Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 21, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 April 1944 — Stsar Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Stsar Dust

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By VIRGINIA VALE

Released by Western Newspaper Union. ¥ ACK BENNY’S feeling that J he hadn’t been given adequate publicity, and that Bob Hope and Jimmie Durante had, brought up a reminiscence about Hope. Someone said that Hope works at it—that, if he sees four soldiers standing on a street corner he grabs a pianist and does a show for them. “Back in 1938,” said somebody else, “Bob was doing a summer fill-in show, and we never could find him when we’d scheduled interviews, because he’d be off somewhere doing a benefit. He did benefits for churches, for clubs, for everybody who wanted him. He thought we were crazy to expect him to spend time on a newspaper interview when he could be working hard, for nothing, for someone else.” S “Columbia Presents Corwin” steppe'd right ,to the top with the first broadcast; those Tuesday night programs have broken down the resistance of people who say haughtily that they never bother to listen to any broadcasts but music. Of course, Norman Corwin long since

made radio history; he has alway» had new ideas, and is a pioneer in radio technique. He has won practically all possible awards. This series of dramatic presentations, done with excellent actors, ought to bring him a special one, and a host of new listeners. m Nobody can say that John Carradine isn’t versatile. He has the heavy role in Wallace Beery’s new “Gold Town.” Movie goers know him by his work in “Stagecoach,” “Reunion in France,” etc. And he’s recently been touring in Shakespearean repertoire! ' i--7i\ If you had visited a rehearsal of CBS’ “Crime Doctor” you would think you’d stumbled onto a bunch of small boys playing cops and. robbers. “Take that—bang! bang! you’re dead!” you hear, but it’s a grown man saying it. It’s all because of the shortage of blank bullets and the lack of a reasonable facsimile. There are enough cartridges for performances, but not for rehearsals. * Fannie Brice, who once was a star in the stage “Ziegfeld Follies,” has been signed by Metro for its screen version of the Follies. She will appear in a sketch, “Sweepstakes,” and will also do her famous Baby Snooks routine. ODDS AND ENDS —Radio statisticians are trying to discover if any other network announcer beats Milton Cross ’ record; the chief heckler on “Chamber Music Society of Louer Basin Street ** is on his 23rd year as announcer . . . Dorothy Shay has arrived —originally appearing as guest on CBS “Carnival" she’s now a permanent member of the show , co-starring Alex Templeton and Morton Gould .. . “News Front" fifth of “This Is America ” series , is dedicated to 320 uar correspondents , 16 of whom have lost their lives ... 12 years ago George Sanders gave a piano recital for television; he plays and tings ui “Action in Arabia ”

NORMAN CORWIN