The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-08-01
STARS
ON THE
HORIZON

The superlatives are rolling
out for M G Ms new spectacle,
Show Boat" And not exactly
few of them are intended for sing
ing star Kathryn Grayson-
| She was sensational in 1T Hap
pened In Brooklyn" rernembers
1t put her high up on the ladder
of success Full-fledged stardom
came with Anchors Aweigh. !"
But in the classic Show Boat she
reaches new heights in the nusi-
cal and acting spheres. Obviously,
singing isn't something Kathryn
Grayson just happened to pick
UP.
She has heard music since the
day she was born, one February
9th in Winston-S Salem, North Car
DINA.
In. those days, her name was
zelma Hedrick- Her family con-
sisted of two older brothers and
q younger sister-all of whom
have rich, full voices too-and her
mother and father.
Kathryn was only three when
the family moved to ST. Louis.
A few years later they moved to
Texas-and then on to Hollywood.
In st. Louis two people eneour-
aged Kathryn TO sing.
One was Frances Marshall Of
the Chicago civic opera company.
| The other was an old janiior of
1 the ST. Louis municipal opera
house.
| For him Kathryn would sing
often and he applauded vigor-
ously. II was the last day she
Sang for him that. she discovered
something. He was stone deaf
| There was no letup in her sing
/ ing study when Kathryn Grayson
| got TO Hollywood. Opportunity for
| film career came when Louis B.
Mayer heard her. 81. landed a
| contract without a screen test.
And NJ G M chose new name
! for her.
| The Grsyson part comes from
| her mothers maiden name. Gray.
To prepare her for a screen de-
but, the studio laugh, her music,
drama, dicfion, dancing and other
subjects. After one year she bow
ed in ANDY Hardy's Private Sec
rotary.
| Other credits include Rio Rita,
Seven Sweetheartss Thousands
Cheer, and more recently. That
Mcknight Kiss
For hobbies, Kathryn Grays0n
turns 10 drawing and painting.
She also likes 10 hike. cook, play
golf and make over old clothes
Blonde Jan Sterling is down as
one Of the most exciting discov-
cries since Jean Harlow. And she
apparently Is perfectly content
10 stay married to Paul Douglag
What's more, she seems to have
the answer to that perplexing
question. How to stay happily
married though in pictures.
She advises wives not 70 sub
merge their personalifies1ot TO
stop building up their own ego.
Wives, says she, must be human
individuals in their own right
outside the home
Jan feels you can't be on top Of
the heap all your life neither can
you gauge happiness by career.
And living with someone As ia
NOUS as Paul Douglas has resell
yed iSseif into 8 sneeial pisp q
/ S5ys 81 i S. e<nx ~
ana Utility Bills. She buys her
own clothes. pays her own medi-
| cal expenses, automobile bills
laundry and other personal ex-
penses. The two stars keep their
own greenbacks in seperate &C
counts. But when they dine outyl
All. then Jams the same as any
girl, She's Paul's dsfe--and he.
pays the bills.
Now. more Hollywood news
in brief.
Most of Green Gold Of Neva-I
da" has a logging camp back
ground In the timber country Of
the Northwest. The adventure
drama is directed by veteran Ed
ward Ludwig and stars John
Payne. Susan Morrow. Richard
Arien and William Demarest
King Donovan was . law-en-
forcing aid in Humphrey Boeart's
The Enforcer.r
Now he plays 4 gang leader IN
Warmers s'Corne Fiji the Cup.
Another name. Jean Dean, has
been added 10 Warmers all-star
production, ..Stsrlift The cast
already boasts such personalities
as Jane wyman, Doris Day. Vir-
ginia Mayo,S Ruth Homsn--not 70
omit stars like James Csgney,
Frank Lovejoy. Gary Cooper and
Gordon MaeHse
Director William Dieterle does
al believe in rehearSals, as he ex-
planned while guiding Oorinne
Calvert and Joe Gotten through . |
thriller called 1Peking Express
Dieterle says II = rehearsal IS |