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Show Br VIRGINIA VALE (Beleased by Western Newspaper Union.) CLAUDETTE COLBERT'S dressing room has been doing a bit of traveling, to the 1 amazement of inhabitants of Los Angeles who saw the one-room one-room bungalow riding along on a truck one evening. It was made for Miss Colbert at the Paramount studioswhen she was working In "Skylark." She was so proud of it that she had it taken to Twentieth Century-Fox when she began "Remember the Day." Back she went to Paramount, then, for the new Preston Sturgess picture and back, too, went the bungalow. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is rushing to the nation's theaters a two-reel release special, "War Clouds in the Pacific," which was compiled by the Canadian government Just before be-fore December 7. It proved to be so prophetic that M-G-M officials ordered or-dered a record number of prints so that the picture would be available for simultaneous showing in many theaters throughout this country. ; Joe E. Brown, wearing women's clothes for the first time on the ' screen in Columbia's "Shut My Big Mouth," has set a record (or speed in dressing which will make fem- i CSV 1 1 : j JOE E. BROWN inine stars look to their laurels. Timing himself with a stop-watch, Brown has streamlined the routine until he can dress completely from petticoats to hat and wig in one minute and forty seconds. Hugh Herbert, the Woo Woo come- dian, will have the principal male i role in the new version of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," the role played by W. C. Fields when last the picture was made. Carolyn Lee will play the youngest daughter, daugh-ter, the role which brought screen fame to Virginia Weidler. Patricia Morrison's been playing hostess to a solid silver pagoda, valued val-ued at more than half a million dollars. It was smuggled out of China, and will be taken on tour later. It weighs 1,300 pounds. Ed East and Polly have just finished fin-ished their second "Kitchen Quiz" film for Columbia pictures, featuring featur-ing the helps for housewives which popularized the team on thousands of radio programs. The first "Kitchen "Kitch-en Quiz" was aimed at comedy; this second one is more serious. Parks Johnson and Wally Butter-worth Butter-worth have offered their Vox Pop Interviews program to President Roosevelt, the army and the navy for whatever use it can be put to in informational service, morale building build-ing and entertainment. A- The popular CBS "Whodunit" mystery mys-tery series broadcast Thursday evenings eve-nings has a group of rabid mystery fans continually watching for slipups slip-ups on crime technique and deduction; deduc-tion; when they think they've discovered dis-covered a discrepancy they gleefully gleeful-ly write to Lew X. Lansworth, who writes the- scripts and says he can feel them hanging over his shoulder shoul-der whenever he sits down to work. It's Ginger Rogers who draws the coveted assignment to star in the screen version in color of the highly successful stage play, "Lady in the Dark." This is the second season that Gertrude Lawrence has appeared in it on the New York stage. The leading role requires someone who can sing, dance, act and wear clothes well. Ginger's a natural for it. Bob Burns, the "Arkansas Traveler," Travel-er," gets a duplicate of an expert rifleman's medal with three bars; he won it as a marine during the first World war, and lost it friends have been checking records, and finally got him what you might call "a reasonable facsimile." ODDS AND ENDS Guest stars on the new "Shirley Temple Time" program pro-gram receive beautiful gold watchet from Shirley'o sponsors . . Amazingly for HoUyviood, Margaret Haves, famous fa-mous New York fashion model, was actually cast as a model in "Take a Letter, Darling" . . , Macdonald Carey's certainly on his way up in Hollywood; Paramount has renewed his contract . . . RICO'S current hum and Abner picture pic-ture wiU be released by RKO under the title of "The Bashful Bachelor" . . . The Association of Hollywood Photographers voted Bob Hop and Rita Hayworth the most "photo-generous" members of the film capital. |