Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-10-16
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Notes of an
Innocent Bystander

LlOnal newspaper week Will d lliSo
age to publishers to guard the press
freedom. In short, he urges 1t to
hang on to its right to slam him
Royal Cortissoz, celebrating half
century with the H-Trib, also said
something worth remembering
about press freedom. "Opinions, ,
he said, "are critics capital, and
he is useless if he cannot find free
dom of expression for them"
Virginia Gayda, the typewriter that
talks like Mussolini, urges the Fas-
cist dailies to fake news to keep the
peoples spirit up. According to
dispatches from Italy, the Italian
people would prefer to have him
fake up few plates of spaghetti.
The Wireless: Jan Masaryk's
broadcast was heartbreaking enough
to wiring tear from an isolationist.
He reported that the victims OF the
Hun slaughters in Czechoslovakia
are not the revolters, but just any
helpless Czechs they lay their hands
on The squeeze is on the Nazls
in South America, however, take 1T
from broadcaster Herbert M. Clark.
It's getting so uncomfortable for
them in Argentina, he said, that
some of Der Fuehrer's busiest dag
ger troops are screaming alluva sud
den that they're Swiss c. Fadl-
man and B. Hope ping-ponging hui
morous insults at each other made
laughs come like bananas - in
punches Eleanor Roosevelt's
chatter does more to keep her lis
teners awake than the coffee she
plugs.
The Story Tellers: Runyon makes
a monkey out of the fiction rules in
broadway Incident" his entertain
ing piece in Cosmopolitan. His
hero is a drama critic, which is
definitely contradiction in terms
Carlo is news for the funniest
reason. She used to collar space on
being a mysterious recluse, out of
the world. Now Life blows her to
lots of pages because she's simple,
friendly girl like you, Toots
Paul Gallico's word-halo for Lou
Gehrig in the Nov. Cosmopolitan
creeps into your heart like a smile
from baby Writes Kyle erich
ton in Collier's: ''When ecstatic
cries of DAZZLING greet Hollywood
actress entering Ciro's, she knows
that her last picture has been a
success" .fOr her first marriage
has been a failure.
The Magic Lanterns: The cinema
gets pretty good report card.
''Hold Back the Dawn" is large
afternoon for the signing set.
Charles Boyer plays put and take
with two hearts, Olivia de Havil-
lands and Paulette Goddard's (who
is a heel with a tender side). The
yarn, about how he marries his way
past the immigration gate, is skill
fully told Things are milder in
cit Started With Eve" but all oof'ly
nice. Deanna Durbin is the same
likeable lass, and Chas. Laughton
is the funny-mans of the occasion
Tom Harmon runs and kicks
a gamut full in Harmon of Michi-
gam" Football shots from the
newsreels are woven into the love
story, which also looks like cuts
from previous films.
Typewriter Ribbons: F. E. Freed
man: Is the Atlantic Ocean YER
boten or fer boatin'? Kin Hub
bard: Their ought The some way
feat celery so it wouldn' sound like
you wuz steppin' on basket -.
Youngstown indicator: The gen
erals most likely to defeat America
are general inertia and general
apathy :. Toronto Star Weekly:
All Europe is now divided into three
parts: occupied, unoccupied, and
pre-occupied . Olin Miller: It's
when man first feels his age that
he has the hardest time being it
Damon Runyon: She has an
ice-cream cone where her heart is
supposed to be NJ Foster:
The plaza was drowsy with history
H. klurfeld: She was a good
secretary, but clockeyed.
New York Heartbeat
The Big Parade: Ambassador and
Mrs. Martins from Brazil at the
Stork ringside cementing Good Will
with United Statesmen-by applaud
ing the rhumbacrobats the
Joe E. Browns staying young in the
sinful places up til almost half-past
eleven! Sonia Henie swapping
chilly hoWja-dooo with her boss,
Daryl Zanuck The Drew Pear
sons of Washington gaping at The
Big Towns tallest buildings, the hix
. Beatrice Kay and her defni-
ton of diplomat in Washington or
on Broadway: "a guy who knows
how to keep his chin up without
sticking out his neck"
Ne,v York. Nersreei
subwayites gazing at people
across the aisle as if they were a
blank wall The once famous
actress who now performs in five
and-ten-cent stores, exhibiting all
kinds of kitchen utensils The
debutantes who have everything to
make life worth living, yet few of