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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THE March of Time has come to the rescue of all of us who have an interest in someone affected by the new selective service law. In "Army and the Men U. S. A." we are taken inside training train-ing camps and shown how the young men in the nation's rapidly rap-idly expanding citizen army live, what they learn, what they do for amusement, and how they are being welded into a defensive fighting force. The film shows what has been done to provide comfortable living quarters for the young soldiers; it shows as well how the nation's industry in-dustry is concentrating on orders for the gigantic defense program. It's a picture specially meant for all draft eligibles, their families and their friends. When Howard Hughes finishes waving his magio wand over Jack Bcutel we may have a new star on our movie screens. Beutel gets his chance as one of the leads in the new Hughes film, "The Outlaw." He hails from Dallas, where he had little-theater experience, and wasn't getting far In his ambition to succeed suc-ceed in Hollywood when he got the Hughes assignment. Eleanor Powell has finally completely com-pletely recovered from that opera-,tion opera-,tion mat kept her on the sidelines all this time, and will start work soon in "Lady Be Good," which was ELEANOR POWELL a successful musical comedy years and years ago. It will co-star Ann Sothern (giving her a chance to get away from playing "Maisie" for awhile) and Tony Martin. Arthur Freed and Busby Berkeley, producer produ-cer and director of "Strike Up the Band," will produce and direct, and the George Gershwin music will be used. What old favorite do you suppose has been scheduled for a new appearance ap-pearance now? None other than "The Phantom of the Opera," with Broderick Crawford playing the "Phantom." But the real surprise Is the girl who'll play opposite him it's none other than Deanna Durbin. She's always done comedy, and sung a few songs, superbly. But when she finishes "Nice Girl" she'll get away from all that temporarily, and appear in Universal's famous thriller. Something new In casting has bobbed up at Paramount. Book reviewers re-viewers on newspapers and maga-1 zines are to be polled for their nominations for players to appear in the screen version of the Hemingway Heming-way novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Since book reviewers who know one motion actor from another an-other are scarcer than hen's teeth it seems unlikely that their opinions will be of very great value. Jill Esmond, a talented English actress whom you hear on the air as Emily Bronte, author and narrator narra-tor in "Wuthering Heights," spent her last night before leaving England In a Liverpool air-raid shelter, reciting re-citing fairy tales for hours on end to keep a group of children entertained. enter-tained. If you haven't been listening listen-ing to "Wuthering Heights" you're missing something; it sets a new high mark in radio serial drama. Loretta Young unintentionally stole the show from Santa Claus the other evening. On her way to a radio rehearsal, she parked her car in a lot near the theater just as a Santa Claus parade was passing. Hundreds of mothers were holding their children high enough to see Santa Claus; somebody shouted: "There's Loretta Young!" and instantly in-stantly backs were turned on Santa Claus while everybody gazed at Loretta. ODDS AD EDSThat new Sunday Sun-day afternoon radio program, uhich has ttarled oJ so well, changed its name jicst before the first broadcast it's "The Pause That Kefreshes" not "Music That Knfreshes" . . . Gene Au-trey, Au-trey, of the CDS "Melody Ranch" and the movies, recently bought a number of antique music boxes, one for each ftuesl room in his new ranch house . . . Bob Burns is vacationing right now, on c trip to Neio York uhich he und Mrs. Burns planned two years ago, but had to postpone, ft is Bob's second trip to AVu? York since he landed there jobless in 1935 and got a )oi on the air with Rudy VnUa. |