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â– Edgar Bergen dances with his latest "steady," Vera Gilmer, famous New York model. Below, WBT's "Aunt Sally" is Mrs. Pasco Powell, expert story-teller.
BY DAN SENSENEY
A JINX seems to follow Shirley Temple on her radio appearances. Last Christmas, when she was on the Screen Actors Guild program, she was suffering from a cold, and the same thing happened this Fall when she starred in "The Littlest Rebel" for the Lux Theater. Shirley came down with a fever of 102 degrees on Friday, and couldn't rehearse either that day, Saturday, or Sunday. She finally went on the air after only two rehearsals— and this on the Lux Theater, which usually rehearses steadily for three days. Many an adult actor would have given a bad performance under such circumstances, but Shirley showed no signs of the lack of adequate rehearsals, and only a couple of sniffles hinted that she had a cold.
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There was another little difficulty connected with Shirley's Lux Theater appearances. Charlie Forsyth, the sound-effects man, went into a store to buy nine pistols with which to fire blank cartridges, and the proprietor called the police, figuring that anyone who wanted nine pistols was up to no good. It took a telephone call to Cecil B. DeMille
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to convince a skeptical guardian of the law that all Charlie wanted them for was a Shirley Temple
broadcast.
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Luise Barclay, who plays Connie Tremaine in Arnold Grimm's Daughter, returned from her Mexican vacation with two more suitcases than she started out with. Luise collects Souvenirs.
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You'll be hearing Alexander Woollcott as a guest on several programs this winter, and maybe on a regular show of his own in the spring. The moon-faced Town Crier has been ill, but now his doctor says he's well enough to go back to work. The illness sliced fifty pounds off the hitherto more than ample Woollcott figure.
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It's getting so NBC's glamour girls line up in the studio corridors to watch the entrance of Bernardine Flynn (Sade, of the Vic and Sade series). Bernardine is famous for her very daring and smart hats, and all the girls want to be sure to get a look at them. Her latest is a flippant bonnet of two strips of black felt, nicely fitted to the head in back
but flaring into two butterfly bows in front. That's all there is to it.
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Wynn Murray, the 20-year-old songstress you heard last season on Fred Allen's programs, is being screen-tested by M-G-M for a part in Mickey Rooney's new musical
picture.
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Since Virginia Verrill's recent marriage to Jim Breyley, young dance-band manager, jewelers are crediting her with a new idea in designing jewelry. The lovely singer on Uncle Walter's Dog House had her wedding ring made with a Vshaped slot on top, enabling the ring to fit snugly against the setting of her marquise engagement ring. Funny nobody ever thought of it
before.
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December 23 is the date this year for one of radio's great traditional Christmas programs. Mark it down on your calendar right now to listen to NBC's Farm and Home Hour on that day, when Rev. Francis C. Young and his boy choristers pre
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