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Show THE REAVER P'SS rR. V' FT AH W y I Dkw Pi iillllll ji I, 'Mjh About Town: tit THE TEACHER PROBLEM WASHINGTON.-Sch- ool Broadway Confetti: Passing an teachers igpartment the other day we heard have gone on strike in Buffalo, St. us short It up brought music. Paul and several other cities, with sen t more strikes brewing elsewhere. It was beautiful. Here's the released until be It won't But the new congress has failed The name of even to iMay Watch it click. Horse Cowboy" tors and consider the fact that Janithe ditty: "Rockin' charwomen in many cities (words and tune by Tony Starr are paid more than the teachers 'and Frank tapano), recorded by responsible for training the next Frankie Carle. The vocalulu is by generation for an atomic age. Marjorie Hughes. . . . Murray WiSeveral bills providing federal Fun To "It's kiddie album, funds to increase teachers' salaries nd's Eat," is a click. He will do several have been introduced perhaps the albums taking all child problems best and simplest being that of Ver'off v"l!r headaches. . . . Street mont's outstanding GOP senator. Little scene in Washington Square: George Aiken. Others have been young Susan Greenberg (In written by Democrats Green and 'the early yawning), who has the McGrath of Rhode Island and ?honor of giving Fala his daily stroll. of Nevada, and Republican Taft of Ohio. On the house side I Democrat Pace of Georgia and ReFrom all those reports of in Ger-I American looting publican Welch of California have I many you'd gather that we have entered bills, in addition to a drop-in-tI divested the Germans of every- bucket bill by Rep. Sterling I thing but Cole of New York. Reports I from there indicate that nationBut the GOP leadership apI alism acain is on the rise. Well, parently thinks that the labor 1 situation even though we have you can't blame 'em. From the I way we've been treating them, no major strikes is more an 3 they are bound to think THEY emergency than insuring the 1 won the war! uninterrupted education of the nation's children. In both the house and the senate, The Stage Door: Paulette God-dartwitted for exotic evening education and labor legislation are handled by the same committees, dress 'without hosiery), observed afternoon ankling and the two chairmen Taft of Ohio the following and Hartley of New Jersey have (and such ankles) along Vth avenue not bestirred themselves about eduwith more sensible covering. . . . Leonora Corbett of the British stage cation, even though Taft does have his name on two bills relating to the is a new Yankee Doodle Dandy. . . . Not too many playgoers know it, matter. Taft has appointed Aiken chairbut "The Importance of Being Earnest" was dashed off by Oscar man of a subcommittee to handle Wilde when he was happily marreducation. But because the full comied, and not after his famous mittee is heading into weeks of fumble. . . . Clark Gable told rewrangling over labor laws, Aiken porters he considered himself lucky probably can't schedule hearings to wind up with $1,000 after a year before April. A subcommittee has of earning $6,000 weekly. Lucky is been appointed on the house side, right. One columnist we know (he but no hearings are scheduled. makes almost twice that much) winds up owing his heirs 10 times MISSISSIPPI VS. N. Y. TEACHERS what Gable keeps. Never before has the federal government made a regular approOne of Midtown Vignette: priation for educational expenses. those naive, gullible, midtown However, Senator Aiken points out husbands was finally told that that 60 per cent of all Americans his Mrs. was giving him the Old today are living in states other than Eazzoo. . . . "We'll show you those in which they were educated, with your own eyes," said a pal. proving that education is an inter. . . They went to a movie theater state or national problem. and, sure enough, there she was Aiken further points out that edu(necking like anything) in the cational standards vary so widely row with a fella. . . . that in Mississippi the average exThey watched the whole thing penditure per pupil per year in 1944 and then left. . . . "Well?" said was only $42.25, while the average the pal. . . . "So what?" was the in New York state was $185.12. His answer. "I don't even know bill would insure expenditure of at the guy!" least $100 per pupil per year in each state. The Press Box: A Detroit daily Chief opposition to such a bill neatly nutshelled: "The basic task is from southern senators, who at the Moscow conference will not fear it might require their be to make peace with Germany states to spend "too much" on but to keep peace among the AlNegro schools. For the bill speclies." . . . Since the end of the war, ifies that the $100 average for Ameican taxpayers have shelled each pupil must be maintained out half a billion to solve Germany's for each school district. problems. A fraction of that sum Aiken's committee on expendiwould solve the housing problem of tures in the executive departments American war vets. . . . Both John hearings on a bill by Taft and plans L. Lewis and Joe Stalin have disSenator Fulbright of Arkansas callcovered that when Uncle Sam runs ing for establishment of a new cabiout of patience you will start runnet post secretary of health, welning for cover. Hitler also discovfare and education. While Aiken is ered that. In short: America's ananxious to proceed with this bill, he swer to the iron curtain is an iron is more anxious to see increased fist! . Washington bizmen report teachers' salaries. that biz has tobogganed 32 per cent in the last six months) because of GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY BOGS government payroll slashes. Whether he intended it or not. Truman's trip to Mexico President The Irony of the Week: It was did more for the lagging good neighJust a short paragraph on an inbor policy than anything since side page, but the irony of the Franklin Roosevelt's time. yarn packed more of a draThanks to the astute backstage matic wallop than any of Sumner Welles, Rooseguidance could concoct: Many velt built up our friendship with Germans are now trying to be Latin America. He made a special converted to the Jewish faith In pilgrimage to Buenos Aires and the hope that it will make it Montevideo, and frequently cruised easier for them to get a visa to through the Caribbean, touching at the I'nited States! Ecuadorean and Central American We only regret that the Jews cities; also visited Mexico and those Germans helped slaughacted as host to many Latin Ameriter didn't live to view the speccan presidents. tacle of their cowardly tormentWith Welles' exit from the state ors trying to hide behind the department much of this came to feliRion they hit from behind. an end. So also has ended the economic cooperation given Latin Colyumemos: Herbert Lehman American neighbors. told a proup seeking donations that Regarding this, Latin Americans e is unemployed for the first time have been especially bitter. They in his life, with no prospect of a Job that whereas during the 'n sigU. Then he donated $45,000. complain war they sold raw materials to the Victor Gilbert's millionaire United States at stabilized prices, Parent built (for him) a hotel in now foregoing any war profits, they Ridgcfu-idConn., which cost $200.-00- 0 cannot buy goods in the U. S. A. It mr,kes most other hotels its When they attempt to purchase ize inf'K like hobotels. The fee for a here they find that European counekei d ig only $200. . . . After tries have a priority. We pay more reading a vignette here about Ben attention to Greece, they complain, Grauer bors (the radiorator) losing than to neighbors close at heavily at a which are much more imgaming casino in Hawelfare. vana, the New York state Income portant to our department sent Grauer a $595 What Latin American diplomats to good-wiRefund. . . . That's love department: hope Is that in addition Iter Lindstrom flew In from tours, the U. S. A. now will loosen we enst (in risky weather) to up economically. Thoy want to buy. BPerid two days with his beloved not beg, but they can't even do the Ingrid former. T. stauescreenMadio Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE V w 4H L w a matter of time IT'S just the movie moguls talk Gordon MacRae into making pictures. Like Gregory Peck, he was an NBC page boy for a while, in 1940; he got an audition with Horace Heidt, low-dow- n: and a job singing with Heldt's band. A singing baritone, he'd had experience sang with Harry James' and Les Brown's orchestras at the N. Y. World's Fair. After a stint with the army air forces he started over again radio sustaining, Broadway musicals, CBS commercials. Beginning May 19th, he'll be heard NOT ONLY ENGLAND . . . Europe is not the only place buffeted by heavy seas. At Kodondo Beach, Calif., the angry surf returned to the onslaught again, crashing over the cement walk and cascading into living rooms of waterfront homes. Photo was taken after the wild waves had calmed down to a great extent. Woman at extreme right is shown shoveling debris away from her front door. ! I 3A. d, -- ht over 1 "X v S , V'i- t v St ... ... ... MERRY-GO-ROUN- . 4m 1 at Marjorie Reynolds' first "bad girl" role since she started In films at the age of alx comes at a strange time. She plays a shady lady In he came from, but chef Frank Tornabene, holding a meat cleaver behind his back, seems to know where he is going. And just when pork prices are going up, too. ' !f - mlM $r: I I'll Li (r. IaT - n, - - :mhn :I'"'X 1 I f&Zl'?ty&!i t' c ' Wh V fir i ' ii -- -- A f jr r 7yr&jr-Xj- n A3;0M 4L'i''----- ' - ..- - EMINENT UOMEMAKERS . . . Mrs. Fred Oittman, Hlghmore, left, and Mrs. Louisa F. Rchfcld, Warner, who have been selected by South Dakota State college for the award of "Eminent Momemakcr 1917." Mrs. Dittman is the mother of 12 children, all of whom are making high places for themselves. Emil, the oldest, is a chemist on the atomic bomb project. Since her husband's death, Mrs. Dittman moved from the farm, but manages to operate one of the largest home gardens in the state, In addition to active work in church, garden and community organizations. Mrs. Rehfcld's husband died in 1936. Although the farm was under heavy mortgage, she managed to pay off all debts, educate and raise six children. Century-Fo- x Century-Fo- theater home. s. III ' 'W tf 1 f t : i! u MARGARET'S DEBUT . . . Margaret Truman singing in her radio debut with the Detroit Symphony orchestra. Critics, generally, said that the President's daughter showed promise of developing into an opera singer after further experience. X II' h Sv - 1 1 Pi i 1 V ' " ' y ' " ") 4 ' '' If r one-tim- oak-studd- e The deadliest moment in radio comes when sound effects fail, says William Spier, sound effects man. It's happened to him twice on "Suspense," when guns didn't go off as scheduled. Once an actor cried "Don't shoot met", nothing happened, and another actor came to the rescue by exclaiming "Okay, I'll use this knife I" Recently, when William Bendlx did "Three Faces for Midnight," two guns balked; finally one delivered the fatal bang. George "Gabby" Hayes showed at the Saturday night "Roundup" rehearsal the other day looking slightly green around the gills. He'd spent the entire morning riding a stagecoach in Paramount's "Albuquerque," and just couldn't take the motion. up Parks Johnson and Warren Hull the famous Vox-Po- p team, feel, like a lot of us, that radio have their place and shouldn't mess op a broadcast. When the matter came to a showthem and their down between sponsor, they lost the argument, and quit. More power to them! So, beginning May 20th, they're released from their contract, replaced by Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. com-mercl- Don't miss the new March of Time, "Fashion Means Business." It shows backstage views of new Paris and New York collections, shows New York's huge garment center at work, lets you see designers in their studios, gives the inside of the fashion business. Lamenting the difficulty of finding a singer to replace Betty Brclay, Sammy Kaye said "I'm not fussy; all I want is a girl who can sing like Dinah Shore, with a face like Lana Turner, a figure like Betty Grable's, and the natural poise of Ingrid Bergman!" ' i OLE CACTLS CONTENTED . . . After M years In politics. John vice president of the United Slates, now In Nance Garner, lis "9th year, puffs away on a favorite cigar, the picture of contentUvalde, Tex., ranch. With politics a e loscd ment, at his "hapter, the Texan may be seen every afternoon feeding his large Iock of chickens and turkeys, at peace with the world and glad that he does not have to help solve the world problems. ' ' Cnnrrl ..i.'.i.. mt Hoover based on his files turned Cautious 20th Eisenhower General down him of all Amerihas ordered the bodies China can soldiers buried in the to be collected and shipped 20th z Seymour Ncbenial'g "Heaven Only Robert Knows," which Cummings and Brian Donlevy and it's her first picture since the birth of her first child, Linda, who was born last November. A fine break for a lovely young mother! co-sta- rs ; e has locked m stories sensational several files FBI how on big city corruption, with certain city bosses are tied up crime Unfortunately this is beyond Hoover's bailiwick, so he proposedto movie a sensational educational 220 William Keighley, movie director and Radio theater producer (his latest picture is the Shirley Temple-FranchTone "Honeymoon"), says actors and ac"Inexperienced tresses have a 100,000 to 1 chance of getting anywhere in motion pictures, and it's even harder to break Into radio." He recommends dramatic school and summer stock as much "too dramatic training; equipment isn't possible." "? ... D J. Edgar stations coast to coast, Phil Baker received a fan letter the other day that proved how well known he is. The envelope was addressed simply with a sketch of an accordion and a large question mark; Immediately it was delivered to the "Take It or Leave It" quizmaster. THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO a restaurant not to market. But be had nothing on the little piggy who went to market. "Oscar" wandered into a restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. No one knew where one-gues- s. the Night: In the Mer-rnai- d room: "Some big name actors n8ve t.ilcnt, but most have press Kents." in the Copacabana: ane didn't mind his wife, at all. Just couldn't stand his girl '"ends." At Howie's: "Instead " fv.ng Hollywood newlyweds best wsnes, them everybody gives di" . . At Yank Sing: "He does v'e tage more ham than good." In Bradley's: "Many a true word is Bpoken in At whispers." au.nl's: "A typical society triangle nim, his wife and her money." MAC ot i ll feound, 320 ji..r.RAE rial. v"1 - vW home-neigh- long-rang- ll ..lit transcribed; he's heard now on the "Tcentimer's" program. Tall, good looking, he's definitely star mate- . play-wrig- I GORDON next-to-la- st . .!. MILITARY GOVERNOR . . . Gen. Lucius D. Clay, who has just been appointed military governor of the U. 8. tone In Germany, relieving Gen, Joseph 1. McNarncy. General Clay will cor.in.ird USE. ODDS AND ESDSVnivenal-ln- . 'emotional Piclurti has bought Tht Willful Widow of Wagon Cap" for Abbott and Costello . . , Niet timing; within tht past few months "David Harding Counterspy" has had four shows on themes which made front pages the day before the broadcast . . . n The reason so many stage stars appear on "Crimes of Carelessness" is that Producer-DirectJim Sheldon has so many good friends in the theater . . . Cass Daley, comedy star of Paramount's "Variety," collects bought an 1880 clock reantiques cently, and found an old bill inside it! well-know- five-doll- |