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Show want to make "Going My Way," ( , with Bing Crosby and took him off salary, giving him a percent- : age share of the receipts. The pic-ture pic-ture is playing to more extended ! runs in leading cities throughout the country than any movie in its history and Bing will net about two millions as his share of the effort. Same arrangement went to Director Leo McCarey, who is also enjoying it greatly. IntenSing to make a number of super-duper musicals in the near future, Bill Perlberg, j major ma-jor studio's beauty impressario, sent scouts to fine-comb the United Unit-ed States for the most dazzling t girls to be had. From them were , selected the 14 Diamond Horse-j Horse-j shoe Girls, to make their debut in ; Betty Grable's "Diamond Horse-' Horse-' shoe." The girls came from New York City, Syracuse and Port Jefferson, Jef-ferson, N. Y., from Springfield, Mass., from Minneapolis; from Portland Ore.; Beverly Hills, Tulsa Tul-sa and Manhattan Beach. Lassie, of "Lassie Come Home" fame, whose real name by the way is Pal, was bought by his trainer, Rudd Watherwax, for $10 when his original owner who had left it to be broken of the habit of chasing motorcycles, couldn't pay a $10 board bill. The dog is Screen SBiorts In a single month recently, Hollywood photoplay, in 16-mm. films, were seen by approximately 32,000,000 men and women in uniform uni-form in this county and overseas. These films are given by the industry in-dustry and are shown free of charge. Last month, among the most popular films exhibited overseas ov-erseas were "Dragon Seed," "The Impatient Years," "Marriage Is a Private Affair,'" "Cassanova Brown," "Devotion" and "Hail the Conquering Hero." It is interesting to report that romance of a real nature often starts on Hollvwood sets. Some of so much in demand he now is working on two films simultane- J ously. the couples who have fallen under the spell of cupid while make-believe make-believe love-making are Ann Soth-ern Soth-ern and Lieut. Bob Sterling, Jane Wyman and Capt. Ronald Reagan and Greer Garson and Richard Ney, to mention only a few. The Cary Grants are believed by their friends to be off on their second honeymoon, after reports of a separation, and they hope ' that this time they will stay united. unit-ed. Tallulah Bankhead will have as her ex-lover in "The Royal Scandal", John Emery, her ex-husband. ex-husband. k Ingrid Bergman is to be starred star-red in "The Scarlet Lily," prize-winning prize-winning novel about Mary Magdalene Magda-lene written by the Rev. Ed. S. Murphy of Blessed . Sacrament Church in New Orleans and bought by David Selznick. k Peggy Ann Garner, whose performance in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," has Hollywood agog, will have the title role in "Junior Miss," which will be made in technicolor. tech-nicolor. This announcement will leave a lot of young starlets disappointed. dis-appointed. Joan McCracken, who didn't attract much attention in Hollywood Holly-wood when she was there about six months ago, is a knockout on Broadway, where she is appearing appear-ing in "Bloomer Girl." Hollywood will probably wake up and look now. The idea that it takes real beauty, symmetry of features, etc., to become a star in Hollywood is exploded when one considers Lauren Lau-ren Bacall, who made her first real film debut in "To Have and Have Not," with Humphey Bo-gart. Bo-gart. Lauren has streaked blond hair, green-blue . eyes, crooked teeth, and lisps when she talks but, does she have personality! That's what it takes. Paramount has found that you never can tell. They didn't |