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Show Screen s 9iorls We think the idea of Bud Abbott Ab-bott and Lou Costello is really a patriotic one. They have dedicated dedicat-ed themselves to a round of personal per-sonal appearance tours until they have the $350,000 necessary to buy a bomber for the government. j. Their studio, Universal, has grant- ed them leave of absence and the two comedians are paying their own expenses. Announcement of a plan to reunite Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in a musical film to be made by RKO will probably be received re-ceived with enthusiasm by film n fans. Mickey Rooney's next film for M-G-M will be "A Yank at Eton," an original story by George Op-penheimer. Op-penheimer. Mickey just recently finished work in "The Courtship of Andy Hardy," the twelfth in the series. Those film fans who have wondered why Louise Rainer, who won two academy awards for excellence ex-cellence of performance, had been put on the shelf, will be glad to know that she and Paul Muni, who i were starred by Metro in "The Good Earth," in 1937, are to be reunited in another film adaptation adapta-tion of a Pearl S. Buck novel, "China Sky." Incidentally, Paramount has on its immediate schedule a film entitled "Sky Over China," a story of a Chinese air line operated by American commercial fliers before the United States entry into the war. On the night of the Academy Award ball, Wendell Willkie bet Joan Fontaine $10 that she would win the award. She took him up and when he won the bet, Joan had to borrow the money from news photographers to pay him. Willkie promised to give the ten-spot to the Red Cross. Needing a dilapidated jalopy for Shirley Temple and her boy friend, Roland DuPree, to ride in during the filming of "Annie Rooney," the studio searched all ' over town and finally located one belonging to Ralph Fulkerson, 17-year-old high school boy. They paid him $85 rent. His only stipulation stipu-lation was that they be "careful of his well-worn tires." f Speaking of Shirley reminds us, whether we can believe it or not, that she is now 14 years old, . is five feet and one-quarter inch ; tall, weighs almost 103 pounds, and her hair is growing darker. In her current picture, Shirley will re- n ceive her first "stage" kiss. How S times does move along. B Eleanor Powell refused to cut 8 her hair at the suggestion of her E studio because she likes her hair H long enough to respond to the 8 ryhthm of dance routine. B When Chris-Pan Martin was B signed for "Undercover Man," the m latest Hopalong Cassidy adven- 1 ture, he brought his six grandchild- B ren to the studio to be his film g family. To make the family circle complete, Mrs. Chris-Pan was signed for a role also. By the way, "Undercover Man" is William Boyd's forty-second forty-second time on the screen in the role of Hopalong Cassidy. During a love scene on the set of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," Richard Carlson bent to plant a long, lingering kiss on the lips of Martha O'Driscoll. At the psychological psycho-logical moment, Carlson's too fj stiffly starched shirt front cracked H audibly. It broke up the players H and the company too. Filming had B to wait the arrival of a softer, H quieter shirt. B |