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...actor. Once an unlettered tailor's assistant in Cairo, Crooner Abdul-Wahab has since amassed a fortune by composing tunes which were a hybrid of Oriental and Western music. He put the songs in screen romances and, with himself in the leading role, soon became the matinee idol of Cairo, Bagdad, Damascus, Jerusalem and outposts...
...befits the No. 1 idol of U. S. youth, Autry does not drink or smoke. He lives with his pretty wife on a ten-acre "ranch" in San Fernando Valley, where he stables "Champion" and his five other less famed horses. Last year sales of Autry's phonograph records equaled those of Bing Crosby's. A manufacturer who set up a line of toy revolvers modeled on the one he carries sold 100,000 in three weeks...
Died. Conway Tearle, 60, oldtime cinemactor (Dancing Mothers, Altars of Desire), stage star (Dinner at Eight). onetime matinee idol who appeared with Ellen Terry and Ethel Barrymore; of heart disease; in Hollywood...
...standard ingredients of the backstage formula, Letter of Introduction adds two interesting variants: the show in which Katherine Mannering (Andrea Leeds) makes her gala debut turns out to be a calamitous flop; and the hero of the story is not her erratic young fiance but an aging, bibulous matinee idol to whose portrayal Adolphe Menjou lends the Barrymore mannerisms that have become traditional for such roles since The Royal Family. These, and Director John Stahl's watchful, vivid treatment of situations which would have been threadbare with less careful handling, give the picture exactly that air of conviction...
...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, basking in his prize-ring fame, has given his race big ideas. When the idol of the Negroes, who has grossed well over a million dollars in the past three years, took up riding-in-the-park as a pastime, the colored upper crust of Detroit. Chicago and Cleveland followed suit, bought expensive saddle horses. Last week Joe Louis persuaded his wealthy friends to ship their horses to Detroit. Except for the fact that there were only six events and 16 horses (two of them Bing Crosby and McDonald's Choice, belonging to Sponsor Louis...