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Show St 8 The Midnight Express: Walt Disney's "Victory Through Airpower" film, taken from Sever-sky's Sever-sky's book. Is being blocked by brass hats in Washington . . . Because it reveals what everyone can savvy at a glance that planes are the best weapons today . . . Bill Stout, who designed the first Ford planes, Is working on what they hope will be the flivver of the air after the war. A tiny hundred h.p. Job as simple to manipulate as the Model T . . . Mr. Whiskers just collared a woman agent here whose operations were right out of a spy film. Posed as a Navy nurse with all the proper apparel, ap-parel, etc. Worked the midtown bars, talking to servicemen, and had even married three of them. Bob Burns, the ex-farmer, has done a series of recordings for the Dep't of Agriculture, to encourage the growing of peanuts. They are christened: "Nuts to you, Adolf!" . . . The cigar rationing for troops at Guadalcanal: Two cigars weekly. week-ly. In Africa they get four . . . Although he's been In the Army a year, Carol Bruce sends her manager man-ager 15 per cent of her wages. The sets for the film, "Attack by Night," will be replicas of actual Norwegian towns with OWI supervision super-vision . . . Hollywood's veteran cameramen, now in the Army Signal Sig-nal Corps, are taking six-week refresher re-fresher courses. They must "learn" how to hold a camera "correctly." And to develop negatives! . . . Mary Pickford will adopt children, according to coast buzz . . . The Mills Brothers start a trek back to the Big Time with a choice spot in "Reveille with Beverly" . . . Geo. Lowther, who does the "Superman" program, was the first page boy hired by NBC. The Navy reminds girls that a WAVE or SPAR may request other assignments besides paper or desk work. The duties are varied. Aero-grapher, Aero-grapher, for instance, or radio communications, com-munications, storekeeper, parachute rigger, and so on . . . Elton Britt, a singing cowboy, recorded "There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere." Made him a high bracket man. To date: 900,000 records. rec-ords. The Wireless: R. Harkness, the Washington reporter for WEAF, was puzzled by the to-doodle about Russia Rus-sia not advertising the aid from her allies. Harkness revealed that Pravda, the Soviet newspaper, published pub-lished a full report only recently . . . The Hays office ruled that Fascists in films shouldn't have American accents. ac-cents. He should listen to the Quisling Quis-ling shortwavers, whose accents are as American as hot-dogs . . . You'll twirl your dials a long time before you catch anything more Hip-Hip-Hurray than Paul Robeson putting the big baritone to "Ballad for Americans" . . . The crossfire act banged over by Crosby and Hope would have been good for a dozen straight weeks at the Palace on Broadway. The Magazines: The war has landed right in Vogue's lap. That mag tells its flabbergasted readers, mostly ex-motorists, one of the grimmest truths that it's hard to read on a bus. Gad, sirs, is this America? . . . New Republic's Manny Farber tags Saroyan's flicker, flick-er, "The Human Comedy," a chocolate choco-late soda made out of words . . . Newsweek scrubs away all the Congressional Con-gressional hullaballoo about bureaucracy bureau-cracy and states it is all a build-up for the '44 elections . . . The startling star-tling rise of juvenile delinquency is the problem threshed out by Ella Winter in the current Collier's. The antidote for the wave of knee-pants criminals, the author reports, is more playgrounds, dancing activities activi-ties and other healthy forms of relaxation re-laxation to keep them occupied. Remember Re-member Mrs. Roosevelt wanted to do that, and was howled down by some "enraged" Congressmen? It happened in front of the New Vork Sun where some Newspaper Guild pickets were parading and distributing dis-tributing leaflets. A police car drove up, and a tough-looking Sarge got out . . . The pickets expected him I to break up the line and seize the ' leaflets, as had happened so many times before. But he merely brushed by and went into the Sun offices When he came out puzzled pickets asked: "Aren't you gonna do any. thing?" . . . it0,. he sajd ..They said you were blocking the sidewalk I told them I managed to get into the building. They wanted to know about the leaflets, and I reminded them about the Freedom of the Press." J'mmy Cagney, according to a letter let-ter he wrote to the Norwegian Em-bassy, Em-bassy, revealed that he is part Nor-wegian. Nor-wegian. It will be published in a book by one of the Norwegian diplomats diplo-mats . Ever since Cagney married, mar-ried, he has given his wife some-thing some-thing green for St. Patrick's Day This year the gift, as green as was a stack of gov't war bonds . . Newspapers, which have debunked wild rumors of clothing rationing, haven t been read apparently. Stores complain of "clothing runs" every weekend. ' i |
