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Show By INEZ GERHARD PONY MARTIN'S singing career really began when, at the age of 18, he was caught by a faculty member at Saint Mary's College, Moraga, Calif., playing jazz on the chapel organ. The teacher suggested sug-gested that he concentrate on music. He did, and met with nothing noth-ing but disappointment until 1936 changed his luck. That year he made several musicals for 20th Century-Fox and landed the singing sing-ing spot on CBS Radio's "Bums and Allen Show." He is currently prr-V"1"!" 'ii "r tx Tf -rr -r - m-t-7 ji nnm.-T.-iijjmi.ir. j TONY MARTIN starred with Jo Stafford on CBS's "Carnation Contented Hour"; his latest picture is RKO's "Two Tickets to Broadway." And he's had two terrific engagements at London's famous Palladium. Denlse Darcel will find herself In lively company in her new assignment; assign-ment; Universal-International has signed her for the feminine- lead opposite Abbott and Costello, as an Alaskan dance hall entertainer in "The Sourdoughs." People die in unusual and amazing ways In "Across the Wide Missouri"; trappers, hunters hunt-ers and Indians crowd the . screen, there's never a dull moment. Clark Gable heads a fine cast; Adolphe Menjou gives a superb performance but then, so does everyone else, from John Hodiak to Frankle Darro. This is a fine Western, with no cute blondes to clutter - op the story. Dinah Shore is plugging a new song, "You Gotta Show Me," which has been recorded by Bing Crosby. |