Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08
Hollywood
Lot
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BY Ted Taylor

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2.-Films
will continue to follow the flag. A
group of features is being prepared
with Italian subtitles superimposed
70 follow the troops into Tunlsla
and for eventual use in Italy
should second front penetration OF
Europe go through the big boot.
Warner Bros. has ordered re-
search for a film about Garibaldl,
of democracy in Italy,
10 be ready for an Italian move
ment of liberation.
The Is films with French sub
titles that have been sent across
to show the civilian populations OF
Algeria and Morocco what Amer
leans think about include Joe
Smith, American; Flight Com
mand, 40 Mule Team, Boom Town,
Bambi, Foreign Correspondent, The
Long Voyage and the Great Die
tator.
United Newsreel for the
United Nations
Vivid weekly reports on wnat
America is doing in the war go 10
all allied and neutral countries in
the United Newsreel. This is edited
in New York from the five Amer
lean newsreels with commentaries
in the various languages. 1t IS
sponsored by the overseas branch
of the Office of War Information.
With Russian commentary, for
instance. the United Newsreel is
flown weekly to Moscow by bomber
for showing throughout the Soviet
Union. Under a speeded up trans
atlantic film exchange, news shots
of Soviet warfare are reaching
Artkino and being relayed to the
American newsreeels weekly. Ma
terial is not over six weeks old as
compared to four months old pre-
viously.
While in eight years not over
dozen Hollywood features have
been shown in Russia, Artkino now
has a committee selecting numbers
of representative American fea-
lures for the Soviet market. Joe
Smith, American; Young Mr.. LIN
coin, Edison the Man, Wake Island
are some of the first selections.
Newsreels Will Be Shorter
To Save Film
American newsreels will be 100
feet shorter starting Jan. l as re-
suit of an agreement by the five
companies issuing them twice
weekly to hold each issue to 1oo
feet in the film conservation pro-
gram. At present the five reeeis
distribute 2700 prints between them
and prints will hereafter be held to
230O.
Proposals to consolidate the
reels OF limit them to one issue
weekly have been resisted. How
ever, Warner Bros. plan to put a
sixth newsreel on the market has
been stymied.
CHILLY RECEPTION: Title OF
Sonia Henie's film is changed from
Iceland to Love on Ice for foreign
distribution because of protests
that screen treatment of the people
was an affront to Iceland.
WOMANPOWER: Dorothy ARR
ner will be director of a new pic
ture about commandos just started
by Columbia. She has directed
films before, but it is several years
since Hollywood had a woman dl'
rector.
MONOGRAMMED L U M B E R
Columbia is stamping a c on every
new piece of wood that comes onto
the lot and is keeping as careful
check on its performances as II
does of its stars. One AKA has
played a supporting part in -four
pictures, supporting so far Rosa
lind Russell, Cary Grant, Edward
G. Robinson and Jean Arthur.
HOLLYWOOD RAZZBERRY
The awards season opened with be
stowal by Hollywood's ladies of th'
press of the golden apple upon The
actress and actor who have beer
most cooperative, and the order o,
the razzberry upon the least oblig
ing. Rosalind Russell and Car!
Grant won apples, and razzberrie'
went to Jean Arthur and George
Sanders.