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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) HOLLYWOOD is all agog over a contest that's to take place on August 25th at the RKO studios. The participants par-ticipants are Jack Oakie and George Bancroft, and the event is of all things! a table-setting contest! It all started when a Los Angeles department store persuaded ten prominent men about town to set tables as each thought they should be set. Oakie and Bancroft saw the exhibit, and the argument was on, each being perfectly iure that he could out-do the other 11 ever heaven forbid he had to set table. ta-ble. First thing they knew, they'd arranged the contest; the only rules are that they'll use modern Amerl- P- lt.lU,HI.,WWlt,,,l,ff,,lu.WW,M.t... ,0y- if. J A it : ! I fa i srwuiinrMi-r - - VIVIAN LEIGH can glassware and keep expenditures expendi-tures down to $40. The loser will eet a table and serve dinner for 16 of the winner's friends. Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier Oliv-ier are to be co-starred in a story based on the romance of Lord Nelson Nel-son and Lady Hamilton, an Alexander Alex-ander Korda picture. Remembering Remember-ing what a superb picture he made of "Henry the Eighth," it seems certain that his version of the famous fa-mous love story of the famous admiral ad-miral will be one of the year's best pictures. Phyllis Kennedy ought to succeed if anybody should first she broke her back, and later she accepted advice ad-vice that wasn't very good and lost a grand opportunity and now she's started toward the top again. In 1933 she was dancing with a troupe in Denver, and fell and fractured frac-tured her spine. Doctors said she'd never walk again. Two years later she was dancing once more. She was engaged for chorus work in the Astaire-Rogers musicals, and her gift for comedy got her the role of the maid in "Stage Door." Warner Brothers offered her a contract, but she hesitated, let people tell her what to do, and the chance slipped away. She's working now in "Honeymoon "Honey-moon for Three," and Lloyd Bacon, who's directing, Is helping by building build-ing up her role. Watch her she's bound to get ahead this time! Douglas Fairbanks Jr. may have been something of a playboy some years ago, but now he's nothing if not a solid citizen. Married happily, happi-ly, and the proud father of a three-year-old daughter, he's not only the star of Columbia's "Before I Die," but Its co-producer as well That means being on the set early and late, whether he's appearing before the cameras or not The girls of Hollywood are wearing wear-ing red, white and blue these days. Penny Singleton appeared at a benefit bene-fit in a cotton evening gown having hav-ing a white skirt and a bodice that was red and blue; Anita Louise, told to wear a novelty necklace in "I'm for Rent," chose a silver chain from which were suspended miniature flags of the 23 American countries; Evelyn Keyes has a red, white and bine straw bat, and Frances Robinson's Robin-son's leather handbag has a flag on either side. Uncle Ezra's Rosedale Silver Cornet Cor-net Band rehearses longer than the actors on that popular radio program, pro-gram, Just to achieve those peculiar off-key effects that drive music lovers lov-ers mad. The reason the band has to rehearse so long to sound so discordant dis-cordant is that each man is an accomplished ac-complished musician; "We work harder than Toscanini," declared Director Bruce Kamman, "Just to perfect a musical mistake!" Paramount's going to do right handsomely by Joel McCrea he's been assigned to the lead in "Botany "Bot-any Bay," a story by James Norman Nor-man Hall, one of the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty." "Bottom Bay" is one of those highly high-ly dramatic tales, laid in the period just after the American Revolution. Jean Hersholt's dream of years, a Hollywood home for aged and incapacitated in-capacitated film workers, is soon to be a reality. As president of the Motion Picture Relief fund, he apri members of the organization's executive ex-ecutive committee will soon begin looking for a site for the home. They have more than a half million dollars, earned by the stars who donated do-nated their -services to the CBS Screen Guild program so that the money could go into the fund. |