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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THE March of Time has done much to give us good pictures and just now not only taking good news pictures, pic-tures, but getting them home is quite a feat. But they have done something else; Producer Pro-ducer Louis de Rochemont instituted the School of Pictorial Pic-torial Journalism, to train enlisted men of the United Nations' forces in the elements of motion picture photography. pho-tography. Three classes have already al-ready been graduated, and the men are engaged in gathering material in the various fighting zones making mak-ing a complete and graphic picture of the war. That shampoo you'll see Frank Morgan receiving at the hands of Spencer Tracy, John Garfield and others in "Tortilla Flat" was done with a mixture of melted soap flakes ( and flour. The scene had to be filmed four times, because when they'd get the stuff spread over Morgan's head and into his ears, eyes and mouth somebody would begin be-gin to laugh. And Morgan' d been told it was a dignified role! "Tarzan's New Adventure" has been chosen as the title for the new Tarzan film, with Johnny Weismul- I v- t",'-4' r zr T-ti tx i r Aal JOHNNY WEISMTJLLER ler and Maureen O'Sullivan. In it Tarzan buys himself a wardrobe and has exciting adventures away from his jungle home. Tom McGuire is now selling newspapers news-papers inside Grand Central station, for good pay. Forty-eight years ago he sold them outside the station, for pennies. The reason is that then he was a newsboy, just over from Ireland Ire-land now he's an actor, in "The Major and the Minor." When Les Newkirk, manager of the West theater at Trinidad, Colo., opened an air-mail package from Hollywood he was sort of stumped. It contained a record of greetings from Hollywood to the town, to be reproduced through the theater's loud speaker when "Two Yanks in Trinidad" was first shown and it was in little pieces. Newkirk called Bollywood, the picture's star, on location lo-cation with the "He's My Old Man" troupe, and O'Brien talked directly to the audience. Which scenes do you remember best from "Gone With the Wind"? A survey reveals that most people recall (1) Atlanta burning; (2) the thousands of wounded soldiers lying at the depot; (3) Scarlett's fall downstairs; down-stairs; (4) Scarlett shooting the Yankee Yan-kee soldier; (4) Rhett Butler's saying say-ing "I don't give a damn." It's drawing crowds for the third time in New York; seems as if it will go on forever. m Kate Smith has begun her fifth year of broadcasting "Kate Smith Speaks," her daily commentator program. It's originated from hotels, ho-tels, theaters, restaurants, railroad whistle stops, wherever she happened hap-pened to be once, lately, from her mother's living room. Shep Fields and his new orchestra orches-tra have just completed a musical short subject for Columbia Pictures; titled "Lightning Strikes Twice," it traces his rise as a bandleader, and his switch to a brassless band and new success. His wife and his baby daughter, two-year-old Jo Ann, have prominent roles in the film, which will be released nationally soon. Soldiers and sailors are sure to have'a chance to win that $64 on the "Take It or Leave It" broadcasts; Quizmaster Phil Baker has added a third glass bowl of numbers to the one for men and the one for women, wom-en, just for them, and contestants' numbers are drawn from each in turn. This was one of the first major ma-jor programs to set aside a block of seats for service men. ODDS Ay D EyDS "Flying Blnr.de," the story of a woman test pilot, is scheduled for Lana t urner . . . Marjo-r:e Marjo-r:e Main will U'eoi" a pink satin dancing costume, complete with se ' quins, in the Wallace Beery "Jack its Mail" . . . Edward Arnold's stand in, Williom Hooier, has joined the Marines; he's lost 4.S pounds and 4-'. isn't look so much like Arnold any more . . . Shirley Temple's Crossley riling with "Junior Miss" for March is more than twice as high as tht average rating scored by newcomers U the air during the past two years . . And by the same rating Jack Bcnn cored first place, for the same month |