Hollywood News In Brief

Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1948, Page 7

Hollywood News In Brief

Girls do a chorus number on horseback in "Two Texas Knights." Warners is to produce a siiort on sports in Egypt. -k -k -k I At the completion of "The Three Mu'sketeers" veteran characteractor Frank Morgan will spend three months' vacation at Tahiti. An original story, "Be Nice to Emily" is being prepared as a starring vehicle for Viveca Lindfors and Ronald Reagan. This romantic come'dy concerns a Swiss girl who shelters three American flyers and goes to visit them in the United States after the war. * -K -k The greatest number of people, horses.-guns and explosives used in a film spectacle since "Gone With

the Wind" were employed in battle sequences for Walter Wanger's "Tap Roots" at Universal-Inter-national. -K -K * In Universal's "The Wonderful Race at Rimlock," Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride will be teamed again for the first time since their roles of Ma and Pa Kettie in "The Egg and I." * * * So well satisfied is 20th CenturyEdx with the financial return on its adaptation of Frank Yerby's be^t relling novel, "The Foxes of Harrow," that Fox oflflcials reluctantly admlt that Mr. Yerby is at work on a sequel for the studio. "The Foxes of Harrow" has so far been a big drawcard wherever it has been -hown in New Zealand. > * * Alexis Smith is giving serious thought to the-.perriianent darkening of her : blonde tresses becauoe of excitement at the studio over the black wig she donned for one of the dream scenes in Warner's "Christopher Blake." The raven locks, co-workers agreed, give a new iseductive quality to her personaliity. Alexis says that final decision j'rests with ner husband, Craig IStevens, who may or may not want a new woman around the house. -K * -K Jean Peters, feminlne star of "Captain from Castille," has received a proposal of marriage from a voung lobster flsherman who says he clears 6000 dollars a year, and owns his own boat an'd home.