Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 13, Number 12, DeMotte, Jasper County, 29 January 1943 — star Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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By VIRGINIA VALE

Released by Western Newspaper Union. UNTIL the academy awards come through everybody can find food for argument in those voted by the New York film critics. Noel Coward’s British navy filrn, “In Which We Serve,” which opened in New York at the end of 1942, was chosen the best picture of the year after stubborn balloting; some of the critics wanted the award for the very stirring “Wake Island.” James Cagney was chosen best actor for his work in “Yankee Doodle Dandy”; Agnes Moorhead the best ao tress for her performance in “The Magnificent Ambersonri” Greer Garson and Katharine Hepburn v|ere contenders for that crown for a while, but Miss Moorhead won out. V t • Jane Randolph is on her wafcr up; she has the feminine lead opposite Tom Conway in “The Falcon Strikes Back,” the next of the RKO'mystery series based on that detective’s

exploits, and it’s her fourth film since she was discovered last summer -ijn a routine screen test that led to her being given a leading role in “Highways by Night.” She’ll be a star before you know it. And now Greer G arson’s engagement to Richard Ney sterns to be a ? thing of the past. It' didn’t seem-like the kind of troth that Hol- * ’ , lywood executives approve for their biggest stars—he wasn’t important enough in the picture business. On the other hand, she seems to be the kind of person who does as she likes-4-and with “Mrs. Miniver” to her credit she could do it. | —: — You might keep an eye on Ann Savage, if you want to see a star in the making. She made her stage debut in a little theater a few months ago, and Columbia signed her to a contract and gave her a few minor roles to get her used to camera angles. Now they think that she’s a potential star, and she’s been given the role opposite Chester Morris in ‘‘After Midnight With Boston Blackie.” Frances Dee, leading lady of RKO’s “I Walked With a Zombie,” has founded a dramatic club to provide community entertainment at Moorpark, Calif., during gas rationing. A special stage built in a barn On the Dee-McCrea ranch is at the club’s disposal. t ODDS AND ENDS—I ittle Billy Severn was allotted to keep the woolly lamb he plays with in “Journey for Margaret' -but his brother gate the lamb a bath, out it into a lighted oven, and then forgot about it . Richard Quine had gone off to War in so many films that it was an old story uhen he bade farewell to his comrades and joined up with the coast guard ... V oung Marcy Wc(, litre, who seems to be a comer, is booked to play Ginger Rogers' sister in “Govern merit Girl ” at RKO . . . Ellen * Drew nears old, soiled clothing in “Night I’lujte From Chungking" but the tmerican pilot falls in love with her just the same!

JANE RANDOLPH