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Show tar Bust ir Tracing Resemblances ic For the Cause of Art ir Indians Above Par By Virginia Vale GENE MARKEY, the 20th Century -Fox producer, may have thought that Metro made a mistake when it abandoned "I Take This Woman" Wom-an" as Hedy LaMarr's second sec-ond American-made picture. Certainly he liked the idea of taking that woman, to be his lawful wedded wife. Oddly enough, there's a strong resemblance between be-tween the new Mrs. Markey and the first one, Joan Bennett, as Joan appears ap-pears in her brunette wig in "Trade Winds." And there'll probably be a resemblance in the setting of "Trade Winds" and the next picture in which Hedy LaMarr stars "Lady of the Trqpics," in which Robert Taylor will be her leading man. This business of tracing resemblances resem-blances can go on and on forever. Old timers can try to find one between be-tween the glamorous Hedy and that HEDY LA MARR glamour girl of an earlier day, Barbara Bar-bara LaMarr (surely there couldn't have been a thought of Barbara in the mind of the person who suggested suggest-ed "LaMarr" when the lovely Viennese Vien-nese Mrs. Markey was choosing a name for her American career!). Believe It or not, Merle Oberon had her face washed with kerosene the other day. The same thing happened hap-pened to Laurence Oliver and David Niven, and all in the cause of art. Not that the makeup man had anything against thern. Kerosene, when mixed with paraffin and heated heat-ed slightly, provides a quick-drying spray which dries white, so that he who gets sprayed looks as if frost had appeared on hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. With the cops and robbers cycle waning, motion picture producers are certainly taking to playing cowboys cow-boys and Indians in a great big way. Paramount has three big westerns scheduled for this spring and summer sum-mer "Geronimo," "Buffalo Bill" and "The Lives of a Texas Ranger," a sequel to "Texas Ranger." There's going to be a premium on Indians in the Hollywood studios, first tiling anybody knows. Muriel Wilson, formerly known as "Mary Lou" on radio's "Showboat" program, recently received a gift that moved her to tears. It is a crocheted tablecloth depicting a scene from "Showboat," and was designed and made by a blind woman. There's a man in California who, if he could be granted the wish nearest near-est his heart, would ask that Cecil B. DcMille decide to broadcast a ' play with a good wind storm in it. The man Is Charlie Forsyth, sound effects expert who officiates on Mr. DeMille's Radio Theater, and he has two dozen new wind records that he wants to use. During the recent California windstorms he worked all night making records of the wind whistling through cracks in his garage and through the shrubbery around his house. They are the first authentic wind records Forsyth has been able to make, and he won't be happy until he uses them. Lanny Ross celebrated his tenth anniversary on the air by giving a luncheon to which ho invited all the other men who have been on the air for ten years or more and sunKcst-ing sunKcst-ing that they form a club. Everybody Every-body was delighted with the Idea, but since then Lnnny has sometimes wished that he'd never thought up the plan. He has been deluged with letters of protest from women nil over the country and the only way out was to form an auxiliary. Five years ago Shirley Ross made her screen debut as a bit player in a picture starring Lpe Tracy. Imagine what n thrill it was for lu-r when she was engaged to appear as his leading lady on a Silver Theater broadcast. ODDS ,l.) ENDS-Af,,-, hi,Thu. any iM'i'iiiiiK nini (iu -Vi v K rnir niii.cs (i (ici' lino for im Armenian ri'j-dmrmil ri'j-dmrmil nnf ,1 vUu sii.vd ;,, ., , . . At niwuifx Kiiio Smith iiinii th mm in tl hmnl by li;;l,n (,,., ham. . . . ',, .,, ,, ,,, .,, "Staiii-i-Kai h" -it will iiiomiy ;imii- f,. hi' in, I n fen hist .i, r, ,., n li asnl ih, , , it) Wralmi N.wsi,;,,ri- Union. ' |