Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-01-12
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for overseas he was the only enter
tainer invited to perform before all
chiefs of staff in Washington. Gen.
Hap Arnold threw it. Tony
Martin, the screen star thrush, is
now a staff sgt. with the Army in
France. Eileen Barton, ST.
natra's new canary (and so easy on
the ears, too), is making beautiful
melodies with an up-and-coming
swoon-singer named Tad Bruce.
Radio reports 400 million
dollar take" for 1914. Highest in
come in radio history. Wendell
Corey Che plays the lead opposite
star Gertrude Lawrence in her new
touring show had tiny part as
sergeant in Follow the Girls"
Wonderful little Margaret O'Brien is
waiting permish from her movie
boss to do her own radio program.
Heading a panel of quiz kidlets. :.
According to an OPA bulletin there
are 80 billion cigarettes in stores in
the U. S. right now.
The Intelligentsia: John B. Ken
needy is one of the few news analysts
who can take the teletype's prosaic
reports and turn them into words
that march like armies. He steam
rollered American bigots and left
them flatter than their heads.
CHS reporter Bill Downs def de-
scription of captured Nazis: "They
have the look of men caught steal
ing" Criticism over the film,
"The 7th Cross" (alleging it por-
trayed good" Germans), astonished
author Helen Deutsch, who points
out that the action in it takes place
in 1886 when the underground Ger
mans were trying to purge the ma
ton of the wicked, etc. The good
Germans, she adds, included the
Manns, Einsteins and other refu-
gees. Pert Lee Carson, the
ms girl correspondent covering the
war in Europe, inherited the spot
vacated by the ailing Richard Ire
casks. She's with the LIST Army.
Richard was invaded home after
more years of war than most men
would care to have any part of.
Irving Berlin, his own music pub
Usher since Sept. 18th, has already
sold 100000 copies of two songs:
"White Christmas and always"
The latter is 10 years old.
Quotation Workmanship: H. G.
Wells: Moral indignation is jealousy
with halo. . Anon: Snow slowly
laundering the countryside.
The quote recently credited to H.
Broun, Experience is what men
call their mistakes" should have
been credited to o. Wilde. Then we
are informed that Musset once
penned: Experience is the name
men give to their follies or their
SORROWS" Alan Gale: Was it
the Atlantic Charter or just so much
Atlantic chatter? Bob Burns
advice to after-dinner speakers:
Stand up to be seen, speak up to be
heard and shut up to be appreciat-
ed! Eggleston: Journalism is
organized gossip.
The Wireless: We liked the re-
union with Roy Shields show. This
listener hasn't had an opportunity
to enjoy it for some time. 1t re-
mains A-onederful, displaying silky
music trimmed with literary lace
continuity. Ethel Barrymore's
regular spot on the dial proves "a
dio drama has emerged from the
knee-pants stage, despite soft soap
operas. Amazing how ordinary dia-
logue glitters when it comes in con-
tact with Ethel's magical voice. .
Within three hours ore station stabs
the air with Is singing commercial
smellodies. One dose of that and
you turn into Marconi's sworn enc
my. Wheezes about shortages
skidded into deserved oblivion re-
Gently, but the ciggie shortage
spoiled it. If you recall the cracks
about sugar, coffee, meat, ct all,
you know all the cigagS.
The Story Tellers: For those
wrapped in the illusion that fame
comes on a silver platter, Pic mag
traces careers of various celebs and
proves no one climbs the ladder of
success without picking up splinters.
In the Atlantic Monthly, W.
Lippmann examines the stumbling
blocks that might become tomb
stones for the postwar world. You
don't have to wait for tomorrow's
events to confirm his warnings-just
read today's front pages. Ira
Wolfert turns in vivid job of trans
lating soldiers emotions with his
typewriter via Esquire. A CTS long
ing for home is something so great
sit takes the mind up as with teeth
and shakes it and bangs it and
rakes it with aching" . Drew
Pearson gets as much out of tea
leaves as Aladdin got from his lamp.
His forecast in Cosmopolitan of AL
lied diplomatic troubles in l945 has
already come true.
The Magic Lanterns: A cinematic
B-29, Winged Victory" is looming