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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WHEN Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward (Mr. and Mrs.) found that they were to be co-starred in Columbia's "Ladies in Retirement" they gave 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 until un-til the third were they in line for simultaneous calls. And they're cast as bitter enemies! "We saw more of each other when we were working in studios that were miles apart than we do now!" walled Mrs. Hayward. Ida Lupino j. looks like a good picture; if s made from a stage hit, Charles Vidor is directing, and the cast includes three top-notcb actresses ac-tresses Elsa Lanchester, 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 EKO 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. Martha O'Driscoll is in great demand de-mand on the Paramount lot As soon as she com- pleted her work in "Henry Aldrich for President" she reported re-ported for Cecil B. DeMille's "Reap the Wild Wind," and learned that she'd have to have her blonde hair darkened dark-ened several shades, all for the sake of Technicolor. The ' tA I y 1 t 'I 1 cast for this picture Martha is an impressive O'DrlscoU 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. 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 Dim, "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. Pier blonde hair was a mess of stringy locks, and her Bilkcn evening gown was another mess, when she emerged. But a chunce 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 AND HIYDS-Jinx Fnlltimlmrn, AmerUn' Nn. I mmlid (did .VI mnnn-zinn mnnn-zinn covrr durinn ihn Iml 12 mtmth), my mttrh nitii-r In ;'" V tttlfmiihrjn ihnn lor movin r.amvra . . . Kiln Jiilmwn think) . rnr( a mrdnl fur bvitiK Uidiywwid' No. I Stmwr viv m ulrum ulimtt ert-ryriing . . U nrnern will midin a vriv thnrlt druliliK Willi ihn ai-linitie li ihn hid-end hid-end llnrrtm of InvrMinnlinn; i. I:du"r llinn'rr it mliftlulrd In nppvar in llu-in . . Vitmmnnnt will tcrrtm "( iro7M," a nlttry j tin1 Mexiritn cnmndmlary, u tt hihhI wiII Hvxlitre . . . 7 7i Inlrnlrd Iridi mlnr, llnrry Vitwmld, It tlalrd (nt iht nvxl I urziin film. |