Show Spy y Yarns Offer Odd Quirks By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD NEA All All over the lot What with all the spy pictures going on these days many with feminine secret agents theres there's sinister business afoot in inthe inthe inthe the Hollywoods Not only afoot but aback since Paulette Goddard and Margaret Hayes had those torpedo plans drawn on their shoulder blades in invisible ink As for the foot part Eleanor Powell started it in the re now vamped Ship Ahoy by tap dancing dancing dancing ing a dot-and-dash dot warning to American sailors that axis agents were about to sabotage a battle battle- ship And now in Shadows on n the Snow in which she plays an Icelander Sonja Henie Henle will deliver a. a similar warning by writing out outa a message on Ice during I a skating number The studios seemed very quiet lately to anyone Just strolling around the lots No new pictures have been started and those In production have been winding up at a a. rapid rate Actually though the cutting rooms laboratories special effects departments and recording music-recording stages have been busier than ever and even a a. fe few of the casts have been working double time The reason is taxes Once a year year this this time on March 2 the 2 the movie companies have to take hi- hi tn- tn n of all the film on hand that is part of new and uncompleted uncompleted uncompleted pictures and the state of California takes a considerable bite of the money represented by that film So the studios plan very closely to empty their vaults and clear their sound stages just before re pay-off pay day On March 3 production will start with a rush John Barrymore is beating back to financial independence but he isn't there yet The other day he hemet hemet hemet met a a. former acquaintance who mentioned proudly that he is living In a house once owned by a movie star I I too said Barrymore am living in a house once owned by bya a movie star What star asked the friend John Barrymore said the Great Profile Not since the self-regulation self of the movies began when began when tough mugs began calling each other you scoundrel and gangsters exclaimed Good gracious has gracious has anybody used the word louse on the screen either as a descriptive noun or an entomological term But in the screen play of Eagle Squadron is a scene which may I give the censors a headache When Jon Hall raps Nigel Bruce with witha a a scrambled literary allusion the theelder theelder theelder elder actor says And since yere liberties wi Robbie Bums Burns dont don't forget the one he wrote about an ancestor o o 0 yours Ode to a I Louse Then follows a writers writer's note in inthe inthe inthe the script Although the Hays office offie e objects to the word louse It must be pointed out that the I above poem is among Burns' Burns best known and it should be allowed to stand v A few months ago the girl who sold flowers among the tables in ina ina a Ia a local night club was a striking I brunet named Mary Scott And among her customers was Gene Tierney who somehow was quicker than any of the male patrons to notice that Miss Scott had a qualIty quality quality ity the movies might want So Sot t the e star spoke to the right people and the flower girl got an interview interview interview inter inter- view a test and a role in Rings on Her Fingers The newcomer was especially thrilled about it because her benefactress benefactress benefactress bene bene- has the lead in the picture And then for her first scene Mary MaryScott Scott had to slap Gene Tierney I II I 4 z s V 1 T 7 Sonja Henie Hene Movie Move studios are very ingenious and so In n her next film she will write a message on ice ke during a skating number |