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Show Mm stacescreenIhadio Hy VIRGINIA VAI.K (RaUnaed by Weitern Newspaper Union.) WHEN Ida Lupine- and Louis Ilayward (Mr. and Mrs.) found that they were to be co-starred in Columbia's "Ladies in Retirement" they pave three rousing cheers; they thought that they'd be answering work calls together. to-gether. So the first week, they actually had one day together on the set. The second, she worked every day and he didn't work at all. Not un- f VtvT ul u,e Ullrd were J f ; ' i they in line for if simultaneous calls, i , "i And they're cast as Syt bitter enemies! I V. .M. v i "We saw more of I i. each other when we K ' were working In 1 studios that were T. miles apart than we . ;;:.'S' V do nowl" wailed j.,-t ': ..: .."SB Mrs. Hayward. Ida Lupino Incidentally, this looks like a good picture; it's made from a stage hit, Charles Vidor is directing, and the cast Includes three top-notch actresses ac-tresses Elsa Lanchcster, Edith Barrett and Isobel Elsom. So many people wanted to know how the Walt Disney pictures are made that he was practically forced to make his new full-length BKO release, "The Reluctant Dragon." In it he uses both live actors and his usual brand, and we'll actually see how the characters and production pro-duction are created. fc Martha O'Driscoll is In great demand de-mand on the Paramount lot As soon as she com-pleted com-pleted her work In ; 4 "Henry Aldrich for , . y "" j President" she re- ' J i ported for Cecil 1 y .' - I B. DeMille's "Reap f j the Wild Wind." and . . learned that she'd '. j have to have her l x ' '. j blonde hair dark- 1 ened several shades, ' all for the sake of ; ' Technicolor. The U.is cast for this picture Martha Is an impressive O'Driscoll one Paulette God-dard, God-dard, Ray Milland, Raymond Mas-sey, Mas-sey, Susan Hayward, Walter Hampden. Hamp-den. Janet Beecher, Spring Bying-ton, Bying-ton, Robert Preston. Elizabeth Ris-don. Ris-don. 1 A stairway plays an Important part in the new Ronald Colman picture, pic-ture, "My Life With Caroline," so RKO commissioned Nicolai Remis-off Remis-off to build it It's called "free standing." because it is entirely free of support by columns or walls it's suspended from steel beams in the middle of a huge drawing room set And the treads are covered with white, Chinese angora fur. Cost, approximately $5,000, in case you'd like to duplicate it Lewis Milestone directed, with due appreciation appre-ciation for the staircase. Remember Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, who was a movie hero years ago, and married Mary Pickford, and abandoned the pictures for band-leading? He plays the romantic roman-tic male lead in "Mexican Spitfire's Baby," starring Lupe Velez and Leon ErroL The new March of Time film, "China Fights Back," depicts the struggle of the Chinese people to preserve pre-serve their national independence and democratic way of life. It also shows how, under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek, China has replaced re-placed her destroyed Industries with thousands of small factories in the mountainous interior. Veronica Lake, who skyrocketed to movie fame in "I Wanted Wings," turned slapstick comedienne in Preston Sturges' "Sullavan's Travels." Trav-els." The script called for her to shove Joel McCrea into a swimming pool, then be yanked in by one leg by McCrea, and swing at his jaw till he ducked her in self defense. Her blonde hair was a mess of stringy locks, and her silken evening gown was another mess, when she emerged. But a chance to work in a Sturges picture is worth it The Mutual chain's news analyst, Raymond Gram Swing, has a new contract which will keep him on the air Mondays and Fridays for another an-other year for the same sponsor. At the annual luncheon of the Woman's Wom-an's National Radio committee he was acclaimed "the commentator best serving the interests of democracy." democ-racy." ODDS AXD EXDSJinx Falkenburg, America's Vo. 1 model (did 38 magazine maga-zine covers during the last 12 months), says it's much easier to pose for photographers pho-tographers than for a movie camera . . . Rita Johnson thinks she rates a medal for being Hollywood's ATo. I Stewer says she stews about everything . . Warners will make a series of shorts dealing with the activities of the Federal Fed-eral Bureau of Investigation; J. Edgar Hoover is scheduled to appear in them . . Paramount will screen "Rurales," a story of the Mexican constabulary, as a good-will gesture . . . The talented Irish actor, Barry Fitzgerald, is slated lor the next Tarzun film. |