Show II so sa 50 Maxwells Maxwell's H Iy Particles of Patter AnT editorial turned up re- re otly in a Hollywood paper that the producers ere ere re bom- bom g Beriat Ber- Ber w the exase exi ex- ex ase i T of f To- To 0 The edi- edi was no nou nou u b t I in- in nr n- n f r redd d. d by par pal pals pal's pa pa- r l' l l's ls o tic moS moS' mo- mo S' S s. s But Bute e right u r n I n g self into a ao ao o o I roman I 1 over three of l vj o 0 r stu- stu t. t si sf stand and de- de Elsa EIsa Maxwell Ma a a list the war pictures either al al- al aldy d dy released or in progress I uncovered a gross ustice Hollywood already Hirohito hot on the griddle ke ke Twentieth Fox Century re three Nipponese anti-Nipponese nug- nug tsi are ready to be exposed ecret Agent of Japan Lit tokyo Tokyo U U. S. S A A. and Maa Ma a Calling Another rally- rally user China Girl Is in its s St week of production and andle andl l le epic epic now story I Escaped rom pm Hong Kong is being for shooting Th Then ThUn n there is Warner Broths Broths' Broth- Broth s s' s Across the Pacific star- star ig ag gl Humphrey Bogart and andary ary Astor a three-ring three shaking thriller In Ine e st eM-st last sequence Humphrey not notly notly ly ly sprays 24 Japs single- single with a tommy gun off an anointed prince Japan for joshing good mease meas- meas e elfAnd And while this flicker to toI toY Y I limited mind is not quite ia a class class with the Maltese d then ri it still can pass in an pinch But their documentary treat- treat of the film about Captain Wheless the Wheless-the the tough toc te- te Hous us c of foot five-foot Texas chap l chaps haps who now breaks I li bombers the way he used to eak in is Is likely to be bethe beu u ie of the most succinct Jap anti-Jap to come out of the a alThIs film photographed In 9 eats any feeble fable fab- fab c ted from fiction It traces ss' ss life from Pearl Harbor y through his training school o at Randolph Field to his as a fighter ilot Hot re- re i ei g the coveted wings Wheless turns up In the south I ac nc fie with a bomber squadron the hunt for the Japanese leet A fog comes up cutting f ft Is ls ship from the others ne Of the two engines breaks own wll Keep on on Wheless calls o 0 o the he copilot repair the engine hl nile hile we locate the enemy Suddenly darting out of the theo o a squadron of Zeros PP ars 24 strong Wheless owes WEs owns five oz or six Jap planes elore the copilot is killed The 1 idio operators operator's hand is shot off wingtip is severed with I like knife like cut But before limping his wound- wound 1 isky Sky bird back to its base and his men took a a. arack arack r rack k at a Japanese aircraft carer car- car er Which had been spotted durig dur- dur ig gf their hell for ray Dray its it's a sorry looking but gh spirited ship that Wheless lots s' s back to safety after a shave lose landing M Mr Editor this isn't only good Japanese Japanese propaganda Its It's 1 le very best we have in out all-out n American ro-American Amerl an stuff Way down south In Tampa 1 Warners are shooting one f the big stories of all time Air Mr Force an unabridged his- his ory ry of our air force from Pearl arbor via the Philippines Wake island and Guam orough the Coral seaMy seaMy sea My iMy last stopover was at M G GLI Gt LI what that t stately Rolls Roll Royce or orI I 1 Flying Fortress of the Industry I wondered If current events had twisted the old lions lion's tail into a retaliatory reverse And I w was s happy to learn that they had already completed Clear for Action a story about the encounter encounter encounter en en- counter of an American destroyer destroy destroy- er and a Japanese cruiser in m the south Pacific That's only one of about half a dozen Jap anti-Jap killers or thrillers do the M G M lot Oh yes Hollywood has Its cameras well primed for the axis hordes Italians hordes Italians Germans Japanese And you can be sure that the film colony is aware that in this war we are living the greatest movie scenario ever written We dont don't have to concoct concoct concoct con con- stories any more American fighters fighters in m the air on the land on the sea sea are are writing such powerful dramas that we poor scribblers will just have to scratch our heads and keep on thinking You cant can't beat Uncle Sam as the writer director and producer of the bravest finest film now being shot on the biggest stage In the history of the universe Press Alliance Inc |