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Show MARX TALK TO FANS BREAKS TRADITION sends a blond cutle to find Ralph Bellamy and frame him on a mashing charge. The girl doesn't know the victim, and she asked Grant how the can recognize him. Thaft eaty," says Grant. "He looks just like that guy Ralph Bellamy, In pictures." Obviously there's nothing really funny about that line. But at the preview the other night, In a y swiftly-pared and gag-jammed comedy, the sheer novelty of Grant's remark drew one of the loudest laughs. Now that Hollywood has discovered discov-ered the value of such surprise touches. It may work them to death. Nevertheless, they're doing good service as reminders that screen actors are people and not Just two-dimensioned dolls. e Speaking of peep shows, some of the research In connection with the current Edison pictures reveals re-veals that the Inventor of the kinetoscope didn't think the foreign for-eign patent rights were worth 1150. When It was too late, he realised ftflhnrt toward away a fiMtuno Edison also opposed the projection projec-tion of movies on a screen. He said, "Ten such projectors would satisfy all the demand In the country, coun-try, whereat the peep shows accommodate ac-commodate only one person at a time and are more profitable to make." BT PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD (NEA) Perhaps the pleasantest thing that has happened to movies In year It the trick of having an actor directly di-rectly address the audience. Usually Usu-ally this is In the form of an aside, as when Groucho Marx was trying to recover some stolen money which a girl had stuffed Into the bosom of her costume. Said Groucho to the camera: "There mutt be some way of getting that wallet without getting in trouble with the Hays office!" More recently, In "The Cat and the Canary," the cat grew annoyed an-noyed with hit own unpopularity and protested, "It's time the audience audi-ence got hissed for a change." Ann Sheridan sings two new and six old songs In "It All Came True." For the more familiar numbers, tuch at "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet,, and "When Irish Eye Are Smiling," she figuratively fig-uratively will step over the footlights foot-lights and Invite the customers to join the tinging. Stunts Ilk these are Immeasurably Immeasur-ably valuable In winning audiences by bildftng, -fore iwement, the abyss between shadowland and reality. Stage playeri always have grumbled about the screen being tuch coldly Impersonal medium, a peep show with the camera serving serv-ing as a sort of omniscient keyhole. key-hole. Obviously, though, the movies needn't be to remote, nor mutt they tak themselves so seriously. Hollwood has been so stiff-necked stiff-necked about preserving Illusions that It has Ignored the existence of Its own celebrities when It might better hav been ribbing them. In "Babes In Arms," Mickey Rooney't Imitations of Clark Gable and Lionel Barrymor are drawing draw-ing yells of laughter partly because be-cause the Imitations are good, but equally for the reason that audiences au-diences are surprised and delighted with such behlnd-the-screen satire. In "His Girl Friday." Cary Grant |