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Show Star QBiist k Western West Point "k Gary Cuts Speed Sub Holds the Fort By Virginia Vale ' TN HOLLYWOOD there is a i- man named Jack Schulze who is one of the wizards of modern times, and it's dollars dol-lars to doughnuts that you haven't the faintest notion who Jack Schulze is. He's art director for Edward Small Productions, which United Artists releases and here is a brief account of his latest exploit. Small, producer of "The Duke of West Point," assigned him to simple sim-ple little task just to transport the United States Military academy from West Point to Hollywood. And Schulze did it. That is, he built in Hollywood so perfect a replica of the academy that the West Point graduates gradu-ates who have come in hordes to visit the set felt that they were right back in college. Perhaps you'll be Interested in knowing how it was done. A camera cam-era crew was sent to West Point to make films of practically every inch of the academy. That ran Into almost al-most 50,000 feet of film, which showed the buildings, the grounds, and was a record of the sort of life that is led there. That's a lot of film, when you consider that the average av-erage feature picture, that runs for about an hour and a quarter, Is 9,000 feet Each morning, before shooting a particular scene. Director Alfred E. Greene goes to his projection room and looks over pictures made under un-der similar circumstances at West Point pictures showing a day In tha life of a cadet. Then he goes to the same spot on the set there it is, waiting for him, whether it be in the mess hall or on Flirtation walk. West Point's Michie stadium had to be reproduced for the picture'! football game. Army experts approved the story of the picture. Its author, George Bruce, spent many weeks at West Point as the commandant's guest, and made volumes of notes for his story. Gary Cooper, star of "The Cowboy Cow-boy and the Lady," likes to putter. i v 1 u, So, not long ago, he settled down with his car one of those rakish foreign models, mod-els, eight years old to do a bit of tinkering. tink-ering. He was getting get-ting only 5 miles to the gallon of gas; something had to be done about it. He did it. He gets four miles to the gallon nowl Gary Cooper Twelve years ago Hal Roach threw Wheeling, W. Va., into a dither, dith-er, when he arrived there looking for a double for Baby Peggy. He finally chose Mrs. Wyn's little girl, Nan. Nan is now one of CBS's prize singers. She opened at a New York night club. She received a carload of floral tributes among them a huge bouquet with which was enclosed en-closed an old photograph of her made up as Baby Peggy. Bob Burns, substituting for Bing Crosby as master of ceremonies on their radio program during the summer, sum-mer, did so well with a lot of help from a lot of other swell people Uiat the program stayed in third place in the popularity ratings. Now that Bing has returned he's giving more attention to his farm. He has six acres in the San Fernando Fernan-do valley, and it's a real farm. Instead In-stead of a swimming pool (fancy a movie star without onel) he's building build-ing an extra-special barn. He's going go-ing in for the best farm equipment that money can buy, and he's going to market potatoes. Those popularity poDs are interesting. inter-esting. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy hold their program in first place among the hour-long broadcasts; broad-casts; "The Radio Theater," Monday Mon-day nights from Hollywood, Is second. sec-ond. The Vallee Varieties is fourth of the big shows, Major Bowes' amateurs am-ateurs are fifth. Malibu used to be the place where a motion picture star simply had to have a beach house. Then the directors discovered it, and the Stan sold out and went elsewhere. Along came the writers, and the directors sold. Now the writers are moving and Malibu is perfectly lovely and quiet. ODDS AND ENDS Don WiUon u m busy man lhf!e duyt; ie'j on two transcontinental programs and it making mak-ing travclrtguet at Universal . . . Benny Goodmmn't to make hit clamicul dnbul in January at Carnegie Hull in New York, nhcre he gave hit tensational mnng ennrert Ut winlrr . . . Alan Mm-bray Mm-bray CI here Goes My Heart") announced an-nounced that he Kinted to be adopted by America, so lliat he could have a native town of his own; eight citiet promptly uok him up on it . . . Anne Shirley and her hubundt John Vayne (whn is one of lie I'aynet oj Virginia and likes to have people remember it), are off to Roanoke on a deferred honeymoon. V ealern Newspaper Union. |