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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) T' HE first motion picture scene to be directed by long distance phone 3,000 miles from the spot where it was shot is credited to Elliott j Nugent. He stood on a Paramount Para-mount sound stage in Hollywood Holly-wood and gave instructions to cameraman Dewey Wrigley, whose equipment was set up on Biscayne boulevard, Miami Mi-ami Beach, Fla. Wrigley had shot some atmospheric atmos-pheric film for "Nothing But the Truth," but it wasn't exactly what Nugent wanted. He'd never been in Miami Beach, but he picked the right fite from gome still pictures and then gave instructions over the telephone. Marjorie Reynolds has established a record of some kind; she's played El the neroine eppo-S eppo-S site more western i stars than has any other young Holly-I Holly-I wood actress. Buck 5 Jones, Tex Ritter, Bob Baker, George O'Brien, Gene Autry she's been the pretty girl j In ridin' and shoot- in' films with all of I them. Her latest assignment as-signment is one more of the same "Cyclone on Horse- Marjorie Reynolds back," for RKO Radio, in which she will appear opposite Tim Holt. Born In the cow town of Buhl, Idaho, she's right at home in those roles. The new Joan Crawford picture, "A Woman's Face," has been hanging hang-ing up new marks at the box office during its New York showing. Mel-vyn Mel-vyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt are leading supporting players in the highly dramatic film. Edmond O'Brien and his bride, Nancy Kelly, are spending their Jfs f 4 ; 1 honeymoon by working work-ing in the same picture pic-ture at RKO. The film is "Parachute Battalion." Follow-ing Follow-ing his work in the Harold Lloyd comedy, com-edy, "A Girl, A Guy and a Gob," O'Brien signed twe long-term long-term contracts-one contracts-one with RKO and the other with Nancy. Nan-cy. Then he went to work in "Para- Nancy Kelly cnute Battalion." She was under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox, but studio executives were sympathetic, sympa-thetic, and" she was lent to RKO, to be co-starred with her husband, Preston Foster and Harry Carey. Joan Fontaine certainly picked herself a nice vacation when she finished '"Before the Fact" with Cary Grant She was satisfied with nothing less than a three-week Jaunt to Honolulu, Tahiti and Pago-Pago as an escape from Hollywood. Spencer Tracy won his Academy awards in roles that hadn't a sug-gestion sug-gestion of "boy meets girl." But in "Dr. JekyU and Mr. Hyde" be meets two girls, Lana Turner and Ingrid Berman, Just by way of even-ing even-ing up the score. "Sky Over Britain" brings to the air a new series of dramatic programs pro-grams under the auspices of the British War Relief society, present-ed present-ed over the Mutual network every Thursday evening. Each radio play wul dramatize the true story of civilian bravery in Great Britain The officers and crew at a British destroyer will comprise the first 1 , jnovlc audience outside the Amer- I cas to see Anna Neagle's "Sunny," ! if present plans go through. Miss 1 Neagle's older brother, Alan Rob. I e-tson, ig commander of a destroy- 1 I , and bas not seen her or any of j ber pictures for more than two I eaflr8, So Pf'nt of "Sunny" will 1 ! flown t o England, then forwarded t , him She doesn't know where .ls' b,ut 8e"ing him the film is I "ewnh 1 reu a new photograph of her. &or th Marx Brother? B'S merit store ...The nnh j deparu rived at Warner,' I md has or kolZT 'n InJTl l Ln- Onon will lllfiht I 'tror rich I, to-f mnts screen f fluey Long', ,, X V."ry once ae.in Lu' ' ' VarW Min surfed fel f;ed |