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■ What a party they made for Kate Smith when she went to Hollywood to preview 20th Century-Fox's "Drums Along The Mohawk"! Left to right, Joan Crawford, Merle Oberon, Kate and Claudette Colbert.
HOLLYWOOD "inside" has it that the Burns Mantle portions of the Star Theater program will be dropped. The full hour, with Ken Murray, Kenny Baker, Frances Langford and Dave Broekman, will then originate entirely in Hollywood.
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The Bob Hopes are telling friends they want five kids: but want none of their own. They'll adopt four more, one each year.
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Ken Murray is telling those jokes to Nancy Kelly in private. But insists it's no joke that she's to become the leading lady in his new
home!
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M-G-M is dickering with Ray
Noble for a musical.
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Charlie McCarthy, in his new picture, "McCarthy Detective," has a wig made of real red hair.
* * * PREACHER MATERIAL: Jack
Carson and Kay St. Germaine — as soon as the divorce between himself and his wife becomes final.
FEBRUARY, 1940
By GEORGE FISHER
■ Listen to George Fisher's broadcasts every Saturday night over Mutual.
One reason that Edgar Bergen is pushing Mortimer on the air is said to be to popularize his comic strip!
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Ed Sullivan declares in his column that "the best comedy on the air recently was Winchell's message to Atlantic ships to look out for two men who fell overboard."
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Hollywood is all ears when Drew Pearson and Bob Allen spout their "very exclusive" Washington gossip on "Listen America," over Mutual. This network is certainly hitting the
big time.
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PREACHER MATERIAL: Skinnay Ennis, the band leader, and his singer Carmine Calhoun have finally set the date: Christmas.
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Gertrude Niesen spent two months in Hollywood without singing at one nightclub and without signing a film contract.
Your reporter was host to Andrew Jergens (Winchell's boss) for his yearly visit to Hollywood. "Andy" met most of the film stars and spent the remainder of his time in Hollywood's "After Dark" spots, with glowing praise for Earl Carroll's show palace.
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Jim (Fibber McGee) Jordan and Mrs. Jordan (Molly) spent a few anxious hours after learning of the sinking of the British ship Sirdhana off Singapore. Jim's sister, Josephine Jordan Hugo, was a passenger, with her husband, Charles Hugo, business manager of the Nirola dance troupe, also aboard the vessel. Jordan cabled the U. S. Consul at Singapore for word of her fate to relieve anxiety, but before a reply could come, NBC learned Mrs. Hugo was among the survivors, and relayed the happy word to Jim.
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The "I Want A Divorce" program is trying to help couples stay married by dramatizing some domestic situation that might easily lead up to the divorce courts for lack of a common (Continued on page 73)
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