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ESTABLISHED 1888 I /Q) BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York DALLAS, TEX. TIMES HERALD Stirc. D. 139,247 - S. 138,409 UUN 21 1953 On the Dial Hersholt's 'Dr. Christian1 Is Weil-Known Character By Jerry Hill The Times Herald Radio-TV Editor 'After 15 years in the role of "Dr. Christian" on the popular KRLD-CBS series, Actor Jean Hersholt is about ready to hang out his shingle and start practicing. ^'fj'^/^'Ci ! (The program is presented on KRLD-CBS at 7:30 p. m. each Wednesday.) Hersholt was already an established screen and stage star when he created the role of "Dr. Christian," loveable' family doctor from the little town on "River's End," in November, 1937. Since then, the dramatic series has taken its place as one of the nation's favorite dramatic offerings. Today many radio fans say that they have two doctors: Their own and 3 "Dr. Christian." A native of Copenhagen, Denmark, Hersholt's parents were prominent Danish.actors, and he followed in their footsteps. After two and a half years of study at the Dagmar Theater School he becaire a professional actor and soon became a star of stage and screen in his native country. He first came to America during the early days of WarkLWar I. He toured the country with a repertoire company presenting Danish plays and ended his tour in San Francisco. After the tour ended he decided to seek a job in Hollywood, but was unsuccessful at first. But when Hersholt decided to audition for a part in a formal dress, he looked so good in striped trousers, cutaways, spats, derby and cane that he got a job, at $15 dollars a week. Advancing rapidly in films, he soon got acting assignments with Mary Pickford, and Eric Von Stroheim, when he was a director, cast him in several good roles. Hersholt was a veteran of 50 motion pictures, when he started the - "Dr. Christian" series. It was Hersholt, along with Miss Pickford, that . conceived and developed the idea of the Screen Actors Guild to provide a home for aged actors. Under his guidance, the Motion Picture Relief Fund was started and the result is a country home and forty-bed hospital for members of the film industry unable to care for themselves. During World War Jl, in his role as president of t|ie Ameri can Danish Relief, a he traveled throughout the country raising funds for the organization. For his service to his native country, Hersholt was knighted i by the late King Christian X, and in the summer of 194$ ^w to Copenhagen to acceptX^he honor from the present ruler* A hobbyist of lorW standing, Hersholt recently turned his valuable collection of Hans Christian Andersen manuscripts and letters over to the Library II of Congress. Richard Kleiner of NEA news! [[service reports that the biggest! JEAN HERSHOLT Radio's "Dr. Christian" worry of color TV make-up men are red ears. It seems the blood vessels of the ears are very near"the surface; and the sensitive tubes of the color camera accentuate the redness. So great daubs of white make-up are slapped on the ears. ; "Pentagon Confidenital," a new drama series based on--actual'' cases from the files of the Criminal Investigation Division of the U. S. Army, will make its debut on CBS-TV Aug. 6 as a weekly feature. Eric Sevareid, CBS Radio's chief Washington correspondent, was awarded an honorary degree; \ of Doctor of Humanities by Presi- *?╟≤ dent Russell Cole of Cornell College, at the institution's 1953 commencement exercises. Martha Wright, star of "South Pacific," is being lined up for her own TV musical series in the near future. TV Star Dinah Shore reeently turned, down $25,000 a week for a personal appearance at the Sands Hotel in Las Vpgas. BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York WILLOUGHBY, O. NEWS-HERALD Circ. D. 5,501 jnffiRj i IT'S JXJSE-JOY?╟÷*nus blonde bundle of pulchritude is named Joy Nivei|*?df Lps Angeles. She's a night club dancer in Las Vegas, Ney,/ and although "they" say she has nine mink coats, a polka*dott?╜d two-pieeer seems covering enough just now. &^?·J?·y 7-5371 PRESS t||P^SuREAU ; 165 Church sffijpy New York BOSTON, MASS, AMERICAN Circ.-#:tjJ&.232 1 MtMywood Day by Day Hp ^ fejjyjT^lfout Gives Role to Rita j By LOUELLA O. PARSONS ?╟÷ ?√ßmovie, and Freddie was very excited when he called to tell me. I "We're talking to Cary G?╜mt, ^ scr^n TCr-l ''George AWwttjanerfJftfoa*. Gene Kelley and VMl*Johnson, W>m *ne n?╜s Wfty,g great. and one of them/CmVar lnlrions. ' ?√ß ~{""* is already. '"'?√ß' " '*' T ^"gg^gggg ^r^-Uigned to di rect. And jwe're discussing the musical score with Frank Loes- ser." I don't wonder at Freddie's enthusi- a s m. T he Richard Bis- _&u sell hovel, a Cary Grant satire on the garment industry, has had great reviews. It's been a big year for Freddie and his wife, Roz Russell. Her "Wonderful Town" is the hit of .New York and her movie, "Never Wave at a WAC," which he produced, is big league at the cashier's window. t ALL THROUGH with waiting for Betty Grable, Columbia starts 'The Pleasure's All Mine" Sept. 15 with Rita Hayworth! The musical which has been stymied ever since Betty took a walk (and 20th suspended her) has been completely converted to Rita, which didn't take too much doing as both girls sing and | dance. Rita will make it between "Miss Sadie Thompson" and the big Biblical spectacle, "Mary Magdalene." '^^^ Betty has informed 20th she's1 willing to work but her peeved bosses have not lifted the ban on her salary checks. NO MATTER WHAT happens between her and George Saunders meantime, Zsa Zsa Gabor. goes to Egypt in January to make "Joseph and The Wife of Potithar" with Errol Flynn. Flynn wants George for this, too. "I'm speaking for myself," said Zsa Zsa, "I'm not speaking for George. We're not speaking!" I In three weeks, La Gabor takes off for Eurpoe again although the Flynn picture doesn't start 'til January. She'll do a night club stint at the Casanova in London and another movie before joining. Flynn the first of the year. LAS VEGAS-AGAIN: To get in all the new shows you need a bicycle. The gorgeous Lena Horne ?╟÷ younger looking and more luscious than when she first started ?╟÷ is enchanting the customers ?╟?t tb<?? Sands. What a girl! Her young daughter, who is on vacation, is with Lena and so is her husband, Lenttie Hayton, who does her marvelous arrangements. Larry Finley and his Mike are set up in the lobby of the Sands and the place is jammed. Joe E. Lewis came over from El Rancho Vegas to be interviewed. Ditto Spike Jones and Helen Grayco (from the Flamingo) and the Ames brothers (ate the Sahara). Larry dedicate%ffi?· evening to me VrirJa