Evening star., 1941-12-10

pie will be killed before a halt is
called, but it's all in fun and no
principals are involved.
Xxx x X
Not too private:
Pat O'Brien's press bureau re-
leases story to the effect that Pat
is so broken up by a shortage of
Christmas trees for Army lads in
Iceland that he's chartered special
freight plane to fly a load OF first
class frs up there M-GM likes
Spencer Tracey's newspaper person.
ality so well in women of the
Year" that it has bought I. A. r.
Wylie's Keeper of the Flame" and
will cast him in it after the first of
the year. Tracy played a sports
writer in Woman of the Year" In
the Wylie tale he becomes famous
foreign correspondent who, kicked
out of Europe, settles down in New
England to write the biography of
great American patriot, only to fall
in love with his widow The tide
is turning. With Bill Powell, Jack
Benny and Joe E. Brown, among
others, doing female impersonations,
now comes a feminine star doing q
male turn. It's Sheila Ryan playing
a newspaper reporter in Republics
Pardon My Stripes" who will mask
as a male convict!
All the toy and game stores in Los
Angeles were secured by Paramount
to find props adaptable to Robert
Benchley's role in Take q Letter
Darling" He plays a dull-witted,
lazy advertising executive whose
only interest is marble games, darts
and pop-guns. His office is Uttered
with them Jane Darwell, who
has reared and educated two nieces,
Mary and Daphne, has just acquired
third, in time for Christmas. She
is 12-year -old Sheila, who will study
music and ballet :. Unusual star
pampering order has been issued in
the case of Gene Tierney. Various
studio departments. such as ward
lOpC, SllllS, llldhC-up, SbN.,
have been cautioned not to make
any more demands on Miss Tierney's
time than necessary. Gene has been
working hard the past year, making
five pictures in a row and Is about
to start a sixth, Rings on Her
Fingers" She has not been in the
best of health.
Add Ida Lupino's name to the
alarmingly long list OF leading ladies
now trying to win back health after
bouts with overwork. Ida has lost
Is pounds in the last year and doc
tors have ordered her to take a
three months vacation. She has
had trouble keeping her weight up
since suffering an attack Of infantile
paralysis five years ago :. Florence
MacMichael, baby-talk comedy star
of the Broadway version of "Out of
the Frying Pan" was brought out by
Paramount to repeat her role in the
film version now shooting. The first
day she reported on the set Florence
and a company of 100 players had to
be sent home and work suspended.
She'd caught a cold and the baby
talk used so eXpertly through 1853
stage performances wouldn't give
:. Abbott and Costello can now be
said to have reached the heights.
They are ghosting their life story,
sitting with a writer an hour each
day telling their innermost secrets.
The book will be titled Keep En-
Laughing" It's been found
necessary by M-G-M to shoot virtu-
ally two separate productions Of II
Married an Angel" England is still
quite a tempting market and over
there the censors won't permit
screen depletion of heavenly deni-
zens, including angels. even in fam
tasy. jeanette Macdonald wears
wings through most of the produc-
ton. These must be taken of and
explanatory dialogue substituted for
the British version.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)