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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. MILLIONS of movie fans who have seen Johnny Sheffield cavort across the screen as "Tarzan Jr.," son of "Tarzan," will see him in a new role. He's starting on a country-wide tour to stimulate stimu-late sales of War Bonds and Stamps; it's sponsored by the war savings staff of the U. S. treasury, in conjunction with Metro. Johnny, in his Boy Scout uniform, will make his appeals from the turret tur-ret of a shiny new army tank; purchasers pur-chasers of quantities of stamps will I be permitted to board it, for inspection. inspec-tion. , Ann Thomas is doing such a terrific ter-rific job as "Casey" in. NBC's "Abie's Irish Rose" series that author au-thor Anne Nichols is enlarging her part. The pretty and talented Ann is on so many radio programs that ANN THOMAS you wonder how she keeps her roles straight, especially as she spends her spare time collecting detective stories and phonograph records for the navy; takes 'em to the Brooklyn Navy yard herself. Hollywood movie companies usually usu-ally fly a balloon when on location, to warn away planes because of the noise of their engines. Recently, however, Columbia's "The Lone Wolf in Scotland Yard" troupe practically prac-tically hung out a "welcome" sign. The company, headed by Warren William, was in a bomb shelter, supposedly sup-posedly undergoing a raid, and they were shooting in the San Fernando valley, where plenty of planes flew overhead. When one especially large plane flew over, a company business manager said "That effect would cost us $25 in the studio." Once upon a time it seemed that Norma Shearer was getting all the best roles in all the best pictures; nowadays it's Bette Davis who gets the good chances and be it said for Bette that she never fails to turn in an excellent performance. She gets the feminine lead in the picture version of "Watch on the Rhine," which will b a great picture if it's nearly as good as the play. Pretty Janet Blair got that coveted cov-eted chance to play the title role in "My Sister Eileen," when the movie made from the play of that name reaches the screen. But she'll have her work cut out for her, for Rosalind Russell has an even bigger role. Because "International Honeymoon," Honey-moon," co-starring Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant, is laid in the period before the present war, a difficult dif-ficult bit of research has come up. Save for refugees, the only persons who have the needed information are in concentration camps. It's nothing new for stars to write Into their contracts the proviso that they're to have time off each year to do a stage play, or make a picture pic-ture at another studio. But Roy Rogers has an original clause in the seven-year contract he recently signed with Republic. He may demote de-mote three months of each year to war work! Following the announcement that Walt Disney has completed his new feature length production, "Bambi," which was five years in the making, it had been revealed that 75 per cent of the studio's total output is now devoted to government films. In them, facts and figures appear on the screen in graphic, usually dramatic dra-matic forms; complicated machinery machin-ery dissects itself before your eyes by means of simple drawings. The raw recruit sees the bolt mechanism of a new weapon as a simple, understandable un-derstandable thing thanks to the Disney war effort. ODDS AND ENDS Walter Reed has been assigned to the role left vacant in RKO's "Spitfire" series uhen Buddy Rogers joined the navy . . . Metro plans to film "Sabotage Agent," starring Robert Rob-ert Donat, in London, which seems to mark resumption of American moviemaking movie-making in England . . . Jane Randolph, who has a pilot's license, changed her !a5i name from Roemer to Randolph in honor of the flying field of that name . . . "We, the People's" broadcast from the army bomber in flight toward its target took four minutes to run off 'our weeks to arrange . . Ona Munson tow has a rare lhassa terrier. |