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Show SOVIET UNION y! oUTER MONGOLIA- J SIMKIANG) yf fpJOfnm .....J - . V-yC CJPSui ft) ( I Pcipmg' IT JAPAN ',0KY 1 ---5:.. V J I K9RE DoHm, tyy vm- TIBNTC H I N An9Na . Shanghai ' u ywtnehow ' r T. Amouy I "' MaMalsu,, ( . y FOAMOtt SuBMA X CantofOv'V (THAILAND) -hTma"'" Dhii imiur. ' ftl Jam , Bas ' S . i&w C' V Tnmalav V : -iT SUMTKh( BORNEO f (C7T t' ATAViAHETHERLANDS INDIES "- s Screen Sliort The primary function of the motion picture screen, according to Will H. Hays, film czar, is entertainment. en-tertainment. While informational, educational and inspirational elements ele-ments in pictures are growing, Mr. Hays said, "When the public lays down its money at the box office, it is primarily for entertainment" entertain-ment" . . . Interesting to us, at least, is the news that the production of major films is going on uninterruptedly uninter-ruptedly in England despite the air raids and all the accompanying war activity. "Hatter's Castle," Arthur Cronin's Edwardian melodrama, melo-drama, is about completed; Robert Ro-bert Donat is to have the lead in "The Young Mr. Pitt," which is about to go into production, while Leslie Howard will soon produce, direct, and play in he biography of R. J. Mitchell, inventor of the Spitfire. He is anxious to get David Da-vid Niven, who is now in the army, to co-star with him as the test pilot who flies the machines that Mitchell invented . . . Actual scenes dealing with the actual fighting between England Eng-land and the Axis will appear in "A Yank in the R.A.F.." in which I his screen debut in "The pm. burgh Kid," the story of his Uf, Jean Parker will have the (em, nine lead. Jimmy Durante, Grant Mitchell and others filling the various and sundry additional roles of the Broadway success . . . As reported previously, there is a superfluity of promising young feminine bundles of pulchritude in Hollywood, but a distressing lack of broad-chested, bass-voiced heroes. he-roes. Asked for a list of their two leading young players, five studios named ten, as follows: Paramount: Eva Gabor and Frances Gifford; Twentieth Century - Pox: Cobina Wright, Jr., and Sheila Ryan; MGM: Kathryn Grayson and Rise Stevens; Warner Bros.: Elisabeth Fraser and Alexis Smith; Columbia: Colum-bia: Janet Blair and Patti Mc-Carty. Mc-Carty. There's not a boy among the lot . . . Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray will be seen together in a comedy by James Edward Grant, "Miss Madden Is Willing," to be produced by Columbia . . . Billy Conn, who recently gave such a good account of himself in his fight against Joe Luis, heavyweight heavy-weight boxing champion, will make Tyrone Power appears as an American Am-erican flier who participates in the evacuation of Dunkerque. Footage shot from planes during combat has been shipped from England to Fox, with the cooperation of Lord Beaverbrook ... As a result of a deal signed with his widow, the life of James J. Corbett, the first world's heavyweight heavy-weight boxing champion to win his title under the Marquis of Queens-berry Queens-berry rules, will be brought to the screen by Warners. Errol Flynn will probably play the title role . . . Ginger Rogers will take advantage ad-vantage of the clause in her contract con-tract with RKO which allows her one outside commitment to star in Ernst Lubitsch's production of "A Self-Made Cinderella," at the Fox studio. The story is that of "an American working girl who seeks romance." Imagine that! -At The cast for the screen version ver-sion of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" has finally been completed complet-ed and, as announced, is: Monty Woolley will have the title role, with Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Charles Drake, Reginald Gardiner, |