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Show Backing the Attack on Okinawa Island Kathleen Norris Says: Your Marriage Is Worth Savin, ft Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. stagec$creen)mdio Releaied Western Union. by Newspaper By VIRGINIA VALE recent 1ISTENERS to a broad- cast never even suspected that in the studio the sort of thing was happening that speeds radio performers and producers toward nervous breakdowns. Ginny Simms was singing when a man walked up on the stage and headed toward her. Since, when a big show like that one is produced, there are so many people on stage, no one realized just at first that the man didn't belong there. Then Ken Roberts, the announcer, spotted him. Just before the man reached Ginny, Roberts reached him; he took the stranger by the arm and led him off stage, whispering in, his ear very confidentially all the while. Credit Ginny with never missing a notel - 4 M$ ft 6 aa "n 5r In more than six years in pictures The problem of unloading vital supplies for the American Invaders who have been fighting their way Geraldine Fitzgerald practically alat lower left shows an inland, yard by yard, on the 70 -milc - long Okinawa island, has been a big one. Picture of life and war, Necessities ways lost out romantically, with the LST approaching landed. are right: Center: Vpper shore with supplies. Supplies other girl getting the man. In "Wilrow after row, line the dusty beach on this far Pacific isle. Circle: Fleet Commander Chester W. NimiU. son" she won out, and decided to leave Warner Bros, and strike out Out of the Ashes of War Arises a New Manila 'Dorothy is m completely changed creature, and I don't want to take on ttranger for my wife. She and my mother are like two girU together. . . ." By KATHLEEN NORRIS MAY take you six IT months, it may take you a year to rebuild, when that man of yours comes home, but marriage is worth six months or twelve months of doubt and pain. True marto riage is a miracle, and of wonderout cheat yourself ful years of companionship and planning just because things are difficult now, is an expensive mistake. bewildered," completely writes William Martin, in a letter this point. "I've that illustrates been two years overseas. When I left her my wife was a sweet, shy girl who had no friends in my home town and cried bitterly when she came to join my mother for my absence. Just before I left Dorothy had the sad experience of losing a baby, so that my memory of her is of an exiled, scared, tearful, bashful little thing who assured me that she could not hold her head up at all until I came back. 'Completely Changed "Well, I got back six weeks ago, and if you ask me, I'd just as soon "I'm new-bor- n return to France. Dorothy is a comand I pletely changed creature, don't want to take on a stranger for my wife. She and my mother are like two girls together; laughing all the time. They play cribbage every evening, gabble at every meal, and trot off to work still chattering. They work part-tim- e in the same foundry. Dorothy has picked up a lot of friends, most of them daughters of my mother's old crowd; she wants me to go on week-enparties, where she is a great favorite, and she wants to have them in for impromptu suppers and games. She's perfectly amiable about everything, anxious to make me happy, says she'll give up work the minute I'm established, hopes we'll have a lot of children someday, thig doesn't sound so bad. I wonder if I'm getting over to you what I mean? "I mean that a man likes to be Important in his own house, he likes to have the say.' If I suggest this, Dorothy is all attention; what would I like to do? Well, the truth is I don't want to do anything, except sit around. I don't even want my mother or wife near me, part of the time. I always wanted to take a forestry course, but after two years of college I quit, and got a d could marry. Then the war have no money now, and I'll be darned if I want my women to support me. Shall I Just get out of their lives, go off somewhere, nd work it out myself?" job. so I came. I by no means do that, Bill. Your marriage Is worth saving, with uch a woman. Instead of running away, as so many of our people do, ork it out yourself but at home. I think you'd make those two women supremely happy 11 you announced that they had to support you until you finished your forestry tudy. Your government will help ?0'J. and all it will amount to will b that they take care of them-lve- s for another or two. Thn go to work year with a vengeance, and see how fast you can beat the regular term time. Bnomen you're hard at work H, ne whole world will change for you. Work is the supreme panacea. your forestry court. HOLD ON A LITTLE WHILE Another returning soldier has found his wife changed. When he left she was timid and shy, and depressed by the death of their first child. Now she is gay and happy, interested in parties and entertainments, and quite a social She lives with his mother and tvorks in the same founshift. The dry on a two women get along very well, and are always laughing and "gabbing." Wlule Dorothy is affectionate and anxious to please, she is no longer dependent and clinging. William feels somehow that she is a stranger . . . not the tvoman he thought he married. He wonders if he should try to "make a go" of this marriage . . . maybe, he thinks, he had better get out of it for the benefit of both himself and Dorothy. He left college in order to marry her, and now he wonders if it were the. sensible thing to do. The separation and the experiences of war change both husband and wife, replies Miss Norris. One will mature more than the other, but when there is no fundamental disagreement, time ui7 harmonize the differences, and the original happiness can be regained. i - V "' . MgSm ; e. -- part-tim- e x-"T- JV x - miTTl x for herself. So they let her win John Garfield in "Nobody Lives Forever," as a parting gift. On her own, she went into "Uncle Harry," for doesn't get her man, but goes to the gallows for trying! Uni-vers- al All of one day Hollywood was filled with rumors that RKO and Paramount had merged a big gate was opened between the two studios, and that was enough for the gossips. The fact of the matter was that Leo McCarey was shooting exteriors with Ingrid Bergman, Henry Trav-er- s and several extras on a Paramount lot for Rainbow Productions' "The Bells of St. Mary's," being made at RKO. Eddie Cantor's still untitled West-er- a Comedy at RKO will retain for Cantor and Joan Davis the same character names they used In "Show Business," though there's no similarity between the pictures; they'll keep the same names Just for luck. and modern queen city of the Orient, devastated by the Upper center: This taxi is not much to look at, but it indicates Manila's reconversion. Upper right: A road repair gang is at work on Manila's Taft avenue, erasing some of the scars. Lower right: Bailey bridge. Manila begins to rebuild. Left, the once-beautif- ul Japs, starts the task of rebuilding with the help of the U. S. engineers. W,V,W"."' Value of Victory Garden A good home garden is first of all a source of food. It is important from an economic standpoint as it season and a supplies fresh foods in also imsurplus for canning. It is of the standpoint from portant Working morale. health and family in a garden is a source of recreation and education for all the famiwork and ly. It develops team fellowship between family members of all ages. It also gives youngsters an appreciation of the land and Its marvelous products. ODDS ASD EMS On hit Sunday radio program Ozzie Nelson recently urged people to tahe servicemen into their homes and uhen he got horn that hit children had filled the Sound with soldiers and sailors. . . . In "Masquerade in Mexico" Dorothy Lamour wean a tlreamlined tilver bathing tuit. . . . Joan Bennett will ttar in 'Woman in th Window" on the Radio Theater June 18. . . , Republic's Sunset Carson, 6'4" Western ttar, dropped into the studio't hospital for an aspirin; on the way out he hit hit head on a sign, and had to go back for treatment. -- af friend is responsible ter Abbott and Costello's signing Bob Mathews as a vocalist on their Thursday night NBC programs. The friend, on furlough, was asked to Costello's one Sunday for a swim; he took along a record of Mathews and played it for Lou. An air-forc- if tf c r!-"- " 1 -.- v-: .a J' aA r Lauren Bacall has a difficult task ahead of her; she's finished "The Big Sleep," her second picture, in which she appears opposite Humphrey Bogart; for her third assignment she'll have the feminine lead which in "Confidential Agent." play an English woman. A different accent, a different male lead, she'll have to work hard. le (iSfr'i 2r V Wallace, who composed "Hundustan" during the last war and "Der Fuehrer's Face" during this one, provides the score for Walt Disney's new short, "African Diary," which RKO is releasing. This time Goofy is starred. Fred MacMurray and Leslie Fen-to- n launched their new enterprise, Mutual Productions, recently, beginning work on "Pardon My Past." It's a comedy, and MacMurray plays twin brothers who never meet, but whose effect on each other's exMarguerite istence Is disastrous. Chapman Is Fred's leading lady; Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest, Dom-brilHarry Davenport and Douglas roles. have strong New Air Hero Marooned Airmen Rescued by Helicopter Oliver special concert made up of requests from our troops overseas will be broadcast by the New York Philharmonic-SymphonOrchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting, over CBS on Sunday, July 1. Requests are being cleared by the Armed Forces Radio Service. g ex . GERALDINE FITZGERALD There isn't going to be a household in America, in the next year or two, that doesn't face this or some more serious problem. The problem of our physically maimed and wounded isn't going to be the worst of it; it'll be the mental, the nerve, the psychopathic cases that put a heavy burden on us all. Lift your burden off the great total by accepting the unexpected gaiety and independence of this wife of yours; add to her capability, her completeness, a new capability and completeness of your own. Normal rattern Will Return. Once you're well started, and the first baby likewise, the whole pattern will fall into normal lines, and this restless, dissatisfied, resentful will seem phase of only a dream. You have the materials for an unusually happy marriage here; don't throw them away. Postwar marital problems present every variation of trouble to which human hearts are heir. The returning husband who grows beunexyond his wife, and finds her pectedly dull, less pretty, less dear than he remembered her. The wife who hardly knows the boy with whom she danced so merrily into wedlock, and who doesn't like him much, on later inspection. The returning soldier jealous of his baby. The waiting wife all ready with plans for divorce. The criticisms of her because she lived with his mother, or because she didn't. The discontent because she worked, or else she didn't. The wounded problems and the problems of the maimed and the blind. Make a fresh start. Bill, and solve yours yourself. home-comin- ri; a f Marine Eleven marooned RCAF airmen who were rescued by a U. S. coast guard helicopter in the first rescue of its kind, set up this SOS sign In the snow (upper left), made of green spruce boughs. Lower left: Cave in the snow in which the airmen lived for two weeks in the Labrador wilds. Snow is 10 feet deep. Right: Air view of the actual rescue. 2nd pilot, Lt. William Jr. of Hixon, Tenn., W. Eldridge grins as he returns to his Okinawa airfield after blasting four Jap planes In as many minutes, when Jap suicide bombers attacked a U.S. ship. e Army and Navy Chiefs in U1 mitjKjmmuimmwMti i 1 , ' A V-- E Broadcast Proudest Mom f . ,1 "' "'""0Mi"Ji,ipi,U-..iiiiii- r ' ' .... . 1 . - ' tl s y ' r nn" Among the high ranking army and navy officials who spoke on the e victory broadcast celebrating V-- Day were, left to right: Gen. George C. Marshall, chief cf staff of the V. 8. army; Adm. William G. Leahv. chief of staff to the President, and Adm. Ernest J. King, chief of oaval operations. world-wid- E -1i "v'-'-mr-ili 1 ' ' ,..,.., Mrs. Ida Elsenhower, 83, mother of Gen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower, shown as she looked with pride at photo of her famous son, conqueror of German military might. |