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Elsewhere in Wonderland arose the question of cinemacting's importance in total war. Raising the question was Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, who appealed the i-A draft classification of Mickey Rooney-first such appeal made by the industry. Grounds: he is an essential worker in an essential industry. Rooney's mother made it plain that her son was not doing the appealing himself. "It is true that he is only five feet tall, and has been bothered with heart flutter and high blood pressure," said she, "but Mickey wouldn't try to dodge his classification." Said Mickey...
...grey winter sky if the Germans entered the city. Last week several hundred thousand Muscovites rode on a new, four-mile subway line connecting central Sverdlov Square with the industrial area close to the immense Stalin auto plant, long ago converted to war production. Moscow's palatial Metro, now about ten miles long, remains at once a symbol of the brave new world the Russians hope to build, and a godsend to factory workers who save two hours daily getting to & from their eleven-hour shifts...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Jo Hayden (Judy Garland), Jimmy Metcalfe (George Murphy) and Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly) have one thing in common: they are smalltime song-&-dancers whose hearts are set on one day appearing at that Pantheon of U.S. vaudeville, The Palace. Jimmy is a sort of Irish George Raft, who loves Jo. Jo is a surprisingly sweet young girl, who unfortunately loves Harry. Harry is a dangerous but successful novelty in musicomedy: a character who begins as a squirrel-collared masher and winds up, without too much grinding of gears, as a hero. In the course of this cinemetamorphosis...
...Angeles' Beachwood Theater Studio holds 73 people. By last week it was shoe-horning in 85 every night-most of them Hollywood's great. Its unpaid, unprofessional performers had a thundering hit on their hands, a vivid war play called Cry Havoc which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has snagged for $10,000 and the Shuberts have snatched for Broadway...
Among the men, there is no outstanding newcomer this year. Hence, the men's singles should go to one of the four top-rankers who have found time to compete this year: 26-year-old Frankie Parker (on vacation from his job as assistant to the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's special-effects department), Lieut, (j.g.) Gardnar Mulloy (on leave after completing his indoctrination course at Annapolis), Ted Schroeder (scheduled to be inducted into the Navy the day after the tournament ends), and Billy Talbert (not yet called by his draft board...