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American Cancer Society Fund (Mon. 10:30 p.m., ABC). Eddie Dowling, Henry Morgan, Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny, Ruth Chatterton, Jo Stafford in a benefit show...
Ronald Colman owes his screen career-or its beginning, anyhow-to the quick judgment of another movie veteran, Director Henry King. King spotted Colman on Broadway in 1922 (supporting Ruth Chatterton and Henry Miller in La Tendresse), and gave him the male lead opposite Lillian Gish in The White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost...
...billboards were big and bright. A few of them: Dame May Whitty, Gloria Swanson, Gregory Peck, Thornton Wilder, Diana Barrymore, Helen Hayes & daughter Mary MacArthur, Gladys Cooper & daughter Sally Pearson, Edward Everett Horton, Gertrude Lawrence, Ann Corio, Jane Cowl, Lilian Harvey, Anton Dolin, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Ruth Chatterton, Mady Christians, Faye Emerson Roosevelt, Victor Moore, Maurice Evans...
Helen Hayes, Ruth Chatterton, Gertrude Lawrence, Mary Martin and Myrna Loy merged histrionic fireworks to plug the National War Fund in a crowded playlet entitled Untitled. More sacrificially, they also put their charms together in a line and bravely faced the candid cruelty of a news camera (see cut). Silver lining for the actresses was the local (Manhattan) record of the Women's Division of the Fund: gathered midway in a drive for $800,000, with less than 20% of the prospects called...
There will be production difficulties, too. Although such stars as Paul Robeson (who will play Othello at Cambridge and Princeton), Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead, Ruth Chatterton, Jane Cowl and Gracie Fields are scheduled, few Hollywood headliners will have their usual summer fling at legit. Hollywood, going full blast, can't spare them...