Show I I II I lIts lIt's Its It's LIke This Over There ThereBy I By BOB TROUT CBS New News Reporter Mw ew York looks like a movie set set lifter after London Years of clothes ra rationing have made British civil ans ansa ansa a shabby I thought Brit aln s v omen d d a wonderful Job of keeping themselves attract ye ve on coupons but the bright colors of MIss and Mrs New Yorker s clothes made me blInk With one clothing coupon In England a man can buy two ds or one e a or ora a one fourth of a bathIng suit SUlt An austerity SUIt costs more than a ahall hall half year years s coupon allowance Britain s blitz days are arc over but London still hears the SIren some sometimes sometimes times two or three times a week I In London It its s never ce The Germans haven t sent real bomb ng planes over London for a long t me only fighter bombers They are speedy enough to avoId the defend defending fag ing fighters a fair proportIOn of the thet thet t me Their ThelI bombs cause pa nand n and mIsery but don t slow British war production Heavy RAF bombers whIch frequently VISIt Germany car carry carry ry bombs that weigh 8 pounds That Is heavier than the German fighter bombers that attack Britain The first American soldiers to at ar arrIve rIve m in the Br tish Isles in thIs war landed m in Northern Ireland The secret was so well kept that most of the Irishmen who saw the troops didn t know who they were at first EspecIally as they didn t look much like the Americans the IrIsh people have grown used to seeing at the latest flint film at the cinema Some of the Americans evened the score they fuey didn t know where they were The British have been very lund kind to the American soldIers although rationing leaves them little v Ith whIch to be kind But courtesy and hospitality are not rat ral It s a areal areal real treat for an American corre correspondent correspondent in Britain to have lunch at ata ata a U S Army AImy camp Strange how that Army food IS Improved by the sImple tr ck ch of eating It 3 miles from home And eating It after some months of eating boiled brus brussels eels sels sprouts bo boiled ed potatoes boiling doesn t require precIOus grease And sausages that lire are 37 per cent meat no more by law Note on American Influence In Britain A BrItish tabloId nev spa per printed thIS advIce m in II a column of recIpes Some of you have been growing corn maIZe and now you youcan youcan can use It for a delicious dish whIch will make a real change for you Remove the green leaves Put the corn Into bo boiling mg salted water cover wIth a lId and boll boil gently until soft To test hen cooked squeeze a gram grain WIth your forgers fingers To serve should the corn be too long for your vege vegetable vegetable table dish WIth a lid wrap It In a napkin put on a plate or dish and serve at once Spread a very lIttle margarine along the cobs take both ends in your hands and gnaw the gra ns off It IS good fun Movies lovles and theaters are doing a abig abig big business and there alv always ays seems to be a busker ava available able to entertain those who stand In lIne waiting for the doors to open Theaters Thea Theaters start usually at 6 p m so that playgoers can get home early in incase case there IS a spot of bothe British reactIOns to certain scenes in featured American pIctures are interesting For instance in Ma MaJor bur Jor and the Minor when Ginger Rogers broke an egg on Robert Benchley s forehead groans went up from the Brutish audIence all over the house But in Sullivan s Tray Trav Travels els when Joel sniffs a frying pan containing five beautiful ul eggs there were no groans The ent re audi audience ence instantly and sImultaneously broke into a long loud sigh 0 o-o o 0 oh In one rural area arca U S troops who ho had buIlt themselves a small move e theater invited the local townsfolk to join jom them m in watching the p c tures In the long cold winter eve rungs Some of the local people had never seen a movie before One 63 year old man much Impressed by bythe bythe the elegance and luxury of the home homemade homemade made theater saId Why they ye ve even got a fire In fn there I saw Watch on the Rhine in London a couple of months ago All the action takes place m Wash ng ton and I had meant to notIce whether the English cast spoke the lines With a Potomac accent But ButI ButI I forgot to not ce cc because all I could think fumk of was that the actors con constantly left the door open spoiling mg the blackout In the summer with the clock moved two hours ahead Britain IS not really dark until nearly mId mIdnight midnight night But In winter blackout be begins begins gins about five m in the afternoon and the blackout is st still l on when you get getup getup up In the morn ng Pedestrians are allowed to use flail 1 If they have been dimmed by tying a hand kel kerch ch of ef over the lens and ond arE point pointed ed stra do at the not ground ahead But the blackout Is kind to bashful lovers and amateur astron astronomers omers tl tI e a first tIme you can canI canI see lee the stars from the ilie city I |