Music And Comedy In "The Star Maker” For Regent

Southland Times, Issue 24163, 27 June 1940, Page 11

Music And Comedy In " The Star Maker” For Regent

With Bing Crosby singing a host of songs, old and new, Louise Campbell adding a note of romance, Ned Sparks as Crosby’s Press agent, Laura Hope Crews as a former opera singer, Walter Damrosch conducting the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, and Linda Ware, sensational 14-year-old singing discovery, making her screen debut, Paramount’s great new singing cavalcade of show business, “The Star Maker,” will open on Saturday at the Regent Theatre. The story of the picture is based on Gus Edwards’s amazing career; and shows Crosby, as a penniless song writer, rising to a top position in the

entertainment world by putting on great juvenile shows. He fails because he has children acting after 10 o’clock at night; but, like a true showman, sets about recouping his fortune in a new field—radio.

The star sings such Gus Edwards favourites as “School Days,” “In My Merry Oldsmobile,” “Jimmy Valentine,” and some grand new tunes by Johnny Burke and James V. Monaco, “including “An Apple For the Teacher” and “A Man and His Dreams.” Linda Ware also sings many grand numbers, both popular and classical. “The Star Maker” was directed by Roy Del Ruth, produced by Charles R. Rogers.