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Show STAGEvSCREEN RADIO H IIUilXIA VAI K 1)KHKY COMO, tho Colmn-bia Colmn-bia network b;ritoto, prides liiniself on the (;u-t that most of his f;m n:til comes from war plant workers, work-ers, soldiers and their wives nnd sweethearts. With 20th Century-fox introducing htm to the movies in "Kitten on the Keys" early next year, his career sounds like movie plot. He was a barber In Yoimtistown, Ohio, but Just couldn't help sinsins; In 1S35 he abandoned the barber shop to sins with Ted Weems' orchestra. Rnd has been singing ever since. He mar- FEKKY COMO ried his childhood sweetheart "I brought her up," says he. "Walked her to school and kept the big boys from teasing her." And there's a young son to complete the happy family. Joy Page Is the 19-year-old daughter daugh-ter of Mrs. Jack Warner, who's the wife of Jack Warner of Warner Bros., but she has taken to the movies via Metro; she is working In "Kismet," with Marlene Dietrich and Ronald Colman, and has a long-term long-term contract. Farley Granger, 17, used to read want ads and pick up odd jobs that way for week-ends and after school. He saw a four-line ad in a Los Angeles An-geles newspaper, "Boy, over 17 but not 18; theatrical experience desirable desir-able but not essential. Send photo and brief biography." That's how come that he has the romantic juvenile ju-venile lead opposite Anne Baxter In Samuel Goldwyn's "North Star," t plus p seven-year contract Louise Larabee's ambition to be an actress led her first toward the ctagt but legitimate theater managers man-agers wouldn't even give her an audition. She got a chorus job In films, and tried for leads In west- eras, though that wasn't quite what she wanted. So she headed for New York and radio; now she's the very beautiful menace on NBC's "A Woman Wom-an of America." There's an epidemic of beard-growing beard-growing on "Crime Doctor," but the crime doctor himself, Everett Sloane, says he was influenced, not by his companions, but by Orson Welles. Welles asked him how much money he was making. "About $1,200 a week," said Sloane. "The moment 1 grew a beard. I began getting get-ting two thousand," Welles told him So Sloane stopped shaving! For six successive years, storyteller story-teller John Nesbitt has appeared Christmas week in a special .radio adaptation of "The Juggler of Notre Dame." On December 19 of this year he will repeat the lovely story on Preston Foster's "Silver Theater." Thea-ter." Radio fans lose a lot by not being able to see Georgia Carroll, Kay Kyser's new singer. RKO has come to their rescue; the young Dallas beauty has a role in "Around the World," the new Kyser picture recently re-cently released. Her name is really Anne Elstner, which makes no difference to a lot of people In Stockton, N. J., where he lives. They know her by her radio role of "Stella Dallas," and the NBC actress frequently gets bills from the tradesmen addressed to Mrs. Dallas. Paramount figures that Director Sidney Lanfield saved them $100,000 by cutting 65 per cent of the clinches called for by the script of "Let's Face It," with Bob Hope and Betty Hutton. The kisses left in were of the peck-on-the-chsek variety. Because Be-cause of this lack of dependence on kisses to carry the story, the studio estimates that in time, money and nerves the money was saved. ODDS AND ENDS "The Falcon and the Coeds," seventh of the mystery series, takes the Falcon to a fashionable fashion-able girls' school to solve a couple of mysterious endings . . . 18-year-old Jeanne Newport landed a film role, in "Song of the Open Road" and a long-term long-term contract, because at her audition the sang above high "C as well as because she's pretty and can act . . . Roddy MclJowall learned to ride for "The While Cliffs of Dover" and is now taking prizes in riding events . . . 'reer Carson's cast for a meaty role in "Mrs. Parkinglon" ; she grows from a jirl of nineteen to a woman of eighty-our, eighty-our, glamorous all the way. |