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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. EIGHTY army nurses whose names ought to go down in history because of the courage cour-age with which they did their work during the siege of Ba-taan Ba-taan will receive their due partially, at least, in a picture which Paramount has scheduled sched-uled for production in the autumn. au-tumn. Called "Hands of Mercy," Mer-cy," it will be produced and directed by Mark Sandrich, who'll take a hand also in writing the scenario. Another timely picture will be Metro's "Next of Kin," in which Joan Crawford will appear as a girl without social background, who marries a naval officer, and finds herself confronted with navy snobbery. snob-bery. Joan will come out on top of course! Bette Davis refuses to call her vegetable garden at her Sugar Hill, N. H., home a "victory garden." Like a lot of other people, she discovered to her sorrow that vegetables won't grow just because you plant them. She says she'll be lucky if she gets one New England boiled dinner out of the whole crop. Charles Boyer couldn't have Greta Garbo for that murder mystery, "Flesh and Fantasy," of which he CHARLES BOYER is both co-star and co-director. But Universal did very well by him by getting Barbara Stanwyck to play opposite him in the second sequence. Rosalind Russell thinks she knows what the boys in camp expect of picture stars, so she decided to take all the glamour clothes that she could pack into seven trunks when starting on the tour of army camps scheduled to follow completion of "My Sister Eileen." Though on a 16-hour-a-day schedule, she'll have clothes enough to change ten times a day. "I'll wear everything but a bathing suit," she announced. And she looks so fetching in a bathing suit! Betty Brewer, the Paramount starlet, isn't wasting any time between be-tween pictures. The 15-year-old actress, ac-tress, who plays a featured role in "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," is studying singing and taking piano lessons takes piano from Diana Lynn and singing from Susanna1 Foster, also budding stars. Paulette Goddard's new priority prior-ity gown was made from just 1H yards of fabric. Designed by the famous Valentina, it's a dinner dress of ' black jersey, made with a backless top and a short, peg-top skirt. You'll see her. wearing it in "The Forest Rangers." Warner Baxter, who hasn't appeared ap-peared on the screen since early last year, when he appeared in "Adam Had Four Sons," for Columbia, Colum-bia, has been signed by the same studio to make two pictures a year. They'll be based on the radio program, pro-gram, "Crime Doctor," one of our most popular air shows. Can't keep "Mrs. Miniver" out of the news. With the announcement that it was being held at the Radio City Music Hall for the ninth week no other film has been held there for more than six comes the news that it had been seen in that theater by 1,142,107 persons. A 400-foot long, 200-foot wide duplicate of the original runway of . the Wake Island airfield was constructed con-structed in ten days at Salton Sea, Calif., for Paramount's "Wake Island" Is-land" a picture that promises to be one of the most stirring of all this year's crop of war films. ODDS AD ESDS Gary Cooper's rapidly catching up to Don Ameche as a portrayer of famous men on the screen . . Dennis Morgan has been taking daily treatments for the "sand blindness'1 blind-ness'1 he suffered while on location near Gallup, i. M ., or "The Desert Song" . . . Ginger Rogers taps to only the tune of her oun humming in "The Major and the Minor" . . . "Little Miss Marker." Mark-er." the film which made Shirley Temple Tem-ple famous eight years agot may 6e filmed again by I'arnmount, with Baby Sandy in the leading role . . . Dorothy Comineore, has refused nil assignments tince she "nde "Citizen Kane." |