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By ELBERT HALING
YES, THE Doughboys hob-nob with the luminaries of stage, screen and radio and why not? They've made many stage appearances themselves and every day their studio in the Burrus Mill, seven miles north of Fort Worth, is jammed with folks who have heard their shows on Station WBAP and Texas Quality Network. As for screen endeavor the gang, led by tall, dark and handsome Parker Willson, has appeared in such jumping tintypes as "Oh Suzannah" and "The Big Show." They backed up Cinema Star Gene Autry in more ways than cne in these pictures. And as far as radio is concerned the boys have been singing and playing for the electric ears of radio since 1923.
The Doughboys own and operate a streamlined sound truck in the neighborhood ot a city block in length. It's air conditioned and serves as a studio when the boys are on the road. Western Electric' s latest sound equipment is used throughout. Not so long ago, the Doughboys, all seven of them, took to tne air literally as they chartered Braniff's largest airliner for a jaunt into Oklahoma. It seems as though their bus wasn't fast enough and the gang voted on the ether highway route full well knowing that their leader, Parker Willson, suffers air sickness even while standing atop a Texas haystack.
Last year Texas' own Mary Martin came to town. Mary had just stepped from the silver screen showing of "The Great Waltz". Did she apoectr with the local Town Hall Grouo? Did she sing •with the Fort Worth Symphony? Absolutely not. Much to everyone's surprise, including Mary's own pretty surprise, she found herself singing popular ditties w'th Parker Willson's "Bring-Em-In.^live" gang.
Last September Samuel Goldwyn's gigantic, s u p e r colossal spectacle, "The Westerner," starring Gary Cooper, Doris Davenport and Walter Brennan, had its world premiere in Fort Worth. Plans for entertaining the visiting stors had been laid for many
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Join the Light Crust
Dough Boys — and See the World
Well, not exactly, maybe, but anyway if you're a member of the Burrus Mill & Elevator Company's Doughboy musical combination you'll cover a lot of territory. And when not going to Hollywood or the East coast various and sundry notables who compose the more illustrous citizenry of these regions — visit the Doughboys.
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Gary Cooper does his bit for the Light Crust Doughboys' audience as Parker Willson, Doughboys' mentor, looks on approvingly from the right.
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