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Show A ! STAR DUST ; Movie Radio t By VIRGINIA VALE GROWN-UP motion picture players feel terribly neglected neg-lected these days. They figured fig-ured that when the first excitement ex-citement over the animated drawings that make up "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was over they would come back into the limelight again. But along came the world's beloved be-loved blockhead, Charlie McCarthy, In "Goldwyn Follies" to distract attention at-tention from mere humans, and next "The River," a picture without any actors whatever became the talk of the entertainment world. Now mere children have romped In and taken all the attention away from their elders. Judy Garland, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's fourteen-year-old singing star, is enjoying huge success on a personal appearance tour, and the even-younger Tommy Kelly and Ann Gillis of "Tom Sawyer" have captivated cap-tivated several cities they have visited. vis-ited. They had the great thrill of being received informally at the White House, they visited Mark Twain's home town to place a wreath on his grave, and In between times they saw the sights of New York. June Lang, Ethel Merman, and Cesar Romero have been flying all over the country attending openings of "In Old Chicago" and audiences were so appreciative of the oppor- June Lang tunity to see players face to face that Twentieth Century-Fox plans to stage gala openings for many of their pictures in the future. You won't have to go to Hollywood or New York to attend openings with the stars in the future. Three young men singers have become big radio favorites .in the past few weeks and by next year radio executives figure they will all be top-ranking stars. John Carter, who replaced Nelson Eddy on the Charlie McCarthy hour, is an ex-farmer ex-farmer and vaudeville dancer. Felix Fe-lix Knight, who in addition to his own Sunday morning program has been appearing with Leo Reisman's orchestra, comes from Florida, via Hollywood, and is much too young to have had any career other than singing. Glenn Darwin, the rich-toned rich-toned barytone whom you have probably heard on the Magic Key program, was a famous soprano at the age of nine. He made a record of "Ave Maria" then that is still held up as a model of perfection to choir boys. Fred Allen used to work in the Boston Public library, carrying books to the folks who requested them. Eddie Cantor was errand r : p TO I -, : ' , i : I J Eddie Cantor Bob Burns boy for a sausage factory. Phil Baker was secretary to a motion picture producer, Walter O'Keefe was a real estate salesman, and Bob Hope was an automobile mechanic. me-chanic. Joe Penner was a piano salesman and Bob Burns was a plumber's helper. It was an old piece of pipe that he had left over from a job one day that inspired him to invent the bazooka. ODDS AND ENDS Dill Cody, Jr., son of the popular Western star, plays Nelson Eddy as a child in "Girl of the Golden West" . . . Fanny llrice and Constance Collier wandered into an art exhibition and bought fifteen hundred hun-dred dollars' worth of pictures painted by Darryl Austin, an impoverished I tt PA worker. The first dollar went for tickets to their last pictures . . . Grace Moore will replace Laurence ! Tibbett as soloist on Andre Kostala-netz' Kostala-netz' concerts of American Music jAtirch 30 . . . After three years of conducting con-ducting the orchestra for "Town Hall Tonight," I'cler van Stcedcn stilt gitf- I faws at Frvd Allen's delivery of jukes. Western Newspaper Union. |