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Show " Short s Tm..M,t is still xvaxlMR vliothor tho si-r.vn should tA ''"Mum of strk'tly ontorUln- N'Vt.rinC t''Sl l,;,ys of wnr or i'nl " ' should i-nrry homo to the fiu't tlmt tho ooim-f ooim-f rnvir ami show thorn, ron-if,f ron-if,f .ho notiml fm'ts of wnr-pur wnr-pur part, wo thin- there 9 a biihuu-o of both typos, Sl!JMh nro weU ni'ul0' ' , Turlnui Bey. VnS Cooh, nc" m took Suhu's plaeo in 'All S . Forty Thieves." .ibu went into military sor-been sor-been loaned by his studio nw Juvenile lead opposite Knth-Horburn Knth-Horburn in "Dragon Seed." Lup(, Velez has deserted Ilolly-li Ilolly-li temporarily in order to do n Lsh-Kins-uag-e film version of le Zola's "Nana" In her na-Mexico. na-Mexico. She joins two other Ln-born film players, Ra- Nevarro and Dolores Del Rio, X have also recently appeared in "Mexican-made films. MGM has bought Marcia D3venporfs best selling novel, "The Tsllev of Decision," as a vehicle for Greer Garson. Miss Davenport, by the way, has been engaged by Paramount to write a story for them, the yarn being temporarily titled, "Sophie Cooper," and will deal with the public and private ambitions of an American woman. Latest word from the bedside of Katrina Paxinou, recently seriously seri-ously ill, is that she is improving. This Greek actress played the role of Pillar in "For Whom the Bell Tolls." A two-reel Technicolor film, "Women at War," dealing with the WACs, has been released by Warners in conjunction with the ten-week drive to recruit 150,000 new members for the WACs and has been booked to play every town in the country with a population popu-lation of 10,000 or more. While Ann Sothern is anxious to get away from the Maisie roles after five "Maisie" pictures, it won't be as easy as she imagines because of her film fans, who won't accept anyone else in that particular particu-lar role. Miss Sothern has already done five Maisie films and she thinks that's about enought. Betty Grable recently signed a straight seven-year contract with Twentieth Century-Fox to replace re-place her seven-year optional deal. Gene Kelly will be borrowed from Universal from MGM to play a leading male part in Deanna Durbin's next film, "Christmas Holiday." One of the prettiest and most vivacious of the newcomers to the Universal lot is Ramsay Ames, 22-year-old brunette, who led a rumba band in New York night clubs for three years before Hollywood Holly-wood beckoned. Her first picture will be a featured part in "The Mummy's Ghost." The food you will see on the banquet table in "Frenchman's Creek," including a vast sirloin, flanked by smoking boar's heads, whole salmon, sherbets and pastries, pas-tries, is the real McCoy and not the usual mache or wax variety. The wine, however, isn't real. Veronica Lake expects to be able to resume work about Dec. 1, after a vacation in New York and Mexico City. Ann Harding, who recently returned to Hollywood to resume her action career after an absence of some years, will have the role of a chaperon in "Nine Girls," the screen version of the original Wilfrid Wil-frid E. Pettitt play, which Columbia Colum-bia is producing. |