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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) CARY GRANT, just finish-ing finish-ing "Arsenic and Old Lace" on the Warner lot at Burbank, Calif., is expected to apply for his final American Ameri-can citizenship papers any day now. He was preparing to complete his Americanization Americaniza-tion when England declared war on Germany, and stopped, figuring it as a slacker slack-er act. When he informed the British authorities that he was ready for any task they might assign him to, they told him to remain in Hollywood. Holly-wood. So he began dividing his earnings earn-ings between the needy here and in England; they got the $100,000 which he received for "The Philadelphia Story," and he's donating $100,000 of his "Arsenic" earnings; all the money must be spent here. Loretta Young finally revenged her screen sisters who have had to take slaps In the face and well-aimed well-aimed blows in the name of their art She caught Frederic March bent over with laughter during a scene in Columbia's "Bedtime Sto- '4 J&&$m 1 "InTi m fan ii m i iiimMSl LORETTA YOUNG ry" and launched a kick which not only deposited March in the gutter but also left him with his face in a mud puddle. To make matters worse, they had to make four takes before the scene was rightwhich meant four kicks, four descents Into the mud for March. George Brent had his first kissing scene with Olivia de Havilland in the forthcoming "In This Our Life." While they were making it Ann Sheridan, who works for the same studio, was on the set watching, and Brent seemed a bit bashful. "Go ahead, George, and give her a real kiss," urged Ann. "Just pretend that Annie doesn't live here any more." A week later, Ann and George were married. For two musical misfits who couldn't get a break in New York a few years ago because they couldn't carry a tune, comedians Bud Abbott Ab-bott and Lou Costello are doing all i right. Tbey got their first good break I by promising to learn to sing, and succeeded as comedians while they were learning. They've just made tlipil firct ,MA,il and ftr nranir. ing for their next picture, "Rio Rita." Gary Cooper probably wishes with all his heart that Lou Gehrig hadn't been a lef t- hander. Preparing for "Pride of the Yankees," the story of Gehrig's life, Gary is studying slow-motion slow-motion pictures of Babe Herman and working like mad with Lefty O'Doul, trying to learn to use that left hand as if it came natural We'll be seeing a new patriotic picture before the year is over. It's "American Cavalcade," and will tell the story of Mr. and Mrs. America through dramatic historic incidents and music. It is intended for Spencer Spen-cer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. RKO Radio is going to film the story of General Billy Mitchell, the flying general who was court mar-tialed mar-tialed because be believed so Implicitly Im-plicitly that plane were important to an army. It should be one of the year's Important films. It looks as if radio has another "God Bless America" in "They Can't Black out the Stars and Stripes," a new song written by Elliott El-liott Jacoby, musical director of the air's "Meet Mr. Meek," in collaboration collabo-ration with Private Jacob Goldstein of Mitchel Field. Jimmy Durante, rated as a star by Warner Bros, since he made "You're in the Army Now" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner," says be will revive the famous comedy com-edy team of Clayton, Jackson and Durante to entertain the boys in army camps. ODDS AND ENDS Betty Grable tnd Victor Mature are not $o very good in Fox's "I Wake Up Screaming," but they're trying again in "White Collar CwT . . . The bombing scenes of "Cup-tains "Cup-tains of the Clouds" were hard on Brenda Marshall, whose father it man-iger man-iger of a large sugar plantation in the Philippines . . . Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer, last seen together in "Escape," will be teamed romantically in "Love Me Not" . . . Speech experts declare that Spencer Tracy can pick up my accent and speak like a native in several hours . . . 20th Century Fox (molly has a story for Pat O'Brien that ke likes "Calling Manilla." |