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Movies, someone once said, are your best form of entertainment and the Special Service Section, MTOUSA, is trying to live up to that theory. In order to augment the current 16-mm. film program and to provide more entertainment for troops in the MTO—particularly those in staging and redeployment areas — Col. Leon T. David, Special Service officer, MTOUSA,today announced that 35-mm. film is now. available for distributionIn this theater.The first 35-mm. film exchange has been established in Naples under direction of PBS, Southern District. Theaters with 15-mm. projectors are now Being serviced with the films, and plans are underway to install 35-mm. equipment where-ever there are large concentrationsof troops.Practically all films now beingdistributed in the MTO are 16-mm.,and were given to the Army by themotion picture industry. However, 35-mm. films are considered a commercial venture for which the Hollywood bigwigs request a payment of three Cents per viewing person. Rather than charge each individual GI, it has been decided ' to defray the costs by drawing the necesstyy funds from the Theater Central Welfare Fund.Latest films to arrive in the MTO Include “Kiss and Tell,” starring Shirley Temple, “Man in Her Diary,” with Louise Allbritton, Peggy Ryan and Jon Hall, and•‘George White's Scandals,” with Joan Davis, Jack Haley and Gene Krupa’s noisy aggregation. The latter is the only flicker of the three that we’ve seen to date, and unless you're hard up for a movie, you’d be better off staying away and playing gin rummy. The pictuie isn’t even a rumor, let uiune ascandal.GREASE PAINT GRIST: RitaHolder, ballet dancer in tne USO revue, “Musical Varieties, ’ is the prima ballerina of the New York Metropolitan Opera . . . The latest ETO dance band to play the Summer Festival at the Rome Rest Center is Gus Rarys and his Rhythin-Heirs . . . “Wings Over Jordan,” CBS Negro choral group,opens in Rome on Sept. 6 for a week’s engagement. It scored a big i hit up north . . . “The Front Page,” I another USO presentation, will endits Rome run on Sept. 3. |A unique USO show is “Carnival iof Sports,” which includes, among | other things, two six-day bike riding champs, a roller skating act and a ping pong exhibition ... I Troops in Naples shouldn’t iiave much trouble deciding what movie to attend. There are no fewer than I la theaters in Napoli, including one I opera house and two legitimate I theaters . . . The Batlis of Caracalla.f which provided a delightful summer season for Rome opera enthusiasts, closes Sunday, Sept. 2, with •‘Gioconda” . . . “The Roxy Revue’’ curreutly is touring 83th Division installations. —D.
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