Lassie the Dog Star Keeps Grounded Life in Hollywood
AP describes Lassie as a pampered yet grounded star. The collie Pal earns roughly 52000 a year in films with a seven day schedule, stand-ins, a six page MGM biography, and a private dressing room while living as part of the Weatherwax family.
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Howard C. Heyn
EJ Olly Wood
Lassie
the Collies
Pal
MGM
Rin-Tin-Tin
Lee
Rudd
Frank
Pat
San Francisco
Claude Jarman
Weatherwax
Vaudeville Lives In Veterans Shows
New York reports the Veterans Hospital Camp Shows organize a 30 week route with 130 entertainers in 10 units. The circuit covers 28000 miles across 107 hospitals and features 72 acts including 15 concert artists and the comedy John Loves Mary. A fall refresh will bring new troupes while a five Booker-led talent pool forms for Broadway. Ezra Stone recruits veteran written material for a new unit.
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New York
Veterans Hospital Camp Shows Organization
Army, Navy and Veterans Administration
John
Mary
Ezra Stone
Henry Aldrich
Crosby Stars in First Technicolor Version of Twain Classic
Bing Crosby leads his thirty ninth Paramount film, his fifteenth year with the studio, in the first Technicolor adaptation of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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Bing Crosby
Paramount
Mark Twain
King Arthur
Premiere in a Prison Movie Shocks Colorado Viewers
Eight prisoners from Canon City are shown as a captive audience for Canon City filmed inside the state prison. Warden Best appears as himself guiding a tense viewing of Canon City, a dramatic account that critics call almost completely accurate.
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INS
Hollywood
Canon City
Colo
Eagle Lion Studios
Bryan Foy
Colorado
Best
A&R German Requiem: Shaw conducts Brahms with Steber
Joseph H. Kitchin reviews the first American recording of Brahms German Requiem by Robert Shaw conducting the RCA Victor Chorale and Symphony Orchestra with Eleanor Steber and Robert Pease. He praises the lyrical, balanced choral orchestral blend and modest-size forces.
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Joseph H. Kitchin
A&r
Brahms
Robert Shaw
RCA Victor Chorale and Symphony Orchestra
Robert Pease
Eleanor Steber
Nine _— records
Victor
Shaw
Symphony Orchestras of
New York
Thomas Beecham
Miss Steber
Fease
Sometimes It Pays To Be a Show-Off
HOLLYWOOD UP Dont beat your children when they show off to company. Roddy MacDowall says show-offs become child movie stars. He recalls his sister Virginia and he reciting Shakespeare as a judged activity that won prizes in London when they were youngsters.
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Hollywood
Roddy MacDowall
Virginia
Roddy
London
Radio Ponders on What To Do with Its Giveaways
In a light column, John M. Cooper notes radio's craze for giveaways and the ratings shift it spurs. Top programs slip as incentive shows rise, with Fred Allen and others dropping while Take It or Leave It and Break the Bank climb. Broadcasters fear and plan responses.
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John M. Cooper
York
INS
Fred Allen
Hooper
ABC
Allen
Fred
NBC
Duffy’s Tavern
al Jolson
Screen Guild
Walter Winchell
Beatrice Lillie Turns to Painting
New York report notes Beatrice Lillie the comedienne has begun painting. She recalls starting as a decorator of doorknobs in Surrey and describes moving from doorknobs to canvas after discovering old knobs not sold since Victoria era.
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Beatrice Lillie
New York
Comedienne
Surrey
Miss Lillie
Queen Victoria
Wendell Corey Led Bucks County Stock Troupe
Actor Wendell Corey directed and acted in his own stock company in Bucks County Pennsylvania before moving to Hollywood. The note highlights his dual roles as performer and leader during early career.
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Wendell Corey
Bucks County
Hollywood
Betty Hutton vaudeville stint tied to script waits in Paramount
Hollywood gossip notes Betty Hutton tours San Francisco then Chicago while Paramount hunts a script for her. Her act features Ziggy Elfman Orchestra, four child acrobats, a singing team and a dog act. Doris Day sues for divorce from George Weidler. she recalls romance with Mike Curtiz and bursts into tears during a song.
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NEA
Betty Hutton
San Francisco
Chicago
Paramount
Betty
Sam
Hollywood
Ziggy Elfman
Charles Laughton
Ruggles
Charles
Persioha Cansgal
Doris Day
George Weidler
Doris
Mike Curtiz
Mike
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