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Show the navy, will look after his many and varied enterprises. Listed among the cast of "You Can't Escape Forever,"' which features fea-tures George Brent and Brenda Marshall, are such old-timers as Monte Blue, Creighton Hale, Fred Kelsey, Jack Mower, Leo White, Frank Mayo, Mitchell Lewis, Chas. Dudley, Paul Panzer, Leah Baird, Lottie Williams, Vera Lewis, Dick Johnson, and Glen Cavender. While all feature films have been discontinued at the Walt Disney Dis-ney studio for the "duration," word has come that there will continue to be a constant supply of short subject films starring the popular Disney characters. This will be delightful de-lightful news for the kiddies. Robert Benchley has had his hands and time full recently. He has been working in two feature films at the same time, jumping from one role to another, as needed. need-ed. The films were "The Major and the Minor" and "I Married a Witch." Screen Shorts Paul Muni, who has been absent ab-sent from the screen for the past two years, is back in Hollywood, where he will star in "The Commandos" Com-mandos" for Columbia. Muni settled set-tled his contract with Fox and has appeared on Broadway in the interim. Tired of appearing in roles in which she was forced to portray neurotic and villainous persons, Ida Lupino has announced that following her current assignment in "The Hard Way," at Warner Bros., she will accept only comedy parts. Miss Lupino's father, Stanley Stan-ley Lupino, was one of England's greatest comedians, and her mother, mo-ther, Connie Emerald, was a top commedienne in England. So Miss Lupino ought to know what she's talking about. In response to the request of a sailor stationed at Pearl Harbor, Carole Landis appeared on the radio ra-dio show of which Don Ameche is master of ceremonies and gave a "soulful" sigh. That's all the sailor wanted to hear and that's what he got. That screen test which turned turn-ed out so favorably for Lois Jes-sel, Jes-sel, was not one of those tests given as a favor for an interested husband or friend. It was a bona fide test made at the request of a studio official who spotted her in a cafe. While not many people like to admit the mistakes they've made, Ruth Hussey is doing so and getting get-ting paid for it Cosmopolitan has just bought a 2,500-word story about the boners she has made, written by Ruth herself. Lana Turner has put aside, (for the time being, at least) the motorcycle on which she had been scooting all around town. Her mother mo-ther ordered it after Lana had a very narrow escape from a spill. Fred Astaire has worn out 600 pairs of shoes dancing before the cameras. The shop which makes his shoes always presents him with the hundredth pair free. That's how Fred keeps up with the number num-ber he had worn. While working in "The Palm Beach Story," Claudette Colbert was on a train for two whole weeks but never went a mile. A complete train was built as a set on a sound stage at Paramount. Besides being ten times world champion ice skater, and a presentable pre-sentable movie actress, Sonja Henie is regarded as a very shrewd business woman. She not only looks after her career as an actress, but manages entirely her annual skating skat-ing tour which employs more than 100 people and grosses $2,000,000 a year. Besides, she takes care of family business interests and when her husband, Dan Topping, enters |