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Show THE BULLETIN Sinews for America's Air Defense Who's a Copycat? Everybody! Man it, under the thin, and tometimet on top of it, remark' ably akin to the lower animalt. Hit tense of it jutt at acute. So are hit oppetitet and a great many of hit emotiont. The following teriet of photot it not intended to poke fun at anyone, but it designed merely to draw a few parallels. In tome of the cases portrayed the tubjectt have deliberately copied denizent of the lower animal kingdom. In othert the similarity it purely accidental. W e could have drawn more deadly parallels, but our aim it a pleasing teriet and nothing would be gained by introducing unpleasantness. There it too much of that in the headlines. STAGE3SCRE Br VIRGINIA VALE (Helcaoitf by Wtitcra Ntwipaper Union.) ROSALIND RUSSELL, Columbia her lucky lot, has been signed to play the feminine starring role in that studio s new comedy, "This Thing Called Love," a tale of a six months' trial marriage which goes on the rocks before it is well launched. Miss Russell will be seen as a brisk and competent insurance executive (and let' i hope the won t over-act. as she sometimes does) and Melvyn Douglas, playing opposite her, will be a mining engineer. A few years ago the beautiful Rosalind was borrowed by Columbia for the title role In "Craig's Wife," an unsympathetic part, as you'll probably recall, but in it she proved An inspector browsing In a fir Id of completed cylinders at the Pratt A Whitney plant, Hartford, Conn., where motors for U. 8. army fighting craft are being turned out. This company was recently given contracts ror $37,M0,M0 worth of motors. Inset: Night view of a section of the Pratt A Whitney plant as the work of building airplane engines for national defense continues, night and day, without a hitch. ' u Scotch Children Seeking Refuge Here ... VAMPIRE In the upper picture we have a giant fruit bat, popularly called the vampire- oat through m belief that it tuckt human blood. It it not pretty. The maid in the lower picture suggests a bat in flight making a pretty picture. Her cloak it designed toad at a tail on a tki run. Her name, Madeline O'Reilly, of New York. She wat photographed at North Conway, New Hampshire. - ROSALIND RUSSELL o conclusively that she could act that the picture gave her a place at the top. She scored another Columbia triumph as "Hildy Johnson" in "His Girl Friday." Two daughters of famous football coaches are up for roles la "Mile the Toller"; they are Hards Shanghnessy and Annie Lee Btagg, and were suggested by no less a per sonage loan Maude Adams, toe famous actress, who coached them at Stevens college. This monkey nets hit name from hit extraordinary proboscis. Nature gave it to him for m reason and the reason wat not to make people laugh. NOSY . . . If we don't pay too much attention to the grizzly bear t terrible clawt we manage to feel tarry for him, with hit note pressed pathetically against the bars pining for freedom. The 52.6 second kiss record set by SCHNOZZOLA . . . Jimmy Ann Sheridan and George Brent in Durante, famed Stage and "Honeymoon for Three" brought rescreen comedian, found that hit actions of an kinds from here, there note it hit fortune. The garland and elsewhere. A Los Angeles laundry asked for it Hawaiian leu. the handkerchief used by Brent to wipe off Hiss Sheridan's lipstick, of fering to launder it for nothing. An Inventor in Indianapolis asked Brent to be the first to try his new lipstick remover. A clock manufacturer Inquired what kind of watch was used to time the kiss. A New York promoter telegraphed a $500 offer to the pair If they would officially open a "klssathon" by repeating the performance. And then a woman's club In Tc peka, Kan., passed a resolution recommending that endurance kissing be banned on the ground that It Is unhygienic. And countless males be tween the ages of 17 and 00 wrote in, volunteering to take over Brent's next assignment of that kind for But we nothing. COUNTERPART A large group of some of the more than 300 Scotch children pictured on the 8. 8. Cameronla, when they arrived in the safety of the United States recently. The children, many of them accompanied, are destined for homes all over the United States. Germany has "washed Its hands" of responsibility for the safety of ships bearing child refugees to America. Hold That Tiger! Scion of Rockefeller Clan Wed ... cannot pity this human counterpart of the bear, glaring through the bars of hit cell, on charge of girl killing a through criminal attack. four-year-o- ld GRACE-- . . . Among the most graceful of livingthingt the water. it the twan On land it it ungainly. Then, too, itt toft and beautiful looks hide a fierce and fighting heart. And here it Sally ...on Rand in her impersonation of a twan. Mitt Rand hat danced with font, bubblet and jutt nothing, but her dance of the twan it a performance of beauty. When young Betty Brewer was working with him in "Bangers of Fortune" Fred HacHnrray taught her to croon. Since then she has been rehearsing her sister and brother and a little neighbor girl In quartet which she calls "Betty Brewer and Her Playmates," and it'a so good that an advertising agency may put them on the air this fall. As old as radio Is the annoying production problem of performers kicking the microphone stand or striking it with their hands if they make gestures while on the air. If a grating sound comes from your receiving set, that's probably the reason. Cecil B. DeMille thought he'd solved the problem for his radio theater last year, by using a hanging microphone but without a base stand to guide mem, actors bumped their heads into the mike. (Glut-ton- s for punishment, these actors I) Undaunted, C B. went to work again. And this year when the cast assembled for the theater's first production, "Manhattan Melodrama," with Hyrna Loy, William Powell, and, of course, Don Ameche, they found that a circular guard rail had been biiilt under the mike. That suited them perfectly they coujd rest their scripts on it Buby Mercer, fearless soprano tar of "Gay New Orleans" at the David Rockefeller, youngest son of Hr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., and his bride, the former Margaret McGrath, of Mt. Ktoco, N. T., leaving St. Matthews church in Bedford, N. Y., after taking their vows. Bight: John D. Rockefeller Jr. New York fair, who spends much of her spare time playing with Frank Buck's "cats" when she isn't singing. As Maine Goes? Seattle Salmon Derby Winners . ODDS AND ENDS Extra of the Year" it the title bestowed on Doris Darenport by the Hollywood Studio H'Mott Inspirational pleasant . . but just wait! And so with the smile hold out through life, or become a marl that ill If grand boy. This baby lion i Club, became the rote from the extra ranks to the feminine lead in "The Westerner." Z. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., it vacation-in- g at hit farm in Virginia. H Susanna Foster, starlet of Paramount' "There's Magic in Music," was all ready to leave for a vacation in Kearney, Neb, when her dag. Res, was struck by an automobile. She unpacked her trunks and abandoned her plans, to stay at home until Rex Automobiles were offered as prises In Seattle's famous salmon derby. These anglers all won cars. Lilly Torkelaon (center) with salmon that made her the winner. L. to B. Roy Mristcr, salmon for winner men's division; Mrs. E. Carlson, 234b. fish, J. E. s. and Frank Markbam, 254b. s. Webb, 26-I27-I- b. ZG-l- b. s. b. 11-o- s. 11-o- s. Ralph O. Brewster, Republican, elected U. 8. senator for Maine in first general election in the nation, defeating former Gov, Loaia J. Brann, Democrat, by more than , 000 votes. |