The midland journal., 1946-05-03

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MERLE OBERON
woman. But she'd like to change
it again, for at least one role; says
she wants to be really homely, and
play one of those heavy, dramatic
roles that would bring her a new
kind of fame. Maybe some day she'll
get her wish. Meanwhile, her new
picture is might in Paradise" for
Universal, with Turhan Bey.
y
Lucille Ball, who plays a secre-
tary in 'The Dark Corner" doesn't
have to fake the scenes in which
she types. She used to be stenog-
rapher says she hated it so that
she decided on the starvation-to-
model route to stage and screen.
Bandleader Harry James has
turned romantic actor; in goth Gen.
tury-Fox's "Do You Love Me?" he
vies with Dick Haynes for the ia
vOr of Maureen O'Hara. He says
his success will be entirely due to
the coaching he gets at home from
his wife, Betty Cradle.
Those Goldwyn Girls who are
touring the country are realists.
Said one, "We're too short for show
girls, we're not the cute type"
Some of them feel that trying for
dramatic roles is too hard it
means working hard with coaches,
going to bed early every night, exer-
cising, dieting, struggling. They fig
ure being fashion models at $125 a
week is lot easier and more fun.
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''The Theater Guild on the Air"
is required listening for 200 students
at Michigan State college; as a part
of their course in radio education,
they prepare short, critical reviews
of the Sunday night productions,
over ABC.
Radio programs have given away
everything from live goats to small
fortunes; now the sponsor of the
Woody Herman show on ABC Fri
day nights will give the band to the
winner of contest. On June 81 the
band will play in the winners
home, on the front porch or the
auditorium of the local high school
If you win and want to give the
band away you can still keep the
thousand dollar additional prize.
Two Walt Disney cartoon charac-
ters are regular members of the
"Amos m Andy" program. They
are Clarence Nash Donald Duck)
who does the theme whistle that
opens and closes the program, and
Jim Basquette, who is "Uncle
Remus" in the new Disney series.
All that Whitley Ford asks of a
new suit is that it looks old. Re
Gently the NBC Grand Ole
Opry's" Duke of Paducah was
lucky enough to get. a new "radio
suit" his first replacement in IA
years. It's an exact duplicate of his
old tight-legged, pinch-backed, bay
window revealing green one, but al
lows little more leeway for the
pounds he's put on as the years
slipped by.
John Wayne, co-star of RKO's ro-
mantle comedy, without Reserva-
tions," is a charter member of
yacht club which stipulates that it's
members must have no yachts. It's
the Emerald Bay Yacht Club, and
the activities of it's members are
confined solely to writing each other
insulting memos and devising imag-
mary minutes of meetings that
should have been held but weren't.
ODDS AND ENDS-Ouerheard at a
Lanny Ross broadcast-"Tha the best
looking bunch OF people on the air.
meaning Lanny, EVelyn knight and An.
nouncer Nelson Case. :. Alex Security
OF sThe Right to Happiness" has recorded
over 100 talking books for the blind, tOith
the approval Of nhe Library OF Congress.
Charles Irving, "YOung Dr.. Malone.'
admits that one Of his hobbies is baking
cookies. .... First time in IL years that
Johnny Weismuller's had chance to ,Dear
clothes on the screen is in .St0Qn1p Fire
DIR fhr0aghoiif tie first half Of the picture
he dons nothing fdscief than jeans and an
old sOork shirL