Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-11
PATTI McCARTY-

the coming year
PATTI MCCARTHY
Heaven certainly helped The
poor working girl with a lavish
hand in the case Of Patti NCCariy
white collar girl. who started
life with a pencil IA one hand and
a notebook in the other.
Patti. who is a natural brunette
> feet ? inches tall was born in
Bakersfield. Cal. one OF the hot
test places this side of HadeS. and
one in fact entirely too hot for
Miss McCarty.
She went 10 live with an aunt
in Pasadena so that she could
take her schooling under cooler
conditions. She studied tipping and
shorthand and finally landed a Job
in Los Angeles business office.
SUDDEN SENSATION
She wax at a night club one
night when she noticed Dorothy
Lamour sitting at the next table
with Greg BautZer the handsome
young attorney Dorothy says she
Is not going 20 marry.
Gee. I'd love 10 meet her"
sighed Patti who still hadn't been
in Los Angeles long enough 10
keep the stardust out Of her eyes.
No sooner said than introduced
by her escort, tone of those handy
chaps who always knows the right
people, Patti fell into a long and
naive conversation with the sarongI
siren. who was patient up until
the point of exhaustion and wei
don't mean PATHS, either.
Dorothy finally cut her short
by asking the flashing-eyed. viva
cious little brunette how she'd like
10 come and work for her,
Patti accepted on the spot and
the next day reported for job
which was glamorous one be-
cause Lamour kept taking Patti
with her every place she went and
introducing her to every one.
THE BIG THRILL
After a few small parts in "She
Knew All the Answers" and
Sweetheart of the Campus" Patti
got her biggest role with Nan
Grey in Under Age"
She got her first taste of being
a celebrity here this Spring when
she left California for the first
time to preside at the Holland
Tulip Festival right here in
Michigan.
She is q years old. has nat
urally curly brown hair. tawnyl
eyes and weighs 10 pounds.
JAMES CRAIG
II they're handsome. IL they're
stalwart and rugged. If they look
like the Lochinvar girls dream for,
they usually can't act. This is !
generally the rule governing sol
many Hollywood he-men who have
drifted into the -ooiivior of cxtraf
ranks or the back bar at Louie's.
Such is not the case Of young
Mr., Craig pictured piping hot on
this same page.
THE hICk-OFF
Craig, who comes from Houston.
Texas, made a name for himself
as a gridiron star at Rice Institute /
at Houston as one of the famed 1
Rice Owls.
Because he looked and was such
football favorite the Houston
Little Theater group asked him
TO play 'Bozo, the footba11T'
player. in their production Of Rob-
ert +. Sherwood's "Petrifed
Forest"
After two discouraging years
during which time he tried every
thing from office work to being
hospital janitor he got a small
part in Guthrie McClintics Broad
way production of Missouri 4
Legend The legend only ran long |!
enough 10 bring Craig to the
attention Of Hollywood scouts who
shipped him Immediately westward h
where he languished, if YOU can
think OF him as the languishing
type, under a palm tree and one
OF these contracts with options
every 10 minutes.
During that year he appeared
but hastily in big Broadcast Of