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Show 1 Screen predictions now nre that "Ser-p-eant York" will become the third greatest moncy-nmker of all the films produced to date, being exceeded ex-ceeded only by "Gone With the Wind" and" "The Birth of a Nation." Na-tion." On the basis of present returns, re-turns, it is estimated that "Sergeant "Ser-geant York" will eventually gross $10,000,000. Mickey Rooney and Hedy La-niarr La-niarr are to be co-starred in a picture pic-ture entitled "Her Highness and the Bellboy." Mickey, in the role of a New York bellboy, instructs Her Highness (Miss Lamarr) a titled European emigree, in Americanisms Am-ericanisms in return for her teaching teach-ing him continental manners. k Because of the illness of J11 J A Ol I niovio career. Also, seeking a mo-' vio comeback is Pola Negri, one of the leading actresses during the 20's. Hollywood is getting really economy-minded these days. Instead In-stead of displaying the usual disregard dis-regard of money and materials, everything possible is being saved, including sets, which may be altered al-tered slightly and used again, the number of "takes" is being reduced re-duced to a minimum, and even nails are being gathered up by a newly magnetized machine which scoops them up, sorts them according accord-ing to size, and drops them into the right bins. This not only saves metal, but also reduces the hazard haz-ard to tires. In order to further stimulate stimu-late good feelings between this country and Latin American countries, coun-tries, a group of 130 people, headed head-ed by forty players, recently went to Ensenada, in Baja, California, to entertain 1,500 Mexican soldiers and sailors stationed there. k Dorothy Coming-ore recently was assigned to a role in "The Ma- Olivia ue rtavnumu, aiui oucii-dan oucii-dan will appear opposite Jack I Banny in Warners' "George Washington Wash-ington Slept Here." k Katherine Hepburn's two latest lat-est pictures rolled up two of the three highest grosses in the history his-tory of Radio City Music hall. "The Philadelphia Story" holds the house record, with a total of $590,472; "Rebecca," in which Joan Fontaine starred, is second, with $556,910, and "Women of the Year" grossed $538,336 during a six-week run. Believe it or not, there's one director in Hollywood who doesn't want a promotion. After turning out several "sleepers" which made hits, Curtis Bernhardt was offered offer-ed a promotion which included lavish lav-ish production schedules, big budgets, bud-gets, high caliber stars and an increase in-crease in salary. Bernhardt declined, de-clined, stating, "I'm very satisfied right now." P. S. He's still making mak-ing back-lot pictures. Grace Moore, the Metropolitan Metropoli-tan star, whose last screen venture j was during 1937, is back in Holly wood ready for another try at a jor and the Minor, but, because she looked so much like Ginger Rogers, the star of the film, she had to be removed. She will now co-star with Richard Carlson for R-K-O in "The Silver Spoon." -Ar The right to use 300 songs and marches composed by John Philip Sousa and to use Sousa's marine corps career as the basis of his film was acquired by Albert DeCourville, European film producer, pro-ducer, who will use the works in a "cavalcade of the United States marines," to be called "The Stars and Stripes Forever." The sum of $128,000, plus royalty, is said to have been paid to Sausa's heirs by DeCourville. Naturally, every church thinks it is the exclusive way but with so many avenues you ought to get on the road to Heaven some way. o The idea that the Japs are awed by the size of the United States is rapidly disappearing. c When the tires of the automobile automo-bile wear out you can always walk and it will do y6u good. |
