Show 0 I I F I Notes o of f an Innocent Bystander Tho The Maglo Magic Lanterns Take For Whom the Bell Tolls as a hearty action flicker and youve you've got something something something some some- thing to like The acting of Ingrid Bergman Gary Cooper Katina Pati nou and the cast is big time It all holds together fine But If you want wan Hemingway's story which called Franco some of the things he is is this Isn't your dish All AU very proper and sparing of the Fascist feelings Too bad it was released right after otter Allen Chases Chase's sizzling Falange documented truth about what Franco's Francos Francos Franco's Francos Franco's Fran Fran- cos co's Spain is up to The cinema has made Hemingway flabby poor guy The Wireless The commentators especially the Britons were full of contradictions during the first days in Sicily They kept cautioning us that It looked tough ahead Then they'd have to report the fabulous progress that had been made Bob Trout debunked the Idea that the Sicilians were haters Fascist-haters who would jump right In on our side He cited a dispatch from John Gunther Gunther Gun- Gun ther to prove his point Gunther reported that on the first night three Allied sentries had bad their throats cut Joe Goebbels the liar who looks like a midget kidded the home folks but betrayed his panic to the world His radio stooges claimed that all landings in Sicily were repulsed repulsed repulsed re re- re- re pulsed save a few on the East coast That being the only coast that was visited Willkie put this common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense into the mikes It is time for tor us to decide whether we are going going going go go- ing to commit ourselves to staying in this war until it has been really won In a lasting peace and not in just an armistice The whimpering whimpering whimpering whim whim- of the Axis wavers short-wavers makes delicious listening The Magazines Max Werner makes a point worth thinking about In Liberty It is the Nazis he writes who are cheered by all this talk of ofa ofa ofa a long war That Is their only hope now Werner reminds since th the Blitz is gone on the Fritz Werner Werne guesses there will be a ninth Inning in 1944 Colliers Collier's is concerned editorially about Americans who wh keep picking on John L. L Lewis The editorialist fears that criticism of labors labor's prima donna may arouse new attempts to slow up the war ef ef- fort Such nail-biting nail leaves m me cold Beverly everly Hills nills Novelette He Is I. well known among the Texas Tetas millionaires millionaires millionaires mil mil- After a long struggle to accumulate his great wealth h he decided to settle down and marry Where does docs an aging man with nearly all the money in th the world he once said find a woman who will marry him him because because she cares about him and not his dough He finally met a lovely lovely lovely love love- ly gal gal considerably considerably younger If It you marry me he proposed Ill build you ou the most beautiful home in hi California among California among all the movie stars stars and and we will give wonderful wonderful won won- parties there there and and meet them all But that's not what I want she said I want someone who loves me A beautiful mansion and all the money there is couldn't couldn make me live In it If you want to try your luck Ill I'll marry you And so o they were married The mansion is now his tomb A week after it was finished she finished she ran away with the interior decorator Studio Small Talk They hear Myrna Loy will return to pictures with Wm Powell In The Thin Man Comes Home And then one film filma a year for Errol Flynn Ida Lupino and Ann Sheridan are arc dickering to finance films tUrns In Mexico Robert Donat the star is In Algeria broadcasting news for BBC He was first to air the Sicily invasion invasion inva inva- sion The Victory Through Air power film has reconciled Gen Arnold Arnold Arnold Ar Ar- nold and Major Barbara Brewster Mrs A. 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