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Show It Seems Someone IFas Being Politely Snubbed rSTffGESCnEENRADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE a line of dialogue By PaulMalion for InternationReleased by Western Newspaper Union. als The Stranger, where Lorto confides Orson ADVOCATES SCHOOL AND etta Young Welles that shes a victim of GUARD TRAINING PLAN WASHINGTON. The papers y acrophobia. That word threw what reported cast the but Welles. in said congressmen everyone about Mr. Trumans youth draft Its a fear of high places, said ilan, but more important was what he. I know because I used to was not said. THERES it myself. I cured myself by mountain climbing in the Alps; picked out the sheerest drops I could find and stared over th'e edge. But for "The Stranger they built the highest set ever erected in Hollyhave wood, a church spire; 13-sto- ry Ed- G. Robinson, Loretta and Welles do a dramatic scene part way up it. And who was it who had an attack of acrophobia? Why Orson Welles! ward r appears in Robert Benchley Holly- Victory Caravan, the featurette sponsored by the war activities committee, Hollywood div-wood all-st- s ' s ar 4 ROBERT BENCHLEY acting for the U. S. treasury department, for the Victory Loan drive. Benchley appears with a stellar cast of 20 other notables, in the ision, screen World. Penny Singleton was sort of worried about her role in Young Widow; after seven years of playing the comic-stri- p Blondie on the screen her contract with Columbia Pictures calls for her to do three "Blondie pictures a year she was afraid shed suddenly go cavorting around the way she does as "Dag-woo- ds spouse. Theres a screwball comedienne in Young Widow, but Marie Wilson plays her. Penny had wanted to play a different role, and Hunt Stromberg, who brought her to the screen eight years ago in After the Thin Man, gave her what she wanted; she plays a perfectly normal person, the wise, understanding friend of the heroine, Jane Russell. Boris Karloff has been estab-shin- g a broadcasting record since 3 left Hollywood following comple-o- n of his role in RKOs Bedlam. ine programs in sixteen days, three appearances on In-- tr in-udi- ng have kept him busy. Sanctum movie Sitting through a Jap-mais the last word in agony, according to Tom Neal, who plays the title role in First Yank into de Neal, cast as an American serviceman who undergoes facial surgery, so that he can pretend to be a Jap sergeant, for intelligence purposes,' had to sit through Kimona 21 times, studying the performance of the Japanese star of the picture. Tokyo. Constance Moore, Gloria Dean Hollywood Mystery Time, has on a daughter, Gina, whos pretty smart. Connie was telling a friend she was sans cook and sans nurse. Gina looked up and inquired Are they related to Sans four-year-o- ld Claus? - Theres a lot of kidding In the script of the Burns and Allen show about Georges singing voice. What ery. few people know, is that Gracies long-sufferi- ng spouse actual-i- began his theatrical career as one f The PeeWee Quartet, at the ase of 12. Howard Barlow Fs has no piano in Harvest of Stars orchestra; Instead, beautiful Elaine Vito plays me harp. Motion picture companies tempt her to try her mck on the screen, but she prefers ew York, where she plays in Toscanini's orchestra. She is also play-m- g in Alex Stordahls, while Frank Uiatra is broadcasting from New xrk. So why bother with Hollywood? uave tried to Arturo Toscanini was strolling along a street one day when a woman rushed up to him breathlessly and cried: Maestro, would you add your name to my autograph album? Mine? asked the conductor, looking flattered and incredulous. You are . . . you are ASK MG 71 I Tos- atmatm ! quiz with answers offering information on various subjects ?? ? For how long are federal judges appointed? 7. Anahuac is an ancient name or 1. Has the definition light for what country? do to cruiser anything heavy with its size or tonnage? 77ie Answers 2. A person at the North pole is 1. No. It refers to the size of its how many miles nearer the center of the earth than if he were at the main guns. 2. Thirteen miles nearer. equator. million of which 3. How many men were in3. Twenty-seve- n volved in the six years of war in 16 million were Allies. 6. The Questions - the woman began to canini, hesitate and fumble. Madam, do you think I look like him? inquired the conductor. At the distance, I thought you am-ildid, but now I can see theres no resemblance at all, said the Europe? 4. What island is called the autograph hunter, withdrawing her album. Pearl of the Antilles? Toscanini continued his stroll. 5. Is it cole slaw or cold slaw? Normally the Democratic leaders nish to say any message from their resident was a great speech, often the greatest ever, This time, House eader McCormack told inquiring newsmen he wanted time to read he message thoroughly and Senate leader Barkley, could not be found although he was around. A similarly significant void was evident all down the line of both Democratic and Republican ranks, where the men know the youth draft s not popular. Actually, only those congressmen who had already committed themselves on both sides of the question chose to comment. Any rush for action likewise was missing. Acting Chairman Johnson of the senate military committee, a Democrat who is against the Truman idea, said the matter could not be considered until about January 15 when the chairman returns. The Truman proposition thus did not change votes or arouse supporting sentiment. His basic between-the-line- s idea plainly was that Russia has not joined wholeheartedly in the peace, is the only competitive world military power to us, has announced plans for a youth draft of her own and we should do likewise. 4. Cuba. 5. Cole slaw. 6. For life. 7. Mexico. - - SCIENTIFIC TRAINED MEN INSTEAD OF BIG ARMED FORCE This unspoken part of the presentation was the most impressive. The written argument of the President cannot hold analytical water. He says, for instance, he wants a small army and navy, a big national guard and a youth draft for reserves, His defense then would rest entirely on how big and good he made the national guard, because he admits the drafted youth would only have basic training not the specialized training essential for modem war.. He claimed the rockets and atom bombs have robbed us of time to prepare in the future. But he said the army and navy could not use the youthful reserves until time was taken out to get an act of congress passed. By that time the nation might be destroyed. He claimed our geographical ocean defense had been destroyed (directed missiles would come winging over the icy frontier of the arctic to our Midwest), but his plan would risk our defenses to a small army and navy, and a national guard, which hardly sounds like adequate defense and completely abandons attack possibilities ' which are often the best defense. Frankly, it seems to me Mr. Truman was sold an obsolete youth crowd draft system by the old-tiin the war department, and he dressed it up with his national guard enlargement idea, and presented it as an answer for a job it will not do. From his own evidence, we will have to be ready to act faster than his plan would allow action. Universal Then again he said military training is not conscription, assuming apparently that conscription applies only to direct service in the army and navy. Conscription means enlisted by compulsion for anything, whether civilian service, youth camps or the Democratic party. It is the Russian way, the Communist way, the old Prussian way and the objection that will unquestionably sway congress against it is that there are many democratic ways of doing the same job better. What we need for defense is a scientific army for this scienFirst there should tific age. be a single department of the air armed forces with a the to things very force fight which Mr. Truman envisaged. Fossilized ideas like youth drafts should be shoved out with the fossils, and a new enlightened spirit generated throughout our defense system. This armed force should small or large but not be . enough. 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