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Show STGEvSCREEMMDSO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. IF YOU want to laugh, want to stop thinking about the war for just a little while, be sure to see "The Major and the Minor." It's one of the most delightful pictures that has come along in many a moon. Ginger Rogers, as the young woman who dons little girl's clothes in order to ride half-fare half-fare on a train taking her home, gives an expert performance, establishing estab-lishing herself firmly as one of our leading comediennes. Ray Milland is excellent, as is the rest of the cast. It's a swell picture don't miss it! One of the best friends and former associates of Gen. Draja Mikhailo-vitch, Mikhailo-vitch, leader of the Jugoslavian guerrillas, is Tom Lincir, now in Hollywood working for Columbia pictures. Columbia has made a number of war pictures "The Commandos," Com-mandos," "Submarine Raider," etc. but Tom Lincir's been in none of them he's a conga dancer in "My Sister Eileen," movie version of the stage play laid in New York, with Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne. About a year ago RKO bought a novel, "There Goes Lona Henry," and afterward gave up the idea of ' V if- ' RUTH WARRICK making it. Now it's being readied as a picture for Ruth Warrick. It's the story of an ambitious Washington Washing-ton society woman. Richard Arlen. and Arlene Judge certainly started something when, working in "Wildcat," they suggested suggest-ed that each time a player made a mistake in his dialogue he make a contribution to the American Red Cross; fewer errors mean fewer retakes, re-takes, so the company profits, and the Red Cross makes money when somebody does blow his lines. With film companies cutting expenses, it's a swell idea. Alexis Smith has been urging Warner Bros, to contribute all the metal from its numerous hoopskirts, weighted petticoats and the like to the nation's scrap metal drive. "I had to wear costumes like that all through 'Gentleman Jim,' " said she, "and now I'm doing it again in 'The Adventures of Mark Twain.' I've packed around enough lead and steel to make a dozen of those General Gen-eral Grant tanks! The studio would be doing the government and me! a favor if they'd just turn it all in." Olivia de Havilland's learning to play the saxophone brings the shiny new instrument to her dressing dress-ing room and tootles between scenes of "The Princess O'Rourke." She played "Happy Birthday" for the sound stage doorman the other day, her first public performance. She also offered him three cigars, in case he didn't care for her music. He didn't comment on the music, but took the cigars. Sergt. Gene Autrey used to think he was pretty busy when he was making pictures, running his own rodeo and his two ranches and doing his regular air stint. But now! He does the air show, also the regular regu-lar work of an army sergeant, and he's picking up flying hours and burning the midnight oil, studying up on the book work needed for army flying examinations! Lewis Milestone, directing "The Edge of Darkness," was worried when the company went on location on the Monterey peninsula, for fear that some of the cast might be shot pn sight. It's a story of the underground under-ground movement in Norway, and green-clad Nazi troopers play an important part in it. "If a German soldier is seen around Monterey, he'll be an actor," was part of Milestone's warning to citizens. ODDS AND ENDS Clark Gable has lost 27 pounds since he joined the army . . . Picture celebrities are conserving con-serving tires by going to Hollywood shindigs in groups, in station wagons . . . They're rushing work on "The Immortal Im-mortal Sergeant" so that Henry Fonda can report to the navy on lime . . . Because Be-cause Martha Scott went to New Y'ork to do a guest appearance on "Stage Door Canteen," her husband, Carlton Alsop, got a permanent job at NBC as director of the air's "Abie's Irish Rose" . . . Humphrey Bogart averages 50 letters let-ters a week from persons who announce hat they hate him. |