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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15
Resorts Inflated
By FREDERICK C. oTHMAN

Washington. July 15-tUP)4-So you're about 10 take pour vacation. My only suggestion Is that you first float a loan on your house.
 The Accent hamburger is upon up. So Is the room for two at the seatshare at S20 night, including what the burglar-proprietor calls meals" and won't forget the quot es. The cost of a sunburned back this Summer is fantastic. I know. My backs just beginning to peel. My bank account is no more,
 The vacation of the Othmans in New England was educational. The air was free and the woods smelled like pine tar soap, but the tourists camps said, no vacancies, while the hotel clerk in Pittsfeld, Mass, pulled new one.
 He said If ye wanted to spend the night in his place, we'd have to take suite. Suites cost twice as much as rooms, but was that. or sleep in the gutter. At Lake Mercy in Vermont. we were in luck. Here the price was touch) $22 a night, but the food was tip top, the Serv- ice was first class. ana I could jump in the lake whenever I got to think ing about my bill.
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 We took a look at Boston, where room without meadS or daylight, either Git was on an airshaft. was S860. We put up fight and the management gave us a room with an outside window. This cost Sl0. The coffee shop of this same hotel one warm evening Socked us 45 cents each, plus tip for two small dishes of Strawberry ice cream. My bride said it was good ice cream. I glanced first, unfortunately, at the check. SaWduSt was the flavor in my mouth
 Wherever we went We found printed menu prices crossed out and the 50 cent cottage cheese salad penciled up to 65 cents It was on Cape Cod that we encountered the 40 cent hamburger. Here also we did business with the burglar run ing the hotel. He needed no gum, he was doing fine with a fountain pen.
 The ell-established hotels smil- ed at us pityingly. You poor devils, they said thinking you could find a place to stay without reservations made last winter We wound up at a shingled barracks erected in 1904 and closed for the last 10 years. The burglar had reopened it this Summer for the likes of us.
 Still Enjoyed Beauty
 It would have made a wonderful setting for a murder mystery. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15
CHOICE MORSEL
It Says Here
= By BOB HOPE
SUMMER VACATIONS

Now that the war is over and all travel restrictions lifted, Amer jeans are once again hitting the highways on a scale indicating the biggest vacation boom in history. There's nothing like discovering your own country the rivers, the mountains, the grandeur of the sun setting behind a billboard YeSsir, travel broadens one And I've got the girdle to prove it.
 The national parks expect peak year this season and it seems everyone is heading west. When I was in Cleveland, people used to tell me, Go West, youn man.. The rent wasn't paid, so I did. But what I'd like to know is where do the young women go?
 The best advice I could give you travellers is to make sure your car is in good mechanical condition before venturing on long jour- ney. I'm an experienced traveller, but I've had some unfortunate ex- periences, myself, due to negli- gence. One time my car broke down in Arizona and I had to go the rest of the way by mule. :. l sure got my kicks on route No. 66!''
 So, if you're planning to travel the highways and byways of this beautiful country of ours this summer, be sure to let me know and I'll give you some helpful hints Besides, I could use your apartment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15
Planning Your Vacation? Take AM Your Sauings!

rooms were mustY. the beds were hard, the string beans came from cans and the meat mostly was cod fish cakes Those consisted utmost entirely of mashed potatoes.
 New England. even so, was heau- tiful and We enjoyed it. If prices ever return to normal, we'll give it another chance. Only we're fenrful the folks by then will have chopped down all their trees.
 We crossed Vermont and New Hampshire and a corner of Maine and behind every third barn, it seemed like, was sawmill turning trees into blanks If all the lumber now piled up New England reaches Wilson Wyatt, his housing shortage will be no more.
 Considerable construction was go- ing on. At York Beach, Me. a new roller skating rink was nearly fin- ished. All over the countryside tourist courts were going up. Sc were new garages and filling sta tions and hot dog stands.
 We even saw a few houses being built.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15

business this picture making!" he said. "All day yesterday, did fight scenes and it took at least a dozen takes to satisfy the director. Today I get my one chance to kiss Julie London, and he says okay after one takeI'
 Speaking of multiple takes" in movie-making, I'm reminded of a problem that arose the other af- tenoon at United Artists, when a scene for "The Chase" required a steaming tea kettle. Dry ice and half-dozen different vapor-produc- ing chemicals were tried, but direct or Arthur Ripley objected, in each case, that the steam didn't look natural. An electrician finally sug- gested that they try boiling water in the kettle. The illusion" was perfect!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15

furies of the harem, the breathtak- ing spectacle of a people Wh0 re- vealed in pageantry, and shocking barbarism that ran parallel in strange paradox with an age-old culture of wisdom and beauty. And woven in brilliant relief through this exotic background, the story of Anna herself, who brought her Western beauty, fiery courage and keen wit to win a triumph no woman ever knew before.
 From the beginning zanuch along with the producer and director, as well as thousands of movie-goers, could picture only Irene Dunne as Anna. Production was delayed three months so that she could play the role More glamorous than ever, and looking like a valentine in her crim- olines and 1860 vintage bonnets, Miss Dunne, welcoming 8 change from the comedy roles she has been playing, brings Anna to the screen in her first historical role in 10 years. Rex Harrison does a marvel ous job as the king, and Lindel Darnell as his voluptuous favorite wife.
 Also on the same program is the mystery thriller The Strange Fri angle" with Signe HasSo and Pres ton Foster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15

A few minutes ago my telephone rang and I picked up the receiver to hear an excited hello" from Ford. T have a story for you" he announced, and know it's news because I once took a course in journalism. Yesterday We bought puppy to play with Peter Newton (the Ford offspring is now a year and 8 half oldD and the first thing Peter did was to bite the dogs tail!" If I remember MY journalism cor rectly. the classical illustration of a news story was the one about MAN biting dog, but Ford's one of the proudest papas in town, so all loWances seem in order.
 People who bother to read the movie ads could have been pardon ed, as they conned those current, for asking what price Hollywood fame?" The second attraction" at the Hollywood Paramount is Don't Be A Sucker" starring Paul Lucas,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15
Use Atomic Bomb to Halt Soviet Imperialistic Crimes Bullitt

chance of permanent peace with Russia.
 Our Interest to Stop Aggressors
 At some point" he said, we shall have to stop Soviet imperialism or submit to Stalin's rule. We can not get off this planet. It is in our na- tional interest to stop further az gresSions by Stalin while his forces are still far from our shores and we have in our hands the means to stop him."
 He expressed the opinion that there is no mystery in Soviet for eign policy"
 The aim of Soviet foreign policy is constant he said, to establish Communist dictatorship throughout the earth . that is why Stalin is unappeasable,'
 Built blamed the late President for what he called Rus siaiS persistence in aggression, claim ing that Generalissimo Stalin would have agreed to a hands-off- Europe in 194l in return for Lend-Lease if the U ntide tStaesh, IA ahrosesSl the United States had insisted on it.
 Has Quotation on Hand
 He based his conclusion on Rus sia s basic intentions of conquering teh world primarily on published statements of Nikolai Lenin and Stalin particularly quotations from a work of Lenin written in 1920 and called The infantile sickness of left Communism"
 is but one nation that we do may some day use the atom, comb against us, Bullitt said. We fear the Soviet Union.
 Bullitt charged that "Stalin'S S record as a breaker of solemn in- agreements and treaties
 approaches that of Hitler himself and submitted a detailed list of 28 treaty violations which he alleged had been committed by the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15

all three plays had but brief runs on Broadway. After a season at the Red Barn Theater in Westboro, Mass, he was hired as a replacement in the Broadway production of Men in Shadow, but the play closed be- fore Tom joined the company. It was in 1943 that his luck turned. He won the juvenile lead in Jamie, , and played on Broadway for six months. M-G-M saw screen pos abilities in him and signed him for a long-term contract.
 When he reached Hollywood things began to happen fast. He arrived on a Monday, was tested for a fea- tured role in TWO Girls and a Sail or, on Tuesday and on Wednesday Producer Joseph Pasternak gave him the role.
 A few days later he was also as signed the important part of the young American soldier in The White Cliffs of Dover" with Irene Dunne, and his first few weeks be- fore the M-G-M cameras found him shutting back and fourth between stages and roles. In that same time he also had to become accustomed to new name, for before arrival in Hollywood Tom Drake had always been known by his real name, Al fred Alderdice.
 Six feet tall, with blonde hair and brown eyes. Tom Drake likes music and reading, is an expert swimmer and horseman. His great interest other than acting, is raising Great Dasce dogs.
 The companion feature is Fred die Steps Out" with June Preisser and the teen agers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15

New York, July l5.-(UP)-Wil- liam c. Bullitt, former American Ambassador to Russia, said today that the United States should mot hesitate to use the atomic bomb t o stop new crimes of Saviet imperal- ism.
 Bullitt made the recommendation in a new book, The Great Globe Itself" published today and devoted to bitter attack upon Soviet na- btional and international policy in which he charged that the only totalitarian imperialism which threatens war in the world today is the Soviet Union.
 Bullitt who was Americas first ambassador to Russian upon the restoration of diplomatic relations in 1883 and who observed the Bol- shevik revolution Sympathetically in 1917 and 1917 in Moscow charged that RuSsia's goal was conquest of the world for Communism.
 U. s. More Powerful
 He said that with possession ot the atom bomb and the present American airforee of overwhelming strength the United States is far stronger than Russia and could de- stroy 1t.
 While declaring that We should not hesitate to use the atomic bomb to stop new crimes of Soviet imper- talism," Bullitt added, let us re- feet with absolute finality the idea that we should attack the Soviet Union.
 "To execute a murderer is not an immoral act" Bullitt said. And the more certain the Soviet government is that We shall use the atomic bomb against it is it continues it's career of aggression, the more like ly the Soviet government will be to refrain from aggreSsion-at least until it has the atomic bomb.
 BuIlitt was peSSimiStic as to any
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15

the same actor who two years ago won an Academy Award for his performance in Watch On The Rhine" and who was acclaimed, with all the ballyhoo attending such events, as one of the greatest screen artists of all time. The theater add lists his as John Lucas
 One last love scene-and the only one in which a kiss is exchanged was being filmed on the No Tres passing" set. Rory Calhoun and Julie London Gas delectable a dish as these beauty-loving eyes have beheld in many day) were stand ing hand in hand beside a babb- ling brook At the directors signal, their lips met in a lingering smack. That's it-print it!" beamed the director. Calhoun turned to be with a disgusted grimace. "A hell of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15

Soviet. He said the Germans had violated only 26 treaties.
 Built charged that the KNVD the Soviet internal police, installed recording devices in the bedroom of Ambassador Joseph E. Davies at the American Embassy in Moscow and that it keeps searchlight playing on the resident of the American consul in Vladivostok. He called the consulate in Vladivostok a tiny diplomatic ghetto
 10,000,000 in Forced Labor
 Bulltit estimated that the NKVD has under forced labor in Russia some 10,000,000 persons. He did not cite the source of his estimate al- though no figures on NKVD forced labor employment have ever been published in Russia.
 He estimated the present popula- tion of Russia at TO 100000 eX- elusive of areas acquired since 1889 and quoted estimates that Soviet population might reach 251, ,4000 900 by 1870. By 1855, he said, Russia should have nearly 37,000,000 men of military age while Britain and France together muster only 13,- 100000.
 In addition. Bullitt said, if Rus sia consolidates its position in Eu- ropean and Asiatic satellites it will exercise control over a total of some 418,000,OOo to 44O,00o,00O people.
 Bullitt offered no estimate of population losses suffered by Rus sia during the war.
 AS a program short of atomic bombing of Russia, Bullitt suggest ed that the United States organize a defensive league including the western hemisphere, the British Empire, China and the western states of Europe. This league, he advocated, should try to win the adherence of areas now within the Soviet sphere.
 This, he concluded, lis a patch of people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15

Idol Chatter: Wonder if there's a significance in the fact that John Loder frequently refers to Hedy La marr as Her Majesty? :. Odd formation: The first speech ever recorded on film was made by Will Hays, and the first word in the speech was no" If Marlene Dietrich is ever forced into a back seat, it's odds-on that she'll sit with her legs crossed .. Ode to mayhem: "The trouble with you MT. Hope, is that you have one crack mind!" Truthfully, now, did you ever meet a real-life girl like the characters Veronica Lake plays on the screen? -. Terse des- cription of Howard da Silvas screen personality: Tall, dark and rancid, With her publicity build-up, it strikes me that Jane Russell will find her future screen career quite an undertaking. . Peas-in-a-pod: Priscilla Lane and Bonita Gran vile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15
JIM M HE FIDLER M HoHy1uood

HOLLYWOOD, July 15-Driving

HOLLYWOOD, July 15-Driving to work the other ayem, I gave a lift to a past-middle- age extra. Flows it going?" I asked him, and heard the usual tale of woe told by Hollywood extras. Paid a satis- factory wage when he works. he works so seldom that his annual wage is barely sufficient to keep body and soul together. Judging him man of better than the ave- rage intelligence, I couldn't help wondering why he sticks to so chan cy a profession.
 Arriving at my office, I received a phone call from a friend who works for International Produc- tions, who informed me that his company had just given Billy House a long-term, big-money contract. And when I tell you about Billy House, you'll see that his story answers by curiosity about the ex- tra.
 House, also, is past middle-age. He ran away from home when he was II to join a carnival. He did odd jobs with circuses and medi- cine shows, worked as a professional clown at county fairs, played the vaudeville circuits-and after half a lifetime of brief ups" and long downs ended up as most itinerant actors now end up-a Hollywood bit player and extra, broke, but still full of fight.
 About eight months ago Lady
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15

Luck threw a nod in his direction and he landed, unexpectedly, a comedy relief role of considerable importance in the Orson Welles picture, "The Stranger" Overnight, he clicked; overnight other studios began to bid for his services. Today, with seven-year contract and a salary bank president, might envy, he's headed for easy street.
 Can you blame the extra who sees Billy House skyrocket to the top-just as Marie Dressler, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan and dozens of other veterans skyrocket- ed to the top before him-for want ing to hang on in the hope of a ''break?"
Evening star., 1946-12-01

BY writing in the form of a full
MIN treatment-a photodramatic
idea replete with dialogue--Mr.
Shute has succeeded in recount
ing the shining adventure of Left
Ericsson and the discovery of
America with greater vigor and
freshness than this reader has
experienced in all his history
learning days, either in or out of
school. Those who have wondered
how a movie is conceived will get
a good idea of it here.
AS this saga unwinds, one is
compelled to dismiss the raging
issue that it is impossible for
creative art to be historically ac-
curate and to retain at the same
time fun dramatic values. AS
matter of fact, Mr.. Shute's story
OF Left would be much the less
entertaining had he deviated
from the legendary facts on
which he impressed me as hav-
ing spent considerable research
and attention.
"Vinland the Good" Geif the
Lucky's name for America) will
leave pleasant afterthoughts for
every American who clings to the
phrase America the Beautiful. 1t
may even impress those who do
motif they are fortunate enough
to read it.
Come and stand with Left and
Evening star., 1946-12-01
ChiIdren's S Books
Continued From Page g.

Christmas books is a fare of nom
sense and magic.
In Freddy the Pied Piper"
Walter Brooks clever pig busies
himself earning money to help
the animals.of an abandoned cir
Gus. They have been turned out
to forage for themselves and find
"this wild, free life isn't all it's
cracked up to be-"
The ssagebrush and cactus of
the American desert Is far from
the Bay of Fundy, home of Nip
and Tuck. Nevertheless in "Mr.
Nip and MIR. Tuck in the Air" it
Is here Caroline Emerson lands
them after certain parachuting
experiences. Tuck is the resource
full one.
Glenn Blough's Snick is re-
sourceful too-and mischievous.
In Monkey With Notion" Snick
gets the pet shop in a state and
Miss Peasley all confused, thing
she doesn't like.
Harriet of Charles McKinley's
Harriet" would never be mis-
chievous. She is the engaging
horse who delivers parcels for
Mr.. Sedgerow, Ltd. How she en-
joys beautiful hats!
Quite a different horse is
Michael Joseph of Eileen OFao-
lain's Miss Pennyfeather and the
Pooka." He gallops after fairy
horns and has to be rescued by
mortals, for he is held captive by
the White Knight and trained
relentlessly for Queen Cliona's
races.
The magic wand which the chill.
dren buy in Maurice Dolbier.
Magic Shop" does the most amaz.
ing things. The shop itself is sur.
prising with Puck, laughing ant
peering over the edge of a rus
floating high above their heads.
The magic of T. H. Whites Mis-
tress Masham's Repose" lies in it.
power to take possession of the
reader. Its charm is for any age
that delights in Pamela Traver'.
Mary Poppins," j. r. r. Tolkiens
"Hobbit," w. w. Tarn's Treasure
of the Isle of Mist" or Thackeray'.
Rose in the Ring" The bespecta.
cled 10-year-old would pirate, it:
heroine, is convincingly drawn.
Evening star., 1946-12-01

his first mate" Tyrker, who,
through the preceding suspense,
have just stepped ashore on the
American continent. You over
hear Left say thoughtfully:
THE happyland-I heard once
of the happyland which some
men call Hy Breasil. No thief,
no robber, and no enemy pursues
one there; there Is no violence
and no winter snow. In that
place it is always spring. No
flower or lily is wanting, no rose
or violet but you will find them
there. There apple trees bear
flowers and fruit on the same
branch, all the year round.
There young men live in quiet
happiness with their girls; there
is no old age and no sickness and
no sorrow there. All is full of
Joy"
Tyrker says: Lord, do you
think that this place is Hy
Breasil?"
And Left again speaks: II don't
know. I know only this; 1t is SO
beautiful that it might well be we
have found the happyland. ="
have felt bound to let Mr..
Shute do some talking for him.
self, and there it is.
Be sure to read ''Vinland the
Good" and hope that some day
you shall see it on the screen.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Humor
Continued From Page 100

misspelled the name of Professor
Earnest Hooton-but I let it ride
through a dozen editions. DIR.
Hooton himself never complained.
suppose people are still writing
me about Hooton-but nowadays
I wouldn't know.
Every author likes a good word
from his constituency. Some, in
cluding myself, even enjoy
knock-down argument with critics
If they have the time for it. But
nobody likes to have around his
head a cloud of mosquitoes off,
ciously bent on trampling him to
death.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
France
Continued From Page I'D

that in its general effect Russian
literature has been disappoint-
ing The French people did not
find among the Soviet writer's
those stimulating qualities which
in their eyes have made the
greatness of Tolstoy and Dosto-
evsky.
In France the writer's of other
countries are translated less, al
though as matter of fact there
are hardly any foreign languages
from which one or two books are
not offered each year. The re-
markable fact since the Liberia
ton is the absence of a similar
exchange with England. The
American book has taken the
place which the British book pre-
viously held in France. An essay
by Aldous Huxley has recently
been published without a great
response. 1t has been the same
with the last novel by Charles
Morgan, The Voyage" which did
not find the large public of
"Sparkenbroke" and THE Foun-
tain" On the other hand, the
play by the same author, 1.-The
Flashing Stream" enjoyed a good
run in the theaters where 1t was
presented.
Furthermore, during a period
of spiritual and material recon-
struction like the one in which
we are living, the preoccupations
of a literary nature cannot be
isolated, without running the
risk of sterility, from the pre-
occupations Of social and phllo-
sophical nature. In the same
way that the intellectual year OF
1S45 has been stamped by great
dispute about existentialism, the
year 1916 has experienced the
rise of an important question,
that of the responsibility of the
writer.
Concerning this question,
French writer's have formed
groups with two tendencies. but
the one prevalent at this time,
with regard to the number and
the quality of it's supporters, Is
that in behalf of liberty.
While recognizing that the
artist shares the vicissitudes OF
his time, and ought not to be
without interest in the society in
which he lives, the writer's have
indicated clearly that they do
not intend to subordinate their
work to any state doctrine nor
to any pressure which is imposed.
The freedom of art is the es-
sential for it's existence.
From all this may be cleaned
an impression of vitality which Is
a better omen for the literary fu-
ture of France. A few gloomy
novels, inspired by similar Amer
lean fiction, a few works of de-
spair (many OF. which are the
result of fashion,, will not pre-
vail against the potential of
energy which is apparent in the
last generation. 1t is sympto-
matte that one of the most re-
spected leaders of the younger
literary groups, Albert Camus, in
founding a book series with the
view of examining the modern
world as distant from the opti-
nism as from the pessimism of
the foregoing, has chosen as its
title: Hope" (Espoir).
Evening star., 1946-12-01
For Homemokers

A HANDBOOK OF POPULAR
ANTIQUES, by Katharine Nor
rison McClinton. OR an d pm
House; $295) A most helpful
book on how to collect. Wen
illustrated.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
New Book Reviews
Continued From Page 17)
Pleasant Afterthoughts for Every One
Who Loves America the Beautiful
VINLAND THE GOOD
By NeUil Shute

By Neoa Shute. (Wiuam MarroaD G. Co.; $250.J
Reviewed by HOWARD L. WALLS
CURATOR Motion Picture DiUision Library of Congress-