The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-14

ing to take credit for launching 1t. It just started itself like a truck parked on hill"
 Funniest war picture of the week: The radio'd picture from Germany showing Hitler, "the first soldier of the Reich,' at the Polish war zones -peering through field binoculars camouflaged with leaves and shrub bery SO enemy bombers couldn't see him In the background you could see several soldiers watching him-unshielded by so much as a three-leaf clover.
 No one has pointed out that H. G. Wells came pretty close to calling the turn in his Shape of Things to Come" written about five years ago. He predicted that a second World War would start between Germany and Poland in 1940 and that the incident that would start it would be the shooting of a Polish soldier by a Nazi storm trooper, who, see- ing the Pole adjusting his false teeth, would think the Pole was making a face at him.
 In Warmers Espionage Agent" Joel McCrea, who is a member of the U. S. Consulate in European war zone (working overtime to get American citizens out of danger) asks a colleague why so many American tourists come to Europe For culture" explains his col- league. Twelfth Century cathedrals, royal palaces-things they don't have in Kansas City" Give me Kansas City" retorts McCrea. "They don't have air raids!"
 Richard Lockridge, resuming his play-reviewing for the Sun, in- spected Francis Lederer, replace ment in Kath Cornell's play, No Time for Comedy" ... Of the Czech actor, LocFridge wrote: "It was easier to take Czechoslovakia out of Middle Europe than to take Middle Europe out of MT. Lederer."
 The peace pact that Frank Gill; more (Equity) read to the actors Followed by a lightning fast ad- journment) was dictater, according to B'way grapevine, by Willie Bioff The Brain of the Stagehands The actors, 1t seems, played their usual role of learning the lines auth ored for them.
 "He (the actor) is generous to a fault"-Katharine Cornell in the Sunday Times drama section |. Actors are generous to fault Brooks Atkinson, in the same Sun day Times magazine section
 Actors, in short, will give you a dozen bows when you only ask for one The height of something or other: In the play Golden Boy ' the man portraying the fight trainer is named Tokio In the screen version of that show his name has been changed to Borneo You figure 1t out, we have another para graph to do.
 A Bill Mixner gag this generation probably doesn't remember: A tailor who became a movie producer was boasting to Bill one of the greatest writers in America Is go- ! ing to write my biography
 "What!' said Mizner, "on piece of confetti?"
 One thing that appears certain 1! that the Bremen has not returned tt | Germany Which makes 1t tht only boat on record with brains Historians are saying that this wal is very similar to the last one
 The difference. we hope, is tha' America will stay out of 1t ThS war is on and generals arc follow. ing 1t with colored pins on a mar
 That's war A few million lives become few pins If you don't think living in a dictator ila' ton is worse than living in Ameri' can jails, here's proof: German citi- zens get only 25 ounces of meal weekly, according to Berlin dis patches Prisoners in New York hoosegows get 5i ounces weekly Why are they calling 1t World War? We're not in 1t Let's call it the European War Since Hitler married Stalin, the parlol pinks are now the parlor punks ;. There's only one thing wrong with Life magazines front cover photo of Mussolini. They have his name under it-instead Of a number At the Filmarte theater a French film called "The End of Day" is something to see and enjoy It deals with an old Actors Home and one actor says: "Oh, the thea. ter. What a life" To which a philosopher in the cast retorts: "oh Life-what a theater!"