Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 43, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 September 1944 — Star Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Star Dust

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By VIRGINIA VALE

Released by Western Newspaper Union. HUGHIE GREEN, dropping in from London, brought first-hand news of American film stars overseas. You may remember Hughie from RKO’s ‘‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays,” or one of his American stage appearances; he’s now a flying officer In the RCAF air transport command. You missed something if you didn’t hear him on British Broadcasting company’s “Atlantic Spotlight”; one Saturday he was on London’s half of the program, ribbing American radio, and the following Saturday he ribbed British radio from New York! He says Jimmie Stewart has won the admiration and respect of army men for his work. * Bebe Daniels, whom the. British love because she stayed on in London to entertain them despite the blitz, staggered everybody when she

went up to within 600 yards of the firing line in Normandy to interview American servicemen for “American Eagle in Britain.” * —. When Albert Dekker showed up on the set of Paramount’s “Two Years Before the Mast” with a black eye he offered the oddest excuse yet. “A goose* bit me,” said he. Seems he went into the poultry house on his San Fernando Valley ranch to examine a setting goose. “She didn’t like it, and took a peck at me.” Ruth Swanson, who was named “the prettiest dress extra in Hollywood” three years ago, recently was discharged as a pilot in the Ferry Command, following an auto accident. She’ll return to her old love, the movies, in order to play one more role, in Warner Bros. “Of Fluman Bondage.” Then she’ll go to a new love—a major in the air corps, and give up her screen career for marriage. Ending a radio absence of more than seven years, Ed Wynn will return to the microphone soon in a whimsical new comedy series. Beginning September 7, “Happy Island” will be heard from 7:00 to 7:30 over the Blue Network, with Wynn, Evelyn Knight and Jerry Wayne. * First thing they know, Patricia Collinge and Theresa Wright are going to believe that they’re actually related to each other. They were cinematically related in “The Little Foxes” and “Shadow of a Doubt,” and in “Casanova Brown.” * ODDS AND ENDS—Marjorie Main abandons comedy roles in “Gentle Annie,” in which she plays a pioneer woman oj the old West. . . . “Pillar to Post ” has been held up by Ida Lu pino's injury —she fell on a slippery floor, had to have a broken bone in her hand reset. . . . **Screen Guild Players” heads the Hooper list of top ten radio programs on the Pacific coast, with “Ellery Queen” second and “Can You Top This?” third. . . . Dick Powells happy about playing a tough detective in “ Farewell , >fy Lovely” — it's a good dramatic role. . . . Fibber McGee and Molly have signed a new four-year contract with the sponsor who first put them on the air.

BEBE DANIELS