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HOLLYWOOD Dan Jenkins reports: GALE STORM, who wound up her 89th Margie film April 21, has started on a "vacation" which includes the following: A two-week stand in Dallas starring in "Wish You Were Here," a three-week personal appearance in Las Vegas at the Thunderbird, a feature picture not yet selected, a weekly radio version of Margie and, finally, moving into her brand new custom-built home . . . GROUCHO MARX has started a one-man ED MURROW-for-President campaign-- and he is not kidding. * * * Hollywood's major studios will release 425 new feature pictures to theaters during 1954, the equivalent footage of 32 half-hour TV film series of 39 episodes each. In a seven-station city such as Los Angeles or New York, that would take care of just one station's programming for five hours a day, seven days a week, for one full (39-week) season. MARY WICKES, one of the finest Broadway character actresses, coming here to be featured with the RONALD COLMANS in the new Halls of Ivy film series . . . HAL PEARY, radio's original "Gilder- sleeve," may bring the role to TV . . . MAE WEST'S upcoming film series will be based on travesties of famous romances. First victims will be Priscilla and John Alden, then Cleopatra, Camille, Du Barry, Fatima and Lady Hamilton. OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II and RALPH LEVY (producer-director of JACK BENNY'S TV show) plan to produce a half-hour Show Boat series for CBS . . .ALAN LADD has incorporated himself to produce pictures, TV films and radio shows--but he will not yet appear on TV himself ,r. . NBC's first "spec¬ tacular" next fall may very well be a JUDY GARLAND musical designed to plug her new picture, "A Star is Born." * * * MARTIN and LEWIS do a two-week personal appearance starting May 7 in Houston . . . VIVIAN VANCE and BILL FRAWLEY (Ethel and Fred Mertz) will appear on the May 4 MILTON BERLE show following the season's wind-up of the I Love Lucy filming schedule . . . RICHARD CRENNA, the Walter Denton of Our Miss Brooks, is calling it quits at the end of this season. At 26, he figures it's time to stop playing an addlepated teen-ager. * * * BETTY GRABLE has a 27-inch TV set installed in the foot¬ board of her bed, with a remote control unit on her night- stand. This is known as living . . . NBC will have six to seven hours of color programming a week by the end of the year . . . JIM (I Married Joan) BACKUS' wife, HENNY, is now a regular on My Favorite Husband. which probably com¬ pletes the utter confusion reigning in the BACKUS menage.