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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28
Heard On A Hollywood
Movie SET

HOLLYWOOD-Bud Alb
bott, Lou Costello and Muir
ray Leonard were rehears-
ing a scene for Lost in
Harem," in which they are
in prison. John Conte
sneaks them a loaf Of bread
through the barred window,
and they discover it full of
jailbreaking tools.
Leonard is supposed to
grab the loaf and eat it hun
grily. They rehearse the
action.
Maybe" I" suggests Direc-
tor Charles F. Riesner,
Murray should go after the
bread more eagerly, as
though he'd had nothing to
eat for days. You know
wolf if"
Wait" interposes Cos
tello. Maybe l can explain
it to him more clearly"
He turned to Leonard.
Remember that sc a son
20 years ago, when you, l
and Bud were working in
that burlesque show in
Michigan" he asked. well,
remember how we darn
near starved that season
with that troupe-and act
as you did them"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28
Camp Fire Girls
Honor Irene
Dunno

HOLLYWOOD-Irene Dunno
is Uncle Sans most glamorous
postman-and the Camp Fire
Girls are responsible.
The star, favorite actress Of
that national organization, has
been asked to deliver a parch-
ment scroll in the nation wide
Camp Fire Girl membership
drive from the Los Angeles
chapter to the New York group.
She'll take it with her on her
trip east in connection with the
opening of "The While Cliffs of
Dover" dramatization of Alice
Duer Miller's poem.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28
Cigar Allergic Star
Smokes For Role

HOLLYWOOD - Although
Walter Pidgeon is thoroughly en-
joying his role as ruthless, raf-
fish Major Augustus Parkington
in filmization of the Louis Brom-
field novel, Mrs. Parkington,"
he does find it trying on one
score.
Pidgeon hates cigars, yet as
Major Parkington he must smoke
them constantly.
Because cigars are no longer
made in the shape that they were
before the turn Of the century,
Pidgeon's cigars had to be es-
pecially made. While MGM's re-
search department specified the
shape, Pidgeon added a "must"
of his own to the cigar maker;
that they be as mild as possible.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28

Thoroughly American in To-
Gale and treatment, the play in
PRODUCES a boy of IL, fresh from
Germany, into the home Of
mid-Western college professor.
At first the professor, his house
hold and his fiancee, make the
mistake of considering the boy
just a rathe. quaint and aston
ishing child, but they soon rea-
lize that his training abroad has
taught him to be liar and
schemer whose treachery goes
far beyond anything they have
ever experienced.
Rehabilitating the boy is de-
cidedly tough proposition, but If
couple of Americans can't han
die one such problem, the play
asks, how is the world to deal
with IL million boys growing UP
in Germany?
Edith Atwater is the profes-
sor's fiancee who helps to Wres-
tie with the Nazi problem child,
while Paul McGrath portrays the
role of typical American pro-
fessor of the middle west. Dickie
Tyler, who has been praised as
one Of the greatest young actors
of all time, gives a SUPERB char
acterization of the Nazi youth.
Another youngster who is equal
ly good is Joan Shepard, who is
responsible for much of the
comedy.
Others in the cast include Lulu
Mae Hubbard, Wayne Num-.
Elisabeth Neumann, Edward and |
Donald Tappa and Harlan Stone.
Flora Ward Hineline brings |
the attraction to Toledo.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28
DID You Know

June Allyson has taken to
wearing dresses with ver-
tical stripes-to make her
look taller?
Walter Pidgeon uses
honey in his coffee instead
of sugar?
Fay Holden never picks
roses in her garden, but al
ways snips them off where
their stems branch from the
main plant with a pair of
scissors?
John Kodiak is a devotee
of Chinese foods?
Margaret O'Brien is an
ardent Abbott and Costello
fan?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28
''1On1OTTOU The World" Is
Coming May 8 To Paramount

World"
of
er
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28
w Henry BelIomonn
Novel To Be ScreenpIov

HOLLYWOOD-Purchase, in
manuscript from one of the latest
novel of Henry Bellamann, au-
thor of "King's Row" and "Vic-
tOria. Grandelet," was announced
this week.
The new story is "Red Shoes
Run Faster" and tells of IL
year-old Southern girl, whose
beauty and charm carry her
through two tragic love affairs
into despair, then into romance
that brings regeneration and
happiness.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28

tors will describe what they see
against the sounds of battle.
NBC, CHS and British Broad
casting Corp. are working joint
ly for the invasion coverage,
radio men were informed at the
NBC war clinic in Hollywood.
Other special radio personnel
is being trained to operate
worldwide broadcasts from each
European capital as Allied troops
move in and free speech is re-
stored. Nationals will go on the
air to tell the world about their
liberation.
TELE NEWSREEL. Whether
it will be operating by invasion
time is problematic, but Para
mount has started installations in
some theaters for reception of
last-minute flash additions TO
newsreels. Newsreel televising
equipment is already installed in
the Paramount Bldg, New York.
TELE TEASER. Are movies
and television going to be deadly
rivals or inseperable friends?
While the rest of Hollywood
worries, Paramount is proceed
ing to make the new marvel
serve the movies. A trailer or
advance teaser program for the
opening of The Miracle of Nor
gan's Creek, Hollywood's bawdi-
est picture of modern times, was
televised in the Los Angeles area
over W6XYZ. A selection of 40
frames from the film were pre-
Sented like magic lantern show,
with commentary by Preston
Sturges, who made the movie.
OUTLET FOR FUNNIES. Tip
on one of the new types of radio
talent television will present is
the signing of Frank Webb, car
toonist, for a series of telecasts
over Paramount's W6XYZ.
UNION ASKS TELE CUT
Screen Cartoonists (AFL) fore
sees animated cartoons as natu-
rails for television material. In
current negotiations the union
asks that 20qo of all proceeds
from televizing screen cartoons
be paid to the union for distribu-
ton as its membership decides.
INCOME FOR SERVICEMEN.
Screen Cartoonists is also nego-
tiating for a 200 cut of all pro-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28
Bicycling Banned
For Dance Star

HOLLYWOOD-As far as the
studio police department is con-
cerned, Fred Astaire is a hoofer.
Busy rehearsing dance rou-
tines, all on three different
stages, for "ziegfeld Follies," AS
taire brought his bicycle deter
mined to pedal from one stage
to another.
But the studio isn't taking
chances on injuring those million
dollar feet.
Orders were given to the po-
lice to impound the Astaire bike
whenever it appeared - now
Fred hoofs on and off the set.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28
HOLLYWOOD COINCIDENCE

Lydia BiIbrook, currently IN
the film version of the Oscar
Wilde novel, "The Picture of
Dorian Gray" was cared for as
a child by the governess who
also worked for Wilde's family
in England.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28

Come Home"
LawfOrd, who recently COM
pleted THE White Cliffs of
Dover and is currently in "Mrs.
Parkington" and "The Picture of
Dorian Gray" appears as an
r.. A. F. cadet in the new Lassie
film.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28
14S SPEAKING ROLES

A tabulation of dialogue roles
in Mrs. Parkington" lists 148
different players with speaking
parts to date, in addition to the
cast of principals numbering 80.
According to the present shoot
ing schedule, the film will be in
six more weeks.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28

Binnie Barnes winds up her
role opposite Wallace Beery in
Metro Goldwyn- Mayors &C o ! d
Town" this week. She'll leave
for Nashville, Tenn, early next
week for a visit with husband
Capt. Mike Frankovich, who is
stationed there. Roy Del Ruth
is directing Gold Town" with
o. O. Dull producing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28
Peter Lowford Cast In
"Lossie" Screen SEQUEL

HOLLYWO0D-The role of
Roddy Mcdowell grown to
young manhood, has been given
to Peter Lawford for "Son of
Lassie," screen sequel to "Lassie
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-28

Mischa Auer demonstrates
some easy steps for combating
boredom while hiding under a
lady's bed (if you ever chance
to be in this predicamenD. A
thorough hair-combing is ef-
fective; A snappy game of soli-
taire helps; trimming the mus
tache should prove a good
time consumer. If all else fails,
try slipping away quietly.
Mischa shows how it is done
in Cup In Mabels Room" the
Edward Small laugh riot of the
Loew's Valentine Th tre
through United Artists release.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-20
THE WATCHTOWER By ROY WILKINS

section-l23-which outlaws race discrimination
They must sit across the table from China non
white nation, and they must face the fact of $50
million Indians and 100 million Africans
They think II does not matter what they do to
Is million Negroes, what insults they heap upon
them, what restrictions they place around them
1900 They do not know the world has moved
they only present tragically ludicrous picture
with their white supremacy twaddle They do
not know that man, in today's world is superior
because he is superior, not because he is white or
yellow black; and that if he is jackaSs he is a
Jackass, If he be as white as the driven snow.
Hill and Pepper were reelected because first,
there IS a growing disgust in the South among
white people for the hatred tactics OF
the extremists and second because the Go has
been able TO educate thousands of new union mem
bers IN the war production centers.
c. c. Grant, white Virginian, wrote an his
toric letter to the Richmond Times Dispatch, say.
ing: Il am Southerner ] was born Southerner
What education possess came to me from
Southerners. When die ] shall die South
erner There is a needless shedding Of tears be-
cause OF the recent United States supreme court
decision with respect 20 our Negro citizens and the
white Democratic primary in the state of Texas
The decision was signal victory for American
democracy itself and way Of life
The SaneSt editorial comment came from the
Dallas Morning News The race haters in the
South are being beaten back. They are not de-
feated and they have plenty Of steam left but
they cannot win. They seem 10 sense ultimate
defeat hence the senselesS fury OF their attacks.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-20

We write to our Congressman and Senators urging
them to support the FEPC budget which they will
vote on in the near future. II you have previously
written to your representatives you know what to
do-right away-today.
If you have never written to your lawmakers
in Washington you probably want to write to them
with regard to FEPC. But maybe you are in
doubt about some detai-perhaps you don't know
how to address your letter. or perhaps you don't
know for sure who your Congressman are. II
this is all that is holding you back just ask some
one who Knows or else call Ca.-3867 and we
will help you.
How to address a letter to a Congressman is
something that our educational system in most
instances, never taught u.s. We learned lot about
citizenship and about our country. But most of
us never learned that we can get our representa-
tves to work for us--f only enough of us let them
know exactly what want This is democratic
privilege of which some people never heard
But when you know how to use the instrument
OF democracy there is no longer any excuse for in
action. Do you want to save FEPC, the only
federal agency specifically concerned with dis
elimination in employment? II you do, then act
today Write yourself. Get your friends to write!
Tear out this column and take it to the next meet
ing of your club, your church and your other or
CARNATIONS. Get them to write to Washngton-not
only as individuals but also, collectively as an or
ganzation This is one Of many ways we operate
in order to get things done in democracy. The
enemies OF EfS use ullS metnOQ. IL 5 up 10 ltS
friends to beat them with the same weapon.
If our Congressman and Senators can now be
prevailed upon to give FEPC another year Of life
through granting it operating expenses-then we
can work for permanent FEPC agency, to be
created by congressional statute. When we
achieve that, our worst fear for FEPC will be
over The baby agency that we now so patiently
nurture and frequently rescue from danger, will
then have attained legal maturity in its world of
hard knocks.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-20
THE SOUTH: A FRUSTRATED LAND|

Another is the president of the Sou,hs greatest
university-that of North Carolina The Univer-
sIty Of Texas is becoming another focal point for
Southern liberal ideas.
These men have not been content TO speak
through their columns alone or 10 stick to their
college classes. They have organized inter racial
conferences, al Durham and al Atlanta. and have
begun the delicate task OF placing on a sound basis
the work OF intcr-racial anity.
We don't agree with all of them or with all that
they do But they opposed 10 the Rankin.
Bho South as any of us.
We must, however, remember that words about
tolerance and races getting together are of no value
when the society in which they are spoken is sick
and undernourished.
The South must get a fair economic break More
industry must be brought in Since 1885 nearly
a million white Southerners have Joined in the
same trade unions with Negroes That is great
progress
Friend with q Problem
The South needs more Twas. The IVA has
brought new industries and raised the income of
the Tennessee Valley by IS per cent since 1893
This must be duplicated. Freight diferentals must
be abolished and the interest rate capital low
cred to Northern levels.
We hail the Supreme Courts decision TO give
Negroes the vote. There must be further liberal
izaton Of election law, including end to the vile
poll taxes. We abhor and deteSt the Rankins and
Bibos and Talmadges
But also note that Talmadge was badly licked
in his state in 1912: that the South is producing
novels like Strange Fruit" and authors like
Lillian Smith; that It's universities beginning
a renaissance of learning; that you will find in
some Of its newspapers some of the best express
sons of American liberalism; that in the Southland
there is genuine capacity for sef-criticism and
a genuine understanding of the need for change
The change is terribly slow. We simply ask that
while il goes on the South be treated as a friend
who has terrible problem and who needs help,
rather than as nasty outcaSt
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-20

Practice. Since It's creation by Presidential Exec
utive Order on June 25s l94l, FEPC has led an
uncertain existence. Condemned by some as a
New Deal agency, misnamed racial equality
group by others hated by unenlightened indus
trial and union interests, perpetuay attacked by
Southern Senators and Representatives, its legal
authority frequently fouted and denied-all have
caused grave concern from time TO time among
the supporters of FEPC.
Each time however, that the life of FEPC was
threatened, its friends have faithfully rallied to
its support. Once again now, this agency is
endangered. It's request for next years operating
budget Of S585,000 is about to come before Con-
GresS. This you already know about. You also
know, no doubt, that in its journey through Con-
eress, the FEPC sails in dangerous waters. II may
be blown sky-high. Many enemies wait along its
path, both in the House and in the Senate.
This is where you and who fight for democracy
again step in TO save our baby. AS voting citizens
OF our country exert our democratic privileges.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-20
The following editorial was
printed in the April % issue Of
the Chicago Daily News.)
BY PAUL SCOTT MOwRER

We publish herewith the last
column by Westbrook Peg.er that
w.n appear IT. The Daily News, We
are disseminating Mr.. Pegier's col
unn. syndicated from New York.
in order 10 replace j: by a column
Of our own, written in Chicago. for
The Daily News. by Phil S. Hanna
We have so notified Mr.. Pegler. In
fact. Mr.. Pegler's column for today
is his reply TO our notification.
Some people will read IL with
pleasure. Others may not II is a
matter OF taste AT any rate. il serves
notice on other purchasers O. the
Pegler column that II they ever. for
any reason. wish 10 discontinue il.
they mus: expec; 10 be attacked and
misrepresented by Mr. Peg,er in
other newspapers.
We have spoken highly Of Mr..
Pegler IN the past We believed in
him. We were his co-sponsors. We
have repeatedly applauded his ex-
pCSures Of crooks ard racketeers.
II his judgment equa,led his cour-
age. he would be great news
paperman II was when he began
writing about things he obviously
didn't know about tha; we began
% lose confidence i. his judgment
The fault is common enough. A
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-20

hand. Naceo attained the FEAR
SomeNesS and grandeur of sodhead.
He Vas. naturally. handsome. stall
war: gay fellow Il heroic figure,
weighing some two hundred and
Ten pounds He wore a little beard
much Ike George vs.. and as ele-
gart ~ any 20 be seen on Paris
bcu.cvard, HIS odd passion for al
mos, TOO frequent bathing suggests
Genera, Nd.er,au1 Weyler Clutch
cr" VIEWER Whose chief del ght was
he bathroom IL Is 4 strange parallel
.ha, those two great opposing per-
sona,tjeS he Spanish marquis, and
the Negro -ebel whose brains were
deSateC q, human destruction pos
SeSSed bodies with a penchart for
re bath IN addition q Maceo's
bathing 5rdo-, his penchant for per-
fuVc and c,caD linen often amused
MS brother. General Jose Maceo.
The bath VAS his refuge from the
agjtatlous. vituperations. and hor-
rorS % the outside world Where
Lincoln read The Tempest" 10 calm
his mind Naceo took bath.
With an old-world civiii,y. some
ITcs intense. sometimes cold,
sometimes weary. Maceo listened
20 his visitors. apd agreed that war
was cruel. that all wars were cruel
in their very essence and practice.
His duty. however. he explained.
was 10 end the suffering Of the
present one. and abolish slavery -
quickly az possible by whate'A
strong means were necessary.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-20
(Reprinied from The New York Posil

(Reprinted from The New York Postl
The South
4 FTER READING some Southern politicians
hcommentS on the Supreme Court decision that
gives Negroes the ballot in Texas, would be
easy to picture the entire South as the abode of
crazy-eyed lyncherS and moronic uf-dlppers
with decent instincts or human scnslbilltlcS
1t would bc easy To do that-and harmful too
Nor would II bc fair. Having kicked the South
around economically for the last eighty years II I'll
bchooveS us while holding II down in the gutter
with one hand 10 use the other TO point the hneer
of SCorn
The South never had a chance in American life.
It's economic relationship To the rest Of the nation
was always cockcycd. And from there II is only
q step TO cockcyed race relationships. Remember
that in 1897 the average per capita income IN the
L. s was S604. But in the South II was S3l4 and
Negroes got even less
The South has become our India We extract
tons of raw materials from its rich forests, VIC
erode It's land for its cotton and tobacco Up to ten
years ago we maintained high tariff policy that
cut the South off from markets for its agl icultural
products while at the same time II forced the
South TO buy Northern manufactures at pluS-tarlf
prices
Remember that even the South's boom pros
perity is a sickly growth. Almost all the large
war plants are Northern owned branch factories.
How stable a society you erect on such
foundations? The South is frustrated land and
the Negro is its whipping boy.
Liberals of the South
What is to be done? The first step is to cncour-
age and work with the powerful individuals and
groups in the South who genuinely trying TO
help their section.
For every Rankin and Bilbo there is Ralph
McGill a VirGnus Dabney, Herbert Agar.
Frank Porter Graham, John Temple Graves
Jonathan Daniels Mark Ethridgc, Thomas J.
Hamilton Howard w Odum. These men
not lust n small collection of do coolers. All but
one is newspaper editor. publisher or writer and
their influence reaches into many homes,
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-20

paign fell only that far. As matter OF fact, II
dropped 10 new low levels. even for the South, by
dragging in Mrs. Roosevelt. In Alabama, q new
political sheet. published just for the election.
called the Alabama Sum- spread pictures of Mrs.
Roosevelt and Negroes all its front page, with
such headings as Eleanor with Niger Again,
or Eleanor and Her Black NigGcrs' This paper
was published by people who keep telling us they
are the superior and they only fitted TO
vote and run country
These are the people who must deal with Brazil.
- per cent Negroid. They must keep the peace
with Mexico. They must try 10 deal with the
Soviet Union a country whose constitution has
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-20
GOODBYE, MR.. PEGLER

man makes a success doing some
thing ne knows about The success
goes 10 his head. and presently he
begins expressing himself with
equal sureness on matters OF which
&c IS ignorant
l. the course o, he various cor
troversies in which he has engaged.
Mr.. Pegler has developed anti
pathies OF such violence that he
has allowed his feelings 20 over
come his reasoning powers. When
The disease becomes chronic, il is
serious
Take. for example. the Pegler
column today. Mr.. Pegler recalls
that The Daily News was formerly
opposed TO the New Deal. II he had
gone 10 the trouble Of informing
himself. he would know that The
Daily News is still opposed to the
New Deal.
He asserts tina. Col. Frank Knox.
publisher OF The Daily News on
leave OF absence as Secretary OF the
Navy. has surrendered" 10 the New
Deal. The Fact iS-and PeFler knows
it-that Knox answered the call 70
take charge OF our navy only after
long hesitation and searching Of
heart. as patriot, putting country
above pariisanship in time Of great
national peril
Ore Of Pegler's net antipathies
IS the newspaper PM published in
New York by Marshall Field Hat
ing PM. Pe0ler apparently thinks
The Daily News should have re-
fused 20 lease space in The Daily
News Building 20 Mr. Field for the
newspaper he proposed 10 start in
Chicago
The rent. somebody told Mr.
Pe7ler. is high. and without veri-
wing this, he ha~tens 20 proclaim
il b.: what would he have said II
somebody had told him the rent was
low" Would not that have made The
case look even worse. in the jaun-
diced Peg,erian eve
Mr. Pegler con- plains tina. when
he wrote. &c he sometimes did. in
blare OF NJ Field, and in nraise
~ NJ. Fields rival. Col R r
Mccormick. The Daily News
omitted his column. This = tree
! killed the columns myself did So
because I I'D rot think {. uro-er
for The Daily News - become in
vo,ved through Mr.. Peels-. in
morning newsNaner ficht. " re haI
written cre-SiIedlv IN rraise o.
Field ard in bla~'e ~ Mccormick
nv decision would have been the
Sa~-e
II corc,ud'n-. NJ. Pecler iasinu-
7teS that urier our contract with
him which runs into next Ncvem-
Der we ere preventing HIN from
cXr~eSSir- His views il Chicaro
dr"irg he pol..ics, caTuaisr TIE
'r>.nuatior is tvoical or VIII: We
have cNTe - q s,ike ard d!S.ruS'
u PeFler re knows. FOR he has
been 50 informed. that we shall
&c gl7d 20 release. the eolu-rr in
r'eii-te'T - any ether Chira-o
newspaper that cares 20 by /; l. lie
"hs N1rest. tCr:hr.rht. opcr-
minded tsl-v he 20 6oubt assumes
,i,'seH be, why I'D he 70: say
that
Gcod.Sy NJ Peg,er.