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Show stsecscreenMdio Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE THE latest war-caused shortage to plague Hollywood Holly-wood movie-makers is one of swords. With about a dozen swashbuckling dramas in various stages of completion around town, Warner Bros, faces the likelihood of having hav-ing to call on armorers in other parts of the country before the duelling duel-ling scenes In the Errol Flvnn opus. "The Adventures of Don Juan," can be staged. Modern swords won't do; these fights took place before 1786. Jean Tighe, featured singer on Guy Lombardo's "Musical Autographs" Auto-graphs" program, is one of the few entertainers permitted by the authorities au-thorities to visit boys suffering from '-' . ; & A 1 JEAN TIGHE " combat fatigue. Servicemen at Hal-loran Hal-loran hospital dubbed her "G.I. Jean" months ago; the title has suck, and Jean receives letters from servicemen all over the world, who calls her "G.I. Jean." Only one girl star under v contract to David O. Sclznick has not won the Academy award, and he's predicting pre-dicting that she'll get her Oscar next year. She's Dorothy McGuire; "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "The Enchanted Cottage" are the pictures on which her claim will be based. The Selznick winners, who've taken four awards in the last six years, are Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jenni-fer Jones, Joan Fontaine and Vivien Leigh. And as if that weren't enough, way back in 1935 a special award was given to Shirley Temple. Tem-ple. Following the completion of her first Monogram starrer, "Divorce," Kay Francis left Hollywood on a trip to entertain servicemen, this time in the Caribbean area. She'll be back at the studio for "Allotment "Allot-ment Wives," scheduled for May. When Constance Bennett appears on Earl Wilson's radio program on Mutual, Sunday evenings she'll have a chance to talk back to sister Joan. Joan was Earl's guest a while ago, and made a few cracks about her sisters' cutting their ages down so much that she now feels like the eldest member of the family. Now Constance will have a chance to reply, re-ply, and in public. Joan Edwards has been requested by the OWI to make a series of propaganda speeches In Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, for distribution In occupied areas of Europe. As if the gal didn't have enough to do already! Ed Jerome, who's the "heavy" on the CBS "Crime Doctor" series, is the envy of the rest of the cast. He's leaving soon for a six weeks' vacation, his first since 1933, and he's going to head for Lake Louise, in Canada, and just loaf. Edith Arnold, the series' favorite gun moll, will probably spend her time off at Belle Island, Conn., working V- in her garden. Last year she canned I20f quarts of vegetables out of that garden, and she declares that she's ftyjng to do even better than that this year. Even newspaper correspondents have begun listening to the Saturday Satur-day CBS series, "The FBI in Peace and War," for what's going on behind be-hind the scenes of wartime crime. Incidentally, If you've been puzzled because you couldn't quite place the musical theme which introduces the program, the music comes from "The Love for Three Oranges," by Sergei ProkoflefT. Sonny Tufts' agent is a superstitious supersti-tious man. His biggest clients are Sonny, currently appearing In "Miss Susie Slagle," and Spencer Tracy. The agent has told his New York representative to search for actors whose initials are "S. T." ODDS AND ENDS Lynn Merrick, Columbia contract starlrt, will sponsor Shirley Temple when the "Kits and Tell" star graduates from Westlake high in June; Lynn's an alumna, class of '3. . . . Eiftht-months-old Michael H ard, who faces his first motion pic-ture pic-ture camera as the infant son of Claud-ette Claud-ette Colbert and Orson T'tlles in Inter-national's Inter-national's "Tomorrow Is Forever" is a dead ringer for ifinston Churchill. . . . Ellen Drew, who's just completed "The Amorous Ghost" for KK'f), heads that studio's United Nations' Relief associa tion old clothes drive, under direction of Ginger Rogers, industry head of the drive . |