Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 47, DeMotte, Jasper County, 6 October 1944 — Star Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Star Dust

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By VIRGINIA VALE

Released by Western Newspaper Union. THOUGH the'world wasn’t aware of it, there’s been a crisis in Hollywood—because of old age, the original chim‘panzee who played Cheta, iTarzan’s mate, couldn’t work, and a new Cheta had to be found for “Tarzan and the Amazons.” Kurt Neumann, director of the picture, searched far and wide, finally found the new ape right in Hollywood. The perennial Tarzan, Johnny Weismuller, liked the new Cheta at once, and Cheta reciprocated. Now the problem is— how will Cheta get along with Brenda Joyce, Tarzan’s new mate? * Betty Hutton received her first letter from an American soldier in a German prison camp only to discover that he was a boy she went to school with in Battle Creek, Mich

Tie said he hadn’t seen any new movies as he’d been out of circulation for the past 14 months, but asked her to send him an autographed photograph, as pin-up pictures were allowed in the camp where he w r as imprisoned. Alan Marshal, borrowed from David Selznick by RKO to star with Dorothy McGuire and Herbert Marshall in “The Enchanted Cottage,” has had to give up the role because of what his doctor diagnoses as nervous exhaustion. Marshal has combined bond tours, army camp appearances and other war activities with months of studio work on two long productions. Si- J “The Great Gildersleeve” is probably the only stooge who’s risen to having his own radio program and also starring in the movies. He surrounded fibber McGee and Molly in various stooge roles until in 1941 his avalanche of fan mail inspired a sponsor to build a show around the character Hal Peary had built up a fellow with big ideas, but simple, warm-hearted and jolly.

Bettejane Greer is making her ifilm debut simultaneously in two RKO features, the musical “PanAmericana” and “Two O’clock Courage.” This calls for considerable bicycling between stages. rf - Roy Acuff, his Smoky Mountain Boys and little Rachel, of NBC’s “Grand Ole Opry,” have been selected by the army to take part in a special movie which will include many top-flight stars of stage, screen and radio, and be shown in army camps all over the world. s 1 '" ODDS AND ENDS Away bark when, Jim (“Here's, to Romance') Ameche and Ann (*Joyce Jordan**) Shepherd were typical American boy and girl in their first big radio program, out of Chicago—now they’re together again in "Big Sister." . . . When Lum and Abner travel by train , Lum gets the lower berth and Abner the upper; this was settled 12 years ago by flipping a coin. . . . "Mr. Skeffinglon" isei a record for Bette Davis by running 14 weeks at a Broadway theater .

BETTY HUTTON