The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-02-27

Washington Beyond
Scope of Motion
Picture Industry
By HELEN EssARY

/ met a big movie magnate in
New York the other day. His
name was Joe Pasternak. People
say Pasternak Is one Of the smart
est, II not the very smartest, pro-
Queer In Hollywood very genius
OF a fellow.
We were having cocktails with
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Boomer In
their Waldorf Tower apartment
when met Pasternak. Elsa Max
well was at the little party. So
was young Mrs. Pasternak who Is
pretty enough 10 eat. She has big
blue eyes, soft black hair. exquisite
cameo features and a perfect size
II figure.
We were talking about Wash
ington. | inquired boldly: why
doesn't Hollywood do good movie
about Washington? There hasn't
been a good one yet. Not one that
gave the feel Of the town. Why
don't you undertake TO get the real
Washington on the screen?
"And wouldn't | like to-" said
Pasternak, enthusiastically. But
how can you give anything but a
part OF Washington? The place Is
too overwhelming II you take II as
a whole.
There are also some not too
pleasant undercurrents round
about. The public doesn't want to
be bothered with those undercur-
rents. Besides, II shouldn't be
given a wrong feeling about Its
capital. II wants to idealire its
public men.
at isn't our Job to debunk Wash
ington. | don't think there is much
10 debunk. believe only the best
OF our government. It's so much
better than all the other countries
of the world put together that
IL" Pasternak was about to go
sentimental and put native-born
hyprocritical Washingtonian TO
shame.
when think Of the chance this
country has given mo and millions
like me who haze come here to
make a living, why there aren't
enough words to tell my gratitude"
he added.
PUTTING WASHINGTON ON
THE SCREEN or on paper IL in
deed a battling Job for the expert or
the novice. My old friend. Olive
Clapper, has done mighty well with
her new book, Washington Tapes
try, in giving a picture Of the
capital and the people who make
its intricate wheels click or jam.
Washington Tapestry" is a col
lection OF anecdotes and incidents
recorded and remembered by Mrs.
Clapper and her late husband. Ray
mond Clapper, the journalist and
commentator. II Is a sort OF run
ming story of the Washington scene
from the days of Woodrow Wilson
through the Coolidge, Harding,
Hoover and Roosevelt eras.
II takes America into and out OF
World Wars l and II through the
struggles Of labor and capital. 1t
introduces to its readers the lus-
trous Madame Chang Kai-shek, the
redoubtable Winston Churchill and
the great enigma. Joseph Stain.
WISH HAD BEEN IN WASH
NGTON for that Ickes press con-
ference, when he told the world
at large and the President In par
ticular what he thought. Talked
TO Lyle Wilson on the train about
Ickes. Lyle said there never had
been such a day in Washington as
the Ickes resignation day.
Wilson said, speaking OF ex-
planning the capital to the people
who don't live here, You simply
couldn't do the Truman-Ickes row
justice. II was beyond description.
| wouldn't have missed II for O
lifetime OF everyday living"
OF course there is no place Ike
Washington. No place In which
there are such shows, such explo-
sions OF personality.
A CORRESPONDENT. L. S.
JOHNSON, writes: III you will
permit me to say so, I am getting
fed up the way you writers talk
about Communism. Certainly I'm
against Communism. But don't
expect to win any converts TO my
cause simply by saying over and
over again, Communism Is ter
rible. Communism will destroy
the world
an order to convince people
you've got to prove your case.
Why does not It ever occur 10 you
and your kind that the way TO stop
Communism is TO show the evils
II has brought about and to fore.
cast the greater evils II will cause