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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) PERHAPS it's Shirley Temple's Tem-ple's glowing health that inspired the British Ministry of Foods to ask Walt Disney for help. Studio experts say that in all the years that she was making pictures for 20th Century-Fox she never suffered suf-fered from the numerous ailments children usually have, and now that she's approaching 13 making sub-deb pictures pic-tures for Metro she's still the wonder won-der of the studios because she's so well. That means a lot in Hollywood, Holly-wood, where a star's illness can be so expensive for a studio. Well, Shirley's diet has always included in-cluded plenty of vitamins and minerals. min-erals. And Walt Disney has ere- r-,"","i,"7j,i""" " "i ' ' ' A SHIRLEY TEMPLE ated three new characters Doctor Carrot, Clara Carrot and Carroty George, to be used in a drive to get the people of England to eat more carrots! Young' women workers in the nation's na-tion's Capitol are about to be glori-' glori-' Ced on the screen; evidently the same idea hit several studios at once. Paramount' version of the life and times of the young ladies will be called "Washington Escapade." Esca-pade." Metro bought a story called "White House Girl," by Ruth Finney, Fin-ney, wife of a newspaper man. Every so often somebody has to screen Rex Beach's "The Spoilers." It was done in 1925 with William Farnum and Tom Sanchey staging the fist fight that made it famous. Paramount did it in 1930 with Gary Cooper. Now Universal will make it once again this time with Randolph Ran-dolph Scott and John Wayne in the he-man roles, and Marlene Dietrich as the heroine. i Another re-make scheduled for thei near future is "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," which was last, made by Paramount, in 1934, with W. C. Fields, Pauline Lord and Virginia Vir-ginia Weidler. This time little Carolyn Caro-lyn Lee will be the child lead. That won't be just gibberish that you hear the actors speaking in EKO's "Valley of the Sun"; it's really Apache. Producer Graham Baker hired Chief Chris Willowbird to make phonograph records in which each speech was spoken first in English, then in Apache. Then James Craig, Antonio Moreno, Tom Tyler and other members of the cast settled down to study the records. Elizabeth Bergner, one of the most famous European actresses to work in Hollywood, has just completed com-pleted the first of her films to be made. It's "Paris Calling," a story of the betrayal and fall of France. Miss Bcrgner's European pictures include "Catherine the Great," "Escape "Es-cape Me Never," and ''Dreaming Lips." She became famous as one of Europe's leading stage figures before be-fore she made pictures. The movies are an old story to Frances Robinson; at the age of four she played Lillian Gish as a child in "Orphans of the Storm." More recently, she appeared in "Smiling Through." Now she's left pictures for the radio; she's the giddy gid-dy debutante in the air's version of the delightful "My Man Godfrey." A 19-year-old girl is in Alexandria, Va., getting background material for a murder trial. She's the daughter of Jane Crusinberry, who writes radio's ra-dio's "The Story of Mary Marlin," now in its eighth year. Mrs. Crusinberry Cru-sinberry is a stickler for accuracy, and the dramatized trial takes place in Alexandria, so young Jane was sent off with a candid camera and a notebook to help her mother out ODDS AXD E:DS Bob Hope has been away from home so much, making personal appearances, that he sivears that his children haven't the slightest idea tvho he is . . . Jean Arthur, Cory Grant and Ronald Colman will head the cast of Columbia's "Mr. Twilight" . . . Vhillipe de Imccv, famous not so many years ago as a child star of the movies, is now producing commercial pictures for the March of Time company com-pany . . . Alice Faye will portray Helen Morgan in the picture based on the singer's life . . . Though they don't have night clubs in Iceland, Sonja Henie may be shown running one in her next t ax picture. |