Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 50, DeMotte, Jasper County, 27 October 1944 — Star Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Star Dust

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By VIRGINIA VALE

MAX MARCIN, one of radio’s real celebrities, really just happened into radio. He’d been a top-notch newspaperman, a highly successful playwright (“Cheating Cheaters,” “Three Live Ghosts,” etc.), and had made his mark in Hollywood. When he was asked to do a radio script he knew little about radio, but he dashed one off, it clicked, and now he's one of our foremost writers and producers of air shows. Listening to "Crime Doctor” on Sunday eve-

nings, you’d have very little idea of what an expert job it is, just because Marcin is so skilled. He writes the week’s show, then goes into rehearsal, polishing the sketch till it’s perfect * Gigi Perreau Isn’t doing so badly for a three-year-old; her role in "Dark Waters,the Benedict Bogeaus’ production, is her sixth featured role in major pictures since she made her debut a year ago. She started as little Eve Curie in “Madam Curie,” and forged right ahead. . __ * f A new' star may be rising on the Kate Smith program’s horizon, it rumors are true. Ted Collins, producer, who brought to fame "Abbott and Costello,” "The Aldrich Family,” "It Pays to Be Ignorant," and many other radio favorites, is said to be on the lookout for a new star to be featured on the Kate Smith Sunday Variety hour. * A new series of weekly dramatic programs, "Assignment Home,” dealing with problems involved in the return to civilian life of members of our armed forces, begins Saturday, December 9, on the Columbia Broadcasting system, in collaboration w|th the army service forces. High-ranking army officials will participate, taking the microphone to deliver messages directly to the American people. Carrying a spear for John Barrymore in "Richard III” started Allyn Joslyn on his acting career. From the silent Shakespeare role Joslyn leaped to a two-word part in the Theater Guild's "He Who Gets Slapped.” He had to say "Very well!" It paid him 10 dollars a week. He’s now getting considerably more than that —his latest picture, "Bride by Mistake,” with Marsha Hunt. - —* ODDS AND ENDS—Sandra and Ron nir, the two Burns children, now nine and ten, got a unique birthday present —George Burns and Grade Alien let them appear before the studio audience prior to the broadcast, to do a dance routine. . . . Herbert Marshall does a suave villain for his role in Bar amount’s “Her Heart in Her Throat ."U. Boodles Hanneford, the famous circus performer, will play a stage-coach driver in Errol Elynn's “San Antonio .** .. . Radio is full of men who began their careers as lawyers—among them lAinny Ross, now an army lieutenant overseas; Don Ameche, and Michael Romanom o) "Road of Life” and other radio serials

MAX MARCIN