Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-06

That's aside zE = a.
from the MR.. PickEhiNG
point.
What does matter Is the fact
that Miss Carlisle, IN spite OF
being a notably beautiful young
woman. seems TO have head on
her. In fact. II il won't scare you
off. wei say she has a brilliant
mind.
We met her at the Book
Cadillac a. she was leaving for
Burton school. 10 get her sugar
rationing card, 80 we tagged
along.
(Ercn there. she EnS-SlcaAlned-
,cith autograph hunters, the
most notable beng W0itcr Roes-
Ter. IL pears hid, who got her
IN autograph a picture that APP
reared ~ the paper last ARMS
tice Day, whcn Waiter got IN a
picture Nth Hank GreenbergJ
That's incidental, however. In
between interview questions from
other reporters, phone calls and
A hundred and one other things,
Miss Carlisle began TO talk about
life in general.
Somebody incidentally men
toned foreign nobility (of which
Miss Carlisle has known quite a
few and she commented:
"The reason American women
used 10 chase after European
titles was because American
men never learned 10 pay atten-
ton to the women.
She went on:
Tn fairly recent years, Ameri-
can men have been terribly in
terested In Being Successful, and
In making money. They thought
that IL they were good providers,
that was all that was needed.
We think that a good many
novels of the 1929 era
wouldn't have been written eX-
capt for that. The Sinclair Lewis
novels. poking fun at the Cham
bers of Commerce. the luncheon
clubs and the town-booSters, are
an example.
America had bad case Of
thinking that money was 100 all
fired important
Miss Carlisle's comment was
merely the woman's slant on the
problem. Men seemed 10 think
that their offices were more i'm
portant than their homes. That
money meant more than music.
That deal downtown was
worth more than devotion 10 the
things at home. IN short, they
thought the way Lewis said they
thought In "Babbitt."
Now, we're not opening up
that whole old argument. We've
passed through that era and
we're moving into something
else-we don't know just what.
But Kitty Carlisle made a
forecast. and because we liked
1.-The way she talks. and the way
she thinks. we're putting down
her forecast:
Women" she said. aren't
feeling neglected now. They're
too busy. They're working at the
job of saving our way OF life.
Its bringing men and women
closer tOgether-and that's n
wonderful thing. Yes, we're los
ing things because OF the war.
hut American women are work
ing with their men, striving for
the same goal. They're together.
"And II won't collapse when
the war il over. There's going tn
he 80 much 10 do. There won't
be just a few career women. A
great many women are going "a
keep on working, because there
will be such big job 60 do. Even
young girls will learn a trade. or
harm to be useful, not just
pretty"
All this may sound a little odd,
coming from a picture and stage
star. but II an idea sounds right.
10 doesn't matter where II comes
from. And this one sounds right.
So there II II.
II boils down to something
very simple: That America had a
number Of fat, easy years in the
Roaring Twenties. when we lost
sight Of real things and pur-
sued silly goals.
Now the war has brought uS
down 60 the hardest kind of
realities. And the realities aren't
bad az ALL We're getting back Ga
the real America that we had
before soft years gave Us n
chance 60 forget that you don't
get anything you don't work for
And we wonder whether other
people might agree, in some
measure u-ifh Miss CarIisIe'S