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Show Star EDust Any More Eligibles? "k Unnecessary Request k Good Screamer Works ' Hy Virginia Vale THERE'S no telling where the current wave of matrimony mat-rimony stiat is sweeping Hollywood will stop. Practically Practi-cally all of the movie colony's famous romances either have landed their participants at the altar or will do so soon. Of course, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. rather startled the general public with his selection of a bride; the charming Mrs. Mary Hartford was what would be called, in racing circles, a dark horse. When Kate Smith celebrated her ninth anniversary as a radio star she sang the four songs that she presented on her initial broadcast: "I Surrender, Dear," "By the River St. Marie," "Dream a Little Dream of Me," and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone." When making up her program for her first broadcast she put in that last number num-ber because she felt none too sure that she'd be a success on the air. iWVw hi " -'fed KATE SMITH Too bad a fortune teller couldn't have fold her that she would lead the popularity polls for years as the possessor of the best voice in her field. The next time that you hear your favorite screen heroine let out a piercing scream, the chances are that it will be Sarah Schwartz who actually does the screaming. . She is Hollywood's prize screamer, scream-er, capable of curdling any audience's audi-ence's blood when she really puts her mind on It The other day Director James Whale was making a scene in "The Man in the Iron Mask" In which Louis Hayward, as King Louis XIV, was about to be attacked by assassins assas-sins as he rode along in his coach. A good screamer was needed, so Sarah Schwartz was sent for, Joined the milling throngs, and screamed her head off when Director Whale gave the signal. She's been doing that sort of thing for years, and works pretty regularly earns more, In fact, than many a would-be singer who tries to make musical sounds. It lacks as if Bette Davis would be receiving another "Oscar" when the Motion Picture Academy Awards are handed out for this year. "Dark Victory" is the picture pic-ture in which she turned in such a grand performance that even the people who never liked her work before be-fore are now dancing in the streets and telling all their friends about it Felix Knight, the young tenor who j has climbed so far and so fast as a radio star, is so enthusiastic about his vocal teacher that he has established estab-lished two scholarships, enabling two young singers to work for a year with Mebane Beasely. "He took me," says Knight, "with almost no voice to speak of and shortly Increased my range more than an octave." So now, each year, two more young singers will have the opportunities that Knight had. If you listen to Jack Benny's Sunday Sun-day night programs you're acquainted acquaint-ed with "Rochester," his Negro servant You can see him in "Gone With the Wind," as "Uncle Peter"; you probably saw him in "Jezebel" and "In Old Kentucky." His name is Eddie Anderson. m You've seen Bill Robinson, the great tap dancer, in pictures with Shirley Temple, of course. But did you know that they are good friends, and that he telephones her several times a week, no matter where he may be. He called her from New York recently, just before he went on the air he talked to her mother, and asked' if Shirley might be allowed al-lowed to stay up late enough to hear his performance. Let's hope that she did; it was a good one. X ODDS ASD ENDS Gabriel Heaiter, host of "We, the People" presented Kate Smith with a gift in honor of her radio anniversary a charm bracelet with miniature gold microphones dangling dan-gling from it . . . Radio fans have been complimenting Martha Raye on the improvement im-provement in her vocal arrangements, not knowing that it't her new husband who does them . . . They're making a terrific effort to make the pith lie hail Bobby Breen as "Bob" . . . "Information "Informa-tion Please" will reach the screen, as a serif t of RKO Palhe News reels. 9 Western Newspaper Union. |