The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-20
Walter Wirlcheu
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 smythe. who wrote letters to some ce us right along boasting he would expose his co-defendants Gin the current Washington trial of the 90 alleged seditionists), was picked up near the Canadian border :. ,'grong-Way" emythe. What asense 0f direction. Travelling toward Can- ada-When he should have aimed Tor Germany Talk about irony
 The stupidity of Gen. Mac Arthrr's boosters has done him the most harm Theatrical wisen- heimers insist serious themes are a box-Office liability But the prize-winntng playwright who has scored the biggest artistic and fi- nancial successes dIamatized vital problems-Lillian Hellman Her s-The Searching Wind" is breath talZer No girl is more popular with the males than Lana Turned. But, look at her wrecked love life
 Gov. Bricker yaps that the Administration is to be blamed for Pearl Harbor He means the Japs were New Dealers.
 Last Sundays last line (via the Blue Network at g N. Y. time) was: ~Hitler has birthday this week. Making him the worlds oldest live ing ratp The Tuesday World TelegramIS scrap drive caption: '.Hitler will be 55 on Thursday and the worlds oldest living rat" Prob'ly ran out of quotation marks over at the gazette which frowns on this brand of journalism Yak, yak Milton Berle's comic talent can stand on its own tootSies. Why do radio moguls mar it by surround ing him with a silly quiz program? Kate Smith is angry and for good reason. She doesn't take cam eras or any favors and no taxers are Squawking, etc Whatever became of the threatened probe of s'Under Cover" and it's boosters? Hmmmmm?
 The StOrk's proprietor discovered there is about $100,0OO a year in- come in the "have-your- picture taken" stunt. He always opposed it on the ground that stay -out-lates tuSually with someone else's wOman) would fear being caught in the background of a photo He in- Btructed the picture-takers never to annoy patrons and to wait until the customers ordered picture {. Last night Billingsley looked over all pix taken in the past month To his amazement (and ours) 90 per cent of the poSers weren't tourists or those visiting the Stork for the first time-but the "regu- lars"-the celebs and the sophisti- cates.
 Lowell MelIett's initial column was good lesson in reporting, good taste and snappy reporting. One of the craft welcomed him back into newspapering with 8 punch before Lowell even got into the ring |. Spike Jones, the orchestra leader, just recorded Behind Those Swing ing Doors" for Bluebird. He uses 8 trombonist, not to play the in- Strurnent, but to make a certain sound on cue. For this one "boop" Jones had to pay the man the union scale for recording-$30. . All mags in the U. s. will feature a $1O0 bond on their July covers. S98 magazines having already agreed total circ: 40 million. It is to in Rugurate the next war bond drive s. When a Hollywoodite gets into Q romantic mess it makes the front pages. When they risk their lives overseas entertaining troops that news is buried on the inside pages.
 The next time you hear some goon knock the Allies remind him that the RAF stopped Hitler over Lon don and the Russians started him running home .. Our idea of Par adise: Where everybody has as much fun as radio comedians studio audience .. The papers hear that Mussolini Whoever he is) is AyAA6 0O W1ldGs CId11k Gervasi:s excellent piece in Golfers should be part of every Ameri- cans education. Its facts are an antidote to the poison spread against certain groups. It is similar to Pierre Van Paassen's fine book: "The Forgotten Ally" When the Washington trials of those 30 are Over-the few legislators who de- tended them right along-will wish they hadn't.
 Have some bitter contrast: A few weeks ago veterans of this war lost their jobs in a New York war plant. Because it had to cut down on pro- duction Meanwhile, Vivien KeilemS (who is palsy-walsy with a German in Argentina) gets gov- erament contracts for her defense factory When legislators and others point finger at bureaucrats remind them bureaucratS is a name for government employees The boost in taxes at the movie thea ters doesn't seem to affect the business. Crowded as ever Have an example of distorted thinking: Wtlkies defeat in Wisconsin won 0ge cheers (from some editorial
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 aks Don't miss the four-reel- c, 'The Memphis Belle" for thrills. Or Snow White" which is again in town and delighting packed houses Jack Benny,s take-off on Bob Hope was very comical.
 Lucky the publisher who gets Henry Hoke'S newest sizzler. The title is: "Blackrail' It Is a dOcumented story of the abuse and