Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 40, DeMotte, Jasper County, 24 August 1939 — Star Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Star Dust

★ ISot Tempting Fate? ★ Bergen Takes Horse ★ Doctor He Shall Be!

By Virginia Vale

'T'HERE’S a plan under way 1 whereby dramatic radio offerings may reach the screen, with you, the public, selecting them. I Radio Guild Productions, Inc., of Hollywood, is behind it. The idea is that monthly contests will be held, the contestants writing to headquarters and giving their reasons for thinking that certain prep grams should be screened. No serials included, just plays that are complete in one broadcast. At the end of three months, the winning script would be adapted for the screen. Prizes will be awarded contestants. Madge Evans, of movie fame, is sandwiching her honeymoon with Sidney Kingsley, the playwright, in between performances at summer theaters. She’s worked conscientiously and done well, but when she found

that she was billed for “A BUI of Divorcement” not long after the elopement took place she backed out*—-not superstitious, it’s said, but just didn’t like the idea. j . William Powell is back at work again, in ‘‘Another Thin Man,” apparently completely recovered from his serious illness. Asia, the dog, has; a prominent part in this sequel to the famous “Thin Man,” and a year-old baby makes its debut. Tyrone Power and his bride, Annabel la, had a sort of busman’s holi- j day in Italy, touring the Italian rnovie-making center, Cinecitta. The high spot of their stay in Rome was their presentation to the Pope. National Broadcasting Company is grooming a new singer for radio stardom. Iter name is DinMi Shore, and she kails from Winchester. Tenn. She's a pretty girl with a distinctive! style of singing. At present she is being featured three times a week over both the red and blue net-works—-yoiu might listen in and see if your opinion of her talents agrees with Rie War-makers’, Mark Warnow, the Hit Parade condiu * ;, is arranging with a large music school for a scholarship to be awarded to children who show the most promise at playing a musical ims brume m . Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour have been making life miserable for Edgar Bergen at rehearsals of that Charlie McCarthy program, by razzing him because, although he frequently went fishing, he never caught any fish. The only way he could stop it was to give up fishing. Nowaday’s he’s getting his exercise bv riding horseback; —he can always catch the horse! Cried Barron is the first male member cf his family in six generations who didn’t; become a doctor. lie voted for acting instead. So be got a role in the* radio serial. “The Life and love of Dr. Susan.” and found he'd keen cast—as a doctor! Dave El nan, while convalescing from! an appendectomy in a Fargo, N. Dl, hospital, had the unusual experience of listening to his own program). “Hubby Lobby,” with' the President’s wife substituting for him. Ken Carpenter, who also had his appendix out, had trouble pursuad-v, ing the doc or that he ought to listen in on his program. The doctor was afraid he'd laugh so hard at Bob Burns that he’d break the stitches. He finally got a script of the show for Carpenter, figuring that, after he'd read the .jokes, they ’•wouldn’t be SO; funny. He quite forgot Burns’ habit: of making last-minute remarks that ti e script writer didn't think of. ODDS A\l) h!\ DS — Joan Blotulr tl and Dick t*ouell could hate had the leading roles in a net* musical shot* on Broadway this fall, but turned it down . . . Spencer Tracy and Sit Cedric llardu icke make it worth your uhile tv no to “Stanley and Livingstone"—they’re both excellent . . . And don't miss the spectacular “Tour Feathers ” . . . Franchol Tone is back at Metro, uorkmg on “Fast and Furious" in which he co-stars with Ann Sothern . . . “The Old Maid," with Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, is worth seeing. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.)

MADGE EVANS