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Show STAGECREENSliADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ROBERT TAYLOR has very rarely visited his wife, Barbara Stanwyck, on a motion picture set, but he broke the rule when she was working in "The Great Man's Lady" (originally titled "Pioneer "Pio-neer Woman") and watched her working with Brian Don-levy. Don-levy. A few days before, Donlevy had been shooting Taylor for the final scenes in "Billy the Kid." Now that "Billy the Kid" is finished a quandary quan-dary has arisen. In the Metro script, Billy was left-handed, so Taylor practiced for several months drawing draw-ing his gun from the holster with his left hand. Then came word from William S. Hart and Col. Archer Adams, both familiar with the desperado's des-perado's character, that he used his right hand. Looks as if the argument argu-ment never would be settled. Anne Shirley, who appeared In her first picture when she was three, has a word ot advice ior mothers who want their children to become be-come movie actors. She's been working with a series of youngsters in "West Point Widow" five of them, in all, because be-cause the babies behaved be-haved so badly that substitutes had to hp used. Miss Shir- Anne Shirley ley thinks. ,iVs great mistake to have a child learn to do imitations and tap dancing and all that sort of thing; an attractive, intelligent child with acting ability needs to do just one thing, says she obey the director. di-rector. Walter Abel had visitors on his set a while ago who rattled him com- pletely. He was doing do-ing a scene with Paulette Goddard for Paramount's "Hold Back the Dawn," in a Mexican Mexi-can border town set. The Abel sons, aged 11 and 9, respectively, re-spectively, had been studying about Mexico Mex-ico in school, and Eta faMi fSifMfrtv a waiiteu to ace mc set; it interested Walter Abel them more than this first sight of their father at work. Abel finally had to ask Director Mitchell Leisen to shoot the scene again, on a closed set this time; his sons made him nervous! Joel McCrea took a short trip when he finished his work in the Stanwyck picture; went to New Mexico to see some men about some cows. He has enlarged his Ventura county ranch from 1,000 to 1,500 acres, and all that extra grazing graz-ing space has to have customers. Constance Moore, feminine lead In "I Wanted Wings," now is determined deter-mined to earn wings of her own. All that flying in the picture made her yearn to do it too and she ought to be able to manage it easily, eas-ily, for her husband, Johnny Mas-chio, Mas-chio, is a licensed pilot. Her close friends, Margaret Snllavan and Olivia Oliv-ia de Haviland, are urging her on; they both fly, and love it. Constance threatens to take to the air any day now. Columbia has finally signed all the players who will be seen in the new series of pictures based on the "Til-lie "Til-lie the Toiler" comic strip. Kay Harris, one of Hollywood's Cinderella Cinder-ella girls, gets the lead; others in the cast are Daphne Pollard, William Wil-liam Tracy, George Watts, Jack Arnold Ar-nold and Benny Bartlett. The release by RKO of Walt Disney's Dis-ney's "The Reluctant Dragon" marks Disney's entrance into a brand new field; the picture combines com-bines both "live-action" photography photogra-phy and animated pictures. The locale lo-cale is the Disney studio, and Robert Benchley is the star. Maureen O'Sullivan paused in New York with her baby son, on the way from a visit with her husband he's stationed in Bermuda back to Hollywood. Metro will co-star her in a new Tarzan picture with Johnny Weismuiler the first Tarzan in three years. The Court of Missing Heirs has located lo-cated 71 heirs in 69 weeks of broadcastingand broad-castingand the value of the estates es-tates returned to the rightful heirs amounts to $413,375. ODDS AKD ENDS-Ray Cnllins. uno'j played 900 rolrs in the theater and on the radio, makex ni.t film debut in "Citizen Kane" . . . The V. S. war department is builAing 36 movie houses in the nation 1 draft camps ... If arners have signed Eric Severeid, ace war correspondent cor-respondent and radio reporter, to do background commentating in "Lnder-ground" "Lnder-ground" a film about a secret rcvalu-tiunary rcvalu-tiunary movement in Germany . . . Vris-cilla Vris-cilla Lane has the lead in "Hot oc-turne," oc-turne," a story of swing bandsters . . . Shirley Temple's out of the Wallace lieery picture, "Lazybones" ; Virginia ff cidler's in. |