Evening star., 1942-09-11
goes, these come
!, the Hollywood

stick nonsense, the boys fitch sight
seeing bus in Chicago and start for
an unknown destination. Soon they
are in the clownish trouble that
leads to high mirth. The bus is soon
at the bottom of the lake, the comics
transferred to a boat bound for
some tropical jungle. They become
mixed up with magician for more
merriment. annex trained seal,
eventually land deep in the hula
country. In some way they irritate
Lionel Atwill, who is a white men
ace of the tropics, and before they
escape to. the four freedoms, they
resort to Tarzan antics and even
have a session with snarling lions.
To give the comics chance to
think up some new gags, the Ink
spots and Tip, Tap and Toe, dancers,
introduce specialties. You can hear
such lingering tunes as Island of
the Moon" "Vingo Jingo, Java
Jive," Lovely Luana," do Worry
and Shout, Brother, Shout"
Shorts include a revival OF the
highly popular La Cucaracha" in
color, the Pathe- Universal news
reels and a Walt Disney miniature,
'Out of the Frying Pan Into the
Firing Line" with some advice to
housewives on saving of fats.
AS predicted here, the little White
House, the sylvan park opposite the
National theater will be the military
headquarters for the sale of tickets
for This Is the Army
This announcement was made
yesterday by A, l.. Berman, president
of "This Is the Army, Inc.," the
civilian agency which produced the
show for Army Emergency Relief.
Tickets for every performance will
be placed on sale at this special
booth on Monday, September IA
at 8 am. Seats will ne sold no
where else in Washington. The
soldier staff attached to This Is
the Army" will man the box. Office,
which will open its doors every
morning at 9.
The booth was made available
for this special occasion through the
courtesy of the Civilian Deferse
Volunteer Office and Civilian Mobil-
ization, which will share the Office
with the Army show during its
Washington stand.
For any information about This
Is the Army" prospective theater-
goers are urged to telephone Ex-
ecutive 3062 or 3063.
Newspapermen find the Fourth
Estate sequences in Somewhere I'll
Find You" based on those mythical
scribes who exist only in the i'm
agination of the Hollywood writers.
Clark Gable, for instance, chokes his
publisher and leaves him in Sally
Rand state of naturalness, which is
hilarious enough on the screen, but
clearly in the realm of the in
credible.
1t recalls some advice that L. D.
Hotchkiss, managing editor of the
Los Angeles Times, once gave as
pattern of conduct to Hollywood
writer's charting events in the news
room. He said
Most managing editors are house
broken like myself and know the
system can't stand anything strong
er than milk. city editors are am
bilious young men who can handle
eight telephones at a time but only
one blond; reporters as a rule
sleep eight hours night, since
you can't be very wicked on
$50 week; and as for sob sisters,
have never found one who could
spell and most of them have hall
tosis. Here are some pitfalls to
avoid: Don't get the idea Hecht
and Macarthur are the only writers
who really understand the news
paper business. The type OF
journalism represented and depicted
by this brilliant pair might be
termed the Chicago interlude, which
began when Walter Howey saw
smoke coming out of a manhole
and ended when the pallbearers let
go of the box which housed what
was left of Jake Lingle. Don't
let the cub reporter stop the presses
Presses stop generally for two rea-
j