| Show Senator Goes Hollywood By Ham Park Have just been reading e ding one of i-Ernle i Ernie Pyles Pyle's columns sent by wireless from Scotland In which he tells about his difficulties getting In around in strange places during blackouts and It reminded me of an experience we had during the winter of 1914 We Ve were playing in vaudeville up In Canada and just finished an engagement engagement engagement engage engage- ment in Cobalt Ontario It was Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- night and the Lords Lord's Day Alliance Alli ance had stopped all passenger trains except on the main lines from running running running run run- ning on Sunday We Wo had to be in Ottowa Ottowa Ot- Ot Ot-I Ot towa on Monday so we got special permission to ride on a a. freight train out of Cobalt We left about midnight and the crew put our trunk in the caboose where we sat on it About 4 a a. a m m. they served us tea and cakes We were due to arrive in North Bay about 5 a m. m where we would catch the C C. C P P. P for Ottawa As you know freight trains dont don't pull into the stations they pull into the freight I yards And this was a branch line I and the yard was about a mile from town The snow was four or or five feet deep and during the night the town had put on an intentional blackout blackout- the power plant had burned burned burn burn- burn I ed cd down We Ve got of off the train into deep snow and pitch darkness and without the faintest idea which way to go To stand still and wait for tor dawn meant to freeze to death because because because be be- cause the temperature was away below below below be be- beI I low zero We Ve finally picked a direct- direct tion and started out scared silly sUly lest we run into some military line where they'd shoot first and Investigate af af- af- af I When we were about exhausted we I saw a tiny gleam of light ahead It It was the hotel with one lone candle lighting the lobby The clerk wasn't going to let us in In- In we might be spies spie he said But he did and there you are Ernie Pyle can have my share of blackouts etc and welcome Well Vell the Oscars have been awarded award award- ed and Hollywood can settle down again to normalcy I have no quarrel with the choices made only I am sorry that Joan Fontaine didn't get a personal award for her work in Rebecca Rebecca Rebecca Re becca The play was selected as the best of the season I dont don't know whether you heard the Town Hall broadcast from Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood discussing how the motion picture pic pic- picture I ture Industry could aid national de de- de- de I If you didn't you didn't miss I much I thought it rather flat and unimpressive but I did agree with Waller who said that out of pictures produced in 1940 only 10 could be called propaganda Not much to make such a fuss luss about Personally Personally Person Person- ally Id I'd like to see more films like Foreign Correspondent The liThe Man I Married Escape and Arise My Love Wouldn't you Sure y you o u would I Y made Imade some Inquiries about Charlie Charlie Charlie Char Char- lie Chaplains Chaplain's The Great Dictator I find that it hasn't been released for price popular theaters yet Its It's still in the road show stage but may be released any day One of the nuttiest pictures Ive I've seen In many a day was Invisible Woman featuring Virginia Bruce and John Bar- Bar Its It's on the Topper idea only only only on on- ly in this picture a machine makes a human being Invisible for tor a certain length of time A gangster In hiding hears of the invention and steals the machine Then he has to kidnap the Inventor In order to make it work Virginia Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia Bruce had been the first to be experimented on but she complicated matters by taking some brandy while Invisible Thereafter whenever shed she'd take an alcoholic drink shed she'd become Invisible She is able to foil the gangsters gangsters gang gang- and marry the hero whose name escapes me at the moment and bring about a happy ending Its It's not much of ot a picture but I got more laughs out of ot it than I did Id out of the Marx Bros l latest test opus Western Vestern Union Is to another horse opera In technicolor There are some grand scenes In Utah in It it and plenty of action and gun play |
