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Show tar Waist Movie Whereabouts How to Kiss a Girl Toys for Crosbys I By Virginia Vale HAVEN'T you frequently felt, when you were at the movies, that you'd like to kndw where some of the scenes were taken? Harry Sherman, producer of the "Hopalong Cassidy" pictures, pic-tures, has solved that longstanding long-standing need. Beginning with "Beneath Western Skies," each of these films will carry an announcement of the location loca-tion where it was made. It's a grand idea. But probably it won't be taken up to any extent, for imagine the shock if you were told, at the beginning of a picture whose scenes were laid in France, for instance, that it was filmed right along the good old California sea coast Farts of that coast have been used so often that old-timers recognize them instantly. m It looks as if Metro had a winner in "Three Comrades," the sequel to "All Quiet on the Western Front." Robert Taylor really had a chance to be dramatic in this one. NT I mkmMmm Robert Taylor and he had to be good, for the other leading roles are played by Margaret Mar-garet Sullivan, Franchot Tone and Robert Young. Wayne Morris has fonnd, to his sorrow, that kissing a girl for the movies is pretty complicated and decidedly difficult. For instance, the director tells you to look down at the girl. Maybe you're not tall enough ; then yon have to stand on s box. (That doesn't worry Wayne, because he's plenty tall.) "You have to take the girl in your arms and kiss her," he says, "while the hairdresser stands by, glaring if 1 yon muss the girl's hair, and you i mustn't wrinkle the collar of the girl's dress, and you must raise your arms so that your own coat doesn't hike up in back; if it does, everything stops while the tailor is summoned to see what's wrong with the coat. Screen love is the bunk but it's a living." Peg La Centra is the joy of radio program directors. Not only does she sing (probably you've heard her on the "For Men Only" programs,) but she acts the female character parts in the dramatic sketches as well. She's been women and children chil-dren with southern, Scotch and Swedish accents; all she needs to do when a different dialect is required re-quired is to hear someone who speaks it she's a born mimic. Jerry Belcher has in broadcast interviews in-terviews with interesting neighbors from almost every fair-sized town in the United States, and from some in Canada, but so far he hasn't interviewed in-terviewed any of the ones he knows best of all those in his own corner of Texas. 5K Bing Crosby's wife went to New York to have a lot of fun and do a lot of shopping. And what do you suppose she bought? Clothes and toys for those four small Crosby boys! Somehow, the stores' other offerings just didn't seem to be very interesting. ODDS AND ENDS-Cloria Blondell has been learning to tail a boat, with her brother-in-law, Dick Powell, doing the teaching . . . Edward Arnold was weighed the other day at the studio and beamed when he found that he'd lost four pounds, due to the hot weather . . . And then along came Lionel Barrymore and he beamed because be-cause he'd gained five . . . James Stewart has 17 harmonicas, but he's still in the market for more . . . Joan Bennett collects salt and pepper shaker shak-er VniversaVs budget for Deanna Durbm's next picture, "Cinderella." is tl,O00J)0O-which will buy m lot of glass slippers . . . John Payne is doing so well in "Garden of the Moon" that Warner Brothers have him all set for big build up so add him to your hst of potential movie stars . . . Have you a good idea for a radio program for children? A certain big cereal company is in the market for one . Joe Penner recently escaped injury while broadcasting and from a wooden wood-en box, of all thing,! He was sup-posed sup-posed to be thrown out of the ring by a wrestler. A splinter from the broken box used m sound effects missed him by a fraction of an inch. Western Newspaper Union. |