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Show BY INEZ GERHARD pUTH HUSSEY may some day get the kind of roles she deserves de-serves in pictures; until then she'll probably continue to do her best work on the stage. Her new picture pic-ture is Paramount's "The Great Gatsby"; her current play, "Goodbye "Good-bye My Fancy," in which she has the role created by Madeleine Carroll. She has moved her fam- RUTH HUSSEY ily husband, two small boys and a dog to New York for its duration. dura-tion. Lunching with three members mem-bers of the press, she could hardly hard-ly get in a word until they finished telling her, at length, how wonderful won-derful she had been in "State of the Union," and how much they hope that Hollywood will soon do right by her. That same day Betty Field lunched at an adjoining table. She and Miss Hussey hadn't seen each other since they worked together in "Gatsby." in which Mis FieM and Alan Ladd star. MacDonald Carey and Barry Sullivan are featured. Off-stage atmosphere: Two deputies of the Hollywood sheriff's sher-iff's office stood guard for two days over the machine gun used in RKO's "Follow Me Quietly." The law demands ihat such guns be constantly under the eye of a law enforcement enforce-ment officer while in use in a picture, and that it be in the hands of an officer of the law between takes. No unscheduled shooting allowed! Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, who wrote "Buttons and Bows" for Bob Hope's "The Paleface." have done such a good job on "Fancy Pants," written for his "When Men Are Men." that he thought that would be a good title for the picture. However, the other title sticks. Meanwhile Evans and Livingston, authors of "To Each His Own" and other hits, are writing a second song for him. |