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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) REMEMBER when Colleen Moore was trooping about the country with her dolls' house? Well, if present plans go through Charles Boyer may soon be engaged in a slightly similar journey. He will make personal appearances appear-ances with the openings in various cities of "Hold Back the Dawn," and will also display his model of the city of Paris in theater lobbies and department stores. Valued Val-ued at more than $50,000, the miniature minia-ture city shows Paris as it was before be-fore the German occupation. Part of the proceeds of the tour will go to war relief organizations. When traveling, trav-eling, the city is housed in eight crates; setting it up keeps four men occupied for two days. It's rather a shock to realize that Hedy Lamarr has been resting for nearly eight months hasn't worked since "Ziegfeld Girl." She's beginning begin-ning a new picture now, "H. M. ; I 'V Mi HEDY LAMARR Pulham, Esq." based on the Mar-quand Mar-quand novel it's difficult to see how either of the two leading feminine roles can be twisted around to fit her, but stranger things are happening happen-ing in Hollywood all the time. Maybe you'll be crazy about the latest Walt Disney, "The Reluctant Reluc-tant Dragon." But. a lot of us wish that Mr. Disney would abandon these long features and stick to good short ones. Both this one and "Fantasia" could be cut into several good shorts. Apparently everybody who saw Kathryn Grayson in that last Hardy film wanted to know what her next picture would be. Letters poured into the Metro studios, and out went the word that she will appear in "The Vanishing Virginian." She's but recently returned from her honeymoon hon-eymoon in private life she's now Mrs. John Shelton and will be back before the cameras soon. Lewis Stone is taking time out from the "Judge Hardy" role, between be-tween the family chronicles, to play an army colonel in "Steel Cavalry," Caval-ry," the new Wallace Beery picture. pic-ture. But he'll have to be careful not to do anything the Judge wouldn't do, or the fans will protest. pro-test. ODDS AND ENDS Raymond Cram Swing has just bought a 250 acre farm half-way up Putney mountain in Vermont Ver-mont . . . As a youngster Bob Hope used to do imitations of Charlie Chaplin Chap-lin at church socials . . . Paramount's "Air Raid" is a tale oj adventure, love and murder during a practice blackout in an American city . . . Richard H'horf, who replaced John Garfield in Warners' "Bridges Built at Night," has been replaced re-placed by Craig Stevens . . . Andy De-vine De-vine will join radio's Al Pearce arid His Gang October 3rd . . . Columbia has given a new contract to Jinx Falkenburg, known as America's Numbrr One model perhaps you saw her in "Two Latins" |