June 17, 1944

HOLLYWOOD, June 16 — My old friend Ralph Wheelright, whom I have known since he was in the MGM publicity department and before that, when he was one of the Los Angeles Examiner’s star reporters, takes another jump up the ladder. From here on Ralph is a producer on the MGM lot, and it is a promotion he has earned the hard way. Far be it from me to say Ralph ever stopped to dreaming up good publicity stories, but he did author two of Metro’s best originals, “Blossoms in the Dust” and “Thunder Afloat.”

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.