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Show " i Screen Shorts Like all the rest of the coun-r coun-r try, gasoline rationing is having its effect on Hollywood and, if you ask us, it might turn out to be a beneficial one, too. Everybody is getting closer together and, consequently, conse-quently, more neighborly. The "share-the-ride" program is receiving re-ceiving good cooperation and, best of. all, everybody seems in good spirits about it all. Approximately 1,000 theatres designed for the entertainment of our men in the armed services will be in operation shortly. These will have a seating capacity of about 750,000 and each week there will be presented 6,750 programs. These figures do not include similar arrangements ar-rangements which will be made In Panama, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii nor those contemplated for combat zones. Three glamorous gals, Clau-deate Clau-deate Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake, who will appear ap-pear together in "So Proudly We Hail," a movie about nurses at Bataan, will certainly be de-glamorized. Instead of the dozens of costume changes they usually have, these gals will have a wardrobe consisting of one white and one blue unnform each, plus a pair of khaki coveralls. Imagine that! Have you read Joan Craw- 1 ford's amazingly frank autobio- graphy in the December issue of the Ladies' Home Journal ? It's ex- ! ceuenuy done Dut with a candor never before approached by a Hol-lywoodite. Hol-lywoodite. Encouraged by the financial returns which "Mrs. Miniver" has been turning into M-G-M coffers, it is no wonder we hear rumors that this studio, which has both Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver) and Walter Pidgeon (Mr. Miniver) under un-der contract, is planning a sequel to this excellent picture. Because of fear that if Roy Remembering the fight between be-tween Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins which developed during the filming of "The Old Maid," everyone is interestedly watching watch-ing the two work together again in "Old Acquaintance." Mary Martin, who gained five 1 pounds during a rest in the desert, : is wanted by George Abbot for a Broadway musical next spring if ; he can persuade Paramount to lend her to him. 6tlO UUCJ LilC lllUJUUtL, 111B iUU fans will consider him a sissy, his studios will deny him the pleasure in his forthcoming film. However, he is teaching his horse, Trigger, the rhumba which the animal will step during rodeo performances this winter. Greta Garbo is begging M-G-M for a chance to get back before the camera before the public forgets for-gets her. Fans are still trying to forget her last appearance in "Two-Faced Woman." ' In Paramounts' "Salute for Three," there's a definite hit number, num-ber, "Left-Right," which will not be aired or recorded until after the film's release. The studio is still angry because of the premature radio release of "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle," theme song of "Forest Rangers," which rose to No. 1 on the Hit Parade and had been "played to death" before the picture pic-ture was released. It won't happen hap-pen this time. |