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Show Shorts k There's one picture on schedule sched-ule that the male stars of Hollywood Holly-wood arcnt scrambling to get Into. In-to. That's Paramount's "The Hitler Hit-ler Gang," in which Hitler and his closest henchmen must be portrayed por-trayed all the way through the story, which tells of the formation and rise of the Nazi group to world power. Franchot Tone, listed to play Goebbcls, is the only role so far settled. Charles Dana Gibson, who cre- ated the famous "Gibson Girl", has been asked to come to Hollywood to prologue the film which is his biography, RKO's "The Gibson Girl." Fifty of the most beautiful models in New York and Hollywood Holly-wood will appear in the film. Two weeks after starting In one of the top roles in "The Right Guy", his first job in two years, Henry Armetta, lovable veteran Italian actor, whose comedy antics, usually as a distraught waiter, have brightened dozens of movies, was stricken with a serious heart ailment which will necessitate a complete rest of at least eight months. The first person Mme. Chiang Kai-shek asked to see on her re-, cent visit to Hollywood was Luiap Rainer, now making a comback try at Paramount in "Hostages." As Miss Rainer had not been included in any of the entertainment plans or even been invited, there was a hurried shuffling of plans and scurrying around. It is understood that Madame Chiang favors Rainer Rai-ner for the Chinese lead in "Dragon "Drag-on Seed" and interested friends are wondering how MGM will respond to the suggestion. Veronica Lake is busy these days taking a quickie course in of all things the German language, lan-guage, so she can speak at least a smattering of the language by the time she is scheduled to start her work on "The Hour Before the Dawn", in which she plays a vamping vamp-ing English spy. Although Dana Andrews, rising ris-ing young actor, makes $500 a week, he finds that he made almost as much when he was pumping gas at his filling station in Van Nuys, Calif. After Uncle Sam gets his slice, his press agent his ten per cent, and the two men who backed him in his film effort their 25 per cent, he has just about $100 left to make his house and car payments, pay-ments, buy milk for the baby, groceries gro-ceries and the numerous incidentals inciden-tals which are necessary in any average household. Little Jenkins, five-year-old actor who practically stole the show from Mickey Rooney in "The Human Comedy", will play the role of Eleanor Powell's son in "You Can't Fool a Marine." Ginger Rogers has the leading role in "The Gibson Girl", while Anne Shirley will have the second lead in which is her first Technicolor Techni-color movie. It ought to be good. The lawyers didn't like the shellacking they received via Adolphe Manjou's impersonation in "Roxy Hart", and they had hardly had their feelings smoothed down or soothed, when along came Jack Benny's impersonation in "The Meanest Man in the World", which the barristers claim "defames, debases de-bases and disgraces the legal profession." pro-fession." Well Laird Cregar has lost fifty of his enormous number of pounds and his doctors expect him to lose twenty-five more before they will allow him to return to his screen work in earnest. |