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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. GLEANED from Metro's publicity files of a few years ago: Clark Gable would be one of the country's crack skeet shots if he had time for tournament competition. James Stewart took Katharine Katha-rine Hepburn up in his putt-putt putt-putt plane and nearly ground looped his ship in a two-point landtag. land-tag. Robert Taylor set his plane down in a watermelon patch. Today: To-day: Gable's heard from England over BBC, telling how skeet shooting shoot-ing is invaluable training lor gun-ners. gun-ners. Stewart's piloting a Flying Fortress. Taylor will soon be eligible eli-gible for the Transport Command, Ferry Command or as an instructor, instruc-tor, after completing his training for the navy air force. Jack Benny returned from that 32,000 mile tour overseas, entertaining entertain-ing the armed forces, with duffle bags full of telephone numbers. i ' - 0 i ! ' I , 5 I ' 5 , i I I ' V. ' j ! - w:tf(; 1 ? 5 ' I f ; ". '"- ''J JACK BENNY He's using them now. He's calling "Mom" many a Mom. "Please just tell Mom I'm fine," the boys would say, and Jack is doing it, as fast as he can. Virtually every nationality In the world is represented in RKO's "Gangway for Tomorrow"; it has 136 speaking parts. But none of the cast portray their native countrymen. country-men. A Russian is played by a Pole, a Czech by an Austrian, a Pole by a German, a Frenchman by a Russian. Richard Ryan, an Irishman, Irish-man, plays a German officer. Margo, born in Mexico, plays a French girl. Just Hollywood! Aft embarrassing moment came to Carleton Young, 20th Century-Fox contract player, at the "Silver Theater" Thea-ter" dress rehearsal, after the announcer an-nouncer had read an elaborate buildup build-up which was given him. The entire cast, Including Loretta Young, salaamed. Before Florance Halop made her fortunate appearance, talent scouts for the new "Duffy's" series were so hard pressed to find a new Miss Duffy to replace Shirley Booth that they resorted to ads in the Hollywood Holly-wood papers. N Sound effects proved better than the real article when Parks John- ..n onrl Wnrron Hull visited the Oil |