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ater section of any New York pa- per and you'll find out. The titles of the current shows look as if they were lifted from the catalog of your Base Library book collectioni
 Take "Life With Father" Chicken Every Sunday" and cone Touch of Venus" they're all on your library shelves! As for the movies-Well, see for yourself!
 Radio City Music Hall is featur- ing Irene Dunne in "The White Cliffs of Dover" the cinematic equivalent of the late Alice Duer Miller's best-selling poem of that title It's a double feature at the Base Library all the time, for there it is available not only in book form but on records, narrated by Lynn Fontanne, the celebrated act ress!
 At the Rivoli is "The Story of Dr. Wassell," starring Gary Coop CT. James Hilton and Cecil De Mile recognized real drama when they heard about this man during a broadcast by President Roosevelt in 1942. The former made a best-sell- CT book, the latter four-star pie ture out of this episode from the war in the Far East.
 Emblazoned in lights and pack ing them in to capacity audiences at the Astor, is "See Here, Private Hargrove," which has been run- ming at the theater for the past fourteen weeks. At the Normandie, "The Lodger" sends chills down the spines of the most sophisticated New Workers. Warner Brothers present, at the Plaza, Humphrey Bogart as Matrac, the outcast, in Passage to Marceille" (original title, "Men Without Country') by the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty"
 All of these are successful films made from books which are in your Base Library. Don't miss the movie because you've read the book, nor miss the. book because you've seen the movie. You'll be surprised sometimes at what Hollywood puts in, or leaves out. Authors don't have to please the Hays office!
 For instance, you'll want to read Christmas Holiday" by W. Som- erset Vaughan which has just been released by Universal; for, as Sil- yer Screens previewer says, "For the benefit of Vaughan addicts I'll warn you that either for the Hays office or Miss Durbin's public the story has had it's innards removed and emerges as prosaic love story" If that doesn't send you romping to the Base Library for the unexpurgated edition, nothing will! "-.- ..:.
 "On the fire" at MGM are two pie lures based on best-sellers of last year. The first is "Meet Me in St. Louis," starring Judy Garland, the second "The Seventh Cross," with Spencer Tracy. "Meet Me in St. Louis" was written by Sally Benson and the scene is laid in St. Louis around 1903. If you've been thinking all these years that those were the good old days when nice girls didn't go in for parlor sports, this just shows to go you! "The Seventh Cross," by Anna Seghers, is gripping story bound to make one of those "super-epic, terrific, vivid" dramas dear to the hearts of Hollywood producers.
 Lana Turner is due for a come back in Marriage Is Private Af- fair" Gail Russell of "The Unin- vited" is featured in a new picture based on "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay."
 Have we convinced you that GOOD MOVIES ARE MADE FROM GOOD BOOKS?
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 For Pvt. Taylor, Ordnance: Flower Arrangement, by Rockwell