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Show a background of Buenos Aires. It i will be Miss Ceirel's first import-I import-I .ant part in an American film. Ties of Uncle Jan Horak," by Au- drey Wurdeann, have been bought by Paraount. The story, centering about the life of a Bohemian family fam-ily in Wisconsin, is to be published by Simon & Schuster. Micheline Cheirel, once a French screen and stage actress, and former wife of John Loder, has been signed by RKO for the romantic ro-mantic lead opposite Dick Powell in "Cornered," a melodrama with 4 creeii Shorts rlt might intereset you to know that all of the major studios in Hollywood are furnishing selected feature films and shorts to be shown to Nazi prisoners of war in this country. The pictures are selected se-lected by a special branch of the War Dept. with a view to breaking break-ing down and counter-acting the Nazi-indoctrinated racial and other oth-er prejudices. Films are selected with the idea of impressing prisoners pris-oners of war with honest illustrations illustra-tions of our American way of life with the power and strength of the United Stated and with a true comparison between democracy and Prussian militarism. Pictures, such as "Dr. Ehr-lich's Ehr-lich's Magic Bullet" and "The Life of Emile Zola" were shown with the idea of attempting to break down racial prejudices. In the division di-vision that might be called Americans, Amer-icans, the prisoners see such features fea-tures as "The . Human Comedy," "Adventures of Mark Twain," "Going My Way," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Joe E. Brown is back at home with his family after a 20,000-mile 20,000-mile entertainment trip to West Pacific regions. He's getting rested rest-ed up for his next excursion a trip to Tokyo. The demand of GIs all over the world that Ann Sheridan come back to the screen, is placing the oomph girl- in a pretty position she can make her own terms with Warners with whom she has been on the outs for more than a year. She will probably demand so many months out of each year in New York and she will doubtless get what she wants. k Ava Gardner, the ex-Mrst, Mickey Rooney, begins her long-delayed long-delayed movie career. She has the lead opposite George Raft in "Whistle Stop." Mary Pickford has bought a completed screen play of the Po-lan Po-lan Banks novel, "There Goes Lo-na Lo-na Henry," from Benedict Bo-geaus Bo-geaus and plans to put it into production pro-duction in September. She would like to have either Dorothy La-mour La-mour or Joan Fontaine for the lead. It will be in technicolor at a cost of around ?1,500,000. Screen rights to an as yet unpublished un-published novel, "The Lives and |