Evening star., 1945-05-21

arrive in the automatic dumb
waiter. Then you will 60 into
the bathroom and wash up. If
you stand in the right spot, an
automatic hot-air dryer will dry
you. At the present rate towels
are disappearing from hotel
rooms. there will be an acute
shortage of towels in the post
war era.
Then you keep your appoint
ment at the Octogon Building,
the Peace Labor Board or the
PQB, which Is the next step up
from the OPA. After a tiresome
day, you return to your hotel
room all tagged out. You take
a vitamin pill from the recep-
tacle in the wall, which peps you
up for the evening. Then you
sink down into a luxurious auto
matically-adjuSted chair and
press button 4X3K and through
the P. A. loudspeaker in your
room is read the columns of the
four dramatic critics from the
days newspapers. After listening
to these weird accounts of what's
going on in the theaters you are
SO confused that you decide to
spend the evening on the hotel
roof. Here you find a Cocoanut
Grove bathing pool and sandy
beach with refreshment bars in
the summer time, and an ice
carnival with Sonia Henie in
the wintertime. Over in the
corner of the roof is the landing
field of the heliocopters which
take off every three minutes for
all parts of the globe.
When you return to your room
you undress, and as you throw
your clothes on the floor ultra
violet rays will assemble them
and neatly pack them in a moth
proof closet. You adjust the
lever on the side Of your bed to
make your pillow and mattress
soft, medium or hard. AS you
lie your head on the pillow, the
soft strains of lullaby fill the
room and concealed moving
picture machine throws a pitcure
on the side of the wall of thor
oughbred sheep jumping over an
antique fence. All you have to
do Is to count the little sheep as
they clear the fence and you will
go fast to sleep.
In the morning you awake re-
freshed and happy, remove the
blackout shade from the tele-
vision machine, press the button
that brings in your Office SO that
you can see whether your secre-
tary comes in on time while you
are away-and new day starts.
Yes. indeed, Jay, there are
many wonderful things in store
for lis in the postwar era in the
hotel bushes, and all of you
dramatic critics who are Going
My Way will be ushered into a
very beautiful world where men
will be men and women will be
we'll satisfied with the arrange
ment.
I'll be seeing you.
CHARLES PERKINS.
Or like this one:
Dear Jay-Just got back to
town this morning and saw the
nice piece you did on May 6.
1t was perfect in every detail
save one: I. unfortunately, had
nothing to do with III Be See
ing You" The screenplay was
written by Marion Parsonnet
with a tremendous assist from
Dore Schary. God knows, wish
your statement had been right,
but in all fairness to Parsonnet
and in all effort to keep the
record straight, I was as far away
from its writing as you were.
If everything goes as beautifully
as it now looks. I'll be on the
screenplay of They Dream of
Home" with tremendous assist
from Dore.
We both had a wonderful time
that afternoon we spent with
you. Good talk. good jokes,
good you-know-what. good peo-
Pile. What else is there a guy
can ask for?
ALLEN RIVKIN.
Half of the total resources of tn,
United States are now being devotet
to waging war. Since Pearl Harbo
war expenditures have amounted
to about S20S, ,00O, ,000, 900. More Wa
Bond money is needed