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Show STAGE "SCREEN-RADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WHEN you see Para-mount's Para-mount's "Arise My Love," with Claudette Colbert Col-bert and Ray Milland, you'll miss the most thrilling thing that has happened so far in the filming of the picture. It occurred in the scene where Milland, Miss Colbert and Garland Lincoln, a veteran Hollywood stunt pilot, are scuffling beside a plane; Miss Colbert, Col-bert, who plays' an American newspaper news-paper woman in Paris, has a portable port-able typewriter, and Milland is battling bat-tling with Lincoln. Just as Milland struck Lincoln, a mechanic inside the cockpit of the plane knocked one of the throttles forward. The right motor was running, run-ning, and the plane swung around, striking Milland and knocking him to the ground. Wires braced to the tail surface gashed his leg. He insisted that he could continue working, after a doctor had dressed his leg, but Director Mitchell Leisen sent him home and shot around him tor the next few days. They're de-beautifying Louise Piatt for "Captain Caution," because be-cause Bill Madsen, head makeup artist at the Hal Roach Studios, thinks that the average young screen actress, after being made up, looks just like all the other young actresses ac-tresses in the cast. So he did things to her that hadn't been done for her previous screen appearances. She's always tried to hide her high forehead; he empha- I ' Jit LOUISE PLATT sized it. She has a distinctive mouth, strong and wide he did very little to it, instead of cutting it down. He gave her a complete new jaw line, took some of the sparkle spar-kle out of her eyes by using small, heavy eyelashes at the ends of her own. And that's the way you'll see her, playing "Corunna," a strong-willed, strong-willed, determined girl who helps to fight the war of 1812. The artificial fog that hung like blown flour over the "Captain Caution" Cau-tion" set at Hal Roach Studios during dur-ing the shooting of several sequences se-quences bothered members of the cast and crew; they complained that the oil mixture left a bad taste in their mouths. So the special effects men, always obliging, introduced vanilla into the fog. The result was worse than ever-even ever-even roast beef and ham sandwiches tasted like vanilla. The next day plain fog was used again, and cast and crew did no more complaining. By this time motion picture stars ought to know what to expect if they go to South America. (Remember Robert Taylor's visit?) The enthusiastic enthu-siastic fans practically mob them, but the stars seem to love it. Errol Flynn is the latest of the visitors to find out how popular 'he is. In Port au Spain, Trinidad, at least 3,000 people stormed the airport to see the star of "The Sea Hawk"; later, while Flynn was dining, part of the crowd broke through police lines in the hotel lobby and streamed into the restaurant, overturning over-turning tables and chairs. A splintered splin-tered chair gashed Flynn's leg so badly that it had to be stitched up. His clothes were almost torn from his back. At Bahia 4,000 fans greeted his arrival. That's the way it's gone everywhere that he went it's hard on the wardrobe, but fine for the box office! Recently Frances Langford was just about to go on in the Star Theater Thea-ter program when she was notified that her husband, ' Jon Hall, had been injured in a powder explosion. Without being able to learn just how seriously he had been hurt Miss Langford sang her song and read her comedy lines, and then rushed to the hospital. ODDS ASD ENDS IX Have you been listening to that new Drew Pearson-Robert Allen program, pro-gram, "Washington Merry-Go-Hound" giving intimate glimpses of the nation's na-tion's capital and what goes on there? IX Melvyn Douslas, playing a Paris policeman in "He Stayed for Breakfast," Break-fast," had to learn to salute, but the man nho taught him uas lejthanded, and Douclas pot it in reverse. C Itita Hayuorth may be Hollyuoo(ls best dressed girl, but in "It Happened in Paris," her Inst Columbia picture, she Hears only i-iO uorth of clothes, and in "Before I Die" she wears only a tawdry $10 evening dress. |