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Show Washed Their Cares Away Marlene Unbends to Sing Range Song in Barroom On New Western Film Set Tha's right," said Mud Rosen bloom. "People dont Ilk to see too much religion In the morles." Spectacular staging and the new economy are blended In "Broadway Melody o( 1940"; with the aid of a couple of huge mirrors, 49 Eleanor Powella and 49 Fred Astatres will be seen doing danos . . . Good bit In "Gambling Ship": Wayne Morris attentively watches customers playing a long line of slot machines, none of which pays off. Pretty soon he goes over and puts a penny In a peanut vending machine. Nothing comes out By PAIX HARRISON HOLLYWOOD Marlene Dietrich Diet-rich has taken on a new attitude of gaiety. Glamor was tossed out the window by the star, one of Hollywood's better known possessors pos-sessors of that quality, when a brief but furious rainstorm occurred In the midst of the more than 100-degree 100-degree heat at the studio where she Is making film comeback? She went outside to wet her bare toes In the streaming gutter. A man In a Gandhl-like costume accompanied ac-companied her. It was Basil Rath-bone, Rath-bone, known usually for his sartorial sar-torial correctness. From the atmosphere of the set of "Destry Rides Again," a visitor never would guess that It's a Marlene Dietrich picture. It's friendly and downright gay. The cute little number in the blond curls and scanty, dance-hall-girl costume Is "Legs" Dietrich herself. her-self. She sits on the sidelines Instead In-stead of In her dressing room, chats with people, makes Jokes with the east The opening scene will remind you of "Blue Angel," except that aha will ha sitting as aalooa aar . and singing a cowboy song. Short takes: The number of new pictures In production Is the highest high-est In three years. American box office receipts are up and are steadily rising. London theaters are reopening, but English, French and German studios are dosed except ex-cept for the making of propaganda films, thus leaving Hollywood with a virtual world monopoly. A few costly productions have been shelved, and many budgets have been reduced. Soma observers ob-servers believe the Industry soon will be better off thsn before the war began. Producers are wearing wear-ing long faces. In public, and are Issuing brave, reassuring statements state-ments that the studios will go ahead with their announced schedules sched-ules and without wage cuts. Wsge ruts would bring lot of bad publicity. pub-licity. Quietly, though, executives are wielding the ax and are lopping off hundreds of low pay, white collar people. This Is known as readjustment readjust-ment The Hays Office wouldn't permit per-mit a reference to traveling salesmen sales-men in Martha Raye's current flicker, "The Farmer's Daughter" ... An assistant director remarked when Warners film "The Life ef Edgar Allen Poc" they'll have to , leave out most of the bibulous side. Rain ... if meant forgetting glamor (or Marlene Dietrich, left, and Basil Rtthbon. |