Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 19, DeMotte, Jasper County, 24 March 1944 — Star Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Star Dust

STAGE'SCREEN-RADIO

By VIRGINIA VALE

Released by Western Newspaper Union. IT’S a great comfort, while watching Universal’s “Phantom Lady,” to reflect that, no matter how menacing the villain is, he simply must not be allowed to kill the heroine. The picture’s a murder mystery that comes very close to being as good as the best of the super-thrillers. There are some strikingly beautiful photographic shots, many excellent performances. The cast is headed by Ella Raines and Franchot Tone; it includes Alan Curtis, Thomas Gomez, Andrew Tombs and Elisa Cook Jr. ■ The crew of a U. S. submarine in the Pacific was the first audience to hear the musical numbers of Samuel Goldwyn’s “Up in Arms”; advance copies of records of songs by Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore were presented to Lieut. Com. H. J. Kossler, USN, by RKO Radio. * Ella Raines was signed by Charles Boyer and Howard Hawks to a contract when neither had seen her act -—yet they made her sole asset of a producing company capitalized at

$1,000,000! During her first year in pictures she made good with lead roles in four pictures for three different companies. Now under contract to Universal, she’s beautiful I (brown hair, green eyes), talented (See “Corvette K-225,” “Cry Havoc,” “Phantom Lady”), and her name is really Ella Raines Trout; her husband is Capt. Kenneth Trout, who has the President’s Citation, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. All members of the Thursday Bob Burns airshow will be busy moviemaking for the next couple of months. The “Arkansas Traveler” will be performing in “Belle of the Yukon,” with Dinah Shore and Gypsy Rose Lee; Spike Jones and his City Slickers in “Ziegfeld Follies.” * “Wide Horizons,” the new radio series on Mutual Sunday afternoons, is practically a must. Eddie Dowling, the actor-playwright-producer, is a star-maker as well; he launched Bob Hope, Kate Smith and William Saroyan. His new discovery is Maria Mendoza. Three daughters of famous fathers are working at Warner Bros, these days. Karen Hale, daughter of Alan, makes her film debut in “Cinderella Jones,” in which Walter Brennan’s daughter Ruth also appears. Dolores Prinz is in musical sequences of “Janie” directed by her father. * ODDS AND ENDS—Alice Faye's first non-musical dramatic role will be that of "Sissy" in the motion picture version of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," at 20th Century-Fox . . . Perry Como will certainly be something for the girls when he does "Something for the Boys" . . . Norman Corwin has carte blanche on his new radio program, "Norman Corwin Presents" . . . Hedy Lamarr has been borrowed from Metro by Warner Bros, for the leading [feminine role in "The Conspirators"

ELLA RAINES