Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 15, Number 26, DeMotte, Jasper County, 11 May 1945 — Star Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Star Dust

STAGEvSCREEMfiADiO Released by Western Newspaper Union,

By VIRGINIA VALE

THE latest war-caused shortage to plague Hollywood movie-makers is one of swords. With about a dozen swashbuckling dramas in /arious stages of completion tround town, Warner Bros, ’aces the likelihood of havng to call on armorers in other >arts of the country before the dueling scenes In the Errol Flynn opus, 'The Adventures of Don Juan,” can >e staged. Modern swords won't do; hese fights took place before 1786. * Jean Tighe, featured singer on 3uy Lombardo’s "Musical Autographs” program, is one of the few entertainers permitted by the suhoritles to visit boys suffering from

:ombat fatigue. Servicemen at Hah .oran hospital dubbed her “G.I. lean" months ago; the title has ituck, and Jean receives letters !rom servicemen all over the world, who calls her "G.I. Jean.” * When Constance Bennett appears >n Earl Wilson’s radio program—on Mutual, Sunday evenings she’ll lave a chance to talk back to sister Joan. Joan was Earl’s guest a while igo, and made a few cracks about ier sisters’ cutting their ages down to much that she now feels like the sldest member of the family. Now Constance will have a chance to reply, and in public. * Joan Edwards has been requested iy the OWI to make a series ol propaganda speeches, in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, for iistribution in occupied areas ol Europe. As if the gal didn’t have enough to do already! X Even newspaper correspondents have begun listening to the Saturday CBS series, “The FBI in Peace and War," for what’s going on behind the scenes of wartime crime. Incidentally, if you’ve been puzzled because you couldn't quite place the musical theme which introduces the program, the music comes from “The Love for Three Oranges," bj Sergei Prokofleff. X Sonny Tufts’ agent is a superstl tious man. His biggest clients are Sonny, currently appearing in “Miss Susie Slagle,” and Spencer Tracy The agent has told his New York representative to search for actori whose initials are "S. T." X ODDS AND ENDS-Lynn Merrick Columbia contract starlet, will sponsoi Shirley Temple when the "Kiss am Tell ” star graduates from Wesllak « high in June; Lynn’s an alumna , clas. of ’39. . . . Eight-months-old Michae Ward, who faces his first motion pic ture camera as the infant son of Claud ette Colbert and Orson Welles in Inter national’s “Tomorrow Is Forever,” is i dead ringer for Winston Churchill. . . Ellen Drew, who’s just completed ”Th* Amorous Ghost” for RKO, heads tha studio’s United Nations’ Relief associa lion old clothes drive, under directioi of Ginger Rogers, industry head of th> drive.

JEAN TIGHE