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Clowning Relieves the Tension By HAROLD HEFFERNAN. HOLLYWOOD. Everything is bright and gay on the set of "Bring on the Girls-’ at Paramount. This is a musical in color, featuring Veronica Lake and Bonny Tufts. All the principals are there. They’re walking around for a camera setup to be completed, but the gags fly so fast between the players you wonder why some aren’t Incorporated in the script. Director Sidney Lanfield, a light haired soul himself, encourages the clowning. He has a theory that this musical must look like every one had a gob of fun making every scene. So he lets his people cut up. Eddie Bracken comes out of a dressing room. He wears a bruised lip. "Believe it or not, I got it when Johnnie Coy hit me in the face with a mop yesterday,” he says. “It was in the story, but I guess he can’t pull a mop punch. It’s his first picture and he’s confused a little. The longer he’s in movies, the more confused he’ll be—and I ought to know.” Marjorie Reynolds limps out from somewhere. She’s having a bit of vacation from dancing due to a sprained ankle, but is acting in several scenes nevertheless. "This picture Is rough on danc ers,” she says. “Johnny Coy sprained his ankle so badly re hearsing his number that he couldn’t stand on his foot for a week.” Coy is a young Broadway AMUSEMENTS. LAST DAY-Ooors Optn IQ301. m f Games CAGNEYl I w w Warner Bros. Re refemd Hit k "FRISCO KID” , dancer they’re all raving about. He makes his debut in this film. Now Sonny Tufts comes out of the hot lights and mops his face. He brushes his hair. “Darn it, I have to wash it every night,” he wailed. “I washed it for the start of the picture and it was light. It gets darker from the second day of a washing on. The cameraman says the difference shows and because I started it light I have to wash it daily. This is really a blond pic ture. Both Veronica and Mar jorie are blonds, too. And I hear Phyllis Brooks is going to play the third girl. She’s a blond.” They’re ready on the set now and Lanfleld calls Veronica and Sonny into action. Veronica is in a cig arette girl’s outfit. She wears trim slacks and a bolero. This leaves a bare midriff. The outfit is a kind of orange, selected especially for color. She weals her hair long, with the old peek-a-boo discarded. Sonny is in sailor's uniform. The scene is a close-up. . Lanfleld wanted the camera to shoot over Sonny's shoulder. When he stood up he completely covered Veronica. A little more delay now while they raise the camera high to get the 5-foot-2 heroine into the picture. The two read their lines in re hearsal. Lanfleld calls to the sound man: "Isn’t Sonny’s voice dropping fcwfully low?” The soundman said it sure was. Sonny scratched his ear. “That was my Cagney voice.” The soundman yelled, “Well, give us the Mickey Rooney one for this scene.” And so it went all morning. Make believers playing while they work. * * * * Edward G. Robinson, one-time muscleman and racketeer, is Wilbert George Winkle in the screen dram atization of “Mr. Winkle Goes to War” at Columbia. He's just a plain Army Joe, a GI guy without stripes, a bank-clerkish little—fel low afraid of everything, Including his balanced books. On the sidelines this day stands Theodore Pratt, who wrote the book. The meeting of writer and star ap pears to be a happy one. They hit it off from the start. “I’d like to know,” Author Pratt said, after the two had warmed up conversationally, “what your thoughts about Wilbert Winkle are? I mean what kind of a man do you judge him to be?” “Well," replies Robinson slowly, “here's how I picture the guy. He's weak and spineless and hasn't got the guts to stand up to his wife or brother-in-law. He turns out all right, but before that he’s nothing but a first-class dope.” Author Pratt blanched for a sec ond. “Well, I’m glad he turns out all right.” he commented. “You see, Mr. Robinson, the book is kind of . . . sort of autobiographical." It was Actor Robinson’s turn to blanch. (Released by th» North American Newspaper Alliance. Ire.) Victory Orchestra Makes Its Debut By ELENA DE SAYN. Tire debut of the Victory Orches tra, presented last night under the direction of Dr. Walter Bauer, in the new ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel, in conjunction with the Washington Ballet Group. Liza Gardiner, direc tor, brought together enough music and ballet lovers to fill the large hall. The orchestral numbers consisting of the overture to Beethoven’s “Eg mont” and Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony No. 8,” followed by Mo zart’s piano “Concerto No. 21 in C Major,” formed the first part of the program, giving every evidence of diligent study on the part of nearly BO musicians who played with a great deal of assurance, a pleasing quality of tone and with careful consideration of pitch. Furthermore, the group gave the impression of having its feet already well on the ground, with a good basis for further development. Especially well played was the ac companiment to the concerto, the solo part of which was given a fin ished performance by Fnsign James Wolfe, U. S. N., pianist. His artistic command of the keyboard, the deli cacy of his trills, his cantilena and runs were a credit to his talent and training. The overture to Schubert’s "Rosa munde,” Strauss’ valse, "Vienna Bonbons," with the Washington Ballet Group, Kathryn Mullowny, so loist; Gaetner’s "Viennese Melody,” arranged by Kreisler, and Strauss’ "Perpetuum Mobile,” presented once more with the Washington Ballet Group, Mary Day, soloist, were the offering of the evening. The soloists were assisted by Flo renza Baldi, Phoebe Batham, Bar bara Cole, Isabel Harrison, Leila Jackson, 'Virginia Jackson, Jone Mattare, Lucy Ockey and Genevieve Salbaing. Dr. Bauer wielded his baton with expertness and spirit, which was rewarded by cordial ap plause at the end of each number. Head of Army Nurses In £urope Returns Home Illness has forced the return to ; this country of Lt. Col. Margaret j Aaron, supervisor of the Army [nursing service in the European I theater of operations, necessitating i other shifts of Army nurses, the War Department said last night. Lt. Col. Aaron has been succeeded in the European assignment by Lt. Col. Ida W-. Danielson, who formerly was on duty In Washington as director of the nursing section, Mili tary personnel division, in the office of the Surgeon General. The latter position is now being held by Maj. Nola Forest of Lake Wilson, Minn., who had been in charge of nursing in the California-Arizona maneuver area. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. GALA BOND PREMIERE TONIGHT at 8:30 P.M. NO TICKETS AVAILABLE A Bond has been sold for every seat. * ★ ★ Our Regular Continuous Performances of Tll6 DESERT SONG" and Our Stage Show I start TOMORROW at 10:30 a.m. ^ ••V'"" ' '•’•'SB. .NO FORCE CAN f CHALLENGE THEIR RIGHT j TO THE DESERT THEY LOVEI NO PICTURE CAN OFFER MORE ACTION-CRAMMED |K& ADVENTURE THAN THIS fejS STORY OF THE DASH x&|miNG DESERT GUERRILLAS ■LjP WHO KNOW NO FEAR I (a cast of thousands including **' m DENNIS MORGAN 4 Daredevil Leader of the Riffs! BRUCE CABOT* GENE LOCKHART W* IRENE MANNING Singing Darting of "Yankee Doodle Dandy” Directed by ROBERT FLOREY • Bated upon a play by lawranea Schwab, Otcar Hammentein II, Sigmund Romberg t Frank Mandal "—— And ON STAGE TOMORROW ——i EDDIE WHITE * Carlton EMMY * The ALBINS * Eileen RITTER * ROXYETTES 1 WARNER PaDir 13th St. bros. ailllLt itorF 1 C<M. George W. Easterday, for merly of 1681 Thirty-first street N.W., of the 3d Service Command Headquarters, has been ordered to report to Lehigh University, Bethle hem, Pa., Monday as professor of military science and tactics, an As sociated Press dispatch from Balti more reported today. Col. Easterday will succeed Col. James N. Caperton of West Virginia, who has been named director of training at Fort George G. Meade, Md. A native of Washington, Col. Easterday was president of the Re classification and Efficiency Board at Headquarters, and prior to that assignment was for four years direc tor of personnel at Army installa tions in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Ensign Thomas W. For tune, 21, son of Joel H. Fortune, sr., 731 South Twentieth street, Arlington, Va., has arrived here for training be f o r e reporting for overseas duty. He recently received his wings at the Naval Air Sta tion, Pensacola, Fla., and has been in the Navy Since August, F.n»irn Fortune. 1942. MARIANNA, Fla. — Second Lt. Frank N. Pattie, l4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark T. Pattie, 3802 South Capitol street, received his wings and commission in the Ai*my Air Forces recently. He is now home on leave, his first since he started air cadet training in March, 1943. ENGLAND—Frank H. Jackson, 27. a Flying Fortress radio operator and gunner, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Jackson, 106 Raymond street. Chevy Chase, Md., has been promoted to staff sergeant. Stationed at an 8th Army Air Force Bomber base here, Sergt. Jackson has made four daylight mis sions over Germany and the occupied countries. A graduate of the U n i v e r sity of Maryland, he was formerly a clerk and ste n o g r a pher in Washington. CAMP BOWIE, Tex.—Pvt. Sam uel G. Tate, 4116 G a r r i son street N.W.. re cently qualified as “expert'' with the M-l rifle and .30 caliber p»t. T»tf. machine gun. He is assigned to the 13th Armored Division. HERINGTON, Kans—Pfc. Nor man Clements, son of Mrs. Emma R. Clements. 4633 Brewer place N.W., a mechanic of the ground crew of the Army Air Forces here, recently was awarded the mechanics medal. There’s plenty of glamour in a piping hot, butter-topped Baked Idaho Russet Potato. But, in meal-planning, gla mour isn’t everything. 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