Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

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One of the skating champions adding spice to Republic's big musical ice show, Ice-Capades Revue, is blond Vera Hruba to sit on the sands at Long Beach and weep. If sympathetic ladies and gentlemen stopped and tried to console her, Laraine knew she was good. If they merely glanced at her and went on, she went home and rehearsed some more. Pi Maria Montez, who can get along very well without Jon Hall, finally got the best of him in their celluloid feud. Scene in White Savage called for her to push him into a lake. It was only in the script but she made the most of it. | One of Hollywood's rare tattooed ladies — Nancy Nichols — almost lost a job the other day as a sideshow exhibit in a film because she keeps her body art up to date. Nancy was being interviewed for a carnival sequence in Coney Island. Everything was all right except that in a burst of patriotic spirit last month, Nancy had gotten herself a new design — a Douglas bomber. The picture has a 1906 background. Before Nancy went to work, they blacked out the Douglas Bomber. ■ Looks as if music is in M-G-M's blood. Besides all those super-musicals, you'll hear Lionel Barrymore singing a lullaby in Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant, and Wallace Beery warbling in Salute to the Marines. ■ It happened at the Hollywood Canteen. A young soldier asked Grace Leonard for a dance. "It's the last one before I go over," he said, "so please don't let anyone cut in." Every time a fellow soldier tried to cut in, the kid said, "This is the last dance before I go over — why don't cha give me a break? I'm going over after this dance." Finally Grace asked the boy, "What do you mean — you're going over? Africa or the Solomons?" "Naw," said the kid. "I'm going over to the Palladium." [Continued on page 19] ...and now from WARNER BROS. comes as exciting and timely a J motion picture asf ever you've seen!| ■o4? It's playing Now. . —or will be soon. ..Why not call your theatre? SCREEN PLAY BY JULIUS J & PHILIP G. EPSTEIN AND HOWARD KOCH • FROM A URNETT AND JOAN ALISON MUSIC BY MAX STEINER 17