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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. RKO Radio Pictures inaugurates inaug-urates a new daily coast-to-coast radio show on May 29, "Hollywood Star Time," featuring their film favorites of the year; it will originate in the studio dining room. Going Go-ing out over 177 stations of the Blue network, it will be broadcast daily from Monday through Friday, at 12:15 to 12:30 Pacific Coast time, an hour later in each successive time zone. And Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, equally radio - minded, launches "M-G-M Screen Tests" on June 12, over the full basic Mutual Network, five days a week at 9:15 Eastern war time; it will consist of actual screen tests, the aspiring ' actor being required to play opposite oppo-site a 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 I best role of his screen career. He and that very talented actor, Barry BING CROSBY j 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 ol soldiers near her own age, the sec-- sec-- ond with an 18-year-old elephant belonging to Rmgling 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' 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 him! Frank Sinatra won about 1,500 new 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 that people are telling him to look out, for Dick Haymes, Dick Todd and Perry Como are crowding him toe comfortably for his own good. He wound up by gallantly concluding "There's just one Crosby." A new puppy belonging to Ronnie, son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, Al-len, chewed a hole in an expensive rug at the Burns' home. Gracie was upset, 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 that 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. Pudy Val-lee) 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 that 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 Monterey." Monte-rey." ODDS AD E.VDS Remember Wesley Wes-ley Barry, one-lime boy star? An RKO assistant when he enlisted, Zie's in the frnnt lines uith a thotographic unit in the Burma campniun. . . . Phil Maker says the days of ordering a meal in a restaurant are gone nouadays it's an entreaty 4 new rose, resembling an American Beauty, has been named for Dinah Shore. . . . Recognizing the advantage of a closer link botiteen the church and radio, the !niinnal Broadcasting Broad-casting company and the Congregational-Christian churches uill auard five fellou:hips each year to ministers in the c.ctii e pastorate, at one of !BC's summer insliwes. |
