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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Beleaed by Western Newspaper Union. U'THE Howards of Vir-1 Vir-1 ginia" has been re-I re-I eased, and people are trying ' to concoct new bouquets to hrow at it. One of New York's ! 3est film critics, Bosley Crow-jther, Crow-jther, wrote, "Never, to our 'recollection, has the screen ! pictured in more magnificent I detail the period of American ' nistory preceding and includ-j includ-j ins the Revolution." Even if American history doesn't ( I ncan much to you, you'll want to ; lee the picture. Frank Lloyd has ; ione a masterful job of directing, ' Martha Scott, Cary Grant, Sir Cedric s Hardwicke, and the rest of the cast I miwiii nn,i.W'l"i ".' I ' , - ' ' " ' ' 9 & fit it IV - - i MARTHA SCOTT give excellent performances, and the life of Colonial Virginia has been magnificently reproduced. There's an old saylnjr In show business: "Always be kind to the property boy. He may be the boss tomorrow." Edward Arnold, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck and James Glea-lon Glea-lon were reminiscing on Frank Capra's "Meet John Doe" set at Warners'. Gleason told of starring JO years ago In his father's company com-pany at the old Morosco and Bur-bank Bur-bank theaters. Then Capra joiaed the group, and reminded them that among the players in that company were Marjorie Rambeau, Lewis Stone and others still prominent. "Did you ever see them?" asked Gleason, in surprise. "I should say I did," laughed Capra. "I saw them every night. I used to sell newspapers to them." The special effects department at Paramount could have been forgiven forgiv-en for going stark, staring mad recently re-cently when an order came in for a flock of sheep that "look like Jack Benny." The sheep were needed for a dream sequence in "Love Thy Neighbor," in which Fred Allen, Benny's mortal enemy, puts himself him-self to sleep by counting sheep. Allen insisted that finding the sheep should be easy. "All sheep look like Benny," he Insisted, "Benny looks like a sheep anyway." The sound man on Dorothy La-mour's La-mour's "Moon Over Burma" had ; a problem too. He had to fake the sound of elephants crashing through ; a forest. It was simple enough to ! record the footsteps of Miss Lamour, Preston Foster, Robert Preston and a group of natives, but the four-ton ; pachyderms ran so quietly that the noise didn't register. However, movie audiences expect elephants to crash through jungles, so these are going to crash, even though it's done artificially. For once the catt of a motion pic- ! ture seems to be taking the title seriously. The title is "This Thing Called Love." and it's influencing Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes and Gloria Dickson. Three days after the picture had gone Into production Miss Barnes announced her plan to marry Mike Frankovitch, radio commentator. Rumors circulated to the effect that Miss Dickson and her husband, Perc Westmore, would become reconciled. rec-onciled. Nobody knows yet what will happen to Miss Russell, but just before the picture was begun she caught the bridal bouquet at her s.ster's wedding, and the day preceding pre-ceding that a fortune teller predicted predict-ed that she'd be married within a year. Ellery Queen, th7" amous detec tZVl b00ks whose adven-tures adven-tures have also made a successful radio series, is going to make his screen debut. He will be the hero of a series of pictures to be produced Pictures. Ralph Bellamy has ODDS AXO F.SDS Phyllis Hamilton, ol Warner.' 'TL ladies uear costume, ol thTw, I rvlzTtoird hr "The Little Fox' M ho, kU firyluvh;rtRK1 Malvtna Swings It" ti. j Tonld Kand'F,lu ret? chose Veronica Lake n, iA- i l ' ttratospher, flignL W"A " |