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Philadelphia-born Bill Berns has dabbled in radio reporting, TV, agency producing, pressagentry and moviemaking. He has not yet exhausted all his ingenuity on radio, but he thinks a little programming money would help. Now that ABC has merged with United Paramount Theaters. Inc., he expects the parent company will pour about $35 million into broadcasting. "Of that," he says confidently, "I hope $1,000 will come down to me." As for TV, Berns feels radio can survive: "If TV had come before radio, radio would be hotter than ever. I can imagine a housewife saying, 'What a terrific...
...heroic emotional person and the patient analytical man are the two types of individuals who push their way through to succeed in the motion pictures, radio or TV, Paul Raibourn, Vice-President of Paramount Pictures, said last night at the final Career Conference...
...gives him an income of about $150,000 a year, would flatten many a man more robust than 135-lb, O'Connor. But, except for a tendency to colds, Donald seems to thrive on it. In addition to becoming a TV fixture, he has signed contracts with Fox, Paramount and Universal-International to do six movies during the next two years (one of them: White Christmas, in which he will co-star with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney). Says Donald with satisfaction: "It's great, being busy. After you spend 26 years entertaining people it really gets...
...divorce action last week, but not the kind that makes the gossip columns. Stockholders of Warner Bros. Pictures voted to divorce the company's producing & distributing business from its theaters, thus becoming the last of Hollywood's Big Five (Loew's, 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Paramount) to conform to the federal court decision won by the Government's trustbusters...
Back to Church. The Hollywood juggernaut got rolling. The Stars Are Singing got its world premiere in Maysville three weeks ago, with national release set for early March. And Paramount has already assigned her to several more pictures; in Here Come the Girls (with Bob Hope) she blossoms as a dancer...