The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
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 John Hersey's incisive analysis of Q discharged war veteran Gin Life) gives the emotions workout. It would make stirring film .. The best price, we think, since that mag told the story of Marine hero Al Schmid Here is the reason some newspapers are ignoring the sedition trial: Propaganda used by the defendants is part of the Gov ernment evidence and 1t echoes some editorial pages The re- furbished Stage Door Canteen in New York is now more decorative than New York's most lavish night spots Being civilian is no cinch in war. If you're pessimistic the editorial writers claim you're a defeatist. If you're optimistic, they call you complacent And if you're not pessy or opty-then you're just apathetic Oh, dear.
 The Broadway betting ring mas- ters have seldom guessed wrong on Presidential races. They've made MT. Big double-price favorite ... Some Repubs in town are fea- turing old Willkie buttons in their lapels as a protest against the COPS choice Master Elinson wishes to interrupt to say that as governor, Dewey would like to par don Roosevelt for serving another term The wreck of the Chief kA train disaster Qike the one that took 150 lives) was narrowly avert ed last week (on 8 Tuesday night) by an alert brakeman. He discov- cred defective journal on the train, en route to Norfolk-in time.
 Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me-" which was high on the Hit Parade only a few broadcasts ago (and has garnered a mint for Duke Ellington), was written by Cootie | Williams, Dukes ex-trumpet genius. Cootie peddled it to Ellington for 4$25 .. Its real name is: Concerto for Oootie" Rooms are so scarce in navy-crowded Norfolk, Va, that Herb Fields and his band (playing | at the Palomar) has to rent six motor cars to sleep in The | name Winchell appeared in the Congressional Record long before the the current one started worry | ing those in Washington, who have | good reason to worry. His name was Benj. Winchell. The oldest papers in | the files of Congress relate to Ben | and his son Ruggles. The papers date back to 1758 Radio net works have altered the well-known | lines of the song, Beyond the | Blue Horizon" The wordage-lies | the rising sun-has been switched | to "the setting sun".
 FrancO's Spain has been turning | out expensive movies in an effort | to impress Latin Americans. Mean while, thousands are starving in Spain When @ legislator at- tacks Hollywood it attracts head lines. But a few days before Con- greSS went on furloaf = army | bigwigs boosted Movieburg's con- tribUtion to Warale (before Con- gressional group and most papers ignored that news With talent so scarce how come a top-flight | player such as Paul Muni hasn't made any pix recently? Radi- orator Johannes Steeles sponsor de- serves patty-cake. The commercial emphasizes the importance of free dom of speech for newscasters .l Sudden thawt: Some radio reporters | discovered they are as free as the air - until they try to gab over it .. Talk about boomerangs: By snubbing Willkie, the Repub- Con- vention gave him reams of newspa- per space. Trying to make believe that Willkie didn't exist only gave | him more attention.
 Movie stars are invariably very | fussy about their scripts and their billing or their supporting cast, etc. But when they make personal ap- pearances they often tarnish their reputation with the shoddiest sort of hokum Words at War" the Summer replacement for Fibber Mo- Gee and Molly, has something to say about vital subjects and says 1t sweloquently BroadWayS rarest | commodity is talented playwrights. The theater has developed no big time play-author since Clifford .Odets crashed the Broadway heav- ems. That was a decade ago Note to showmen: A Cleveland show group refused to produce. an anti Argentine play called Choice of Weapons" because they considered it too controversial. co controversial for what? Afraid of wounding whose pro-Hitler feelings in Cleve- land? What became of Sewell Avery and who givesadam?
 PegIer encouraged and became one of the mouthpieces for Washington flapjaWs who tried to suppress or probe this sinful New Yorker. So what happens? One Congressman now wants to have Pegler investi- gated - and he is hollering blue murder :. If you want to be happy, for goodnessakes rush out and get the American Mercury and read that wonderful piece by a newspa- pernan about Rankin. Tears him from elbow to ankle and inside out and upside down =. You can inl- agine this columns joy. We've read it fourteen times so far, and we read it before hitting the hay to get off to dreamland with lA 6l.