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Show Screen Shorts You might be interested to learn that the New York film critics selected "The Watch on the Rhine" as 1943's best film; Paul Lukas as the best actor of the year for his superlative performance per-formance In the same picture; George Stevens as the year's outstanding out-standing director for his work on "The More the Merrier," and Ida I.upino as the yar's best aetress for her wor kin "The Hard Way." How do their selections line up with yours? Do you know who the youngest young-est director in Hollywood is? He's Mark Robson, 29, who Is directing direct-ing "The Ghost Ship," starring Richard Dix. Before coming a director, he was a crack cutter enrl edited such films as "Cat People," Peo-ple," and "I Walked With a Zombie" Zom-bie" and "The Leopard Man." Captain Clark Gable in Hollywood Hol-lywood editing aerial war pictures shot in Europe, rides back and forth to the MGM studio, where he is working and his home on a motorcycle. Friends have offered him the use of spare automobiles but Gable prefers the two-whceler. two-whceler. In their efforts to get away from so many pictures with a war background, Hollywood has shifted shift-ed to the realm of fantasy and the supernatural, a type of film which has not, as a usual thing, proved very satisfactory from a i financial standpoint of view. However, How-ever, with plenty of money in the pockets of film fans and the desire de-sire of the fans to get away from it all for a short time, at last, these films may prove popular at the box offices of the nation. Lewis Goebey, owner and a trainer of animals, is enjoying good business these days with practically every studio producing one or more pictures with Africa, the Middle East, China or India as the locales. His camels, elephants, ele-phants, water buffaloes and even lions are in great demand. Remember the film, "Tarzan Finds an Heir," and the attractive little boy who played the role of Tarzan's son? He was, if you don't remember, Johnny Sheffield who appeared in five Tarzan pictures. pic-tures. Johnny, now though, is 12 years old. Doesn't time fly? Believing there's a great deal more to Deanna Durbin than her beautiful voice, Universal is planning plan-ning to gradually introduce her as a dramatic actress rather than as a singer in musical pictures and comedies. The reaction of the public to her role in "Christmas Holiday" will be taken as a guide as to how far to go along this line. If "Junior Miss," the first film to be produced by Mary Pick-ford Pick-ford in some time, does as well as she expects, Miss Pickford plans to do a series of such films, using paid the fantastic price of a flat make up her cast. Miss Pickford unknown actors and actresses to $410,000 or $355,000 and a share of the profits for film rights to the Broadway hit. For 18 years, Charles Rug-gles Rug-gles has been collecting gaudry circus midway banners as a hobby. hob-by. Recently he persuaded a stu- dio to give him a role in the Texas Tex-as Guinan life-story picture, "Incendiary "In-cendiary Blonde," with Betty Hutton, then he persuaded the producers to rent his banners as props. The rent paid for the collection. col-lection. Smart, eh? One hundred acres of Southern Sou-thern California farm land have been transformed into a Chinese farm community for the dramatization dramati-zation of Pearl Buck's "Dragon Seed,-' being produced by MGM. Everything is practically perfect down to the bamboo huts and fences, fen-ces, the mulberry trees, the small truck gardens and the hundreds of rice paddies growing on terraced hills. |