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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. IT WON'T be surprising il Metro refuses to cast its male stars in martial roles, after what's been happening there. Clark Gable's last appearance ap-pearance before the cameras, in "Somewhere I'll Find You," had a closing sequence in which he was all mixed up in the war and next thing we knew he'd signed up. Richard Quine was a draftee in "For Me and My Gal" then became one. Richard Ney went into military service right after he played an army inductee in "The War Against Mrs. Hadley." And Robert Taylor, a naval lieutenant in "Stand By for Action," set about becoming a lieutenant lieu-tenant (jg) in the naval air force at soon as he'd finished the picture. : To the red caps at Pennsylvania Station in New York celebrities are an old story, but when Pat O'Brien of RKO's "Bombardier" arrived " PAT O'BRIEN they instantly turned autograph hunters. And you should have heard the drivers in the taxi queue shout "Hello, Pat!" Rita Hayworth has been having her troubles, all because Victor Mature Ma-ture gave her a dog. Because of gas rationing she sublet her house and took an apartment nearer the Columbia studio. But when she arrived ar-rived there, with her baggage and "Genius," the bulldog, the owner wouldn't let her move in; said dogs weren't admitted, and refused to break the rule for Rita's. That railroad advertisement about "The Kid In Upper Four" la going to land on the motion picture screens of the country in a big way. Metro will use it aa the aubject of a abort, and 20th Century-Fox will base a feature picture on It Cecil B. De Mille is a big man In the film industry, but despite the fact that part of the proceeds of his "The Story of Dr. Wassoll" will go to the Navy Relief society he's stuck with an "A" gas card. Mrs. De Mille has a "B" she's president of a babies' home, so she rates it. Mexican Mex-ican landscapes will double for the background for the picture's Java jungle scenes. Preston Sturgess is probably the only director who arrives on the set each morning with his cast all rehearsed. re-hearsed. He rides to location for "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" in a station wagon with Betty Hut-ton, Hut-ton, Diana Lynn, Eddie Bracken and the others; they work on the way. "Vox Pop," granddaddy of audience-participation In radio, la now in first place among this type of half-hour half-hour shows In the Crossley survey report; it Is followed by "Take It or Leave It" "Troth or Consequences" and "Information, Please" in the order or-der named. Music by George Jcssell, Ben Oakland and Red Grouya will be heard in "Cinderella Swings It" the next picture of the "Scsttcrgood" series. Marring Guy Kibbee. An augmented chorus supports Gloria Warren when she sings these new songs. 4 "The More the Merrier," the new Jean Arthur-Joel McCrea picture, may launch Charleston, S. C as a Gretna Green. In the picture Joel and Jean, residing In Washington, D C, want to be married in a hurry, hur-ry, before he leaves for North Africa, Af-rica, and Charleston's an airline atop, and South Carolina doesn't Impose Im-pose a legal wait on couples who want to marry 1 Hal Peary's recent singing stints on "The Great Gildcrslceve" radio scries have convinced RKO that the actor ought to do a vocal sequence in his next picture, "Gildcrsleeve's Bad Boy " I OltDS AD ESDS-Th Jay that Carl Eunand unt to romplur preparation! prepara-tion! fat bcomint a I ntW Slain cs'ti-sen cs'ti-sen tht Virnnut trior uimnd up at Columbia pifmg a Satl me or in "Attack "At-tack by Vigrtt" . . . 0"omrn in drrnie intlutirirt ar ftaodini SHC nilh r-gurifi r-gurifi that Mary Slvgnrrt Mrllrid (Hilrh hrr dnWimr thim to lh nijtnf fcinri , . Sum "Si hlrpprrman" rem, of Jack Hrnny' Iratrfing tnmpnny, has playtd 32 army rump thit iraum, nlefl tiling in or I if re prtfnrmiinrr , , , Coumhia pirkrH intern nf th rnun-try's rnun-try's Snel Wunrrn for thr rrWn til ill eic "Hnihmit from tmhlln" tthirA stars I. up rlrt |