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Show the radio character which has de- lighted and inspired thousands of youngsters, is now writing screen stories at Twentieth Century-Fox and is drawing $2,000 a week. He has just completed the adaptation of "The Song of Bernadette," said to be one of the finest screen writing writ-ing jobs ever turned out in the studios. Every penny he receives during twenty concerts this Spring will go "to the Government in income taxes," declares Nelson Eddy. However, he adds, "I'd never stop making that annual tour if I had to hitch-hike." The tour began on March 2nd, following the completion comple-tion of his role in "Phantom of the Opera" at Universal. While Lewis Stone, known to thousands as Judge Hardy, of the Hardy family series, is well on the way toward his 64th birthday, he is in excellent physical condition condi-tion and is running his Malibu Hills ranch practically alone these days, even personally plowing with a tractor, hauling produce to market, mar-ket, and toiling fourteen hours a day at the chores necessary to make a farm thrive. Six Negro players, Louise Beavers, Bea-vers, Theresa Harris, Tondeleyo Gray, Tomayo Williams, Net Stan-field Stan-field and Johnny Horace, will appear ap-pear in "Stormy Weather", a cavalcade cav-alcade of Negro entertainment. Sereess horts The announcement of the winner of the Academy's fifteen annual awards has not been made as this was written, but everybody who has thought about the matter at all expects that "Mrs. Miniver" will receive the award as the best picture of the year, with Greer Garson receiving the best actress award and James Cagney the best actor. Because so many girls in war plants copied the streaming hairdo of Veronica Lake, which resulted in serious accidents, she has changed her hair style, copying the upsweep coif of Edith Head, which has a couple of soft rolls on either side of her head. Jimmy Walker, former Mayor of New York, is expected to come to Hollywood shortly to play himself him-self in ::The Grand Street Boys." Walter Wanger is planning a film woven around the activities of the WAAFS, which, in case you don't know, are our women ferry pilots. It's to have an all-girl plot. I Spencer Tracy is busy taking! dancing lessons for his role in "A The job of printing 150 million copies of War Ration Book Two requires 96 carloads of special safety safe-ty paper and the full production capacity ca-pacity of 18 printing plants in the nation. Each of the books contains 192 ration stamps a total of nearly near-ly 29 billion. o Regardless of what happens on the battlefields there are Americans Ameri-cans who are constantly warning us that we will have a hard time beating off our enemies and expressing ex-pressing long-faced perplexity over the job ahead. o Few people have enough "character" "char-acter" not to believe - the nice things that are said about them. Guy Named Joe", with Irene I Dunne. A scene calls for him to carry on a long conservation with Miss Dunne while dancing an intricate intri-cate routine. The stand-in for little Joan Carroll, Car-roll, 11, in her role in "Petticoat Larceny" is George Haven, who is only slightly more than fifty-six inches tall and is 22 years old. George owns a ranch in Texas and works at night at the Vega aircraft air-craft plant, saving every cent he makes. He does all the 'rough stuff" for Jean, like climbing walls and fighting in a boat. The original "Lone Ranger" (George Seaton), who originated |