Radio stars (Oct 1935-Sept 1936)

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RADIO STARS Above, left, genial Jack Benny with his delightful "stooge" and wife, Mary Livingstone, vacationing from the popular Jello program, heard Sunday nights over NBC. And directly above, bazooka-blower Bob Burns of radio fame, looking a bit jittery, with Martha Raye in a scene from their new film, Rhythm on the Range. Well, here we are again with the monthly harvest of our rambles along radio's highways and byways. . . . -♦ Quite a number of radio's stars are rambling, too — some vacationing, otbers working in new fields. To a few, summer is holiday time, to many it means movie-making, linked up with the business of broadcasting. Following the movies to the Coast twenty of the forty major national programs over CBS and NBC now originate in the film capital. Burns and Allen, starting another picture for Paramount, send their weekly Wednesday evening broadcast from Hollywood. Jack Benny, also signed for a Paramount film, will soon air his show from there. Bing Crosby and Bob Burns, the Sage of Van Buren, carry on their radio entertainment while working on their picture, Rhythm on the Range. Eddie Cantor is signed to make a picture for Samuel Goldtvyn and United Artists. His next season's programs, under a new sponsor, will emanate from Hollywood. Hobby Breen, Eddie's eight-year-old "adopted son." is making his second /ilm for Principal Pictures. Parkyakarkits, Eddie's Creek dialect stooge, ivill be featured by RKO-Radio Pictures in a film with Joe Penner. And Announcer Jimmy Wellington is signed at still another studio. Fred Allen probably will broadcast Town Hall Tonight from Hollywood in the fall. Kate Smith will co-star with Shirley Temple in a new picture. After the summer months. Walter O'Keefe probably will resume bis radio work from the Coast. -♦ Other programs emanating from the Ccast are the Hollywood Hotel, Mary Pickford's Parties at Pickfair, The Swift Studio Party, with Sigmund Romberg and Lionel Barrymore, Shell Chateau and Marion Talley's programs. One Man's Family comes from San Francisco. ♦ Ben Hemic and James Melton are said to be looking westward. -♦ Among the vacationers, Kdward Maid high, NBC's Cos pel Singer, is visiting his (Continued on page 72) Latest reports, rumors and razzmataz from Radioland 6 i