RADIO IDOL IN NEW FILM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 4

RADIO IDOL IN NEW FILM

“Mr Dodd Takes the Air,” a picture which combines several unusually appealing features, is scheduled to open tomorrow at the Regent Theatre. The thing most noteworthy about it, perhaps, is that it introduces as a fullfledged film star, young Kenny Baker, who has long been one of the top-ranking radio favourites of the nation. And those who have seen previews of “Mr Dodd” say Kenny is really great. Noteworthy again is the fact that the picture was produced by young Mervyn Leßoy, whose recent comedy, “Romance in Paris” was a sensational success as a Warner Bros, release.

Still further, “Mr Dodd Takes the Air” was adapted from that best-sell-ing novel by Clarence Budington Kelland, called “The Great Crooner,” a story about a young singer of fair ability who had a throat operation which gave his voice a peculiar something that was different from any other voice in the world. Kenny Baker, of course, plays Dodd. He sings five tuneful melodies written, by the highly successful composing team of Harry Warren and Al Dubin.

Do you want to lose weight? Well, Carole Lombard has a sure-fire formula for reducing and, being a generous creature, doesn’t mind divulging it to the whole wide world. All you have to do is run up and down three flights of stairs twenty-eight times, and you’ll lose five pounds. Carole did it on the set of her new Paramount picture, “True Confession.” The irony of it all is that Carole is famed for having one of Hollywood’s most perfect figures and she didn’t want to lose that five pounds!