Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-11
Americans
Good Lovers
And Soldiers
Order TO Cut Sex From
\ News Reels Criticized
By DAMON RUNYON

" LCf oiio Niity WdiiN yNdA OfA
Il Uncle Samuel TO be hypo-
critical about a very tender
emotion just to keep himself in
good with some of the neigh
bors.
An item appeared in a pubs
lie print recently stating that
newsreel editors have been told
TO eliminate sex" in future
scenes. particularly those show
ing the United States aLly,
navy or marine forces.
1t seems that the inter-Amer-
lean committee on Latin
America complains that too
much OF these scenes depict
lovely ladies ganged up about
our troops and that such de-
pictions give the impression Ito
Latin America, l presumed the
American troops are not pre-
pairing TO fight and have no
time for maneuvers.
judge that the inter-Amer-
lean committee fears that Latin
America does not read the
newspapers and has not heard
of incidents like Bataan and
does not know that American
troops now march in Iceland,
Ireland, India, Africa. Australia.
the isles of the Caribbean and
numerous other places where.
as l understand il. no troops
representing that region that
the committee fears may acquire
bad impressions of our military
life. have yet pitched any pup
tents.
PERSONALLY. / am highly in
Il favor Of doing everything
possible to make a good impress
sion on Latin America and all
our other little pals. but / do
not believe that discarding the
beautiful DANES from the news
reels and disclosing our soldiers
and sailors as cold potatoes in
terested only in the harsher
phases Of their occupation will
have this effect.
On the contrary, I am afraid
IL may be terrible knock. Many
of the lovely young ladies of
Latin America, than whom there
are no lovelier, have undoubt-
eddy been brought up in the
belief that the young gentlemen
of the United States are pecul-
iarly adept in the art OF ro-
nance. The propaganda of the
American films on this point has
been far reaching.
Surely by this time ii has been
made clear TO these lovely young
ladies as well as TO lovely young
ladies everywhere in the world,
that our Mr.. Clark Gable, our
Mr.. Tyrone Power, our Mr..
Robert Taylor and our Mr..
Franchot Tone, 10 mention just
a few, are representative of the
fervid nature of American young
gentlemen when it comes TO
romance.
OF course, / am not claiming
that all our young gentlemen
are as expert in giving out with
the romance business as those
named. Here and there / sup
pose there are guys who are no
handler at the tender stuff than
a mud turtle. However, in gen.
eral il is one of our national
characteristics. Why, l remem-
ber-but never mind that.
OUR young gentlemen are the
" great lovers of the universe,
else all the finn footage and dia-
log of many years and all the
words and music of Tin Pan
Alley connected with June and
moon have been wasted. What
is more, our young gentlemen
are better able TO get out and
hustle and support love than
any others, which is not more
important than il used to be.
1t would probably be a shock
to the young ladies of Latin
America and elsewhere if they
were suddenly given to under
stand through newsreels devoid
of what the photographers call
cheese cake that our young gen.
tlemen are no longer interested
in romance. 1t would destroy
an illusion that has taken years
of effort and a vast amount Of
money to establish.
THIS nation has been involved
Il in quite a number of wars
since it opened for business, but
l think this is the first time
there has been any objection in
our young gentlemen in uniform
being depicted by newsreels or
otherwise with lovely ladies, or
any suggestion that the associa-
ton might give the impression
that the boys had no time for
anything else.
AS a matter OF fact. in our
other wars when much the same
depletion took place. our enemies
learned that however great the
American capacity for romance.
IL was never out OF proportion to
the fighting spirit of our young
gentlemen and that both we're
positively terrific.
Copyright. 1912. by King Features