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Show Screen Shorts While there has been much criticism of war films because they, for the most part, still seem too fanciful, there is one thing we can say. These films are bringing bring-ing to the eyes and ears of the people "living history," enabling those who see them to visualize the places and conditions under which the war is being fought. While there were a number of war stories after the first World War, practically all of them came out some time after the end of the war. Today, we have such films as "Desert Victory," "In Which We Serve," "So Proudly We Hail," "Mrs. Miniver," "Five Graves to Cairo," and the like only a short time after the incidents inci-dents depicted in them have occurred. oc-curred. While people may think being a comedian is an easy life, to Bob Hope, it isn't After undergoing all storts of stunts for the sake of a laugh (for the audience), his next film, "Let's Face It," calls for him to drive a jeep through the side of a building, jump through a plate-glass window (real), and propel a rowboat which is hoisted out of the water by a German U-boat. Funny, isn't it? Director Lloyd Bacon is planning plan-ning to make a film based on the lives of the five Sullivan brothers who lost their lives when the cruiser Juneau was sunk off of Guadalcanal last November. Cecil B. DeMille is finding it difficult, if not almost impossible, to find enough men to fill the parts for the filming of "The Story of Dr. Wassell." Gary Cooper Coop-er will portray Commander Cory-don Cory-don M. Wassell, former Arkansas country doctor, who won the Navy Cross and a radio salute from President Roosevelt for evacuating evacuat-ing nine wounded American sailors sail-ors from Java. Elliott Reed, a newcomer, will play a wounded American sailor who falls in love with a Dutch nurse. k Pola Negri, who has been absent from Hollywood for some time, is "returning" to the screen capital and will play the role of Adolph Menjou's wife in "Hi, Diddle Did-dle Diddle." It will be the first comedy role she has ever had on the screen. Tom Conway, while accepted as a Britisher, is really a citizen of Russia, having been born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has been in America on a working permit for years and wants to become be-come a citizen but can't, because Russia's quotas are all filled. Tom's brother, George Sanders, is British, because, while he, too, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he happened to be born within the portals of the British consulate. Ida Lupino, following the doctor's advice, has put on eleven pounds and looks so well that Warner Brothers have decided to "glamorize" her through a series of fetching sex stills. She will make her first light film when she is teamed with Paul Henreid in "In Our Times." V ii c e-versa, Mary Beth Hughes was recently given a contract con-tract by Pine and Thomas on condition con-dition that she keep her weight below 125 pounds. |