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Show Mary Astor will probably star in "Syncopation," with Adolphe Men-jou, Men-jou, Jackie Cooper, and Bonita Granville . . . Greta Garbo, who is doing the rhumba in her current film, is so shy she makes the orchestra turn their faces to the wall while she does the necessary wiggles. Imagine Ima-gine that! What the people of this country coun-try need to understand now is that you can't wait to see the enemy" before getting ready to prevent him from seeing you. o What has become of the people who used to think that a community commun-ity picnic was the event of the season. just completed "Bahama Passage." Pass-age." That Stirling Hayden is from New England and is a seasoned sea-soned sailor explains Paramount's motive in having the photoplay written: to capitalize on the actor's reputation as a sea-faring man . . . Because Priscilla Lane is interwoven in-terwoven in the production of "Remember "Re-member Tomorrow," Warner Brothers Bro-thers have selected Olivia de Hav-illand Hav-illand to replace her in the feminine femi-nine lead opposite Henry Fonda in "The Male Animal" . . . Shirley Temple will ride back into screenland on "Kathleen," a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production. Since her last film, "Young People," Peo-ple," which was produced about a year and a half ago, Shirley has grown two and a half inches taller. She is now 13 years old, weighs 100 pounds, and is four feet eleven and one-half inches tall. "Kathleen" "Kath-leen" is the story of a young girl who becomes peeved because her father is more interested in his business than he is in his daughter daugh-ter . . . Jack Oakie has been switched switch-ed from "Vicki and Her Eagles" j to "Rise and Shine," and the for- mer has been indefinitely postponed. post-poned. The postponement is due to the discovery by Fox Studios that Warner Brothers' "Dive Bomber," which was recently finished, dealt with precisely the same subject: medical care of the pilot . . . Joe Yules has recently been added to the cast of "Babes On Broadway," which co-stars his son, Mickey Rooney, with Judy Garland. Gar-land. Frances Gifford has been selected for the feminine lead in "Tombstone," with Richard Dix. Bruce Cabot will be "Wild Bill Hickock as he "Rides Again." paring the scenario from her own story . . . Paramount is haviHg a photoplay pho-toplay written for Stirling Hayden Hay-den about a sailor-fisher of Cape Cod. Hayden was one of the few new promising faces seen on the screen last year; he is a smooth, tall blonde and different. He played play-ed in "Virginia" last year and has Screen Shorts'- Of extreme interest to the stronger sex is the news that Ann Corrio, most widely known (and seen) strip teaser, will head for the movies on September 15. As a half-caste, sarong-clad swamp lady in her first picture, "Swamp Lady," the burlesque queen will, we are sure, steal much of Dottie Lamour's sarong "power" . . . The screen life of the late Harry Houdini has been completed complet-ed by John Stone, former Fox producer. If Paul Muni can be persuaded per-suaded to take the part, Mr. Stone will arrange for production at once . . . Claudette Colbert will star as a member of a. ballet troupe stranded in England because of the war in "The Ballerina from Brighton." Lucille Prumbs is pre- |