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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) IT SEEMS that those year-old year-old twins, Beverly and Barbara Quintanilla, are to play just one baby instead of two in Warner Brothers' "Four Mothers," and all because be-cause William Keighley used his head. The script called for Pris-cilla Pris-cilla Lane to be the mother of a one-year-old child. One of the laws that give directors gray hair is that an infant can't be kept under the lights for more than 20 minutes, and can't work more than two hours a day. So Keighley did some arithmetic and engaged twins for the role. He claims that the scheme has two advantages ad-vantages it doubles the shooting time, and though one baby isn't in the right mood at the oig moment, her sister may be full of ambition. Members of the company of "Virginia" "Vir-ginia" were sitting around on location, loca-tion, waiting for the shooting to start; off at one side, a young lady - V ' A ?. W j MADELEINE CARROLL was crocheting. She seemed to be so expert that one of the extras, a local girl, asked if she'd teach her. The pretty crocheter was most affable af-fable about it; when the director, Edward H. Griffith, caUed the players play-ers together at last the pupil thanked her. "By the way," she said, "What's your name?" The crocheter replied "Call me Madeleine Madeleine Made-leine Carroll." Maybe this is bribery but Director Direc-tor Mitchell Leisen has told Kay Mil-land Mil-land and Claudette Colbert, co-stars of his picture, "Arise My Love," that if they complete their roles ahead of schedule he will buy each of them a tailored suit. Director Sam Wood also became clothes-conscious and sent little Betty Brewer two sweaters and a plaid skirt for being such a good girl when Claudette's husband, Dr. Joel J. Pressman, took her tonsils out. Not to be outdone by all this generosity, Claudette is working between scenes on a blanket which will be a gift for the Ray Milland heir, little David Daniel. Paulette Goddard danced three numbers with Fred Astaire fdr scenes in Paramount's "Second Chorus" and set a record that probably prob-ably won't be broken in Hollywood for many years to come. Though she has never danced for films before be-fore she did it so well that every dance photographed perfectly in one take, thanks to working like a dog at rehearsals. Frank Capra seeks realism in his pictures. When Gary Cooper had to protest a decision to a baseball umpire um-pire in "Meet John Doe," Capra asked Pat Flaherty, former major league pitcher, what players usually say in such a case. "You've never seen it printed, have you?" asked Flaherty. Capra shook his head. "Then you wouldn't want to use it in the picture, would you?" So the protest will just sound like an angry speech by Donald Duck. "The one, the only, the original Professor Quiz," who recently celebrated cele-brated his 200th consecutive week on the air, has been broadcasting for four years during that time he's received almost 2,000,000 letters, containing con-taining more than 12,000,000 questions ques-tions and has paid out more than $25,000 in prize money. He's not superstitious, but he refuses to go on the air without the battered old felt hat from which the questions are selected at the broadcast it was borrowed years ago from a station manager in Charlotte, N. C, and is looked upon as the good luck charm of the show. Donna Woods' fine soprano voice was going to waste in a mediocre girl trio, and the "Collegians" were a male trio that wasn't getting the breaks, not so long ago. But when I they joined talents and became the "Smarties" things began to happen they auditioned successfully on a Boston station, won several shows, then Horace Hcidt heard them, hired them and now they're known as "Donna and Her Don Juans," and featured with the Musical Knights on the Pot o' Gold and Treasure Chest programs. |