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Show Screen Shorts Hollywood is making its contribution con-tribution to the entertainment of the delegations from the United Nations meeting at San Francisco. Francis-co. The United Nations theatre formerly the Alcazar, an 1100-seat 1100-seat house, which was contributed by Charles Skouras, is being conducted con-ducted by the Motion Picture Industry In-dustry exclusively for the conferees confer-ees and those carrying conference credentials. Two shows are given nightly and a new bill every day is made up from pictures produced produc-ed in the studios of the participating participat-ing studios. The films shown at the United Unit-ed Nations theater were chosen by a joint industry committee and the State Department and the programs are diversified with Hollywood Hol-lywood films selected to represent a cross-section of American life and thought. t Truman for world-wide distribu- tion- , As it usually happens, Clark Gable went through vigorous training and more than two years as a combat flyer, flying several missions over Berlin, without receiving re-ceiving a scratch, only to come back to Los Angeles and receive two broken ribs and severe bruises bruis-es when he drove up on a curb and hit a tree to avoid smashing into another car on the wrong side of the highway. Maureen O'Hara, who says she hates swing, is in her first out-and-out musical, "Kitten on the Keys," in which she will have to listen to a great deal of hot music, mus-ic, played by Harry James and his orchestra. Maureen, by the way, enjoys the distinction of being one actress who has never had a screen rival in a picture and in this film, she is the sole feminine love interest. Teresa Wright is to have the feminine lead in "Too Good to Be True," with Ray Milland and Brian Bri-an Donlevy. This comedy is about a girl reporter's romances with a college professor and her city editor. edi-tor. The latest is that Judy Garland Gar-land is to portray the late Marilyn Miller in MGM's forthcoming "Till the Clouds Roll By." The newsreel men are speedy workers and then some, as witness wit-ness their coverage of President Roosevelt's death. Eighteen hours after his sudden death was announced an-nounced five newsreels had turned out special 750-foot editions showing show-ing highlights in the late President's Presi-dent's life and the new presidentj Harry S. Truman, taking the oath of office. Newsreel editors worked all Thursday night to have the reels ready for printing and shipping ship-ping by air around the country and to England by Friday morning. morn-ing. The United Newsreel, which is the weekly Anglo-American newsreel for liberated and neutral neu-tral countries, operated by the OWI, had a special newsreel resume resu-me of Mr. Roosevelt's career ready for distribution by Friday afternoon made up with commentaries commen-taries in 17 different languages and dialects. Prints were flown around the world "on top priority rating." The OWI then set immediately immed-iately to work producing a second sec-ond newsreel special about the career and policies of President |