Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-21 | Page 15 | Scranton Makes Preparations to Welcome Star

Scranton Makes Males Preparations to Welcome Star SCRANTON Pa UP This RI-This This anthracite anthracite anthracite an an- center of nearly persons polished its holiday garb I today to welcome home its own Cinderella Eight months ago hgo year old Gloria Jean was just another blue- blue eyed kid playing hopscotch on Lackawanna avenue Tow ow she's a movie star star star-a a voiced golden coloratura coloratura colora cobra tura soprano Gloria is coming home Thursday With her will ride a trainload of motion picture critics for a look at her first picture The Under- Under pup in its world premiere at two local theaters This Thi return of the native has even Mayor Fred J. J Huester talking talking talking talk talk- ing in a Hollywood vein Gloria Jeans Jean's homecoming will not only be colossal said he It will also be gigantic mammoth and stupendous r I The mayor has set Thursday aside as Gloria Jean day The American Legion band is holding daily practice sessions It will lead the haired brown-haired girls girl's tri triumphant parade to city hall where she will be crowned Queen of Anthracite A committee is sending 26 of Gloria Jeans Jean's seventh grade classmates classmates classmates class class- mates on a free trip to New York to greet her and bring her home to Scranton Home town folks know the charming miss iss as as Gloria Jean But out in Hollywood they lopped off the Her father Ferman was a Scranton piano salesman H Her r mother is is' known lo locally ally as a a remarkably good cook of homemade home homemade homemade home home- made pork and s sauerkraut Gloria began singing for local entertainments when she was 5 A group of impressed by her voice financed her last December December December De De- De- De cember on a trip to New York for fora a movie audition Joe Pastern ck ck the Universal pictures producer who pushed Deanna Durbin to stardom promptly signed her upA up A few weeks later her father mother and three sisters sisters Sally Sally 14 Lois 9 and Nancy Ann 4 packed off to Hollywood All will return to Scranton for Glorias Gloria's home home- coming