Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-04-24 | Page 5 | Finally Find New Talent; Players from Radio

K vies Finally Find New Talent Players From Radio tt e Holliday ti Alan uP-Alan U Alan Reed been en signed by M t Q G Gt M to toa torTin rTin a picture with Kathryn and thereby hangs a lin trend began two or three Sa-ro Sa 0 o wh when n the studios were tito discover that people i f tin n Abner Edgar Bergen and Vand Molly the Great Gilder Gilder- Tand and Kay Ky Kyser had fans who would pay pay to see them Up to that time Hollywood had treated treat treat- ed radio entertainers as step step- children The pictures these stars made were low budget affairs for the most part yet they showed comfortable comfortable comfortable com com- profits They are now nowa a a. regular fixture of scheduled productions pro pro- And Hollywood has begun begun begun be be- gun to Inquire more thoroughly into the men behind the dial It has found among other things that radio actors are not geezers with peculiar facades They chose their medium because they liked It not because they lacked the beauty to face a cam cam- era Many are young and decidedly decided decided- ly attractive The upshot Is that the last two years have seen a a. constant testing testing test test- ing and signing of radio actors by bythe bythe bythe the movies Hans Conried Conned of Arch and Orson Welles' Welles shows h has s contributed character bits par excellence Edmund MacDonald who used to work with Edward G G. Robinson on the air Is playing leads In Bs B's and slated for better things Will Wright another Robinson Rob Rob- inson alumnus is raking in nice pin money doing elderly bankers Youve You've seen him In the Blondle Blondie series Carleton Young whose voice was last heard from New York on the Commandos show has Just been tested and signed by and Alan Reed the Falstaff Openshaw Openshaw Openshaw Open- Open shaw on Fred Allens Allen's program is about to do fine for himself These people as yet are merely voices They weren't stars on the air They were the ones who made dramatic broadcasts believable Hollywood will show you their faces and be delighted to do it For Holl Hollywood Wood remembers one very important fact A guy named Don Ameche once faced a microphone microphone microphone micro micro- phone in Chicago