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Show Shorts In its first yearly report, the Hollywood Victory Committee reveals re-veals that it has provided 1,141 stars and featured players, of the screen, stage and radio, to help America's war effort. Fulfilling assignments at home, off-shore, and abroad, these players have traveled on land, on the sea, and in the air to carry diversion to the far-flung battle fronts of this country. Players from the free talent pool operated by the Hollywood Victory Committee have presented 352 shows at army, navy, air force : I and coast guard camps. Nine players play-ers have flown to England and Ireland Ire-land to entertain our troops, and fourteen have made air trips to the Caribbean, the Panama Canal Zone, Newfoundland, Alaska and the Aleutians. -A: Almost 30 players made - 2,-773 2,-773 personal appearances to sell war bonds for the treasury department, depart-ment, during which sales aggregated aggre-gated millions of dollars. A total well in excess of 1,000,000 miles, or almost forty times around the world, was traveled by these Hollywood Hol-lywood folk. An appeal has come from the war department to owners of 16 mm. home movie projectors, which are urgently needed to provide film entertainment for our fighting forces, particuarly on foreign fronts. Curtailment of the manufacture manu-facture of the 16 mm. projectors caused by the diversion of materials mater-ials to other vital war requirements require-ments and the demands of the army and navy for available projectors, pro-jectors, has practically eliminated surplus machines that could be used for this purpose. This explains ex-plains the appeal to private owners own-ers of such machines. If you own such a machine, you can either contribute it or sell your projector to the government. In order to make a field of, wild flowers bow to Gloria Jean, ! blind girl heroine of "Flesh and: Fantasy," Willis R. Cook, special effects expert, "planted" a field of 1,200 wild flowers to which1 threads were .attached. These were attached to piano keyboards, which caused them to bow when the keys were played. Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer has shelved the screen adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim," because it was believed that re-statement of Kipling's philosophy of white supremacy in India could hardly be ! more untimely. Charles Laughton, Mickey Rooney, Maria Ouspen-skaya, Ouspen-skaya, Conrad Veidt and Basil Rathbone, who were scheduled for the leading roles; have been assigned assign-ed to other films. Because his wife, Barbara Stanwyck, is alergic to hair of all kinds, Robert Taylor is in a dilemma. He is sporting a six-weeks' six-weeks' growth of beard (all homegrown) home-grown) for his role of the hard-boiled hard-boiled sergeant in "Bataan Patrol," and until the film is completed (it's an S-week affair) he's strictly strict-ly taboo around his own house. The little boy who will be seen in Dorothy Lamour's next film with Bing Crosby, "Dixie," is the bright red-hraired 6 -year-old son of her secretary, Dolores Reilly. The boy's name is Danny Reilly. Until the coming of Sonny Tufts, Lloyd Cregar held the distinction dis-tinction of being Hollywood's tallest tall-est leading man, with a height of I six feet three and three-quarters. ! Sonny, who shares male honors in "So Proudly We Hail," is an even six feet four inches. When a man says he is all-out for war but does nothing but criticize cri-ticize the war efforts of the democracies, demo-cracies, you can put him down as a four-footed animal. |