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Show woHumvs tholr contribution to the wiir effort by ,strossllR- tho impo,-,U,;; impo,-,U,;; quantity and equity workmanship t tho wonpona they ZJVMn Ior th0 Word com that tho day of tho Mark and white film is about over and that, with tho end of the war and tho return to normal all films will bo in color. A new piol cess, utilizing n one-film multilayer multi-layer negative, has been perfected which not only gives better results than the former technicolor's three -Tt.nvstiii!,- to learn of " 'f so-cMlod incentive V 1,50 .,., plants, to provide a '"Trine lm'h h0Ul's nlut ";k lifts and also to show to Tli' " . great success on the stage"" and screen is so Lincolnesque in his private life that someone, watching watch-ing him amble down the street, once remarked "Frank will never be happy until he is assassinated." Arthur Treacher evidently doesn't mind being typed the thing , most actors or actresses dread he's playing his seventy-fifth seventy-fifth butler role for Helen Broder-ick Broder-ick and Helen Vinson in Univer-sal's Univer-sal's "The Third Glory." There are four managers who are splitting Sonny Tuft's modest $200 weekly salary. They're all huddling for a raise for Sonny, however, since he's become "big-time" "big-time" at Paramount. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland Gar-land are to be co-starred in a MGM version of the Billy Rose spectacle, "Jumbo," which is to be done in Technicolor, with music by Richard Rich-ard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. negative method, but is also very much less expensive. The shift to color, however, will make quite a number of films obsolete, just as the shift to sound affected many worthwhile silent films. A: Quite a number of "old-timers" are on the set of "Three Cheers for the Boys." Among them are Sophie Tucker, ,Ted Lewis, Charles Grapewin, Marlene Dietrich, Diet-rich, Jeanette MacDonald and Director Di-rector Eddie Sutherland himself. By "old-timers," we do not mean "has-beens," they've just been in the racket for quite a long time. - Sig Ruman, who has played fifteen different nationalities in the last nine years and whose most recent effort was a half -blind peasant peas-ant in "The Song of Bernadette," has a unique method of preparing for his role. If his part calls for him to be, say a Bulgarian, he goes out and looks for someone with a heavy Bulgarian accent. Then he gets this person to read his script lines into a home-recording machine. ma-chine. Then Sig plays it over and over and over again, practising until he perfects the accent. Not bad. Spencer Tracy will begin work in "The Seventh Cross," from the Ann Seghers novel, when he returns re-turns from his projected overseas troop-entertaining tour. When Nevada Smith, 19-year-old Las Vegas girl, reported under contract to Warners, they wanted to change her name. She refused to give up the name of her native state, but will probably consent to having her last name changed to something beside Smith. Frank McGlynn, who has played Abraham Lineoln with |