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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) i i T) AN AM A HATTIE," M-1 M-1 G-M's lavish version of the successful Broadway-musical, Broadway-musical, is well under way. The initial set disclosed Ann Sothern in a night club, singing sing-ing one of the show's best songs, and dancing while two hundred soldiers, sailors, marines ma-rines and tourists served as a background. An expert passed judgment on the set, uniforms, etc. she is Mamie Kelly, for 25 years operator of the most famous night club in Central America, at Panama City. She declared that Rags Ragland looked more like a sailor than a sailor himself and she's seen thousands thou-sands of them! For the eighteenth time In his life Richard Dix was made an honorary hon-orary sheriff the other day; he's making "Tombstone," and his role is that of Wyatt Earp, the famous peace officer of Arizona In the state's wilder days. Not since flame-haired Clara Bow took the movie world by storm has Hollywood seen a personality so vibrant vi-brant as Frances NeaL according FRANCES NEAL to Frank O'Connor, who directed the famous "It" girl in most of her films. He's playing' an important role in RKO Radio's "Lady Scar-face," Scar-face," in which she makes her film debut. Director Frank Woodruff dubbed her "Titian TNT," and O'Connor thinks it fits. ' The job of doing the raucous, old-fashioned old-fashioned ring-master's voice for Walt Disney's "Dumbo" has been handed to Herman Bing. The task of recording voices for the part-seemed part-seemed endless actual ring masters, mas-ters, rodeo and prize fight announcers announc-ers and circus barkers were tried out for it, before Herman won by a throat full of r's. Bob Hope and Jerry Colonna have acquired new honors, too. They are honorary members of the Salt Lake City police force; the award was made at the city's recent police show, with some 10,000 people looking look-ing on. Rosalind Russell is right at home In M-G-M's "Her Honor," in which she's a woman judge. Her family's I practically all lawyers on the male side she can count seven without pausing to think. As a child she used to hide in her father's court room in Waterbury, Conn. once she managed to 6o it when he was trying try-ing a thrilling murder case. She'd probably have been a lawyer if she hadn't had what it takes to be a movie star; as it is, she draws up her own contracts and lets it go at that. Preston Foster, star of Para-mount's Para-mount's "The Morning After," had a swell idea the other day. He bought two football tickets for every game to be played by the University Univer-sity of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California, Cali-fornia, and sent them to the morale office at Camp San Luis Obispo; the office is to conduct hard luck contests, and the buck private who'd had the toughest luck each week will be given the tickets, put up at the best quarters in Los Angeles, and pr-vided pr-vided with a pretty girl as a companion com-panion at the game. Joe Marshall has a bigger job than washing an elephant each day; he paints one every morning. Sprays a two-ton beast from ears to toenails with gray-white water color so that he won't blend into the background during Technicolor shots for "Malaya," the Dorothy Lamour jungle thrillc ODDS AXD EA' DS Constance Bennett Ben-nett sines a nice little dittv in fTarnet Bros.' 'Wild Bill Hickok' Rides" us called "The Lady Got a Shady Peal" . . . The famed University of Southern California Trojan band marches and plays in the big football rally scene in "The Male Animal" . Baseball's clown, Ai Schacht, is still lamentinf because he had to miss the iTorld Series, for the first time in years: he was in Hollywood testing to play him self in Goldicyn's Lou Gehrig picture Iow the movies will again make the name of Smith famous this tinn with Robert Noting playing the till role in "Joe Sm;!li. American. |