The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
AS Pegler Sees 1t
RY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1947, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)

BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, 1s47, by King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - The motion
picture industry tells us that 10 persons
have been discharged or otherwise ellml-
mated because they refused to swear to
committee of Congress that they were not
communists.
.wson Iardner. Biberman, Scott, Cole,
Bessie and Dmytryk. Some OF tnem are as
sunled names.
Enterprise Studios, of Hollywood, recent
ly released a film on an old theme, the
dry-splash of the vat-man IN puglnsn. "a
CHAMPION accepts the gamblers bribe to
take take a dive. A vat-man is known also as
tanker, a high-board man, or splash.
man. and the fuzzy camembert taste OF
these beloved old terms certifies that the
thing called zone of those things IS an
ancient institution.
| So the idea is not original.
The name of this picture is "Body and
Soul" The star is known as John Garfield.
Canada Lee is his opponent in the tlgnt
He is a Negro actor who used to tight IN
the ring around New York. Not bad. Since
he took to speaking recitatlons with ex,
something called social consciousness, a
common nalady of actors these days. His
name bobs up again and again in the COM
pany of other names often cited by the
Committee on un-American Activities.
The Daily Worker of New York raptur-
ously endorsed the movie and this natural
ly aroused my curiosity because The Work
er's raptures are reserved strictly for
works which it deems wholly n sistent
with its policies. 1t praises only persons
whom it has inspected and approved.
Canada Lees superb portrayal is one
of the best things about Enterprise Studios
Body and SOUL" The Daily Workers re-
view says
Enterprise Studios!
Wasn't that the address to which the 19
defiant and dashing Hollywood glamorites
referred all unpaid bills and mislaid per-
sonal property the time they came down
mittee's identification of communists in
Hollywood? There were Humphrey Bogart
and glamorous Baby Bacall, his wife, and
so-and-so and you-know-who and finally
that ferocious absentee from the bloody
war against the dirty Nazi, Danny Kaye
himself, the hero with that certain mental
latitude.
After they had signed tabs for several
days, back they swooped to the enchanting
land of make believe, but, as I say, notice
was given to the hotel people to send all
unpaid bills and forgotten diamonds to En-
terprise Studios, Hollywood, Calf. 1t SEEM
ed to be headquarters.
Just Enterprise Studios" and that's all?
Oh no. They were to be sent to David
Hopkins care Enterprise Studios. Why?
Why?well because that would be our own
little Davey, the son of the late Harry Ras-
putin Hopkins, the man who came to dinner
at the White House and remained as the
guest of the people of the US.A. for years
and years. Good old Harry Al Raschid who
used to keep toWn-tent in New York for
nights when he missed the owl to Long
Island where Davey's mother lived, and
finally got waived out of that indignant
ladys life in a gamey little divorce case
that somehow got forgotten.
David Hopkins was bound to succeed.
Back in those dear old new deal days
before the war; when Jimmy and Elliott
and Eleanor the Great and grandma and
Uncle Forbes Morgan were raking in mon
Iey on their many ingenious little pitches,
Eleanor got a season of broadcasts at ST.
loco a week for South American coffee
cartel. The South American countries put
up the money and the advertising account
was taken away from Arthur Kudner, of
New York, and given to the Buchanan
Agency. That was the prime condition.
The Buchanan outfit had to handle the
account, which pays the usual IS per cent
commission, in order to get Eleanor the
Great for the trained seal OF the act, be-
cause little Davey had job with Buchanan.
1t was to be a wonderful act. This coffee
trust got the Presidents wife and the bless
|
quite sure but battleship or two, tor
throwing this money to Eleanor and the
Buchanan outfit, and little David Hopkins.
Then the taxpayers of the United States
loaned the money to those Republicans.
So now he is with Enterprise Studios:
Hollywood, which produced Body and
Soul'' starring John Garfield, as he calls
himself, and Canada Lee, acclaimed by
The Daily Worker of New York not once
but twice.
knowledge is my weakness. sop it up.
The Committee on un-American Activities
says Garfield used to be Jacob Garfinkle,
also Jules Parents born in Russia. Made
speech at Los Angeles masss meeting aft
er Hitler double crossed pal Joey saying
that "since Russia has been invaded, we
have had chance to get some facts; 2oO
million people in Is years have merged
themselves into bulWark against
fascism."
Nothing about any bulwark against COM
munisnl. Nothing against communism at
all.
Gall those stories of the Russian terror
boil down to this" the speech went on.
"The story of ignorance has been iqul-
dated and the horror of poverty ellmlnat-
ed. Our job is not over when Hitler IS
eliminated The American people must
continue their relation with the Russian
people,
Neat trick, through the iron curtain.
| Much more data on Jake. Strong, stccky,
robust, athletic, only % on Pearl Harbor
day. Record may be incomplete but no
mention of any personal bombing OF Ber-
I'm, although there is reference to, one