The midland journal., 1946-05-17


JACKIE COOGAN
viable record as a second lieuten-
ant in the army air forces. Now 81,
he's been discharged, and is on the
air with his own radio show, "For-
ever Ernest" on CHS Monday
nights. He broadcasts from Holly
wood, and is all set to return to pic
tures-has new film scheduled to
start in June. Pretty good for that
wistful infant, 'The Kid!
David Rose, goth Century Fox
musical director, never goes to bed
before a. m. can't compose in
daylight. Yet he thinks a good musi-
cal piece can be dreamed up on a
street corner or bus! That new
composition of his, Gay Spirits,''
which you heard on his Wednesday
night radio program, is the result,
he says, of playing his popular
Holiday for Strings" backward.
DOreen Taylor, who for the past
four years has done the singing for
many famous nOn-singing movie
queen, at last sings in her own right
on the screen in RKO's "FrOm This
Day Forward" They finally tested
her and discovered that she's very
phOtOgenic.
For Universal's $50 Goes My
Love-" Myrna 10y had to get used
to moving about in the burdensome
costumes of 1870, but she says it
needed no adjustment to play the
young woman who planned to
marry a rich man, won Hiram
Maxim, the famous inventor, pilot
ed his career and raised their chill
dren. For, says she, girls employ
those same stratagems today.
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Exactly four years ago." said
Gregory Peck on his recent birth
day, 81 spent my birthday washing
dishes in a New York restaurant"
Now he's on top; David o. Selznick
has signed new contract with
him, will star him in Benedict Ar
mold" 1t will 60 into production
late this year, will be done in techni-
color, and on the same scale as
"Gone with the Wind" and "Duel
in the Sum-"
The storx, oe ro d;n s;roo sec Suoav,
tiOn will be the basis for two and
one-haIf million dollar film tenta-
lively titled "Magic in the Air" Jer-
rOld T. Brandt, who produced the
"ScattergOod Baines" series before
he entered the service, and made
$50 training films while in the navy,
will produce the film, bringing to
the screen the top personalities Of
radio since the days of crystal sets.
Anne Francis, Is, who plays
"Kathy Cameron" on MICS when
a Girl Marries," has been signed
to a seven-year contract by MGM.
Anne made her radio debut in 1888
on the children's program, "Coast
to Coast on Bus" and has been
acting ever since.
When Mutual comes on the air
with its four separate broadcasts
of the Indianapolis Speedway race
on Decoration Day, record num-
Der of nine announcers will be on
hand at various positions around the
track. Bill Slater and Ford Pear
son among them.
When Fred Waring and his Penn
sylvanians take over the Fibber Nc
Gee and Molly time on NBC for the
summer, starting June 18, Fred will
probably be setting a record; with
his five morning programs, he'll be
doing six half-hour shows a week
on a network.
ODDS AND ENDS-In Suddenly lis
Spring" Fred MacMurray had to take sis
faIIs-and said: "This pictures n,isnaHasd: !:
il should be Suddenly It's FaLP." /. !.
Boris Karl0G plays a dranatic role in a
comedy for the first time in the Danny
Kaye picture, "The Secret Life Of Walfer
Mitt,." A fan ,0ho asked Perry Como
for his script after recent Supper Club"
broadcast teas told he'd need if for the
repeat for the West Coast, but she could
hare the script il she wanted to ,oaif: to
his astonishment there she s0as. four hours
later. Paul Lavalle has been gipen
three dachshund pups. named Bach. Bee.
,houen and Rrahnas