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Show eren Whorls Judging' from box office re-cepits, re-cepits, anti-Nazi propaganda films ,-e not so popular with the movie-oners, movie-oners, who, according' to reports, either are fully conscious of the depravity of the Nazis and don't need to be reminded, or don't want evident propaganda stuffed down their thronta . . . So, tnking the hint, the studios stu-dios are now abandoning propaganda propa-ganda films and are using the war as a background for lusty, full-throated full-throated melodramas. Among these, we will soon be seeing "International "In-ternational Lady," with Ilona Mas-sey; Mas-sey; "One Nnght in Lisbon," "A Yank In the RAF," and "Eagle Squadron" . . . Warner Bros, recently announced an-nounced that they will set up a nation-wide system of lending libraries li-braries in their 500 theatres in the fall. This "Library of the Screen" will be stocked with a collection of plays, novels, stories and original ori-ginal film scripts which moviegoers movie-goers will be allowed to take home and peruse at leisure without cost. The idea, of course, is to stimulate interest in the studio's forthcoming pictures, many of which are based on popular literary favorites. The stalls will also include some of the classics and old favorites . . . Now that his second of George Bernard Shaw's works, "Major Barbara," has been launched, Gabriel Ga-briel Pascal is formulating plans to film other Shavian plays, including in-cluding "The Doctor's Dilemma," "Arms and the Man," "The Devil's Disciple" and "Saint Joan." Pascal plans to produce them all in England, Eng-land, as fast as production facilities facili-ties permit . . . When rumor spread the news erroneously that Cesar Romero was seeking a bride, he received more than 600 marriage proposals a day from fans from coast to coast . . . Virginia Field, the glamorous young English actress, has joined the ranks of picture players who are being lured to Broadway. Miss Field took over the Phyllis Brooks role in Buddy G. De Sylva's musical mu-sical comedy. "Panama Hattie" . . . Everywhere that Carmen Miranda, Mi-randa, the charming Souz American Ameri-can eyeful, goes, her mother, her brother, her manager and her orchestra or-chestra are sure to go. Her manager man-ager directs the orchestra and, of course, the five members of the or- chestra have to follow their leader. lead-er. It's quite a procession . . . Jimmy Stewart, now in the army, is scheduled to make an airplane tour of college campuses during June, to interest the boys in army life, evidently . . . Russell Simpson, character actor, ac-tor, has died one hundred times on the screen during his 30 years of movie-stage career. Charles Lang, in his last two roles, played the part of an orchestra or-chestra leader although he doesn't know a single note of music. That's Hollywood . . . Jack Arnold, who plays Wally Whipple in Columbia's screen version ver-sion of "Tillie the Toiler," 'has three famous nieces Ginger Rogers, Ro-gers, Rita Hayworth, and Phyllis Prazer, and his sister, Volga, is Rita Hayworth's mother. Arnold's real name is Vinton J. Hay-worth Hay-worth . . . Republic plans to produce a picture called "Newspaper Men Are Human." Well, it's about time. Ever since the beginning of pictures pic-tures about news-men, they've been portrayed as being crazier than bedbugs and hard as nails . . . |