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ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRONT
By RUTH GERI
Above, four good friends outside the NBC studios: Dorothy Page, Irvin S. Cobb, Marion Tal I ey and Barbara Luddy.
SCOOP OF THE MONTH — Haven MacQuarrie's Do You Want To Be an Actor? will be sent on the road by its sponsor to cash in on the heavy local interest in key cities from which it will emanate each week. It's never been printed that shortly before the show was signed, the J. Walter Thompson agency refused to pay $500 a week for MacQuarrie, only to grab him, a few weeks later, for $7,500 per broadcast when an emergency demanded something in a hurry to fill the hole left by the suddenly defunct Good Will Court. And incidentally, in case you are an A. T. & T. stockholder, it might interest you to know that $2,000 was spent within twenty-four hours on long distance tolls while the deal was being negotiated between Hollywood and New York.
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PROSPERITY NOTE— NBC West Coast activities are so profitable that four new studios will be added. When the new facilities are available, most of the shows now emanating from San Francisco will be brought to the movie mecca, and for the first time, Hollywood will give birth to sus
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At the left are stars playing hookey from their work. Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson are out at the Santa Anita race track trying to pick some winners.
Wide World
Two of radio's most popular singers sit down to enjoy a sandwich between rehearsals. Conrad Thibault tells Kenny Baker how he likes work on Fred Astaire's show.