NEWS OF THE CINEMA
Notice to Correspondents “Curious”—Jeanette MacDonald is 33 years of age, having been born on June 18, 1907. Nelson Eddy is 39, his birthday being June 29. Bing Crosby Refuses £3OOO a Week Bing Crosby has just refused a radio offer of £3OOO a week for an hour’s programme to sing and sell sbup. Nelson Eddy as “Chocolate Soldier” Nelson Eddy is to be seen in a film version of “The Chocolate Soldier.” A member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Rise Stevens, will have the feminine lead, who, it will be remembered, has the popular “My Hero” as her principal solo. “The Chocolate Soldier” is based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man.” The music is by Oscar Straus and the book by Rudolph Benrauer and Leopold Jacobson. The stage musical was first pre.enfed on the New York otage in
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21365, 8 March 1941, Page 13
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