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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union. J IF YOU lived within a ten-mile ten-mile radius of Priscilla Lane's home you'd be more than likely to encounter her at one of the neighborhood movie houses in that vicinity, and to see her afterward buttonholing but-tonholing the manager. The "Four Mothers" star takes her movie-making very seriously, so she quizzes the men who make money by showing movies. "What do you think of that picture?" "Does it seem to be drawing?" "Do the PRISCILLA LANE fans here like that star?" That's the kind of thing Priscilla wants to know. When she's working she covers cov-ers two or three pictures a week; other times she takes in four or five. Metro previewed "Flight Command" Com-mand" aboard an airplane in flight one evening recently; afterward Bedell Be-dell Monroe, president of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Central Airlines, predicted that pictures will be shown regularly on all commercial air lines within the next few years, as they are on ocean liners. Robert Taylor stars in "Flight Command," a naval aviation avia-tion story. We're to have "The Trial of Mary Dugan" again, with Robert Young in the leading male role. Remember Remem-ber it when Norma Shearer made it nine years ago? Laraine Day will play "Mary Dugan," (You probably saw her in "Foreign Correspondent.") Correspond-ent.") Edward J. Peters, chief engineer of Paramount's air conditioning department, de-partment, has perfected a new type of ice. He calls it "snow ice," and because it lasts almost one-third longer than ordinary ice and requires re-quires a third less time to produce, it may affect the commercial ice industry. It was developed because Director Charles Vidor was shooting a scene in "New York Town" (Fred Mac-Murray, Mac-Murray, Mary Martin and Robert Preston co-starring); bright set lights striking ordinary transparent ice in water made the ice invisible to the camera. Vidor wanted the ice to show, to emphasize an important im-portant story point. Hence the new ice. Hollywood's biggest variety show Al Pearce and His Gang takes nine microphones to get their Friday Fri-day broadcasts on the CBS network. Carl Hoff's orchestra alone takes three; Pearce has one, and the rest of the cast another. Billy Gould gets a sixth one for his sound effects, and Wendell Niles has a booth, equipped with a microphone, of course, for his closing commercial. There's an audience applause microphone, mi-crophone, so that we who listen may know how much those who are present pres-ent are enjoying it, and when Bill Jordan and George Kent present their two-piano numbers the ninth mike is added to the engineer's problems. Apparently quiz shows are as popular pop-ular as ever with radio audiences-two audiences-two new ones will take to the air shortly, over the CBS Pacific Network. Net-work. They're "Don't Be Personal" and "Talk Your Way Out of This One" studio audiences will participate, partici-pate, and the winners will receive cash prizes. Girls who have ambitions to act on the screen or on the air might take a tip from Lurene Tuttle; she never misses a Helen Hayes broadcast, broad-cast, because she learns so much from Miss Hayes, and she studies Bette Davis' work in pictures she says that when she worked with Miss Davis, the star gave her many valuable valu-able suggestions on the technique ol acting. Now Lurene's learning still more from working with John Barry-more Barry-more on the Vallee programs. ODDS AND ENDS H"Here Comes the Navy," marie h James Cagney and I'at Ollnen in 1V.H. i.i being re-ismed by U'urner Brothers C. Georiie Bums und Crude All-n have renewed the ilediic they sinned a yen, ago to support u certain number ol youngsters at Boysttmn, Neb. C Donald Crisp ends a six-mm:h inc. lion tvith a role in "IHnfed Victory. C"Ki(y Fovle" is the forty-second picture in uliich Ginger hogers hm been featured or slurred. Guy Kihbee got the title role m "Scattergood Haines" al the request o, the author. |