Evening star., 1947-03-30

want an EncyclOpaedla britannica,
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answer.
Perhaps your needs are less simple.
Maybe you want new convertible,
washing machine, a round trip
ticket for two to New York with
suite for a weekend at the Waldorf,
$1,000 silver fox coat, a house
trailer fully equipped for four,
Isl 900 diamond and ruby wrist
watch, home freezer (full of
frozen food, a gas range, console
radio-phonograph, 100 records for
same, a refrigerator, a billiard table,
furnace, a years fuel supply, a
144-piece china set, a years maid
service, a house-painting job Gn-
side and OUT, a portable typewriter,
an all-metal airplane, a weeks va
cation at Sun Valley with transpor-
tation both ways, $1,000 diamond
ring, vacuum cleaner and COM
plete wardrobe for every adult mem
ber Of your family.
To get all that, as you probably
already know, you would have had
merely to be old enough to remember
Clara Bow and be seated by the
right telephone at the right time
If the young are slipping away
from the pre-radio American stand
ards, it is no small wonder.
There are many people, who came
out of it without so much as
$4,000 all-metal airplane to repay
them for their trouble, who were
happy to see that Truth or Conse-
quences" publicity gag involving
Mrs. Hush finally end A number
of them people working in those
departments of newspapers con-
cerned with stage, screen and radio
They are the ones-not the radio
stations which started it ALTO
whom listeners turned when they
thought a hot clew was burning
somewhere.
The telephone setup a horrible
clatter. Work was something to be
postponed until an hour when Mrs.
Hush" detectives thought every one
else was home with his slippers on,
too. We know one man who de-
veloped distrust of radio that may
last him lifetime, merely because
a clew having to do with Shangri-
La apparently was tossed in some
where during the affair. His tele-
phone kept ringing.
Who played the feminine lead
in that pitcher 'Shangri-La?' "
some voice always wanted to konw.
DO you mean Lost Horizon'?" he
would ask, knowing full well the
callers meant Lost Horizon"
Yeah, that's the one. 1t was
about up in the mountains there
and they had an airplane wreck"
"Margo played the feminine
lead" the man we know would say.
Eat, who it was? Margo, huh?
What was her last name?"
She doesn't have any last name.
Her name is Margo. Just like
Garbo."
"D'you say Garbo was w'zinnit,
too?"
mo. I said her name is just
Margo. That's all. Margo."
j." sure wish you could remember
her last name. It's for this contest
and gotta know her last name :"
The conversation usually would
end at this point. Our friend kept
hoping, though, and futilely as it
turned out, that Mrs. Hush" would
be discovered to be Jane Wyatt, the
other who played one of the two
feminine leads in Lost Horizon"
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Program Note: The CHS Docu-
mentary Unit, which recently pre-
sented that excellent juvenile de-
linquency program, THE Eagles
Brood" will be inspecting another
phase of American life this week.
On Friday night it will turn over
an hour of commercial time, start
ing at 10 pm, to the presentation
of "a Long Life and a Merry One"
another report based on exhaustive
flrst-hand investigation" The in
vestigation this time looked into the
APPALLING contrast" between ad-
vances in medical science and in
adequacy of medical care for the
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