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Show Tracv Doesn't Hanker To Be On Any Set to direct he was quite willing to give advice and guidance to the youngsters who were making their first start. After viewing a scene between Sue and Dina, Tracy complimented them and then said: "111 pass on to you one tip George M; Cohan gave me years ago 'watch those pockets don't use them too much.' "You kids get so jnuch advice about not using your hands too much, that you keep them in your skirt pockets too long at a time. That looks static, wooden. You're desk workers, so keep a pencil in your hand. Remember, it's just as bad to under - do as to over - do finger-fiddling. ' "Pop Tracy signs off now. But I want to tell you kids I wish I had been as good in my first screen scene as you are." The girls, naturally, na-turally, adored Tracy and proved to be apt pupils. Spencer Tracy beamed and smiled his way through the filming film-ing of "Desk Set," the new 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope comedy which open on Sunday at the Southeast Theater. It was his pleasantest assignment in a long time. First, because he was again with his good friend Katharine Hepburn, with whom he had co-starred co-starred in seven films previous to this one; because he had an opportunity op-portunity to help some uo-coming youngsters who were making their screen debut in the picture, because be-cause he just likes to act in movies, and because his role as an industrial indus-trial engineer, who devises automation auto-mation machines for the processes of human thought in business, was a meaty one. Tracy is one film star who has no ambition to direct. "Ill keep my mug in front of the cameras as long as people will stand it," he told Director Walter Lang after watching him direct a particular complicated scene with Miss Hepburn Hep-burn and her desk - mates, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill and Sue Randall. The latter two making their screen debut. "It requires the patience of a Saint to direct, aside from other qualifications," he explained. "Any time you catch me back of a camera cam-era it's just plain curiosity." However, How-ever, for one who has no desire |