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Show STf GE SCREEN W.DIO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WHEN you see Para-mount's Para-mount's version of Joseph Conrad's "Victory" (directed by John Cromwell, co-starring Frederic March and Betty Field), you'll see some of the most-traveled film ever shown. Scenes were shot in Sourbaya, on the island of Java, in the Dutch East Indies; then the cans of film were transported by train, native boat and finally by Chinese air line to Hong Kong. A Pan-American clipper flew it to Manila, and there it stayed; so many passengers were waiting to take the clipper home that there was no room for part of a movie. It came along on the next scheduled sched-uled flight. Meanwhile the cast was working at Baldwin lake. The scenes shot in the actual location of -s - I BETTY FIELD the story will be. slipped in with the ones shot on the American location and it won't be surprising if the Baldwin lake shots are the more convincing. More than 100 boys are being paid for having the time of their lives; they're portraying real-life cadets in Columbia's "Military Academy," and much of the action calls for them to disport themselves on the track and football field of a local military academy. They sprint, put the shot, pole-vault and the checks come rolling in. Tommy Kelly, Bobby Jordan, David Holt and Jackie Searl are in the cast. Four-year-old Dickie Lyon, son of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, (and don't tell me that you don't remember remem-ber those two picture stars!) is worried. He's working in "The Howards of Virginia," and doesn't want his parents to find it out. "They told me pictures was bad," he declares. Bebe and Ben have been starring in a sta.ge play in London, and they sent the boy back to California to live with his grandmother several months ago, because of the war. Frank Lloyd, who's directing "The Howards of Virginia," persuaded Mrs. Daniels to let Dickie take the role of the young son of Cary Grant and Martha Scott, and Dickie is doing do-ing remarkably well except that he's worried. He's afraid of what his mother will think when she sees him on the screen. "Maybe she won't like it," he says, ominously. But Lloyd's not anxious. Some time ago he told Bebe that little Dickie was a good picture prospect, and she said, "I'd trust him with you." Uncle Ezra (Pat Barrett) of radio's ra-dio's National Barn Dance is highly enthusiastic over making movies in Hollywood, but the most difficult thing he had to adjust himself to was the delay in starting. He recently re-cently returned to Chicago from the cinema city after making "Coming 'Round the Mountain" with Bob Burns; later he'D go back to Paramount Para-mount and do two more. ODDS AXD E.)S Cary Cooper has a photograph of his two-ycur-old daughter, Mary, encased in the dashboard dash-board of his car . . . Agnes Moorehead used a train and three planes in a frantic effort to get to A Pit; York from Milwaukee for a "llig Sister" broadcast, broad-cast, landed in If ashington, and had to give up; uhen she found the 'ew York plane grounded in M ilu aukee because be-cause of had u eather, she flew to Cleveland, Cleve-land, then to Pittsburgh, then to If ash-ington, ash-ington, only to find that there wasn't enough time left to reach !ew ) ork for the broadcast . . . I irginia Dale and Lillian Cornell, uhom you'i e seen or perhaps will see in "lUick Benny liitles .fi.'rl)n," uill supply the feminine interest in "Touchdou n," uilh U avne Morris. Frances Lar.gfurd finished a broadcast, then drove TOO milts to the Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona to spend her second wedding wed-ding anniversary with her husband, Jon Hall, who's starring in "Kit Carson." Car-son." an Edward Small production. There are 50,01)0 Navajo Indians on the reservation, hut the role of Indian chief went to Al Kikumi, a fuil blooded Hawaiian. After numerous numer-ous tests I'rodueer Small came to the conclusion that Kikumi looks more like an Indian chief than any of the Indians d( |