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Show Keleased by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE DAT O'BRIEN says he's all I washed up as a movie pro- j duccr. "I've just finished co-producing co-producing 'Crack - Up' " (he I also co-stars in the RKO pic-1 ture, with Claire Trevor and Herbert Marshall), "and decided de-cided it would be my last because, be-cause, for one thing, you lose a lot of good friends. I had parts for six actors, and about 200 of my actor friends asked for those six parts." Besides teaching him what producing produc-ing a picture means, "Crack-Up" gave him a new kind of role; ho plays a lecturer and highbrow art 'mi . imniMiwiu . i ' ? , . ) V- vi w PAT O'BRIEN authority attached to a big museum. mu-seum. To develop the plot, some conspirators try to drive him insaneas in-saneas if that co-producing as-' signment weren't enough to drlva O'Brien nuts! "White House," latest of RKO'i "This Is America" series, brings us the history of the White House,; from its erection to the present' The executive offices are shown as well as the rooms which the casual' visitor sees. The daring stunt pilot who landed land-ed a giant transport plane on a spot between towering trees, to rescue Gary Cooper from a tight fix In "Cloak and Dagger," was Paul Mantz, who won the Bendlx trophy race from Van Nuys to. Cleveland a few days later. They're demolishing Tara hall, and all the other "Gone With the Wind" sets that have been more or less a permanent part of Pathe's' 40 acres since 1038. On the foundation founda-tion will be erected a New England village, representing Concord, Mass., for Selzniek's "Little Women." Right on top of the success of Columbia's "The Jolson Story" comes another announcement of 20th Century Fox's plans for "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now," based on the life and songs of Joe Howard. It'll be in technicolor, techni-color, and if it runs true to form will bear slight resemblance to' reality. June Haver, Martha Stewart, Stew-art, Reginald Gardner, Mark Stevens, Ste-vens, Richard Haydn, Vanessa Brown and Charles Brown are in the cast. So far Martha Vickers has been seen on the screen only In "The Big Sleep," in which she steals certain cer-tain scenes; she's had featured roles In "The Man I Love," "That Way with Women" and 'The Time, the Place and the Girl," none of which have been generally released. re-leased. Now she's co-starring In "Love and Learn." Around Warner War-ner Bros. Ihry say she's likely to be a star before the public gets to know her. f- Ralph Kdwards can't be sure what will happen on "Truth or Con-K'qucnces" Con-K'qucnces" in the future. A few years ago, by remote broadcast, he I had a young man carry out his con- j sequences from a street corner Just a few blocks from the NBC stu- , dios but last winter he did a two- 1 way overseas broadcast to Tokyo; the contestants were G.I.s stationed I there. On a 1942 show a man looked for a needle in a haystack the 1U40 version sent a contestant to the Arctic Circle, by plane and dng-sleU, to search for a nugget of gold. Rudy Vallec spent half his working work-ing day recently lying on the floor, during the shooting of "The Bachelor Bache-lor and the Bobby Soxer." He had to be knocked out by Cary Grant and then just lie there during the rest of the scene. Everyone else mulled his lines, the scene was shot over and over, while Vallee rested, with Grant, Shirley Temple and I Myrna Ly as an audience. j OIHtS Ah r.M'S -lMuson 7.tbe, uho't hern ihi mining in idlaint, triinetl into the rule ol ctiniirnittl lliilih llrrnt m "Hood ol life" u tiiririin ee. , . , Ann Mernmnn A ft riu the Hmii und nm Mr of 24 limit uhrn IH nimilu old. . . , Janet I. nth uat thrilled at making her trreen d'liul at I nn Johnum't heart interest in "l he llomam e of limy It i due" hut if mnml milking a row, feeding ''Ui, and lulling in the mud. . . ,1he j (.'niinin horn C.aiule" rnl looked lontntd to going to Mesirn on malum, ma-lum, till they found they'd hai e to he iniM-riifiifPii flfiinl typhoid, li'iariui j ind Mmillpo fint! |