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Show ereen Shorts The first effort of the motion picture industry itself to educate the- movie-going public intheatre etiquette, since the days of the slides, "Ladies, remove your hata," etc., is a short subject made by Pete Smith entitled "Movie Pests" in which sarcasm is leveled at three types of movie peats: Those who rest their knees on the back of the neck of the one sitting in , front of him; those who wear pyramided pyr-amided hat3 and hair-dos all but blinding those behind; and those who, with great tumult and confusion, con-fusion, change places three or four times during a picture. All we have to say, is: All power to Mr. Pete Smith and his ilk. Myrna Loy, who began her movie career as a slant-eyed menace, men-ace, has been asked to play her first Oriental role in years a Chinese Chi-nese heroine, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek. Kai-shek. Because studio employes spent too much time peeking at Esther Williams' underwater ballet-ing through a nearby porthole, someone some-one most unkind had the 'window closed ud and barred. The picture Robert Fellows will do for Hedy Lamarr, "Experiment "Exper-iment Perilous," is from Margaret Carpenter's novel, which has been second on lending library lists for some time. The story was bought before it was published. The manner of bathing which Paulette Goddard has to use in "Kitty," the old-fashioned wash bowl and pitcher, is all right by Paulette. She got used to such things when she was on her tour of the China-Burma war theatre when she had to use a GI helmet as a bathtub. One of the newscomers who will bear close watching is Jeanne Crain, brunette, who has been knocking out audiences witnessing "Home In Indiana." It's hard for RKO to realize it but "Attack! the Battle of New Britain," the six-reel documentary produced by the A1"11 Signal Corps, is about to become the most sought-after picture ever distributed by that studio. The theatres are literally gobbling "Attack" "At-tack" up and officials predict it will have a total of more than 15,000 bookings. k Humphrey Bogart has been suspended for an indefinite period by his studio for his refusal of the lead in "God Is My Co-pilot." The part will be played by Dennis Morgan. Betty Field and Sonny Tufts are among those who will appear in the filming of "Miss Susie Sla-gle's," Sla-gle's," the Augusta Tucker novel nov-el which appeared last year in the Ladies Home Journal, and is the story of the young doctors at America's great medical college Johns Hopkins, in Baltiore. " When Bob Hope returns from his present camp' tour, he will go immediately into "Girls' .Town," and become the "boss" of 5,000 girl defense workers, the idea upon up-on which the picture is based. |