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Show Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: One famine th Nazzys can't hide from the world ii their famine in Ideas. The waj they twisted President Roosevelt'! address to hoodwink their people showed how poverty stricken Goeb bels has become in lies. That's good news over here, because it lets us know that Berlin doesn't hope to fooi the world any more just its owr groggy citizens . . . Sen. Lister Hill made a swell speech the other night, but he did pronounce war effort "woffut" . . . Deems Taylor cata. logued the song smashes in all the American crises and came up with "Praise the Lord and Pass the Am-munition" Am-munition" as the theme song of the one going on now ... In spite of everything ev-erything he's tried to do to kill the impression, Jack Pearl is still a funny fun-ny guy. He convicted himself by being be-ing comic on his comeback . . . The About Time Dep't: Variety, reviewing review-ing the new radio programs, now gives credit to the writers, who have been, too often, the muscles for mediocre medi-ocre mouthpieces who got all the Crossley and most of the moola. The Magazines: The Japs were saps to give J. B. Powell his freedom. free-dom. He will be a powerful witness wit-ness against them when the payoff day comes. His account, in The Nation, of their brutalities to him and other prisoners will shock and enrage you . . . Kyle Crichton. enthusing en-thusing over "This Is the Army" in Collier's, practically gets down on his knees imploring Hollywood to let the show alone when it parades before be-fore the kodaks. Fergossakes, begs Crichton, keep the colonel's dotter out of it. The Front Pages: An exciting UP yarn from Moscow gives you a clear line on why the Soviets are too tough for Hitler. This piece describes a battle that raged for nine days in Stalingrad for possession of one . house. The Huns took countries in less time . . . Raoul Auernheimer recalls a piece of trick journalism by Mark Twain. The humorist caught a cop asleep on his beat. He realized his editor wouldn't print the item, so he sat and fanned the sleeping sleep-ing bluecoat with a cabbage leaf. That drew a crowd and made the story worth a feature spread. Scrambled Eggs: Add Navy Rumors: That the Summer white uniforms may be changed open collar, etc . . . Sir Alexander Korda is quitting films, locals hear, for the duration to take a post with the British Gov't . . . Life will do a feature layout on the "Beat the Band" cast, with special oomphasis on Susan Miller, the oriole ori-ole .. . Allan Prescott of WJZ says his uncle's first wife was so rich she hanged herself with a nylon stocking . . . When Lieut. Liudmila Pavlichenko of the Russian Army was officially entertained at the M-G-M commissary, 334 studio attaches at-taches got up in spontaneous tribute to the heroine . . . The 335th, a top flight author, remained in his chair . . . He'll show herl What is left of the old Capone crowd is most anxious for the gendarmes gen-darmes to collar fugitive Roger Touhy and his mob .... A Chicago rag's fuehrer has instructed his lawyers law-yers to find out if Henry Morgan can be sued for his broadcast, all in German dialect, which lampooned it the other day. Kept calling it The Beobachter . . . Street Scene: Between Be-tween 5th and 6th on 52nd: The Suki-Yaki restaurant which is closed and the prospering Chinese laundry next door . . . Columbia's "City Without Men" will be the first movie to tackle the ticklish problem of prisoners' army eligibility ... British Brit-ish statistics show ex-cons in the last war distinguished themselves. Commander Vincent Astor is felling fell-ing the valuable timber on his Maryland Mary-land estate to give to the Navy gratis gra-tis .. . Gas rationing is working in reverse English at local racetracks . . . Attendances are bigger . . . The better steak houses welcome the meatless Tuesday. Unless they can get $2.50 or better for a steak it doesn't pay to go to the bother. The Writers' War Board, which started a movement to popularize the last stanza of the Anthem, probably prob-ably got the idea hearing Kostelan-etz Kostelan-etz do it on a. CBS program . . . Veloz St Yolanda will produce their own revue, "Highlights of 1943," in San Francisco late in December with an all-star cast . . . N. Y. State railroads will not increase their commutation rates. The ICC iced that idea . . . The gov't is discouraging women from working on rfight shifts. . New York Heartbeat: The Ringside: Leon Henderson and his wife at the Copacabana . . . Bernard Baruch at the Storque and G-Man Hoover at the Versailles, winning the Bingo (a big teddy bear) yak-yak-yakl . . . Lieut Burgess Meredith telling Lieut. Comdr. J. J. Bergen: "I don't know if I am helping help-ing the war effort but I do more traveling than anybody!" ... Ed Stettinius of the War Production Board, in the Savoy-Plaza foyer, looking more like a matinee idoL Boy War Bonds |
