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Show STGEvSCREEN-3?ADI0 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. EVER since she chalked up that amazing success in "Mrs. Miniver" Greer Gar-son Gar-son has been pursued by producers pro-ducers who want her to do a play on Broadway this fall. She's read a dozen scripts and turned them down. Now she's been asked to do one :alled "Queen Elizabeth"; the asker is Margaret Webster, director - daughter of Dame May Whitty; she directed Miss Garson in her last London stage hit, "Old Music." Mu-sic." If "Random Harvest," which the red-haired actress is making with Ronald Colman, is done in! time, she may consent. Frances Gifford, the new "Mrs. Tarzan," really owes her new assignment as-signment to the impersonation of Dorothy Lamour that she gave in the recently released "Henry Aid-rich Aid-rich Gets Glamour." William Thiele, " ' - ! V j -.-, 1 :; Jk : - . . FRANCES GIFFORD ivho directed "The Jungle Princess," Prin-cess," the first Lamour triumph, and is also directing "Tarzan Triumphs," Tri-umphs," caught the picture at a neighborhood theater, and asked to have Miss Gifford tested for the role. Clark Gable certainly made his departure from movie-making in a blaze of glory. His latest, "Somewhere "Some-where I'll Find You," which he did with Lana Turner, has outgrossed every one of the M-G-M pictures he has appeared in over the past seven years, with the exception of "Boom Town," and that doesn't count because be-cause it played at advanced admission ad-mission prices. Jean Arthur spent most of a day autographing 500 of her own photographs photo-graphs with kisses not long ago. It was just after she returned from a tour of army camps, following completion com-pletion of "The Talk of the Town." Whenever she met a boy from New York city, where she was born, she promised to send him a photograph autographed with a kiss. She used two lipsticks before she'd finished. Ever hear of processed parchment? parch-ment? Loretta Young encountered it the other day; found she'd been wearing it, in fact, in her new picture, pic-ture, "The Frightened Stiff." It's a new substitute material, and was used in an evening gown. So far as is known, Veronica Lake received the first request from an imprisoned American in Japan for a photograph. It came from marines ma-rines taken prisoner at Wake island, and was forwarded by the International Inter-national Red Cross. A few months ago Ruth HusscyV bridegroom, Robert Lonceneeker, saw a newspaper picture of the ac-i tress. He clipped it and wrote un-J der it, "Here's the girl I'd like te marry." Not lone ago he could add "Here's the girl I did marry!" The-photographer The-photographer who took the original! photograph, Eric Carpenter, alsc ; photographed the young rouple'f nodding! i Nelson Eddy and Announcer Bot Gnrred were so busy trying to out wit each other with amateur rraiiic a while ago that the "on the air' ; signal for their radio show aim or caught them off base. Nad. re Con nor looks upon their efforts w:tl ', suspicion: she has sworn tvat thi minute the pa r shows an ir.tercs ' in the "sawirc a ooan in raj'! stur.t she ll '.rave F.iiy .tV ut i partner. j Kay Hsrr.s. frrr.r.re U:i in C" lurrh.a's western feature. "Thi f.jht.r.c r.irkaro--." s'srr'd u . the f.rst r.rt ;re sr. h ' n p pcarr i. It was "7 e. tL e 7 . r .' OPI' 4 V I V'-T'i Tc. -n " iti ial tr--.'rn a ftfl ft !) cn.'.'t-.nri nt no f-f.ram rl' f nt fti ft rt:.rr li 1 cr ' r t, . . . ut f i. v' " "! , Cii-i'i. c, t' " v'- '" " tf.lt. on ci fi;' 'i ' : . -.r., I.' ' "" ' ' "7 ' ' .-" , I ... '. !! .1 n, -,, (.r.-.-i I -ft , . hr-. ; I' ' n i, S I. ',-. t- i- ' . ' 4r ' '' 'o tnf- . . Via---- .f-.. -i or.i I'- (.c- r-..-.v.i i. .; - t ft 1 .r.i (-.t' in ! ;-. O en frr.-'l rr. r.cm. |