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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Releastd by Wegtern Newspaper Union. RKO Radio Pictures inaugurates inaug-urates a new daily coast-! coast-! to-coast radio show on May 1 29, "Hollywood Star Time," featuring their film favorites of the year; it will originate ; tn the studio dining room. Going Go-ing out over 177 stations of the , Blue network, it will be broadcast daily from Monday through Friday, j it 12:15 to 12:30 Pacific Coast time, i in hour later in each luccessive j time zone. And Metro-Goldwyn-, Mayer, equally radio minded, I launches "M-G-M Screen Tests" on ! June 12, over the full basic Mutual ' Network, five days week t 9:15 ! Eastern war time; It will consist of 1 sctual screen tests, the aspiring actor being required to play opposite oppo-site Metro star. In "Going My Way" Bing Crosby proves that he doesn't have to sing; In fact, he sings comparatively little In the picture, yet has probably the best role of his screen career. I?s and that very talented actor, Barry BING CROSBY Fitzgerald, share honors In this sweet, human story and anybody who can share acting honors with Fitzgerald has to be good. This Is one of the pictures that people will remember. Jane Withers, young Republic star, had two birthday cakes on her 16th birthday, one with a party of soldiers near her own age, the second sec-ond with an 18-year-old elephant belonging to Ringling Brothers-Bar-num and Bailey circus. Both soldiers sol-diers and elephant let Jane blow out her own candles and make a wish. The elephant also gulped the cake and then devoured Jane's birthday orchids. Producer C. P. MacGregor, of the Hollywood Radio Theater, is directly responsible for the successful careers of many leading movie actors and actresses. When talking pictures came in, parts were awarded on the strength of voice transcriptions made by hlml Frank Sinatra won about 1,500 iiew friends at a luncheon given in New York for the American Newspaper News-paper Publishers association; he sang a parody on "Sunday, Monday and Always," the refrain being thai people are telling him to look out, for Dick Hayrnes, Dick Todd and Perry Como are crowding him too comfortably for 'his own good. He wound up by gallantly concluding "Then's just one Crosby." A sew puppy belonging to Ronnie, son of George Burns and Gracie Al-lep, Al-lep, chewed a hole In an expensive rvig at the Burns' home. Gracie was vpset, but Ronnie saved the day. "Maybe If I train him," said he, "1 can get him so he'll lie over the hole most of the time." Around CBS a pleasant glow is still noticeable, due to the fact thai six of their network and regional programs were cited as winners in the 1943 George Foster Peabody Awards, gaining CBS top honors in five of the seven classifications. Bettejane Greer (Mrs. Rudy Val lee) whose first national prominence came when she was chosen two years ago as official model for the first WAC uniform, will be groomed for top starring roles by RKO. For the past year she's been under contract con-tract to Howard Hughes, doing intensive in-tensive work with dramatic coaches. As soon as her release from thai contract was negotiated she signed with RKO. Yakima Canutt, seven times world champion cowboy and famous movie stunt man, now directs scenes for Republic pictures demanding hair-raising hair-raising stunts. His latest thriller is the finale of a lightning-like chase in Allan Lane's "Marshal of Monte- rey" X ODDS ASD EX DS-Remember Wesley Wes-ley Barry, one-time boy star.' An RKO assistant when he enlisted, he's in the front lines with a photographic unit in the Burma campaign. . . . I'hil Baker lays the days of ordering a meal in a restaurant are gone nowadays it s an entreaty. . . . A new rose, resembling an American Beauty, has been named for Dinah Shore. . . . Recognizing the advantage of a closer link between the church and radio, the National Broadcasting Broad-casting company and the Congregational-Christian churches will award five fellowships each year to ministers in ' the active pastorate, at one of XBCs j summer institutes. " |