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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-06
BACK TO BROADWAY

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Now taking us back again we
have Broadway" the George Alb
bott-Philip Dunning play of the
prohibition era when gin-rich
gorillas played "one, two, three-red
light" with the law and a chorus
girl was the tired business mans
best friend.
Written in 1926. broadway" had
great vogue on the stage before
il hit the screen. Now. II years
after the first film version, Uni
versal has assembled a big cast
and has made a truly elaborate
production out OF this famous story
which probably inspired more
cops and robbers pictures than
any other story of that era.
This. time George Raft plays the
hoofer who gets involved in a night
club shooting. George, incidentally,
dons his dancing shoes again for
this role and has pretty Janet
Blair for a partner.
Miss Blair, YOU may recall, Is
the little singer who used TO be
featured with Hal Kemp's orches-
ira. Quitting the band business
following Kemps death. she
stormed the gates of Hollywood
and made such an impression
during her first few bits, that she
was picked by this columns Star
let Fever" series as being one Of
the new crop of cutie-beauties most
likely 10 reach stardom.
CLIMBING UP
She isn't starred in Broadway"
but she's high up on the list OF
marquee names.
Pat O'Brien is the tough officer
on the case. with Broderick Craw-
ford. Anne Gwynne. Marjorie
Rambeau. s. Z. Sakall and Ed
Brophy also featured.
Following in the steps Of Glenn
Miller. Kay Kyser. Tommy Dorsey
and other bandsmen who have
gone in for being movie maestros.
Harry James takes up his baton
in front Of the camera TO turn
on the 1--WE for Private Buckeroo. E"
the companion comedy on this bill.
For swing companions, James
has the Andrews Sisters, the Jivin'
Jacks and Jills and singing Dick
Foran in the film which has an
army camp background.
I Also in this picture appears one
Of our favorite comedians. Joe f.
Lewis. who has temporarily
deserted the night club circuit to
carry on pour lie cinema.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-06

problem on her hands when her
two boy friends, Phil Terry and
Jean Aumont, both showed up at
five in the morning 10 take her
home-she had been working all
night on Reunion" She COM
promised by having breakfast
with them both.
Sara s. Kerr. San Antonio. says
"Tf we stay here and our
boys go there-we really ought
to do our share. Buy war
bonds"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-06

When FlOssy Frills Took Over
an Army Canteen With Her
Girls, She Found II Easy to
Feed the Hungry Soldiers and
Sailors, but When They Clam
ored for Entertainment, That
Was Something Else Again. How
Flossy Rose to the Occasion Is
Depicted by the Famous Artist,
Russell Patterson, I'm glossy
Frills Helps Out" See the Front
Color Page of The American
Weekly, With Next Sundays
Issue of The Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-06

I he govern
ment over my
income [ a X
eport for
year before
last.
Apparently
two different
divis i ms of
the internal
revenue serv-
ice OF to
checking my
in CO m e tax
figures. One
decided that
I'd paid too
m u c h, a n q
another that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-06
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now.

I ALWAYS thought the gov
eminent was devoid of a sense
of humor. I'm wrong Todays
column is written by way OF
apology. The Guvments okay.
For several months I've been
carrying on an on-again-off-
again-Finnegan argument with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-06
''BrOadWay'
Next Film
At Fox
BY CHARLES GENTRY

LIKE THE SHOWS OF yesteryear,
the film plots OF a decade ago
seem TO have such nostalgia in
tereSt for script writers that they
keep barking back 10 those hits
which held us, enthralled several
seasons past.
When we are not surrounded by
war pictures, watching planes
roaring down in flames or being
entertained by heroic rescues from
sinking ships, we find ourselves
observing characters we have seen
before, handling situations with
which we are well familiar.
It's a little like looking into the
past and re-experiencing remem-
bered thrills, laughs and tears, TO
sit in a darkened theater and go
through ii all again.
Not long ago we had Chicago"
a purple melodrama which shocked
us Of the Scott Fitzgerald age. OF
course, il was dressed up so that
Ginger Rogers could become
"Roxie Hart" but il was still an
affair of the roaring twenties, -
rather than one of the fighting
| forties."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-06

HOLLYWOOD, July s INS).-
With the world weary and sick al
heart, Warmers could not have
chosen a greater time 10 bring
The Miracle" in technicolor, 10
the screen.
We need the spiritual bolster OF
religion now. as never before. and
few plays have had more beau
,tiful message than the Max Rine-
lhart-Morris Gcst production first
produced on Broadway with Lady
Diana Manners as the Madonna
Those of us who saw the fragile
English beauty at the opening per
Torrance will never forget it, and
now il is up 20 Warmers 10 find
another actress as well suited for
the part.
Many times in the past there
were rumors that The Miracle
might be brought 10 the screen.
But in happier times producers
were wary of expensive religious
movies. Samson Raphaelson Is al
ready at work on the script oil
The Miracle.
Henry Blanke will produce and
Edmund Goulding direct. II is
Jack Warmers idea 10 release IL al
Easter time.
GOETZ GETS CONTRACT
Spyros Skouras. the affable new
president Of Twentieth Century
Fox. wasn't in town very long be-
fore he handed William Goetz a
contract for 10 years as vice
president in charge of studio
operations. The new Goetz CON
tract runs concurrently with that
OF Daryl r. Zanuck. vice preSi-
dent in charge of production. and
under whose regime How Green
Was My Valley and other tor
pictures have been made.
Billy has been associated with
Daryl in the production of these
successes and worked closely with
him since the formation OF the
company. The new contract is in
recognition of his services.
A hot tip from New York gives
Fred Allen the lead in Mark
Twains Connecticut Yankee" al
the Warner studios. He would be
a natural for that role and just
as good was the late Will Rogers
who did the last version OF the
famous American classic.
Harry Myers made IT first for
the old Fox company when he
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
Nv ROBERT RUARK

The largest single switchboard
in the world-a private ex-
change big enough to service a
city of l25, 000-has been hooked
up in the new Army Pentagon
Building in Arlington, Va, thus
prov opportunity for
enough wrong numbers to make
Alexander Graham Bell toss in
his tomb.
There's never been anything
quite like Army's new call
board. It is the child OF months
of research by the Bell Co, and
the finished product will occupy
some $4,000 square feet of space.
Have a few statistics:
The exchange will require
some 800 operators and super
visors, and will serve upwards of
$4,000 main telephone stations.
A hundred and twenty-five oper-
ators will be plugging in calls
simultaneously, and the las
switchboard positions will re-
quire $40 incoming trunk lines,
200 outgoing lines, $40 direct
tie lines to other government de-
partments, 100 inter-departmen-
tai tie lines, and 200 long dis
lance loops. Whew. Army's got
phones that jingle, jangle, jingle.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
ANOTHER PRICE SQUEEZE

Milk distributors in the ST. Louis oreo provide an
easily understood Illustration of the squeeze to which
merchants subjected by price ceilings fixed over
head while the floor, uncontrolled rises underneath.
The Agricultural Marketing Administration want
ed to raise prices to doiYnen by S 100000 year.
Meanwhile woges had risen by 100000 since price
ceilings we're set The ANA conceded that the milk
might be ruined, but insisted thot that was none
Of the AMA's concern.
This is the sort of squeeze which the food price
ceilings now an issue in Congress will not correct 1t
crises from the absence of coordination among multi
ipe governmental agencies, each octn9 upon the
same victim, each ignorant Of what the others ore
doing, and none caring hoot
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

tress speaks contemptuously of
makeup as pumpkin juice and
stays out of it as much as pos
sible, she's a professional. If she
loves the stuff but takes it off
before she leaves the lot, she's
a semi-pro. If she leaves it on
her face at the end of the day
so that she can attract atten-
ton on the way home pre-
tending, of course, that she
didn't have time to wash her
face-she's an amateur
John Payne THE movies
must have helped teach young
men TO forget everything they've
ever read or heard about how to
make love to e girl. All that s
needed is for a guy to be him
self; act naturally, and kiss her
soundly when the opportunity
offers"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16

Seller is very aggressive
player who can push the oppo-
nents into bad contracts. Here is
a demonstration of that tech
nique. Having no prospect of
stopping game in no trump, and
seeing that he had good chances
Of winning seven or eight tricks
at clubs, Seller (East bid four
clubs. South of course was we'll
aware that Seller was taking ad-
vantage of the vulnerability sit
-,:ation to overbid.- But he had
a difficult guess to make. AS it
happens, his best course was to
double and take the one-trick
penalty. He chose instead to try
for game.
At first glance it seems as
though the four spade contract
should be slaughtered, but it can
be set only one trick. Thas was
enough, however, to give Seller
and his partner good match
point score, as most other North
South pairs made three no
trump.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS
Test your knowledge of
correct social usage by an
swering the following ques-
tons, then checking against
the authoritative answers


/ If a brides father is not
living. would il be correct for
her mother to give her away?
2. In wartime is the tendency
toward more simple rather than
more elaborate weddings?
g. If girl is marrying a man
in the service and is likely 10 be
wing around the country,
should people give her wedding
presents that are neither bulky
nor breakable?
a. If a bride receives duplj-
cate presents is il all right for
her 10 exchange them for some
thing she needs?
s. Should the & oom's gift tn
his best man be more handsome
than the gifts he gives TO his
ushers?
What would you do if
rou are a bride who has sew
eral bridesmaids
(al Give them each a gift2
(b) Feel that IL isn't neces-
sary to give them gift?
Answers
/. Yes. Or an older brother,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 16 -
Half-minute interviws: Director
Harold SchuSter-"An actress is
a girl who can walk to the side
Of a movie set, peer into the
depths of gloomy sound stage
full Of dusty props, old scenery
ard dangling ropes and cables,
and exclaim as if she meant 1T:
What an enchanting view there
is from this window"
Director Edmund Goulding:
An actress. especially young
one, does her best work in
movie love scenes when she is
not in love. It's the imagined
romance and her yearning to be
in love that inspires her best
acting
Marion Martin when an ac-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
'KISSINK" VALUES

Producer Boris MOrrOS-4Ou
kent geev to da poblic too moch
first class k i S S n X and loft
scenes. Like expensive sets and
costumes, kissink in movies is
what we call production
value"
Aut hor James Hilton - Il
guess it serves me right for
thinking it up, but I'll never get
away from the Shangri-la leg
end. If there really were such a
place. Id go there myself. I'm
tired Of Hollywood"
Author Ben Hecht- in or
der for me TO write, must have
at least four impatient creditors
in my life. That's why | couldn't
take Hollywood as a permanent
thing. Id probably start max
ing and saving a lot Of money"
Composer David Franklin -
i've written 5000 songs, prob
ably, but only one in ten has
been published. | never touch a
piano when | start composing
Matter Of fact, | write most of
my stuff while walking around
in the busiest part of town.
THE OLD MAKE
Max Baer-"I always was an
actor, or was trying to be one.
Any time l get floored in a
movie, you see me looking right
into the camera with my eyes
wide open"
Charlie Chaplin - The east
est and surest way for comic
to steal scene is just by listen
ing. You stand still and listen
very attentively, and soon the
audience will be watching you.
Lou Costello has this trick
Joan Bennett - Mixing mar
riage and a career really is very
simple. For me, anyway. ! new
er talk about domestic matters
when I'm at work, and | never
talk about pictures when I'm
at home
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16

The Japanese oonquerors Of millions Of square
miles in the Orient, learning whot the Nozs dis
covered eorlier in Europe. 1t is thing to
q weaker nation and another TO subdue its people,
The Jops had supposed thot the yellow peoples
would welcome release from Occidental tuteoee
would submit dociIey to enforced cooperation. This
oppeored to be the oose temporarily
p But soon the conquered learned that they had
been soved from the frying pan only to roast in the
fire itself.
Let lndio toke note.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
POSTWAR VACATIONIST

FALLS CITY. NEB. - One
good example begets another.
Guy Harper. restaurant own
err, saved up 5000 in pennies and
nickels to take a fall vacation.
Then he read about Imogene
GerWeck and Alvin Strasll.
young couple here. spending all
their pennies for war bonds.
Harper spent the 5000 for war
bonds. He won't take any va.
cation.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
KNOCK ON ASBESTOS

CHICAGO - Veteran + / r e
Marshal Anthony j. Mullaney
gives credit to alert civilians and
civilian defense organizations
for a local record:
Chicago has just passed its
thirty first day without a major
or extra alarm fire. Mullaney
SAYS that within his memory
there has been no other period
so long without I'll, Bill, or
Ali fire.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM +. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Introducing Maurice Seller Of
New York, new member on
the New York Bridge Whist
Club team when it won the
world championship M a ters
team-offour this year. Earlier
in the year the same team won
the national knockout title, but
at that time Lester Bachner was
a member of the team. Mr..
Bachner was unable to play in
the Masters team event.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
. SO THEY SAY

Smoke was so heavy many men
passed out. l passed out twice.
Each time | fell in cold water
on deck and came to and went
back to work. | left (the
ship in shirt, pants and shoes
only. All my possessions were
gone, including my wife's pic
ture. - Seaman Alfred Lloyd
Brew, survivor of transport
Wakefield.
We have taken the heaviest
and most difficult steps on the
road to winning this War.--
Lieut.. Gen. William S. Knudsen,
Army production chief.
With the coming of peace the
airplane will become more and
more factor in disruptlng
present world routes and in the
social and cultural revolution
we are now witnessing DIR.
John II. Garland, Western Re-
serve University geographer.
Each time motoriSt turns
wheel in unnecessary driving 1T
is a turn of, the wheel against
our soldiers.-PreSidents rub
be- investigating committee,
Bernard M. Baruch, chairman.
or an uncle m light give her
away.
2. Yes.
3. Yes. That would be
thoughtful.
4. Yes.
s. Yes.
Better What Would You Do
solution-(a).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16

JEFFERSON CITY, MO.-The
hunting seasons over on the
capitol grounds.
Janitors have been startling
visitors and bagging pigeons, but
fear that stray shot might
wing something besides bird
brought an ultimatum from Gov.
Frank G. Donnell.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTONe

II takes hardy girl to hold
down any governmental switch
board these days, and Army S
about the toughest of them all.
The old Army board, about one
fourth as large, handled daily
average of 95, 900 incoming calls,
100000 outgoing calls, l25, 900
branch-to-branch calls and some
thing like 1000 long distances,
which is a mess of conversation,
if anyone should ask you.
GIRLS PAID BETTER
Keeping the requisite number
of telephone operators hired is
one of the heaviest administra-
tional problems in Washington
today. Army's girls are paid
much better than operators in
most private industry; starting
pay is S12O month, as against
SIS or $50 on the outside. Even
so, the job is nerve racking to
a point where high turnover is
continuous.
To give you some idea Of the
immense engineering job re-
uuired for the installation of the
new board, IL submarine cables,
weighing over $50 tons, were
laid across the Potomac River
from Washington to Arlington.
The Pentagon building itself
houses $4,000 miles-count EN-
of connecting wire.
The telephone industry, like
everything else, has travelled a
far piece since the last war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
LABOR SHORTAGE SERIOUS

The power shortage, es-
pecially in the west, seems to be
getting more and more serious.
Paul McNutt, chairman of the
War Manpower Commission, has
declared IL western states a
critical labor area" the first to
be established in this country. In
this area-Washington, Nevada.
Oregon, Arizona, Montana, New
Mexico, Texas and Wyoming
workers employed in the non
ferrous and lumber industries
may not switch employment
without first obtaining a separa-
ton certificate from the u. s.
Employment Service. No employ
er in the area, whether or not en-
gagged in essential production,
may hire workers in any Of the
designated critical occupations
except upon presentation of the
certificate.
To meet an emergency in the
California sugar-beet harvest,
McNutt has authorized importa-
ton Of 1900 MexicanS. Trans
portation, subsistence and med
ical care is to be provided by
Farm Security Administration
and minimum wage of 30 cents
an hour has been established.
The nations capital itself is
feeling a deep Tabor shortage.
Hordes of eager youngsters no
longer flock here with the same
yen for S12O and $3.50 a month
jobs.
War Department is going nuts
trying to hire several thousand
new Sl440 clerks, and most OF
the other agencies are equally
frantic. Civil Service is prac-
tcally on its knees, begging peo-
pie to come here to work.
This unWillingness to plunge
into the Washington turmoil has
caused Civil Service to revise its
junior clerical tests, following
a new, simplified form, and the
bureau is pleading with people
who live within so miles of the
city to come to work as their
part of the war effort.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16

INDIANAPOLIS - A court
paddock order didn't keep an
acrobatic burglar out of the Cot
ton Club, Negro night spot.
He scaled an adjoining build
ing and leaped to a window Of
the club, which he ransacked
leisurely. Then he went to a
door and called TO nightwatch-
man outside:
Hey, let me out of here!"
The startled Waterman opened
the door-and then began 10
wonder and called police after
the man had vanished.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
FAMILY AFFAIR

RI II NJ O N ID, IND.-The
board of the Richmond Fire
proof Door company held its
first meeting here since the
plant was established in 1926,
but the directors we're we'll &C
quainted anyhow.
They are James F. Peele of
Richmond and his four brothers
H. E. Peele, j. w. Peele, M.
c. Peele and r. S. Peele, all of
New York.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16

Meanwhile however, it is desirable thot the Peo-
ole be on quord lest some Of the same betudded IN
terests which have insisted-oeoinst all fact and
Iooc-thot there was no rubber emergency, should
cause further damage by removing sentences from
their context and misquotin9 the report
The committee recommends that more rubber be
made available for civilian tire replacement and re-
coppino But let no scotterbroin persuade you that
it all right to burn up your tires in needless reckless
driving.
When anybody cites that recommendation to
YOU, fling back at him the next sentences OF the re-
port: "More rubber to those who need it, Less to
those who don't"
The requirements and recoPPed tires ore not
intended for pleasure drivers. Let there be no
doubt" remember, "thot only actual needs, not fon-
ced wants. can or should be satisfied
Need is not for the pleasure Of driving through the
fall countryside.
Need is not to toss ones golf clubs into the rumble
and dash off for spot Of eIoxoon to drive to the
bridge party insteod Of walking or taking the bus
Need is for getting men and women to and from
the factories where they making arms ond ormo-
nents for delivering the goods Of war and the COM
nnodtes Of subsistence.
With all thot can be done, the best we can hope
by the end Of lo43 ranges from very small surplus
to on actual deficiency for critical mtoY use.
Discomfort or defect ore the alternatives offered
We will take discomfort, with grin.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
NO PROTECTION

NORFOLK, VA. - Dave Rob-
ertson, former baseball player
and now state game warden
here, has many dogs at his
pound on Princess Anne road,
but apparently there's not d
watchdog among them.
He reported to police that
someone had entered his office,
in the pound building, and stolen
a pair of gold rim spectacles
valued at $40.
Ell PASO, TEX. Army habit
has become second nature for
Pvt. William Kuehl. Finishing a
meal in a downtown restaurant,
he absent-mindedly picked up
his dishes and headed for the
kitchen.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-16
DISCOMFORT OR DEFEAT

1t is somber picture Which the PRESIDENT spec
iol committee on rubber. headed by Bernard NJ 3D.
ruch, has pointed 1t is discouro9ing in two woys
First because it verifes completely the analyses
which this column hos presented edtonolly on sew
eroI occasions, pointing out that through 1913, at
eost the most rigid cvilon economy in rubber Will
scarcely suffice to keep the fighting machine gong.
Second, because the reports very m'ldness and
avoidance Of personalities emphasizes the terrible
funbIino which has bedevled the rubber stuoton
ever since the Japanese struck at Pearl Horbor 1t IS
difficult to imagine an error of omission which those
charged with protecting the notIonol interest IN con-
nection With rubber, have not committed.
The Presidents ready acceptance OF the report
and his promise to implement it Immediately IS the
best that can be done at this lote dote.
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