Renard and her oldest daughter Winifred, took a New York vacation and while they were gone Jacques set out to prove his contention, going on a diet of salads and three-course dinners. On the day they got back he stepped on a pair of scales, his face all set to beam proudly. The scales registered 274^. IRREVERENT observation: In profile, ■ General Hugh S. Johnson looks like W. C. Fields. And what feature emphasizes the similarity? Why yes, you guessed right the first time! — Redwood for a IT'S not her sponsor's fault that you ' aren't hearing Helen Hayes on the air this year. Everybody tried hard to think of some way she could broadcast while she tours in her hit stage play, "Victoria Regina," but the tour is so extensive and includes so many cities that haven't big radio facilities that it was impossible. It's almost a certainty, though, that she'll be back on the air next fall, after the tour is over and she is settled on Broadway again in a new play. THE two funniest fellows on the air, ' Jack Benny and Fred Allen, bandied this witty conversation about when they met briefly in New York after their vacations: "Hello, Jack." "Hello, Fred." "Nice vacation?" "Not very. How about yours?" "Naw. Didn't get much rest." "Neither did I. Packing, and then unpacking, and moving from one hotel to another — it wasn't much fun." "No, I guess not. Well, neither was mine." * * * CRED, however, had a good reason for ■finding his vacation a bit disappointing. His beloved aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Lovely, who was a mother to him when he was a child, was extremely ill all summer, although she is better now. If she hadn't been, Fred would probably have refused to go to Hollywood to fulfill his movie contract. * * * Fred wired his manager in Hollywood to find him a place to live. The manager wired back that he'd found a wonderful house, a regular Hollywood mansion. In New York, Fred and Portland live in an unpretentious two-room apartment, and he wired the manager that was exactly what he wanted in Hollywood. Back came another suggestion from the manager: "Can get you beautiful apartment for four hundred a month." Fred's answer to that was brief and to the point: "Get us quiet little apartment — and after we get out there you can pretend you don't know us." TWO original songs by Igor Gorin, "Cau1 casian Melody" and "Lament" have just been published, reminding long-time members of Hollywood Hotel about the first time Igor played the compositions. One evening, a few weeks after Igor joined the cast, there was an informal rehearsal at someone's home. Igor's English was still too sketchy for conversation, so he sat down at the piano and strummed a bit. Two of the songs he played were his own compositions. When asked about them, though, he was too shy to admit he'd written them and claimed they were native folk songs. Not until plans went forward to clear them for use on a Hollywood Hotel program would he confess they were his. * * * JulAYBE one reason Charles J. Correll— ■▼■ Andy of Amos 'n' Andy — is so willing to make all those guest appearances the team has been doing lately, is that a newly married man has certain financial responsibilities. He was married, you know, on September II to Alyce McLaughlin. * * * %A#E haven't seen it yet, but they tell ™ that Bobby Breen's new picture, "Make a Wish," exhibits a young gentleman who knows a lot more than he used to about acting. If it's true, radio's own Gertrude Berg is responsible. She went out to Hollywood to write "Make a Wish," sat in on the set when production started, took a liking to him and suggested that she would like to coach him in his lines. They became great friends before they were done, and if Bobby goes on the air in a radio program called The Singing Kid (adapted by Mrs. Berg from the second picture she wrote for him) it will be largely as a result of that friendship. * * # THE old Show Boat, radio's most famous ■ craft, will be scuttled and discarded November 4, its place taken by a starstudded program produced by the MetroGoldwyn-Mayer studios. Just as modern means of entertainment spelled the doom of the old-fashioned river show-boat, bigger and better program ideas have finished this veteran of the airwaves. Practically everybody on the M-G-M lot, except Garbo and a few stars who are tied up in other shows, will take part in the new program. Among the missing may be Myrna Loy and William Powell, who are being anxiously sought by a sponsor for a weekly dramatic series based on stories by Dashiell Hammett, who wrote their big success, "The Thin Man." Arch Oboler. who writes those spine-tingling Lights Out sketches may do their scripts. % ■% $: WHEN Frances Langford was a highschool girl in Lakeland, Florida, one of her best friends was a girl who was studying to be a concert pianist. Sometimes Frances sang while Alice accompanied her on the piano. Then Frances went North, to Rudy Vallee and fame, but Alice stayed in Lakeland, still studying the piano. Frances often wrote to her urging her to go to New York and try for a job in radio. But Alice stayed where she was — until last summer, when she came to New York and offered herself to radio as a concert pianist. Radio took her, signed her up for a year on a coast-tocoast network program, but — Alice is Alice Cornett, the featured blues singer on CocaCola's Song Shop. When she'll get a chance to play a. piano on the air, no one, least of all Alice, knows. 86