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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THE first motion picture scene to be directed by long distance phone 3,000 miles from the spot where it was shot is credited to Elliott Nugent. He stood on a Paramount Para-mount sound stage in Hollywood Holly-wood and gave instructions to cameraman Dewey Wrigley, whose equipment was set up on Biscayne boulevard, Miami Mi-ami Beach, Fla. Wrigley had shot some atmospheric atmos-pheric film for "Nothing But the Truth," but it wasn't exactly what Nugent wanted. He'd never been in Miami Beach, but he picked the right site from some still pictures and then gave instructions over the telephone. Marjorie Reynolds has established a record of some kind; she's played the heroine oooo- 111 EJ site more western stars than has any other young Hollywood Holly-wood actress. Buck Jones, Tex Ritter, Bob Baker, George O'Brien, Gene Autry she's been the pretty girl in ridin and shoot-in' shoot-in' films with all of them. Her latest as- Marjorie signment is one Reynolds more of tte sme Cyclone on Horseback," Horse-back," for RKO Radio, in which she will appear opposite Tim Holt. Born in the cow town of Buhl, Idaho, she's right at home in those roles. The new Joan Crawford picture, "A Woman's Face," has been hanging hang-ing up new marks at the box office during its New York showing. Mel-vyn Mel-vyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt are leading supporting players in the highly dramatic film. Edmond O'Brien and his bride, Nancy Kelly, are spending their ing in the same picture pic-ture at RKO. The film is "Parachute Battalion." Following Follow-ing his work in the Harold Lloyd comedy, com-edy, "A Girl, A Guy and a Gob," O'Brien signed two long-term long-term contracts one with RKO and the other with Nan- 5 1 cy. Then he went Nancy Kelly to work in "Parachute "Para-chute Battalion." She was under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox, but studio executives were sympathetic, sympa-thetic, and she was lent to RKO, to be co-starred with her husband, Preston Foster and Harry Carey. Joan Fontaine certainly picked herself a nice vacation when she finished "Before the Fact" with Cary Grant. She was satisfied with nothing less than a three-week jaunt to Honolulu, Tahiti and Pago-Pago as an escape from Hollywood. Spencer Tracy won his Academy awards in roles that hadn't a suggestion sug-gestion of "boy meets girl." But in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" he meets two girls, Lana Turner and Ingrid Berman, just by way of evening even-ing up the score. "Sky Over Britain" brings to the air a new series of dramatic programs pro-grams under the auspices of the British War Relief society, presented present-ed over the Mutual network every Thursday evening. Each radio play will dramatize the true story of civilian bravery in Great Britain. The officers and crew of a British destroyer will comprise the first movie audience outside the Americas Amer-icas to see Anna Neagle's "Sunny," if present plans go through. Miss Neagle's older brother, Alan Robertson, Rob-ertson, is commander of a destroyer, destroy-er, and has not seen her or any of her pictures for more than two years. So a print of "Sunny" will be flown to England, then forwarded to him. She doesn't know where he is, but sending him the film is her reply to his recent request for a new photograph of her. The Rudy Vallee program won't move to New York this summer after all. Moving would have meant leaving John Barrymore behind, and listeners like the Vallee-Barrymore combination so well that it's inadvisable in-advisable to break it up. ODDS AND ENDS In "The Big Store" the Marx Brothers are private detectives who run wild in a department depart-ment store . . . The only sound track in America of a London air raid has arrived ar-rived at Warners for scenes of London's Lon-don's bomiing in "The Flight I'alrol" . . . Orson Welles wants the screen rights to "Louisiana llayridc" the story of fluey Long's lije . . . Marjorie Main will once again play a landlady this one in "llonky Tonic's" Midwestern mining town . . . Irving Berlin will write fifteen new songs for "Holiday Inn," in which Bmg Crosby and bred Aslnire will be starred . . . I'riscilla Lune is now tlie name of a street in Uurbauk, Calif. |