Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 20, DeMotte, Jasper County, 31 March 1944 — Star Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Star Dust

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By VIRGINIA VALE

Released by Western Newspaper Union. L'IBBER McGEE is plenty a sore these days—in the muscles, not the temper. Here’s the reason. The RKO picture, “Heavenly Days,” which.he and Molly are making, includes a dream fantasy in which Fibber, as a typical American citizen, enters the U. S. senate chamber and swims around 15 feet above the floor. It’s done with invisible piano wires—which accounts for the sore muscles. '. ! * Now that K. T. Stevens has achieved screen stature with her dramatic lead in the William Cameron Menzies production, “Address Unknown,” at Columbia, she can claim the distinction of being the

only Hollywood star who still lives in the house where she was born. K. T. is the daughter of producerdirector Sam Wood, and still lives with her parents in the family manse in Hollywood. * One night recently 70 soldiers were having fun in a New York night club. One thought he recognized a big, buxom blonde in the audience. “Miss Tucker,” he said, “the boys would sure get a thrill if you’d sing ‘Some of These Days’ for them. We’re on our last furlough, heading overseas.” She sang, she wrote “Sophie Tucker” on menus for them. Didn’t want to disappoint the boys by explaining that she’s Lulu Bates, practically a double for Miss Tucker, a well-known blues singer who’s starring riow on NBC’s “All Time Hit Parade.” 7i\ Barry Wood, singer and master of ceremonies on “The Million Dollar Band,” doesn’t have too much time for his farm these days. He’s been entertaining wounded servicemen at the Halloran and St. Albans hospitals, near New York. I vs/ Helen Mack, who’s appearing in “And Now Tomorrow” with Loretta Young and Alan Ladd, has been nicknamed “Droopy Helen” by her friends because she plays so many emotional roles. She began training for roles like that back in the days when she studied acting in a New York children’s theater school, where she had some classmates destined to be well known —Helen Chandler, Ruby Keeler and Gene Raymond among them. —* ODDS AND ENDS—Wallace Beer/t brother Noah is slated for a role in Wally's new picture , "Gold Town * . . . Betty Winkler , “Joyce Jordan, M. D" star , has given a pint of blood once every four months since Pearl Harbor . . . Betty Hutton wrecked five studio rocking horses while recording her “Rocking Horse" specialty song in Paramount's "For the Angels Sing" . . . Humphrey Bogart and his wife , Mayo Melhot, are making a short at Warner's , U A Report From the Front" for the American Red Cross; it includes comment on their recent 10,000mile USO entertainment tour of North African and Italian war fronts .

K. T. STEVENS