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Show STAG ES C REENtiR Atil 0 Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE BEA WAIN'S new program is one of the high lights of radio's summer season. She's been doing guest shots, marking mark-ing time, refusing to tie herself her-self to any definite commitment commit-ment like many another army wife, she wanted to be free to join her husband any time, any place. Efforts to lure her to radio programs pro-grams emanating from Hollywood k V 1 :...v.. 1. , BEA WAIN failed. Now Maj. Andre Baruch's affairs af-fairs are set, and Bea's on the air with "Starlight Serenade," on Mutual Mu-tual Thursdays. Though she's young, she's a veteran entertainer; she became be-came a professional at the age of six. And because she 'always knew just how she wanted to sing, she studied everything but singing; her method is all her own. George Raft's first RKO picture Is "Johnny Angel," a romantic mystery. mys-tery. It revolves around the efforts of Raft to track down the unknown mutineers who killed his father and highjacked eight million dollars in gold bullion from his father's ship. : Though they didn't know who he was, a lot of people still remember the tenor who sang "The Rose of Tralee" in "The Informer," while Victor McLaglen emerged from a building with his sinister reward. The tenor is Larry Burke, and he sings the title song in "Those Endearing En-dearing Young Charms." Twentieth Century-Fox won out over other studios and snared Burl Ives for a picture. He's the ballad-eer ballad-eer whose singing in "Sing Out, Sweet Land" was one of the hits of New York's theatrical season this year. His first film will be a technicolor tech-nicolor version of "Smokey." While in Hollywood he'll continue with his Sunday night "Radio Reader's Digest" Di-gest" shows, with the rest of the program coming from New York. Richard Tucker is likely to become be-come one of radio's headliners, so if you want to be in on his debut listen when he replaces John Charles Thomas on Sunday afternoons over NBC late in July. Tucker is one of the Metropolitan Opera company'! tenors. The American's Breakfast Club, radio's oldest and most continuous program, heard six days a week, 60 minutes each day, recently celebrated cele-brated the completion of its 12th successive suc-cessive and successful year. The program first hit the air on June 23, 1933. under the guidance of one Don McNeill, who has served as master of ceremonies of the show ever since that date. Singer Danny O'Neil is headed for nation-wide recognition soon, if history's his-tory's any indication. He has replaced re-placed "Music That Satisfies" on CBS and that spot has been the springboard to fame for such stars as Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Martin Downey and Frank Sinatra. Jennifer Jones didn't have to learn the rolling-hip walk she uses in "Duel in the Sun"; it was already there. She's remembered by a friend who was with her at Northwestern North-western university as "the girl most whistled at" when she was an undergraduate un-dergraduate there. "It was that walk," he said. Incidentally, Joan Tetzel has joined' the "Duel in the Sun" cast, leaving a hit Broadway show to do so. Joan Leslie'd like to convince Warner Bros, that they ought to make a picture based on the life of Rosina Galli, the former first ballerina bal-lerina of the Metropolitan Opera company, and give her the title role. She's been working hard at ballet dancing for the last three years. Buddy Easton, -the studio's ballet coach, says she could step right out of "Janie Gets 'Married" and star as a dancer. ODDS AXD ENDS Jimmy Durante turns dancer for thfi first time in his 3f vear as an entertainer, in Metro's "Two Sisters From Hoston." . . . Felix Knight find Franria if' hite will costttr as replacements lor Nelson Kdrly this summer. . . . 7rrv Wayne, will have Joe linker and Gladys Suxirthout on his new show over CHS, on July 6th. . . . Guy lAtmhurdo's postponed his concert con-cert tour, as he and the Royal Canadians Canadi-ans are boohed to start soon on a film based on his life. . . . Georgia Gibbs was so moving in that bond-buying talk on "Hall of Fame" that three people peo-ple wrote her that they'd bought bonds and named her as coou ner. |