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Show STAGE-SCREEN': RADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) HEDY LAMARR started her career as William Powell's screen wife with expert ex-pert advice from Myrna Loy, who's so often been "Mrs. Thin Man." Here's her note. "Dear Hedy: Just remember, remem-ber, when Bill starts emoting, emot-ing, you stop breathing but he'll always give you the best side of the camera. If he hasn't had time for breakfast, keep out of his sight. If possible, have the director di-rector call you after lunch. On the other hand, working with Bill means you're home in time for dinner. Do learn to tie ties; Bill can't Neither does he like noise on the set He just laughs if you blow your lines, but don't you laugh if he blows his. Good luck from an ex-wife." The March of Time breaks all its own precedents to bring us firsthand first-hand knowledge of India, now that U. S. soldiers are fighting at her very frontiers. Two pictures will be released, "India in Crisis," covering cov-ering the political and social background back-ground of the Indian question, presents pre-sents the viewpoints of the various dissenting groups. The second installment in-stallment is "India at War." Frederic March is one of the few actors who always knows what he'll be doing six months hence. If he's in Hollywood, he knows he'll be on FREDERIC MARCH Broadway; he does one play a season sea-son there. If he's in New York, he knows he'll be in Hollywood, making a picture. A midget clad in a chimpanzee's suit works with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in "Road to Morocco." Naturally, Nat-urally, when the comedians recognized recog-nized friends among a group o( studio visitors, they turned the "chimpanzee" loose on them. He screeched, grabbed them, ran amok; they fled for their lives, while Hope aud Crosby sat back, looking a little too innocent. Herbert Wilcox recently returned from making "They Flew Alone," in London; it's the story of Amy Mollison's life, starring Anna Nea-gle Nea-gle and Robert Newton. And what snags he ran into! He wanted Newton New-ton to play James Mollison Newton New-ton was serving on a minesweeper. An appeal to the government got his release. Electric power at the studio was limited. All timber in the sets had to be used over and over. It took seven months to make the picture, but Mr. Wilcox feels that the very difficulties helped to give it an unusual quality of reality. Did you like "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"? Then you ought to like Metro's "Three Guys Named Joe" a tale of three happy-go-lucky pilots who perish while fighting in the Pacific, Pa-cific, only to return in a series of post-mortal adventures and "adopt" the crew of another plane, and guide them in battle. Sounds a bit like some of those hilarious "Topper" films. It has been years, and it seems like forever, since first there was talk of making a picture of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim." Metro has owned the screen rights for a good while, and is settling down to work now, with Mickey Rooncy to play the title ti-tle role, after he finishes "A Yank at Eton." As a boy Joel McCrea used to play around a haunted house on a hill top. Some years ago, when Anne Harding was looking for a hill to build on, he recommended the one on which that house had stood. She built there, later sold the house; now it belongs to Rudy Vallee but he didn't know the site was haunted until told by McCrea, who's working work-ing with him and Claudette Colbert in "The Palm Beach Story." ODDS AXD E.DSRKO is preparing prepar-ing its own picture of the merchant marine "The Vary Cornea Through," slurring Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott and Jackie Cooper . . . Greer Carson's become a basketball fan; she bought uniforms for the team of the 78th ami-awr.rajt ami-awr.rajt artillery unit f. . . Spencer Tracy gave his stand-in, Jerry Schumacher, Schu-macher, a gold-lipped rabbit's fool uhen Schumacher joined the parachute troops; the rest of the "Tortilla Flat" company gave him a huse pilloiu"for soft Landings' . . . "IT onder Baby Corey" is now bark at unrk in "1 he Lone Wolf in Scotland Yard." I |