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Show Shorts Hollywood has gone on a war footing, with its work day running from eight o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the afternoon, with night work taboo "for the duration." Air-raid shelters are being be-ing planned and a strict ban on visitors instituted. Critics all over the land are now busy selecting the ten photoplays pho-toplays for the annual poll conducted con-ducted by the Film Daily. The eligible eli-gible films are those released between be-tween November 1, 1940, and October Oc-tober 31, 1941. Two photoplays, however, which were road-shown before that time, were .not released for general exhibition until 1941 "Gone With the Wind" and "The Great Dictator" and ' are therefore there-fore eligible for consideration by the critics and editors. Orson Welles is hard at work on his second film in Hollywood. He's the head man again the producer, pro-ducer, the director, and the writer, although he has to share writing honors with another good author, Booth Tarkington. In this film, "The Magnificent Ambersons," Welles does not have a part as he did in his first film, "Citizen Kane." Hollywood is putting the soft-pedal soft-pedal on all the heavy stuff and is speeding comedies and musicals to the screen as rapidly as possible. pos-sible. Officials realize that the people peo-ple need entertainment to boost morale in war time. When her studio tried every means to persuade Carole Lombard to cooperate on a publicity stunt, Carole persistently refused. The more they begged, the more stubbornly stub-bornly she refused to have anything any-thing to do with it. So when her birthday came along, a few days later, the publicity department sent her a very meaningful gift a donkey, don-key, the very essence of stubbornness. stub-bornness. A number of the screen's young stars are rebelling against their studio's practice of holding them to their contracts at low wages while "loaning" them out to other studios at high prices. These stars insist that they should have new contracts at higher wages, or at least a "cut" in the fat fees their employers are receiving from other studios for their services. ser-vices. Although the film "The Out-Jaw" Out-Jaw" was completed six months ago, it continues on the shelf because be-cause of censorship difficulties, and the public has yet to get a glimpse of its heroine, Jane R.us-sell, R.us-sell, the most publicized glamor girl ever not to be seen in a movie. She was discovered by Howard Hughes and given the lead in his picture immediately. |