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Show fl 1 LIML : Night Club Patriot: MacArthur wasn't the only heto on Bataan Peninsula, as this storr just arrived, reveals. In the eatly days of the campaign, MacArthur summoned an engineer and asked-"How asked-"How long will it take to thrown bridge atiross this stream?" V "Three days," was the reply! "Good," snapped MacArtll "Have your draftsman make drajl ings right away." Three days later, the General sent for the engineer and asked him hew the bridge was coming. "It's all ready," was the answer "You can send your men across now, if you don't have to wait (or them pictures. They ain't done yet!" Meow! A catty actress visited He "Now, Voyager" set in H'wood aaa ' congratulated Ilka Chase on her recent re-cent book. "I enjoyed it," she said. "Who wrote it?" "Darling," clawed Ilka, "I'm so glad you liked it. Who read It to you?" In Moore's the other dinner-tirne Eddie Cantor, Lou Holtz and Chico Marx were wondering about Ben Bernie. "Are things all right?" one of us queried. "Don't worry about Bernie," satl an eavesdropper. "I happen to knoiv that whether he works or not, be has an income of $22,000 a year." "Is that enough the way bets?" asked Chico. f "Those who'll suffer," gagged a wag, "will be his relatives." From Variety: "Only three pit-tures pit-tures have played flve-wo,3k engaiW 1 ments at the Music Hall beforb 'Reap the Wild Wind.' They were 'Snow White,' 'Rebecca,' 'Phili. Story' and 'Woman of the Year.' "j Isn't show business bad enoujji without arithmetic like that? j i Harry Hopkins is supposed b have asked a Soviet big-shot: "Hoy is it you purged so many Generals-yet Generals-yet you're doing so well?" , "In Russia," was the answer, " executed the Fifth Columnists A France they put them in the Cabinet!" Cab-inet!" ! And over here they get on the staf of the hate sheets. J John Gunther, the commentate war correspondent, was interval tag the head of a gov't bureau, wj was complaining about the conj( sion, red tape, etc. " "What do you really think Washington?" Gunther asked. "I think," he said, "it is an insa asylum!" 1 "Oh, come now," Gunther ribbe "that's a time-worn phrase." i "You don't understand," said the man. "This is the most different kind of an insane asylum. It is run the inmates!" ? America's Assembly Line, i America's assembly line is complete. com-plete. It runs straight from the great heart of a free people 1 the heart of their fearless fighters. Tjj money streaming into our war boii." is already streaming out of u mouth of the cannon. The capitals of the enemy are pa icky. Dollar for dollar wheel for wheel and tank for tank the en? emy is losing the battle of the fa tories Which means that man for man the enemy must give final aft count on his own battlefield. He knows that more goes into I defense stamp than the 25 cents f costs. And that our men with their hammers are driving home more than rivets. The money pouring intr the United States Treasury mean Americans have no price on their liberty. Billions for defense mean tanks against tyrants and bullet for bullies . . . American' working , men are too busy to look up, butT smoking chimneys of their factori I mean the smoking ruins of Ben and Tokyo. J The American armament pro" gram, which includes 185,000 fighting fight-ing planes, was called "fantastic" by Hitler in a radio speech. This is to report that our plane, produtf tion will be even greater than Hitleri fears. ' Midtown Melodrama: The col-yum's col-yum's spy over at B. Altaian's department de-partment store overheard this dialogue di-alogue the other afternoon: " Lady Patron Please charge it Salesgirl What is the name, please? Lady Lillian Gish. Salesgirl Would you please spef it? In Fewer Words: Vaudeville 1 definitely making a comeback. The showmen obviously figured' If it's so successful in Congress? It oughta be a cinch for Broadwa t' A'eui York Heartbeat: The Big Parade: Detective J-Broderick, J-Broderick, famed for his courag against gangsters, frightened stiff over appearing in a film depictini his career. Spurned an offer t. $100,000 from MGM to stay on the police force! at $80 per rek . Chet Shaw, new managing ed tf J at Newsweek. The Purple Hi ribbon in his lapel means that be was wounded in the last war . . . Private Carl Laemmle Jr., who spends his week-ends at a swankf 5th Avenue hotel on $21 a month? |