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Show Screen iiorts The only way Director Otto Brower got enough extras who looked like Japanese to appear in his film, "Little Tokio, U. S. A.", was to use Chinese and the only way he could get them to portray their hated enemy was to persuade them that this was an opportunity to make villains of the Japs, and, at the same time, get paid for it. The rumor that the Brian Aherne's (Joan Fontaine) were about to be divorced was squashed squash-ed when the Academy Award winner win-ner declared, "If the Ahernes are dividing, it's like Gaul in three parts." Then she announced the impending arrival of an heir. Screen stars, during the past six months, have traveled a distance dis-tance equal to more than thirty times around the world to entertain enter-tain soldiers and sailors, according accord-ing to the Hollywood Victory committee. com-mittee. They have made 3,198 personal per-sonal appearances at forts, camps, etc. Their most spectacular performance, per-formance, of course, was the famous fam-ous Victory Caravan, which shattered shat-tered all entertainment records and raised $800,000 for army and navy relief. The Dead End Kids seem about to strike a dead end street in their movie careers. Billy Hal-lop Hal-lop and Gabriel Dell have made application for entrance to an officers' of-ficers' training school, while Huntz Hall and Bernard Punsley are awaiting calls to military service. Because her role in "Careful Soft Shoulders" called for Virginia Bruce to slip and fall into a mill stream while trying to elude the villains and she didn't know how to swim, the studio installed a portable port-able tank on the set and hired an athletic instructor to teach her to swim just to make the scene more realistic. The first real war and propaganda propa-ganda picture ever to be shown in the United States was "The Battle Bat-tle Cry of Peace," produced in 1915 by J. Stuart Blackton, with Norma Talmadge and Charles Richman as its stars. Now that Vaughn Paul, her husband, has entered the navy, Deanna Durbin has her brother-in-law and sister and their baby son with her in her new home, so that she wouldn't be alone. The sister, Edith Heckman, is the one who spent part of her savings as a school teacher to give Deanna singing sing-ing lessons when the latter was only 10. Her brother-in-law, Clarence Clar-ence . Heckman, is her business agent and one of her severest critics, cri-tics, as far as her picture activities activi-ties are concerned. Jane Withers, whom many remember re-member as one of the movie's meanest moppets, has passed the sweet sixteen mark and has emerged emerg-ed into one of Hollywood's most promising "glamour gals." Her first picture for Republic Studio, with whom she has just signed a contract, is to be a "superduper" military musical entitled "Johnny Doughboy." Every morning for three days a dozen or more extras filed into a movie morgue, climbed up on the marble slabs, and were covered cover-ed with sheets to provide the proper pro-per atmosphere for Preston Foster who used the morgue as a hiding place while he searched out Japanese Ja-panese fifth columnists in "Little Tokio, U. S. A." The extras were paid $10.50 a day, which wasn't so much when you consider that they had to lie on marble slabs for quite a while at a time. |