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Show STAGECREEN&ADiO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) SAYING that the first feature-length film made by the March of Time is important im-portant is like saying that the history of our country is important. im-portant. "The Ramparts We Watch" is living history; the nonprofessionals who appear in the story that is played out against the background of the stirring stir-ring events of 1914-18 are just people like all of us, thinking and talking as we do now. Since the film was released in a limited number of cities a new ending end-ing has been given it, one so dramatic dra-matic that the picture is made doubly dou-bly effective. Despite protests of the German embassy, sections of the i Nazi propaganda film, "Feuere-taufe," "Feuere-taufe," ("Baptism of Fire") have I been incorporated at the end of the I picture. The Nazi film, designed to "soften" countries such as Norway, Holland, Belgium and France which Germany Germa-ny was about to conquer, was seen by the March of Time as a warning of what free countries were up 1 against today. But UFA, German state film trust, imposed impossible demands for censorship. Then it was learned that the British government govern-ment had confiscated English language lan-guage copies of the film at Bermuda. Full title to the film was transferred by the British government to the March of Time. In this German film, a Stuka bomber dives on a railroad station and you seem to be in it. Warsaw War-saw is razed, the German war machine ma-chine moves relentlessly. Your daily newspaper's headlines come alive for you. Jeanette Nolan was the victim of one of the worst things that can hap-ST"P hap-ST"P pen to a radio a c- J tress, the other I ' p.?,4?& day. Of course, l? f h the worst thing is I -sI missing a broad-I broad-I I cast. The next I worst is an attack , of hiccoughs. ' i 11 happened to & m Jeanette just be-. be-. fore she was to . " ' broadcast on the Issiteisasaaa Court of Missing Jeanette Nolan Heirs- She drank water. She held her breath. People beat her on the back. And still she hiccoughed. Finally Director John Loveton had an inspiration. "Just heard that John didn't show up for rehearsals at 'Meet Mr. Meek,' " he remarked casually. By John he meant John Mclntyre, Jeanette's husband. She was so frightened that she forgot her hiccoughs. The American Federation of Labor La-bor had decided tentatively to produce pro-duce a motion TC?5!!?.:!, picture based on 1 the life of the f j great labor lead- s er, Samuel Gom- - , jj pers, who for I flf many years head- 1 -pr g ed the A. F. of L. I ' II Paul Muni is slat- " i j ed for the leading Jl role. It is said - 1 that Mr. Muni f ! will be paid $25,- mm 000 for his work. pauj Muni The picture will in all probability be made In New York city. Most of the big stars of Hollywood Holly-wood are married or past 35, but among those who will qualify foi the draft are John Howard, Orson Welles, Broderick Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, John Carroll, William Holden, Bob Preston, Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Lynn and Dennis O'Keefe. Wayne Morris still doesn't know whether he's married or divorced. di-vorced. Thursday night will soon become more important than ever so far as radio is concerned. You can hear Fred Waring, "Good News," the Al-drich Al-drich Family, Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, and after October 10 West-inghouse's West-inghouse's Musical Americana will join the ranks. How would you like to stand by and see somebody fireproofing the clothes that you were going to wear a little later? That's what happened to Ray Milland, William Holden and Phil Brown, of Paramounfs "1 Wanted Wings," recently. The picture pic-ture is being filmed at the government govern-ment flying field at San Antonio. Brown, a flying cadet, crashes in a basic training plane, and the other two rush in and pull him from the flaming wreckage. ODDS ASD EA'DS C The Record Players, a company oj actors headed by Wendell Holmes (o radio's "Big Sister" and "Myrl ana Marge") is being formed to recon the great plays o the ages and dis tribute them to schools and cultural groups throughout the nation. At firs a limited number of recorded plays it album form uill be distributed free Holmes' idea is to make the worldi famous plays available to every hnmt or group having a phonograph, and It open a new field for actors and act resses. 41 Hauleue Goddard is resting up aft er "Second Chorus." |