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Show December J'hu-sda- v. THE 11, 1941 TIMES-NEWS- NFIIII. I'TAN . 'Spirit of '76 Coaching Canine Cops Private Papers of a Cub Reporter: FROM IF THAT PAY ENVELOPES IDEA GOES FURTHER Boss You say you might take a Thornton Wilder was recently recalling his last visit to London . . . After a luncheon at Barrie's flat, the exquisite little genius. Max Beerbohm, said: "Mr. Wilder, you haven't remarked on the view of the Thames from here" . . . Wilder replied to the general effect that nothing adequate had occurred to him . Whereupon Beerbohm said: "People usually do, you know. Only last week, for instance, Mr. Gene Tunney, the fighter, was here and admired it tremendously. As a matter of fact, he spoke of it with such eloquence and such sensitiveness that, really, I felt quite . job with us? Applicant I think so. get. How Boss Let's be practical. much money do you want? Applicant Well, on my last job 1 got $55 if. Boss If what? If the government Applicant didn't get there first. And I know right now where I can go to work on a salary of sixty provided. Boss Provided? Applicant Yes, provided not too much is extracted. This doctor, a Hungarian who recently became a citizen, was given a routine check by the . When an agent called at his home, he spotted a large framed portrait of Mussolini, affectionately inscribed . . . That made it more than a routine investigation and led to the fact that Fritz Hungarian Nazi leader, is a frequent guest at the Dr's house . And at conferences in a hideHorvath has away in Chicago . definite Berlin connections and the doctor may learn for the first time that he is not going to be accepted for that swell job with Col. Donovan. . . . Hor-vat- -- t Vi'i."i Art- I.- - l - What's E.U. stand for? Applicant Envelope untouched! . Boss I can't do that. can do is to put you on of S.F.A.W.K. The best 1 ments, and dissension grew to such a pitch that the idea has been temporarily deferred and possibly shelved. The captain here takes a hurdle with one of the dogs he is training for police work. The trainer always wears a uniform, the idea being to teach the dog that the man in uniform is his friend and master. hjr Every Wednesday Night I WITH H fjr Irl roitruND V. r4 There's always a Cousin Joe California campus, had to throw the from Kokomo on your Christmas list. You'd like to send him more ing "China Caravan," liked the idea. than a card, but you can't afford Nelson wants to play tough roles; an expensive gift. Send him a of cigarettes or a pound according to Spencer Tracy, he's a carton of smoking tobacco. The cost tin be should so he actor," "sterling is moderate and it's a gift any able to. The role in "China Cara- smoker welcomes. More smokers van" is his fourth in pictures, but prefer Camels than any other cigtoe was almost water that throwing arette and, of the smoking tobacmuch for him; he'd rather be tough cos, the National Joy Smoke is some other way! Prince Albert. Local dealers are Camel carfeaturing Ann Sheridan and Madeleine Car- tons and a novel package of four Also Prince Albert roll probably didn't know it, but for "flat fifties." Tobacco in pound tins three weeks they ran neck and neck Smoking and pound glass humidors hand with Lana Turner in an election. somely wrapped tor giving. Adv, The boys at Forts Hancock and were voting to choose "Tha Sweetheart of Harbor Defenses." Lana won the title. nuns GOODMAN'S ORCHESTRA THC TEXACO WORKSHOP AL tT)wmiTm'iii -- , 1 KENNY DAKER "I . I f1 1 1 "fSj"' ' - U 0 1 Otb 1 H H M H Ir gtatio" Out of Order It is because things have been put in the wrong order that the present chaos and disaster is upon the world. The order, expressed in four words, has been: Money, things, man, God. The new order will have to be God, man, things, money. The Bishop of Exeter. If Joan Fontaine needed to mak sure of her laurels as an actress, she's certainly accomplished it in "Susipicion," the new Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Her performance is "A. at a salary Applicantr-S.F.A.W.- Boss l K.? Yeah. That stands for si-' Applicant That means my salary is S.T.W.W.W. or Subject To Washington Weekly Whims. I can't run my house according to whims. I've got to know how much I am going to get each week. Boss You can solve that by buying groceries and paying rent on the Federal I.Y.H.A.L., or plan. ? yJl irir t tfVh- : fifty-seve- - in A The dog must get over the plank wall, but he does it. Height of the barrier is gradually . r ,:XS' ' Af ' AT 1, . 3 . Dogs are taught to grab for dropped pistols, and to bring them to the nearest policeman, or away from criminal. i Tbe Press Box; Another correspondent with a good book is Raymond Daniell "Civilians Must Fight." Daniell, who covered the London raids, reports a failure to chase his office boy to cover when bombers came. the The kid squawked the underground hideouts were too risky. The last time he went down, he lost $10 playing cards . . Somerset Maugham, in a foreword to the Daniell volume, explains news censors as "more anxious not to do the wrong thing than to do the right on " VIEWPOINT The Windsors we wish very well; To love them more we couldn't; But gala trips in times like these . Oh, how we wish they wouldn't! nt st fit.? ' i is i i ! ft - J A Here the dog has grabbed a "criminal? making off with a This dog is almost completely trained. .m- -. . We know a man whose doctor say he must take a long rest so he has planned to spend the winter in Wall Street . "Italy Orders 10 O'Clock Curfew." headline. Mussolini doesn't want the oik to see things any darker. Ht "I guess tbe just doesn't like Joan Crawford," remarked a friend of mine after seeing "When Ladies Meet." "And maybe the costume designer felt the same way," she added. Certainly Greer Garson's hair was more becomingly done, and ber clothes were than Miss Crawford's. Bui prettier bair-do'- s and clothes must be an old story to the Crawford girl, who could give a good performance if she bad to wear a sugar sack and have her hair shaved tight to herthead. Robert Taylor ought to make new friends in this one, too. - Rosalind Russell and her bridegroom drove to New Orleans after their marriage, went by boat to Cuba, flew to Jacksonville and took a train to New York. After a briel stay there she had to rush back to Hollywood for wardrobe tests for "Take a Letter, Darling," in which she plays a bachelor girl. Frances Farmer, who's been with Tyrone Power in "Son ol Fury," is cast as her rival. ?4 in the garage never saved a life One skid may cost more than ten pairs of Weeds. May land you in the hospital to boot. Put on chains the minute snow covers streets and highways. Weed American Tnus Chains give jou these advantages: Cross Links. (2) Weedalloy a tougher (1) metal. (3)PatentedLever- LockEndHooks positive sjj fastening. (4) Side Chains welded and hardened resist wear. These features v make Weed Americans the best buy in tire chains because they give more than double the mileage. Askfor Weed Americans byname. Bar-Reinforc- ed to, CHAIN & CABLE COMPANY, INC. York Pennsylvania AMERICAN In Busintss for Your Safety Good Purpose To put in the hands of all people the means o a freer, broader and Richard Arlen wants to go to China to make a picture, when he finishes "Wildcat," which he's to start about the first of the year, gays it would take about three months to shoot exteriors there, then the troupe would come borne to make the rest of it. - TAKING NO CHANCES vitamin in the B group known as "SPAB" will restore gray hair to its natural color, experiments have shown. The element is also used in making TNT. it is announced. We'd hate to get our hair back to a nice raven black and then have our whole face explode just as we were admiring oursell in the mirror. superb. EKO provided an excellent cast, which includes Cary Grant, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dame May Whit-ty- , Nigel Bruce and Heather Angel. You can see what an actress Miss Fontaine is, to stand out in such a cast. hair-dress- big-tim- - JOAN FONTAINE too closely. . waiter. "They are shipped alive in barrels and they get into fights. Now and then one loses a claw." "All right Take this one back," replied Mr. Hughes, "and bring me a WINNER!" AJK Clyde Cook, who has a bit part in "Suspicion," directed Hitchcock in an English film in the days before the mystery director won his spurs. Incidentally, if you read that thriller, "Before the Fact," don't expect this picture version to resemble it . article about the composer. It's good advice if you happen to be Porter, but late even for him . . . starts a expose on this column's favorite news commentator in the current issue . . . The fallacy that the Middle West Is isolationist Is exploded by Time, which points out that polls have proved otherwise. Isolationist Midwest," "The it says in part, "exists only in the minds of congressmen who have failed to keep abreast of a great surge of public opinion during recent months" . . . Some people, it seems, mistake the Chicago Tribune for the h ; Applicant No. You see, what I want is to know how I stand at the A vet Broadwayite recalls when end of each week. Boss I have the same dream, Chinatown was big news every night -; mister. There's nothing in it. . . . And how an assistant district entiApplicant But ain't a man attorney was phoned out of a sound slumber one wee hour with the news tled to know from week to week of a massacre in a Chinatown dive how he stands financially? Boss Don't talk like a reaction. . . When he got there, still fastenThe Dobermann goes up the ing his clothes, he found the joint ary! Listen, this is myn last proposiladder in pursuit of a mythistep dollars I'll tion. nive you on the and bodies deep in blood, cal criminal. This is one of the M. S.T.R. a and half 4 in floor the hatchets and knives still hardest lessons for the dog. Applicant S.T.R. & M.? 'em . . . The bartender was moanBoss Subject to Roosevelt and "What ing and weeping noisily . . Morgenthau. f happened?" the d. a. shouted. if U "X "What happened?" was the reply, I No, thanks. But Applicant as the tears dangled from his mustache. "Every customer ran out know a feller who might work for you. He's a beginner. What do you without paying his check!" pay a beginner? Boss We pay ten dollars minus A off of an j to begin with. At the end of a year Innocent Bystander: if he makes good we advance him Dinah Shore to fifteen dollars minus. The Netuorkers: sings the blues on her new solo SunApplicant That leaves him owing day spot and relieves you of yours both you and the government money. . Frank Black's classic rendiBoss Yes. tions via NBC's "American Melody Applicant I can see there's no fuHour" are something to hug '': . ture in working. e Take talents like Paul Boss Nonsense. One of our best " Muni, Judith Anderson, Raymond men here started with us on one Massey, Ruth Gordon, mix with a dollar a week and worked it up to h script, and you have that a mere pittance. Red Cross program good as the Applicant That's an exceptional cause Betty Hutton is a zippy case. Boss Not at all. Look at me person, welcome to the Bob .Hope bill. He said "vitamin pills take When I began here I worked for her!" . . You don't wonder, hear- nothing. Now my salary has grown feVT . ing Richard Crooks sing, why he is to such proportions that everything with the Met but you wonder why I get goes to the government. Assigned to a radio prowl car, James Melton, who precedes him on Applicant In other words, you this Dobermann is the pal of Sgt. still get nothing. the same station, isn't . . . EveryBoss Yes. but if I work bard 1 Coffey of the Berkeley police debody was that surprised when the N. Y, Times succumbed to radio. can double it. partment. It is only adding a voice to the (Curtain with a thud.) ribbon that unwinds the flashes around the Times Bldg. NOT BAD This department never knew Chief The Ktory Tellers: C. V. R. Justice Hughes was much of a wit Thompson is selling his favorite old until it read "Pulitzer," which tells 1 story again Cafe Society this time of the time when Mr. Hughes orto Click. Amazing how Interesting dered lobster and got one with a Thompson can make them seem in claw missing. "Where's the other claw?" he print. In reality they are as dull as a blank wall . . . "How to Be asked. Cole Porter" is the caption of a Look "Well, I'll tell you," explained the mid-We- (1336-1918- fifty-seve- n . . FRED Til-de- fifty-eig- E.U. Boss The Women's Business and Professional Group annual Friendship Dinner took place the other night . They had previously announced that they would make known at this dinner the ten big, important women chosen to represent the U. S. . . . To inspect civilian defense in England . . . The list was prepared and sent to Mrs. Roosevelt for her okay . . . The names submitted did not measure up to her require. I'll take Applicant . . Mi Boss Come, come, exactly how much do you want to go to work for me? h, This famous painting, in which the artist caught ti e spirit of the patriots who "fifed and drummed it," was sketched and later painted by Archibald M. Willard. The 1 STAG E SC R EEN R AD 0 artist, who lived through four of By VIRGINIA VALE ), was America's wars (Released by Western Newspapei Union.) the creator of "Puck" comics aftto be er the Civil war. lie originally HOW would youto like humorous sketch for the a pretty made a of the Centennial exposiopening girl and, two minutes, later tion at Philadelphia in 1876. A serious attempt to portray have to throw a glass of water into her face? Barry Nelson early American patriotism folthe cartoon, and the origiknows how it feels to do exact lowed nal now hangs in Abbott Hall liwas Laraine The that. girl ly brary, in Marblehead, Mass. ft-- Day; Nelson, discovered by Metro on the University of Applicant I'd have to get more Sioney than that. Boss More money than what? More than there Applicant wouldn't be left out of what I don't The FBI is more Interested in a prominent Chicago psychiatrist, who obtained an appointment to The Morale Board of the Col. Donovan . What is the It's fifty minus. Applicant Minus what? Boss Minus what the government doesn't take out of your envelope. coarse." Office Although trained dogs have been in use as assistants to police officers in European countries for many years, the idea has taken hold in the United States only recently. Berkeley, Calif., was one of the first cities in this country to put dogs on regular police duty. Their dogs are Dobermann Pinschers from the I'alanka Kennels at Richmond, Calif., where ('.apt. C. A. Roy, former Canadian police officer, turns out canine cops. These photos show some of the moat important stages in the development of dogs for this work. pay? Boss . Page Thre A miniature Big Town has been built by a New Orleans man who visualized the imaginary city after listening to Edward G. Robinson's CBS show, which has been on the air for four years; he wants to givs it to Robinson, who hesitates he'd need a special building to house it. ODDS AMD - 4;t r-- Ax.' - Unit ol concealing 1 Choice pott-pnnr- d Ford the composer . "Thin Man" is . . 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