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...wooden-faced doll named Judy Splinters muscled in on Charlie McCarthy's business on NBC's Eddie Cantor program last week. Furthermore, she is coming back this week and may be around for some time...
When Shirley and her mother went to Hollywood two months ago, the child ventriloquist had eight months of weekly radio behind her. A shy, quiet little girl, she used her brash puppet to say the things she could not bring herself to say. Eddie Cantor hired her ($100 weekly) the first time he heard...
...Hollywood Frances Rose (Dinah) Shore packed enough activity into last fortnight to exhaust two or three less dynamic individuals. She started work on her first picture (Eddie Cantor's Thank Your Lucky Stars), broadcast her own show (Dinah Shore in Person), sang in Eddie Cantor's Time to Smile broadcast, and a few times at Army camps, appeared at the opening of Hollywood's "Stage Door" Canteen. For her it was a comparatively torpid seven days. The week before, in one day she put on seven soldier shows...
Then big things happened. NBC-Blue signed Dinah as jive-diva on its Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street program. She became the darling of le jazz hot. Then Eddie Cantor hired her. She recorded Yes, My Darling Daughter, which sold half a million. A year later she started her own show. Now a minor Big Business (her earnings this year will run about $115,000), Dinah is handled by a board of five...
...years Johnny Mercer had been making songs out of bits of casual conversation. People who heard them just couldn't help singing them, they sounded so natural. Eddie Cantor, who ordered a batch of extra choruses to Every Time I Shave, never got around to singing them. But Sidewalk Poet Mercer got a job doing lyrics for the Garrick Gaieties, did another song called Out of Breath and Scared to Death of You. He married a pretty Gaieties chorus girl. One day she looked fondly at him, remarked, "You must have been a beautiful baby." Johnny Mercer reached...