Cinema: Items

> In Chicago, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt told Motion Picture Daily about the movies: "At the White House, we find them excellent entertainment and relaxation."

> In Hollywood, all actors in all major studios last week began to punch time clocks to enable them to collect time-and-a-half pay for overtime after 48 hours a week, according to the Screen Actors Guild's new agreement with producers.

> Cast in the role of Sherlock Holmes in Twentieth Century-Fox's forthcoming Hound of the Baskervilles was lean, long-nosed Basil Rathbone. Watson: Nigel Bruce.

> In New York,...

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