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Show jj,,', W alter tt'imhell i.l aiwiy, jj,-, month, his column will bo con-(fofi.J con-(fofi.J by s"'" columnijtj. By JACK LAIT Coast-to-Coasting: fltrman Shumlin, Broadway-mado director, now a Hollywood wage-Jave wage-Jave (at what a wage!) Is hot for realism. For a scene in a film with Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall, he wanted a photo ol a bullet hit-tin hit-tin a wall and he wanted It authoritatively au-thoritatively authentic. At 2 o'clock hi the morning, he got four Warner lot cops to stand oft and pop their 44'l at a studio wall and had each (hot shot from several angles. . . . He still didn't get just what he was after. . . But, came the dawn, H. jl. Warner sent for his whole force and demanded to know what crackpot had been shooting up his bungalow? It's right past the waU. He place looked like Berlin I Mike Romanoff, the Great Pretender, Pre-tender, who now owns the most prosperous cafe In California, has son his naturalization papers, thus disproving canards that his Imperial Highballness was born in Brooklyn. Hike is a native of London. Strangely, his true name Is Romanoff, Roman-off, which gave him his original in-jpiration in-jpiration to "adopt" the czarlst clan. He says he will definitely not -hanee the monicker now to Mike Etalia ... Dr. Irving Berman, Hollywood Hol-lywood eye specialist, has it figured out that persons with normal sight should sit four times the height of the jcreen from the screen. Bring tout own tape-measure! The Commies in and around the movie Industry have set up inch an organized and agon-ted agon-ted howl against a proposed Bed probe that their activities are accentuating the .positive fat nare than another official Investigation In-vestigation is likely to. That Hol-tywood Hol-tywood Is crummy with every hade of bolshy lovers is obvious to anyone who can see or hear. A recent California legislative sarvey turned up conditions even more malodorous than surface symptoms had indicated. Stars, producers, executives with no understanding of what the Russian Rus-sian system means plug for it. Crimson propaganda creeps into costly films. Anyone who thinks democracy and a republic are pretty sweet is a fascist isolationist; isola-tionist; anyone who thinks we're lend-leasing like fools is a Tory reactionary. The victory of the radicals in Britain was toasted and celebrated in mansions and swank cafes in the community wHch glorifies the Soviets and squawks about high TJ. S. income taxes in the same breath! Tun Gayle has left Fred Waring exploitation to start another musical mag, "Preview." He formerly published pub-lished "The Baton." He was going to call his new periodical "Finale," but Westbrook Pegler, whose ad-Tice ad-Tice he asked, didn't like that said it Bounded pessimistic. Peg also ald in his letter: "I think anyone ho starts a business enterprise today to-day on his own money deserves 'ther a medal or a scholarship in Matteawan. Anything that old Sam doesn't take away from you, in the improbable event that you make a dollar in the first place, will be taken b? the unions and the lawyers "nose services will be necessary to tap you out of prison from day to da?." And Peg advises against pessimism! pes-simism! Bollywood is where: A fortune fdes on the turn of ankle or the tilt a nose; everything is so irresponsible irrespon-sible and goofy that a dozen new llonaires emerge every year; Werybody wears slacks and owns race-horses; biggies loves yesmen ud hire high-priced monitors to ,toP them from doing what they'd we to do; everyone denies that the Movies are just entertainment and 'sts the screen is a medium of "Ration, culture, enlightenment "d patriotism; and the cast and ew of ."me Kld rQm Brooklyn- PW In 48,400 man-hours in a prize sequence that runs 3 minutes, 1 !ecnds, when you see it. Connie Bennett is back again, just trouper on the payroll. Her ambi-us ambi-us venture as a producer came M cropPer "Paris Under- r,,,. 1 a Z1 story, was washed with VE Day. But Connie had arm j " Iasted ordering people th. reusi"g this, turning down uat- one Constance picnic. ch!rdd'e Steele' ex-middleweight "StoJ," couldn't Set East for the Pvt ? ' G'1- Joe" Premiers, but caput0?611 Mitchu (who plays the he's I .EOt travel Priority because and 6 army' Both are fllm 3 more be heard rom Plenty sct A ' Faye Emerson is heart-up heart-up A '!,w months ago she blazed dauM 1 Roosevelt's bride, Since un"Iaw of we President. MjUcitTH' She's had some tou2h name 7 ,ks and the Roosevelt Elliot -n Sger works magic Soon be back in private life. |