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Show Screen Hollywood studios have a huge building program ready to start immediately after the war ends, or as soon as building restrictions re-strictions are lifted: Upward of 520,000,000 have been set aside to be used for new construction and modernization, of which Paramount Par-amount leads with a proposed construction con-struction program costing $6,000, 000 for twenty new stages and a studio-wide air-conditioning program. pro-gram. MGM's contriutions to the current star-studded films include "Zeigfcld Follies" which boasts one of the largest and most impressive im-pressive casts to hit the screen, including Fred Astaire, Fanny Brice, Jimmy Durante, Judy Garland, Gar-land, Gene Kelly, Red Skelton and many more; "Week End at the Waldorf," with Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Robert Benchley, only to mention a few; and "Duffy's Tavern," Tav-ern," with Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Veronica Lake, Betty Hutton, Bing Crosby and Victor Moore. Warners were so pleased with the reception of "Thank Your Lucky Stars" which headlined Bette Davis, Humphey Bogart, Ann Sheridan and practically every ev-ery other star on the lot, that thev are rerjeatiner with "Holly- wood Canteen." After winning an academy award in "Yankee Doodle Dandy", Jimmy Cagney decided to go independent in-dependent and he, with his brother broth-er William, produced a picture which proved to be decidedly mediocre. me-diocre. Now Jimmy plans to produce pro-duce a war story, "Blood in the Sun," in which he plays the role of editor of an English-language newspaper in Tokyo. This is Jimmy's Jim-my's fifth newspaperman role. -A- Edgar Rice Brroughs, author of Tarzan stories, is believed to be the highest paid writer for the movie industry. His "new story" contribution to each film is rarely rare-ly more than a one or two page "idea" synopsis, while his 20 per cent profit cut nets him a return of from $150,000 to $175,000 for each picture. |