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Show r-LAUDETTE COLBERT S dressing room has been loing a bit of traveling, to the Semen of inhabitant of ,os Angeles who saw the one ;om bungalow riding fong ,n a truck one evening. It was nade for Miss Colbert at the Paramount studios when she, vas working in ' SkylarK. Vas so proud of it that she had it aken to Twentieth Century-Fox vhen she began "Remember the 3ay." Back she went to Paramount, hen, for the new Preston Sturgess 3icture-and back, too, went the jungalow. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is rushing the nation's theaters a two-reel release special, "War Clouds in the Pacific," which was compiled by Oie Canadian government just be-'ore be-'ore December 7. It proved to be so orophetic that M-G-M officials or-lered or-lered a record number of prints so that the picture would be available tor simultaneous showing in many theaters throughout this country. Joe E. Brown, wearing women's clothes for the first time on the screen in Columbia's "Shut My Big Mouth," has set a record for speed in dressing which will make fern- JOE E. BROWN inine stars look to their laurels. Timing himself with a stop-watch, Brown has streamlined the routine until he can dress completely from petticoats to hat and wig in one minute and forty seconds. Hugh Herbert, the Woo Woo comedian, come-dian, will have the principal male role in the new version of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," the role played by W. C. Fields when last the picture was made. Carolyn Lee will play the youngest daughter, daugh-ter, the role which brought screen fame to Virginia Weidler. Patricia Morrison's been playing hostess to a solid silver pagoda, valued val-ued at more than half a million dollars. It was smuggled out of China, and will be taken on tour later. It weighs 1,300 pounds. Ed East and Polly have just finished fin-ished their second "Kitchen Quiz" film for Columbia pictures, featuring featur-ing the helps for housewives which popularized the team on thousands of radio programs. The first "Kitchen "Kitch-en Quiz" was aimed at comedy; this second one is more serious. Parks Johnson and Wally Butter-worth Butter-worth have offered their Vox Pop interviews program to President Roosevelt, the army nd toe navy for whatever use it can be put to in informational service, morale building build-ing and entertainment. The popular CBS "Whodunit" mystery mys-tery series broadcast Thursday evenings eve-nings has a group of rabid mystery fans continually watching for slipups slip-ups on crime technique and deduction; deduc-tion; when they think they've discovered dis-covered a discrepancy they gleefully gleeful-ly write to Lew X. Lansworth, who writes the scripts and says he can feel them hanging over his shoulder shoul-der whenever he sits down to work. It's Ginger Rogers who draws the coveted assignment to star in the screen version in color of the highly successful stage play, "Lady in the Dark." This is the second season that Gertrude Lawrence has appeared in it on the New York stage. The leading role requires someone who can sing, dance, act and wear clothes well. Ginger's a natural for it. Bob Burns, the "Arkansas Traveler," Travel-er," gets a duplicate of an expert rifleman's medal with three bars; he won it as a marine during the first World war, and lost it friends have been checking records, and finally got him what you might call "a reasonable facsimile." ODDS AND ENDS Guest stars on the new "Shirley Temple Time" pro-igram pro-igram receive beautiful gold watches rom Shirley's sponsors . . Amazingly for Hollywood, Margaret Hayes, fa-Imous fa-Imous New York fashion model, was 'actually cast as a model in "Take a Letler, Darling" . . . Macdonuld Carey's certainly on his way up in Hollywood; .Paramount, has renewed his contract . . . RKO'S current Lum and Abner picture pic-ture will be released by RKO under the title of "The Bashful Bachelor" . . . The Association of Hollywood Photographers voted Bob Hope and Rita Hayworlh the most "photo-generous" members of ihc film capital. |