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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Ttrleaied by Wester Newpuper Union.) THOSE little red school-houses school-houses at the cross roads if there are any left will soon be able to give concerts by some of the greatest musicians mu-sicians in the world, and their pupils will be able to see the musicians as well as hear them. Rudolph Polk, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System's artists bureau, recently announced the formation of Artists' Films, Inc., which will make 21 musical short subjects, and issue these one-reelers one-reelers in groups of three, as concerts. con-certs. Contracts have been signed with Albert Spaulding. Jose Iturbl (that favorite guest of the Bing Crosby broadcasts), Mildred Dilling, the distinguished harpist, and several others. Commitments have also been made with several Metropolitan Opera singers, Including Helen Jep- if s i Ui v . . . JOSE ITURBI son, Gladys Swarthout, Richard Bo-nelli Bo-nelli and Frederick Jaegel, and at the moment efforts are being made to sign Lily Pons, Nino Martini, Mischa Elman, Josef Hofmann and Efrem Zimbalist The first group is scheduled for release October 1. The time has come when Frankie Burke wishes that he didn't look like James Cagncy. The resemblance got him into movies a couple of seasons ago, when he played Cag- I m A TIT T U ney as a Doy oi i& in wamer emu.-ers' emu.-ers' "Angels With Dirty Faces." He went on from there, doing the same kind of role for other studios. Now, as Wayne Morris' roommate In Paramount's "Quarterback," he's persuaded the director to let him forget the Cagney mannerisms; he wants to get parts because he can play them well. Loretta Young Is convinced that Mexican fans' appreciation of movie stars is more embarrassing than flattering. When she slipped into a theater to see her Columbia comedy "He Stayed for Breakfast," the film was stopped and the lights went on, so that the audience could see her In person. And she was wearing the old clothes in which she'd gone fishing. Even if the names of directors of pictures don't mean a thing to you, you'd better make a note of one Preston Sturges. He's no newcomer newcom-er a playwright, the author of "Strictly Dishonorable" among other oth-er hits, he's written plenty of movie dramas and had experience as a director. His name should be remembered because he wrote and directed "Down Went McGinty," one of the funniest and best pictures that has been launched In some time. He didn't want any big stars or glamour players; Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Mcllugh and Muriel Muri-el Angelus suited him fine. He just wanted to write and direct a comedy. com-edy. He followed It with another, "The New Yorkers," a satire on advertising, ad-vertising, and he's scheduled for plenty more. Ronald Reagan and his wife, Jane Wyman, played a love scene for "Tugboat Annie Sails Again," and then worried about whether or not it was effective. "When we kissed In that scene just now," Reagan said to Director Lew Seiler, "I was thinking about how hungry I was and what we'd have for dinner. Janie told me she was thinking about the same thing. In the love scenes we made before we were married, we'd kiss and forget for-get to eat." Seiler grinned. "You did better this time, thinking about food, than you did before, when you forgot to eat because you were making love," he replied. ODDS AND ENDS C Rochelle Hudson picked up such tan during two months in Hawaii that she'll have to be bleached before she can play a pule miss of Manhattan in "Girls Under 21." C. Evidently "Before I Die" teas too grisly a title for the new Douglas Fairbanks Jr.-Rita llayworth drama; it's been renamed "Angels Over Broadway." Broad-way." C Marjorie Rambeau has proved to be so able a successor to the late Marie Dressier in the character of "Tugboat Annie" that the series tvill go right on; "Tugboat Annie in Drydock" will be |