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Being a featured member of the current Radio City Party series, means that Peg La Centra has featured spots on three programs every week. The other two are the Friday evening "Circus" shows starring Joe Cook, and the Sunday afternoon commercial with Ray Hetherton and Harry Reser. Meantime she is auditioning some dramatic sketches which may reach the airwaves any day now. Despite all this success in radio, Peg La Centra probably would chuck it all if the right opportunity to act on the stage came along. Playing stock, and understudying a part in "Music In the Air" and at the same time taking her place in the chorus line, couldn't dampen her enthusiasm for the theatre. If anything this actual contact with the stage has increased her desire to be an actress. Peg can't trace her love of the theatre to any immediate inheritance. The closest family connection with the theatre she knows of was no closer to the stage than an uncle or somebody who was a prominent concert violinist in Europe, Though she was picked as a Star of Tomorrow because of her singing, the vocal work means little to La Centra compared to her interest in acting. The urge for the latter was so strong that she checked out of a fashionable Boston finishing school — even before it could finish her — when she had a chance to be a radio actress after an audition held by a local Boston station at a tea dance Peg and her school mates were attending. The blues singing came later, as an adjunct to taking her place on whatever program needed her. But not too late to land her a rating as a Star of Tomorrow. Best Bets! — Fred MacMurray Continued from page 30 the California Collegians, a comedy band, and toured east to New York. A few months later, he joined the show, "Three's A Crowd," and during the run on Broadway and on the road, he filled just about every part in the show. "One night I'd play the butler," he recalled, "and the next show I'd be the husband, or the lover, or the comedy sailor. That was in addition to doing my job with the orchestra. I got a lot of experience in a mighty short time with that troupe." After "Three's A Crowd" he returned to California to work in vaudeville, later going east for more vaudeville and night club work. He finally snagged a good role in "Roberta" and his success in this New York stage hit brought him a contract with Paramount. He went immediately to Hollywood, but after landing in the film capital he spent the first six months trying out the local golf courses and collecting his pay check every Wednesday afternoon. He did not turn a working finger. Incidentally, he does not pretend to be a world-beater on the golf course — his admitted best score to date is an 85 — but he is still trying. Finally Paramount loaned its young newcomer to RKO where he played a small part in the May Robson picture, "Grand Old Girl." Back on his own lot again he got the biggest break of his short career, the lead opposite Claudette Colbert in "The Gilded Lily." Can you imagine this youngster, too bashful to take part in school plays and still self-conscious despite several years of orchestra work, playing opposite the Academy Award winner in his first big picture? Fred admits that he was plenty shaky for the first few days. A "friend" kindly informed him the studio officials weren't satisfied with his work and that didn't help things, but Miss Colbert took him off to one side after a particularly trying day and gave him a real heart-to-heart talk that bucked him up. MacMurray will not say just what Claudette's words of advice were, but they must have helped. There was no more talk about taking him out of the part and, if you have seen "The Gilded Lily," you must admit she did a nice job of advising. When the picture was completed, the powers that be were so impressed they lost no time in notifying their brand-new leading man that he was still on the payroll, and likely to remain there for some time to come. In fact, Fred is signed to one of those seven-year contracts and unless all signs fail, he will spend all seven of them under the Paramount banner. He likes the idea of living here so well he has settled down in a little home on the outskirts of Hollywood with his mother, his grandmother, an aunt and an uncle. I would say he is pretty well chaperoned. After "The Gilded Lily" MacMurray played the part of a state trouper in "Car 99." Right now he's loafing again but it won't be for long. They say he is down Neighborly visit! Anne Shirley calls on Randolph Scott, who is working on an adjoining set. for a good role in a federal-agent picture Paramount is planning and, for my part, I hope they keep him busy. The screen can use a few youngsters of the Fred MacMurray type. It's a long jump from playing a saxophone in an orchestra pit to playing the leading role opposite an internationally famous star in a feature production, but MacMurray made it gracefully enough. Fred claims screen work is tougher than a stage job, but he likes it just the same. Right now he is ready and eager for another role, not afraid to admit his newness and perfectly willing to learn. Let's hope he keeps that attitude — it strikes an interviewer like a breath of cool air from the ocean after a day on the desert.