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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) JANE WYMAN and Regis Toomey have teamed to shatter all records for the screen's longest kiss it lasted last-ed three minutes an3 five seconds, and you'll see it in Warner Bros.' "You're in the Army Now." The former record rec-ord was held by Ann Sheridan and George Brent. Jane and Regis, seated on a hard piano bench, were told just to keep on kissing till told to stop, while Donald McBride, playing play-ing Jane's father (as well as an army colonel), discussed military problems. First thing they knew, they'd set a new record. Old-timers may remember "Hu-moresque," "Hu-moresque," which was filmed way back in 1920 with Alma Rubens, Vera Gordon and Gaston Glass. It's coming back to the screen, this time probably with John Garfield in the Gaston Glass role, that of a violinist whose career is cut short by military conscription. Fred MacMurray was too young for the last war, so he didn't know what it feels like to crawl through barbed wire entanglements till just 1 ' FRED MacMURRAY the other day. He had to plunge through chicken wire for a scene in "The Lady Is Willing," the new Columbia comedy he's making with Marlene Dietrich. The wire merely surrounded some rabbits, but when he got out he felt as if he'd been through several wars. Margaret Hayes isn't wearing backless evening gowns just now; probably won't for some time. As the female spy in "The Lady Has Plans" she had to, have the design of a radio-controlled torpedo drawn on her back. Theoretically, according ac-cording to the script, the ink is removed re-moved with a chemical which makes the plans invisible till another chemical chem-ical agent causes them to reappear. Margaret was told by the prop man that she needn't worry, but she has no faith In trick chemicals. Of course you'll want to see "Mr. Bug Goes to Town," the feature-length feature-length cartoon on which Dave Fleisher and his staff of 700 animators anima-tors and artists have been working for the past 10 months. Here's some inside information on it. Fleisher figures that an entire painting of a scene or character must be made for every one twenty-fourth of a second sec-ond the feature is being projected on the screen. Breaking down his budget of $1,000,000 in terms of running run-ning time, that comes to $9 per frame, or picture. "Mr. Bug Goes to Town" is a drama of insect life. Incidentally, Miss Dietrich would like to make it very clear that the jewelry she wears in that picture doesn't belong to her. The $500,000 worth of gems were shipped from New York, and half an hour after they were sent from a jewelry store to the studio the shop was robbed. So the glamorous Marlene hired a couple of body guards and let it be known that when it's not before the cameras it's in a bank. Radio's Fibber McGee and Molly are about to lose their privacy. As Mr. and Mrs. J. Jordan they haven't got a single rise out of an autograph hound. But with millions of screen fans seeing them on the screen in "Look Who's Laughing," along wilb Edgar Bergen and Lucille Ball, they're sure to be recognized wherever wher-ever they go. Critics of dramatic schools say that they're no place to learn to act. Paramount's "Gun for Hire" has three answers to that. They are (1) Veronica Lake, (2) Robert Preston, (3) Alan Ladd. All three went to dramatic schools. ODDS AXD E.DS Victor Mature will be seen as a gangster in Fox's "Highway in Hell." with Pal O'llrien . . . When George Brent was ill recently re-cently Ann Sheridan sent him roses frequently; he had them made into perfume, which he sent her . . . Harold Lloyd has picked Kay Kyser to star in "My Favorite Spy" . . . Dolores Costello has been signed for the leading role in "The Magnificent Ambersons" . . . Richard Uarthelmess, once a screen favorite, returns for an important role in HKO's "The Mayor of 4Uh Street'1 . . . Melvyn Douglas woos Garbo in "Two-Faced Woman" and Sormn Shearer in "We Were Dancing.' The baking industry is not characterized char-acterized by sharp seasonal fluctuations. fluctua-tions. It remains at a steady level throughout the year, and in contrast to general business activity, it is interesting to note that the peak months for the industry occur in the summer. A recent survey conducted conduct-ed by the American Bakers association asso-ciation revealed that July, August and June, in that order, were at the top in volume of sales. Next came September, May, October, November, December, April, March, January and February in that order. |