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Show At The Main Sunday Recruits were being drawn from all sectors of the Warner lot. Jameg Carney was among the first to join up with the "69,th", and with him wera George Brent and Pat O Brien. Cagne.v is a private. Brent aad O'Brien, a colonel and a chaplain chap-lain respectively. War took its toll of the Four Wives' " husbands and the fact that they were the heads of families fam-ilies and fathers of children didn't save them from .the first draft. No sooner had the famed Lemp family settled down to a , happy ending under - the auspices aus-pices of Warner Bros. studio than the men of the clan were told to shoulder arms and report to "The Fighting 69th" regiment for active service. This is the action-packed film showing at Main, Sunday. PriscUla Lane watched her musician-husband, Jeffrey Lynn, pack his ki,t at the end of pro duction and report to Director James Keighley for training. Once in the army, he gave up music for poetry, to become the Joyce Kilmer in the revival of the adventures of New York's fiehtmr Irishmen. Frank McHugh soon followed, leaving his wife, Lola Lane, to keep the home fires burning while he joined his brothers-in law at the front. Gale Page could offer no protest pro-test when her spouse, Dick For an, also deserted the hearth to rally to the colors. Also conscripted was Harry O'Neill, the "Doctor Forrest" of "Four Wives." No, the Doctor did not report to the 69th as medical officer; he took over as the company's Major. Eddie Albert, who just managed man-aged to get himself engaged to Rosemary Lane, was not among those who enlisted. Instead, he was sent to apply for the job of varsity coach at his "alma mater," Virginia Military Institute, Insti-tute, in "Brother Rat and a Baby." I |