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Show STkESCREEN?AD!0 By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THE March of Time has done much to give us good pictures and just now not only taking good news pictures, pic-tures, but getting them home is quite a feat. But they have done something else; Producer Pro-ducer Louis de Rochemont instituted the School of Pictorial Pic-torial Journalism, to train enlisted men of the United Nations' forces in the elements of motion picture photography. pho-tography. Three classes have already al-ready been graduated, and the men are engaged in gathering material in the various fighting zones making mak-ing a complete and graphic picture of the war. That shampoo you'll see Frank Morgan receiving at the hands of Spencer Tracy, John Garfield and others in "Tortilla Flat" was done with a mixture of melted soap flakes and flour. The scene had to be filmed four times, because when they'd get the stuff spread over Morgan's head and into his ears, eyes and mouth somebody would begin be-gin to laugh. And Morgan'd been told it was a dignified role! "Tarzan's New Adventure" has been chosen as the title for the new Tarzan film, with Johnny Weismul- f I JOHNNY WEISMTJLLER ler and Maureen O'Sullivan. In it Tarzan buys himself a wardrobe and has exciting adventures away from his jungle home. Tom McGuire is now selling newspapers news-papers inside Grand Central station, Eor good pay. Forty-eight years ago he sold them outside the station, for pennies. The reason is that then he was a newsboy, just over"from Ireland Ire-land now he's an actor, in "The Major and the Minor." i When L,es Newkirk, manager of the West theater at Trinidad, Colo., opened an air-mail package from Hollywood he was sort of stumped. It contained a record of greetings From Hollywood to the town, to be reproduced through the theater's loud speaker when "Two Yanks in Trinidad" was first shown and it was in little pieces. Newkirk called Hollywood, the picture's star, on location lo-cation with the "He's My Old Man" troupe, and O'Brien talked directly to the audience. Which scenes do you remember best from "Gone With the Wind"? A survey reveals that most people recall (1) Atlanta burning; (2) the thousands of wounded soldiers lying at the depot; (3) Scarlett's fall downstairs; down-stairs; (4) Scarlett shooting the Yankee Yan-kee soldier; (4) Rhett Butler's saying say-ing "I don't give a damn." It's drawing crowds for the third time in New York; seems as if it will go on forever. Kate Smith has begun her fifth year of broadcasting "Kate Smith Speaks," her daily commentator program. It's originated from hotels, ho-tels, theaters, restaurants, railroad whistle stops, wherever she happened hap-pened to be once, lately, from her mother's living room. Shep Fields and his new orchestra orches-tra have just completed a musical short subject for Columbia Pictures; titled "Lightning Strikes Twice," it traces his rise as a bandleader, and his switch to a brassless band and new success. His wife and his baby daughter, two-year-old Jo Ann, have prominent . roles in the film, which will be released nationally soon. Soldiers and sailors are sure to have a chance to win that $G4 on the "Take It or Leave It" broadcasts; Quizmaster Phil Baker has added a third glass bowl of numbers to the one for men and the one for women, wom-en, just for them, and contestants' numbers are drawn from each in turn. This was one of the first major ma-jor programs to set aside a block of seats for service men. ODDS AD .OS "Flying Blonde," the stnry of a iceman test pilut, is scheduled jor Fana 1 urrtrrr . . . Mnrjo-rie Mnrjo-rie Main will ucai a pink satin duncing costume, complete uith sequins, se-quins, in the Wallace Beery ''Jack-jss ''Jack-jss Mail" . . . Fdicard Arnold's stand-in. stand-in. If illiom Hooter, has joined the Marines; he's lost pounds and d:isn't look so much like Arnold any Lore . . . Shirley Temple's Crossley raiinii uith "Junior Miss' for March U more than ticice as hiuh as the average rating scored by ncucomcrs to the air during the past tuo years . . And by the same rating Jack Benny scored first place, for the same month |