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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-04

Till IS ARMY Ordnance Department., carly in
factory near good suppl, of water, of sufficient
size TO make small caIibre ammunition at the of
many millions every twenty four hours. We had such
floor space. 1t was we'll placed near additional un-
used land and far enough from the city to allow the
storage of powder and the loading and testing of
ammunition.
The work of preparation was started Immediately
The automobile machinery in the plant, which could
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
BY II. GEORGE FRANKS,
Former Editor of the Star of India

==HE SCENE is the classroom Of an inland
English school. one hundred first grade
Y children are iHtea'y watching tHe
teacher
"Cau someone tell mc what Tins is2' she
asks p.carg mp AN object from her desk
"A stone says one small boy a piece
Of rIhb,e from a bombed house says another.
no" says the teacher after several more
incorrect answers 1T IS shc..'
There SIS q moment Of silence. followed ~
laughter The children know whom they are
being dddcI
shells sconfully remarks q fr.-h-faced
lad Of SIX don't look like that They're made
Of steel"
The teacher looks around sadly
This is a different kind Of sheu' she
says. 1T comes out Of the sea and is called
a sca-sheu"
Blu, shells only come out Of guns a
little girl exclatms. Everybody knows that
incredible or not. this scene Is not
product of imagination 1t actually occurred
in the course Of a recent survey 20 determine
tho effects OF tho war on British children
Some thousands OF Youngsters were eX-
amincd and the results showed beyond doubt
that they are living and thinking in ways
totally different from those which the aver
age adult associates with childhood
These are tho children Of the great god
arc more familiar than toys planes than
automobiles sudden death and destruction,
then the security Of the home.
What sort Of men and women they viii
grow into is a question. At least it's safe
to say they won't be much like us.
For example out Of the same class Of a
hundred fve- and six-year-olds not one could
remember having seen shop windows lighted
mp at night, lights over the front Of movie
illuminated advertisements. tho unshadcd
beams Of motor cars headlights grape
fruit, peach Brazil nuts, newspaper placards
or posters windowful OF sweets bucket
and spade OF the kind used for playing IN
the sand or a Christmas tree.
Only six knew what padding in the sea
was. only three what It was to make sand
castles
Just few days ago a number Of children
IN tho Childrens Hospital London looked
with suspicion on a bunch Of bananas which
a thoughtful pilot had brought back from
the Middle East
The pilot lad heard that in tho hospital
we're children who needed bananas as "a vital
article Of diet AS it happened he brought
enough not only tor these special patients
but also to be passed around as a treat among
the other wards.
Scarcely a child had ever tasted bananas
before and only few even knew what they
were
The majority thought that the long vel
low things were "a new kind Of med cine. or
trick by the doctors and nurses to make
therlput up with some new kind Of treatment
And they unanimously refused to eat the
bananas!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

looms they are just sky fish"
"Blitz it. the games over" Doris will say
when they tire of their game. And any kind
Of a hole is a crater never just a hole.
When playing. all their talk is about
clothes ratoning, food rationing, and salvage.
In fact, salvage collections are the childrens
most thrilling games nowadays. The trad-
uoral urge 20 collect and hoard all manner OF
odds and ends has been given n new outlet
There are many youngsters, indeed, who
cannot remember the time when bones and
paper and tins We're just thrown into the
dust bin. To them, the saving Of waste is a
normal activity and duty These children
may not be able 20 recall some of the games
which we older ones used to play. But the
collecting OF tons Of materials 70 help beat
the Hun is a more thrilling pastime
Whenever the children play they always
have shelter and even when they pretend 70
he visiting one another in homes built in the
garden someone must be a plane and always
one of the homes must be bombed
ON one morning after a heavy raid a
small boy Of eight went creeping out into the
garden 90 put an empty tin into the pond
saying as he wcnt:. I'm going TO give the
goldfish a shelter. Mummy"
When planes go overhead. the children lis
ten for a moment. casually say, ours" and
then go on with their play or work on one
occasion "a Rine-year-old boy, who had Just
been given toy gun, pointed up az a num-
Der OF planes passing overhead His little
sister rushed up 20 him in great distress
shouting tremblngly: Don't shoot, Bob, don't
shoot, they're oursi'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

best shock absorbcrs in the world though
maybe there's a delayed action just around
the corner
But it is in the actual battle line of air
raids that they have become completely adj
justed. I remember one day after a bad raid
I got talking TO a little boy Of cight-a tough
little guy he was. This is his simple story.
Round about halfway through the hlitz
a Teller IN our shelter said TO another Teller
Go round the corner and bring back a can OF
cocoa for us and these kids. So tho fcller
went Off But he didn't come back because
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

the ferries dropped an egg on him
~ down the corner of the road
81 I suffered out. What happened
u then? 1t must have been terrible"
Yes" replied the youngster But
that wasn't all a second Teller ran
slap into another Jerry bomb and we
never found any more of him"
Aghast l said, And then 4"
The kid answered.; We'll IL APP
peared that neither of those fellers
could run fast enough 10 beat the
bombs. And brought back the cocoa-after
a narrow shave
There was another child who asked me-
as he walked down the street:
What are those high posts along the
road for"
why, they're lampposts'
Eyes, know they're called lampposts
but what are they for
tried TO explain. The explanation caused
a good deal OF laughter and then my COM
panion said: But we don't have lights i'm the
streets-that's silly. You don't have lights in
the daytime because YOU can see. And az
night, it's blackout, and you're not allowed TO
have Lights
Blackout! An accepted fact. Not just an
inconvenience or a potential danger as IL is
TO the adult. To the child of five, or six. it
has always been there
The word bombed has taken the place OF
broken" in the childrcn's vocabulary: a thing
is not shared" between youngsters II is "ra-
toned; and as for the familiar barrage bal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26


knows full well what vitamins are.
Yes all OF the vtamins, the whole
alphabet Of them,
They may not know where oranges
grow bat they do know that orange juice
can be- got from the
chemists by their mo'h-
!. !. !. !. !. !. !. !. /. i. e
crs with I'll ration book; Il -
and they kno" that E.&1&
orange juice provides ~
them with magic vitae ~ !.
min which makes up. so ~
they are told for SO 49,,
many Of the goodies
which father and mother
used 10 have when they
were children.
The bare ~ our own
childhood. cod liver oil, ~
has become % Brtain's children -
something to plead for. Supplies Of
this commodity can actually be OBJ
tanned free. and what is stiu more
remarkable, are begged for by chill
Grer.
When il comes 70 clothes the
tendency is 20 feel really sorry for
the modern child. A few years ago,
a party frock whole rainbow OF
pretty hair ribbons or a drawerful q
Of hanHcs vas chId's pride Today ~
there are no such things.
But the war has provided them 49,
with now and different thrills. Bombs
and planes and visiting troops from -
across the seas: evacuation, holidays
at home meals at school; these are
some Of the new features which keep
children amused and interested
Many Of my own young friends are con.
noisseurs OF such things as bombs and planes
4 -
for example Although she has a memory
OF before-the-war. it is only a very vague
one Since the age Of four she has been in
the middle Of a war, and has come 10 accept IL
as she might accept, say recurrent thunder
storms
She and her friends have become real ex-
perts in bombs.
I remember one day after a large bomb
had exploded in a field within half mile OF
the S-year-olds house. I went along 10 see
how the family had taken t. My little girl
friend accompanied me 20 the crater and
I vcntured the opinion that IL must at least
have been a thousand-pounder
No" said my young companion 1T was
a thousand-poundcr that went into the wood
over there and made a quite different kind
Of crater This was n two-thousand-pounde
and different type too"
Then there is the air raid siren. 1t still
makes many adults feel sck-gives them a
queer irritation in the pit Of the stomach
even Though they arc so accustomed TO il
after hcarihg4t literally thousands OF times.
But WITH the children IT is very different
To them the sirens summons is answered like
tie school bell Children know just what t.
do. and BECAUSE OF their apparently limitosf
capacity for absorbing shocks, they take it.
better than anyone else
IN fact, Bntains children have become the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

September 20. 1919
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

Peace Comes English School Teoehe-the Future Mr. Chip
VIII Hove TO Teach WoBorn Children 70 Recognize Such Com
Objects Seo-Shes. Christmas Trees Lighted Street
MM Lomps-AH the Things They've Grown Up Without
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

However though The average English
younEstcr may look askance at a banana he
knows full well what wtamins are.
Yes all OF the vitamins, the whole
alphabet Of them,
They may not know where oranges
grow bat they do know that orange juice
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
Paul Gerrits Heads
Latest ROyale Revue

BRIGHT AND gay as spring It.
self is the new "Springtime Re-
vue' opening at the Club Royale
tomorrow night Paul GerritS,
whom Detroiters remember from
his past appearances here, is the
headliner with his sophisticated
nonsense. Handsome and Irish
looking he keeps up a running
patter of humorous remarks to
ringSIdeTS, and proves infectiously
funny with his up-to- the-minute
of well-knows.
Another favorite on the bill is
lovely Charlotte Lamberton who
does some lovely dance numbers
and completely amazes the patrons
with her rhythmic perception in
spite OF the fact that she cannot
hear the music. She's been pop
.ular with every trip TO Detroit
and is welcome addition TO the
new revue.
Swinging the current songs is
Betty Black, lively, full of pep
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
night fit the wanted Iady's de-

might fit the wanted lady's de-
scription.
Oracle Allen and George
Burns gave a dinner before they
trained east. It's the last one for
the duration, Oracle said, and IL
was very pleasant affair,
Oracle sang, George danced and
Meredith Wilson played some Of
his compositions.
Ann Savage was all ready 10
elOpe over the week end with
Milton Feldman. but changed
her mind at the last minute:
GrOuchO Marx and his estranged
wife forgot their mad at each
other long enough 10 welcome
home their son. Arthur. He II In
the coast guard.
Fritz Lang II on his way TO
New York TO Join Virginia Gill
more and I am told the movie he
made for my neighbor. Arnold
Pressburger, "Hangmen Also
Die" got great reception from
the preview audiences.
That's all today. See YOU to-
morrow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
Film Time Clock

ADAMS - Getty without Men" IN,
BooEie Man VIII Get You"
BROADWAY CAPITOL Journey FOL
Margaret" 1l.is q m. 2i2. 500. s
H.36 ,. m, "Whis;ling in Dixie" i24l
3:35, 500. s:23 p m
CINDEREILA-"Th Black swan" ?
$40. SIS, II rs p. m. a Night to Re
member" u 30, $40, 6,55, 1910 p. m
CINEMA Ravaged Earth" y. 2lo
4.2o. $50, $40. 1880 p. m.
FISHER The Black swan" 2. SIG
$50 HAS p. N. a Night 10 Remem
Der" u 30. 3:46. 7:O2. lOls p. m.
FON-" Commandos strike a, Dawn" II
a. m. 1888 ass 7.57 1885 p. m
Time 70 KAN" l2i5, $50, 64s, e.is
I7iO 1890 p. m. n Night to Remem-
MADISON Black swan" 1851
4;07 1913. 10 80 p. m. A night e
Remember l1lT ,. m, 2.33, $40. e'0'
MICHIGAN star spaneled Rhythm "
10 a. m, l244. 32s. 6.l2, $50. II %
n. m. "Fall In" 1875 a. m, 2:fO. SPA
P.LM-sTtTE "Hpler's children 81
II 10 a m. 2. S. $40. l1.10 p. N. LADY
Bodyguard. 80 10 a. m, las. 3.55, 7. 10
PARADISE 49, Louis Prima, 2a7, 500
t s:o2 s so5o sasa no 1"T p my M o"' Low
RIVIERA "The Black swan" 1i5, 5
'slQ 1895 p m. n Night to Remem-
RKO UPTOWN The Black Swan.
$40. 7.O5. 1880 p. m, 2;I5 a m "A
Night 20 Remember" 1870, 3.i5, p. m,
Ti2.A5 a. m.
ROYAT,.-"The Black swan" 80. s:4s
-. m, 1902 a. m. "A Night to Remem.
Der" 715, 1881 p. m.
TELFNENs 80 NewA. short subjects,
a. m 20 IL p. m.
UNITED ARTISTS Random Harvest"
n Is a. m, 202, 4:39, 1915, ESQ p. m
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27

and personality. Billed as the
"bombshell of rhythm" she "ex-
plodes" your favorite songs in a
way you'll like. The Robertos, two
smooth Latin-American dancers,
give their interpretations of South
American and modern ballroom
routineS.
The six gorgeous Titan ROYAL
cites round out the show with
their unusual and poetic produce
ton numbers. And it's George
Kavanagh's orchestra doing the
music which is good news again TO
all his Detroit friends.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
Grew Was Thirsty

DURING THE time Air Force"
company was on location near
Tampa, Fla. the cast and crew
consumed 900 gallons of water
daily.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27

Warner Star Joan Leslie be-
comes the first Hollywood actress
TO have a waterfall named after
her. She's just been informed of
the honor by Pvt. Archie J. Nc
Killop and Robert L. Wood, who
are serving in the South Pacific.
The location of the falls, they say,
is a military secret, but everybody
in their outfit concurred in the
christening.
So many visitors have packed
the stormy Weather" set at
Twentieth Century-Fox TO watch
Lena Horne, Cab Galloway, Bill
Robinson and Fats Waller that
the studio has moved in a grand
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
Hard to Locate

HARDEST TO FIND PROP
used in the production of Casa
blanca" was a bottle of Vichy
water, none of which had been
imported since 1910.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
Murder Cut Down

PAUL LUKAS. who murdered
George Colours SOB times while
Watch on the Rhine" was run
ming on Broadway, had 10 do it
only three times for the screen
production of the play.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
Garland
Rose Rift
May Heal
BY HARRISON CARROLL

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 70. 49, It's
too early to tell yet what will
come of the Judy Garland-David
Rose rift, but he makes no secret
Of his desire for a reconciliation.
Dawes in the air corps, sta
toned nearby. / finally caught up
with him.
''This thing isn't as serious As
IL is being made out" he told
me. "Judy and have gotten
along too well, we've had this
town licked too well for any
permanent misunderstanding to
come between us"
SAILING HIGH
AS soon as he finishes $50
Proudly We Hail" George Reeves
is going into the paratroopers,
And won't he be the first actor
to enter this branch of the
service?
Reeves wasn't inducted. He en-
listed last September, requesting
assignment to the parac hu e
troops. His call came early this
month, but Paramount asked de-
fer1nent for linn to finish the pic
turp
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
just a Vacation

JOAN LESLIE swan, went
yachting, rode and played tennis
in single day for scenes in her
latest picture, THE Hard Way"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27

stand. Visitors are ordered not tc
leave it so they won't hold up
production.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
FLOODS OF FAME

He used to go to Pomona College
with Bob Taylor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
COLLECTED AT RANDOM

JUDY GARLAND has an
nexed Van JOhnson-and are all
the girls Jealous! Sue Carol,
whose baby il due In three
weeks, Is In the hospital suffer
Ing with a cold. Her husband.
Alan Ladd. recently went to
work for Uncle Sam.
Jane Withers has cut her long
hair for a role In North Star;
Pat Dane and Tommy Dorsey,
who suffered an interlude, have
taken up where they left off;
Charles Weddings bride was
operated On today. He IL Clau-
deite Colbert's brother.
Jimmy and Bill Csgney looked
at the test David Selznlck made
Of MAude Adams, hoping she
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
TWO PROUD PAPAs

IT WAS a tossup whether Brian
Donlevy or Cornell Wilde have
been Dustin more buttons" as a
proud papa around Hollywood.
Both became fathers OF daughters
within the past couple OF days and
both are taking IT big. Ten hours
after Judith Ann arrived Brian
contacted the Paramount portrait
gallery about sitting"
/ don't know whether Cornell
topped that one, but he was in
such daze it went in one ear and
out the other when Twentieth
Century-Fox notified him he was
10 get his best movie break TO date
as Sonia Henies leading man in
Winter Time
How nice" said the new father
So they are telling him again to-
morrow when he comes out Of the
ether. Sonia gets in Monday TO
make tests.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
NEW ARRIVAL

1T DID my heart good 10 hear
Richard Dix rave over his new
2-year-old adopted daughter. He
says he arranged IL 80 Sara Sue
arrived on Mrs. Dix birthday
and in the few days she has
been with them she IL the boss
Of the house and has the twins,
aged !, eating out Of her hand.
Richard and Robert, their dad
told me, have prayed every night
for the past four years for a sis
ter and now they believe their
prayers were answered.
Miss Sara Sue has a room OF
her own, a four-pOster canopied
bed and a wardrobe fit for n
young princess.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
SAILING HIGH
TALKING BACK

Crack of the week: Arthur Gaze
sar ran into Make Rosenbloom at
Lyman's.
81 don't want to talk to you
about too many thinks, Make"
he said, "Just the things you
know. How are yOu?"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
GOSSIP ABOUT TOWN

One of Hollywood's young ma
irons got so tight and so loud at
an officers club in the desert that
several officers left the place. .
Most Of Freddie Bartholomew
letters from camp are addressed
to Rita Quigley. Hollywood
publicity men are groaning be-
cause boys in the cast Of This Is
the Army" are not allowed 10
pose for pictures. -. Phillip Ann,
expecting a call 10 the service, has
bought his family a house in the
West Adams district. The
clamor already had started for
Warmers to make a sequel 10
"Casablanca." The end of the pic
ture makes this easily possible. e.
Ray Eberle, formerly soloist with
Glenn Miller'S band, has signed a
seven-year contract with Uni
verSal.
Quite a reunion when marine
flyer. Capt. Edward Thorenson,
visited the "Bataan Patrol" set.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27

in UoAwool

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26.-One
of the happieSt marriages in our
town is that of Honey and Don
Ameche. Only last week Honey
was telling me how well Don ham
dies the children. Always taking
time 10 explain TO them in detail
just why they are being punished
whenever it is necessary TO admin
lister parental authority.
Because Don is Don and fine
actor, as well as an excellent fam
lily man, il is particularly interest
ing that William Goetz in all
probability will cast him opposite
Dorothy Mcclure in Claudia"
Cary Grant was first mentioned
for the role Donald Cook created
on the stage, but he is TO do an
overseas mission for the govern
ment. Don, 1 am told. registers a
different personality in Ernst Luz
bitschs Heaven Can Wait" and
with Eddie Goulding directing
Claudia" and William Perlberg
producing. 1913 looks like an
AmeChe wear.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
CHATTER IN HOLLYWOOD

ROSE KLEIN. who works IN
Margaret Ettinger's office, lives
with her sister and two small
nephewS. One Of the boys, Denny,
IS a newSboy who delivers 10 Of
fees in the Sam Goldwyh studios.
The other day Denny was MAX
ing the rounds when suddenly
casting director Bob Mcintyre
passed him and said: You'll do,
and without another word went
into his office.
McIntyre's secretary said,
"Donny l think he has role for
you in North Star" Whereupon
Donnv knocked them all cold by
turning agent. II couldn't possibly
SIGN a contract unless my twin,
Jerry Lewis, is signed. too he
said So Denny. with agents blood
IN his veins. will emote with jerry
as his standin.
wish l could say that Cecil
2 DeMille has a chance of getting
Helen Hayes TO play Mrs. Was
sell" who was with Commander
Wassell during his days as mis-
sionarv in China. c. b. wants her
for The Story of Dr. Wassell' and
IS asking her to consider an offer
because he feels Hayes and Gary
Cooper. after Farewell 10 Arms, "
would be terrific box office.
But Harriet" her new stage
plav. is Helen's greatest stage tri-
umph. Letters from the East say IT
Is the best play Gilbert Miller has
produced in 10 years and that it
received notices from the critics
that were poems and music 10 his
ear.
II Is the dramatic story OF Har-
riet Beecher Stowe, author of
Uncle Toms Cabin"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
ISOLATED STAR

PVT. WILLIAM X. GOEWY,
stationed in the Pacific, where
water IL all around and the
waves beat 20 feet high" writes
the following letter: To-day we
saw Joe r. Brown In this desc
late spot. He Is the only movie
Star I have seen since the war
started and II was really great
90 see human being from the
States. He put on a show for us
and his act Of Elmer the Great
was swell.
DO you know Johnny Mar
vim of Hollywood? He was with
Joe r.. who Il tops. He SAYS he
came here 10 make the boys laugh
and We sure did all the time he
was here" Goewy Il % and was
at Pearl Harbor on December 4.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
THE REAL THING

Take a second look when John
Garfield fires three shots at Wal
ter SleZak in THE Fallen Spar
row" Garfield will be shooting
real bullets Canning TO miss, of
course).
He has TO fire real bullets be-
cause he is using an automatic
pistol. Only one type of auto
matte has sufficient recoil TO fire
more than one blank cartridge.
And John won't be using that
type.