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Show Bv VIRGINIA VALE .He.easedoy Western Newspaper Union.) TF YOU lived within a ten-1 ten-1 mile radius of Priscilla LanVs home you'd be more .n likely to encounter her Tone of the neighborhood movie houses in that vicinity Tndto see her afterward buttonholing but-tonholing the manager The "Four Mothers" star takes her movie-rna very seriousso fa v., j IV ' a"" f ' - ' - . ' v y i PRISCILLA LANE tans here like that star?" That's the kind of thing Priscilla wants to know. When she's working she covers cov-ers two or three pictures a week; other times she takes in four or five. Metro previewed "Flight Command" Com-mand" aboard an airplane in flight one evening recently; afterward Be-Jell Be-Jell Monroe, president of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Central Airlines, predicted that pictures will be shown regularly on all commercial air lines within the next few years, as they are on ocean liners. Robert Taylor stars In "Flight Command," a naval aviation avia-tion story. We're to have "The Trial of Mary Dugan" again, with Robert Young in the leading male role. Remember Remem-ber it when Norma Shearer made it nine years ago? Laraine Day will play "Mary Dugan," (You probably saw her in "Foreign Correspondent.") Edward J. Peters, chief engineer of Paramount' s air conditioning department, de-partment, has perfected a new type of ice. He calls it "snow ice," and because it lasts almost one-third longer than ordinary ice and requires re-quires a third less time to produce, it may affect the commercial ice industry. It was developed because Director Charles Vidor was shooting a scene in "New York Town" (Fred Mac-Murray, Mac-Murray, Mary Martin and Robert Preston co-starring); bright set lights striking ordinary transparent ice in water made the ice invisible to the camera. Vidor wanted the ice to show, to emphasize an important im-portant story point. Hence the new ice. Hollywood's biggest variety show -Al Pearce and His Gang takes aine microphones to get their Fri-3ay Fri-3ay broadcasts on the CBS network. Carl Hoff's orchestra alone takes three; Pearce has one, and the rest )f the cast another. Billy Gould gets sixth one for his sound effects, md Wendell Niles has a booth, :quipped with a microphone, of :ourse, for his closing commercial here's an audience applause mi-:rophone, mi-:rophone, so that we who listen may mow how much those who are preset pres-et are enjoying it, and when Bill rordan and George Kent present heir two-piano numbers the ninth nike is added to the engineer's prob-ems. Apparently quiz shows are as popular pop-ular as ever with radio audiences- shirW neS Wi" take t0 ' alp shortly, over the CBS Pacific Not-work Not-work They're "Don't Be Personal" and Talk Your Way Out of This One -studio audiences will participate, partici-pate, and the wilmcrs cash prizes. Girls who have ambitions to net on the screen or on the air might take a tip from Lurene Tuttle' sho never rnisses a Helen Hayoari! cast, because she learns so much Bet?e DnSS Bnd she tuX, fav tfVt Wrk in P'cturesh, Davi r ShC Wrked with Mis Uav,,, the star gave her many valu- ab e suggestions on tlle technfque of acting Now Lurene's learning still more from working with John Inly-more Inly-more on the Vallce programs. ODDS AND ENDS "-'T" Picture in whirl, r- ';'r'.v-.T,m,f iT':!rt less - |