The midland journal., 1946-09-13


DINAH SHORE
work. Dinah's still swell kid;
she doesn't brush off autograph
seekers no matter how badly she's
rushed for time, or how tired she is.
She's been doing stint at New
York's Paramount theater, and her
new radio program, with Peter Lind
Hayes, starts September 18 over
CHS from Hollywood.
Motion picture actors usually call
their own homes when the script
requires that they dial number;
some dial favorite restaurant or
club. Bing Crosby dials golf club
where he and Bob Hope frequently
play. But Radio Theater Producer
Keighley has long list of non-exist-
ent numbers for use on the air;
some people, when radio actor
calls a number, just have to rush
to the phone and call it. Addresses
are just as bad; Keighley has list
of those, too, in New York, Lon
don, Paris, and other big cities. But
they're all vacant lots!
ga Miracle Can Happen" is going
to have an all-star cast that's really
all-star. Producers Benedict Bo-
geaus and Burgess Meredith, who
are making it for United Artists,
recently added Fred MacMurray to
a list including Henry Fonda,
James Stewart, Charles LaughtOn
and Paulette Goddard; by the time
you read this they'll have an
nounced some other feminine stars.
Cathy O'Donnell is worried be-
cause she can't cry for the movie
cameras-has to be helped out with
glycerine tears. Working with
Gladys George and seven-year-old
Marlene Aames in "The Best Years
of Our Lives" she watched while
they easily burst into tears, and
could have wept herself with dis
,couragement. Her only consola-
ton was the fact that Myrna 10y
and Teresa Wright, also starring in
the film and top-notch actresses
both, had to rely on glycerine too.
Betsy Blair, Gene Kelly's wife,
plays the ingenue lead in the Ros-
alind Russell-Melvyn Douglas "My
Empty Heart" her first picture.
She was playing on Broadway in
Saroyan's play, ''The Beautiful Peo-
ple," when she and Gene were mar
ried. At that time Gene was II.
When he joined the navy, she re-
tired to take care of their daughter,
Kerry, who's three now, old enough
to let Betsy resume her career.
J. Arthur Ranks 81, ,O00, 900 "Caes.
ar and Cleopatra" was being held
over in some Is key cities be-
fore it hit New York, rolling up top
crosses everywhere. United Artists
home Office says the two illuminat-
ed signs erected in Times Square
to announce it are the largest ever
used to advertise a Broadway
screen prOducti0n-One is 16O by "a
feet.
Mary Small says the trend in pop
ular music is definitely toward the
sweeter side, and she should know,
as she shares top-singing honors
with Harry Babbitt on the "By Pop
ular Demand" show, Thursday
nights on Mutual, which plays the
tunes most requested of band-lead-
ers and singers in cafes and ball
rooms; the selections are wired in
and the most popular ones land on
the program.
ODDS AND ENDS-.At the Pasadena
prepieiU OF Suddenly It's Spring" males
in the audience tohistled so loud at Paul
ette Goddard, sh0t0n t0earing a black
negligee, that nobody could hear the
actors in the picture doing the same thing.
>. Charles Trot0bridge got the role OF
Katharine Hepburn's father in "Sea OF
Grass. L0,UeH Thomas keeps CHS
production men ON the edge OF their
seats; in 10 years he's neUer been late to
a broadcast, but he rarely Grripes tUith
more than 30 seconds to spare. Peter
LaigfOrd sings for the first time on the
screen in 1T Happened in Brooklyn;
i0arbles "Whose Baby Are Y0u?" sUith
Frank SinatrG