| Show yN r 1 W it U 1 Night Club Patriot MacArthur wasn't the only hero on Bataan Peninsula as this story just arrived reveals In the early days of the campaign MacArthur summoned an engineer and asked How long lone will it take to throw a bridge across this stream Three days was the reply Good snapped MacArthur Have your draftsman make drawIngs drawIngs drawings draw- draw Ings right away Three days later the General sent for lor the engineer and asked him how the bridge was coming corning Its all ready was the answer You can send your men across now l f you dont don't have to wait for them pictures They aint done yet Meow A catty actress visited the Now Voyager set in and congratulated Ilka Chase on her recent recent recent re re- re- re cent book I enjoyed it itt she said Who wrote it Darling clawed Ilka Im so glad you liked It Who read it to you In Moores Moore's the other dinner time dinner time Eddie Cantor Lou Holtz and Chico Marx were wondering about Ben Bernie Are Arc things all right one of us queried Dont worry about Bernie said an eavesdropper I happen to know that whether he works or not he has an income of a year Is that tha t enough the enough the way he hebets hebets hebets bets asked Chico Those who'll suffer sutTer gagged a awag awag wag will be his relatives From Variety Only three pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures have played week five engagements engagements engage engage- ments meats at the Music Hall before Reap the Wild Wind They were Snow White Rebecca Phila Story and Woman of the Year Isn't show business bad enough without arithmetic like that Harry Hopkins is supposed to have asked a Soviet shot big-shot How Is it you purged so many Generals- Generals yet youre you're doing so well In Russia was the answer we executed the Fifth Columnists In France they put them in the Cab Cabinet Cab Cab- Cabinet inet And over here they get on oil the staff staR of the hate sheets John Gunther the commentator- commentator war correspondent was interviewing interview interview- ing the head of a bureau who was complaining about the confusion confusion sion red tape etc What do you really think of Washington Gunther asked I think he said it Is an insane asylum Oh come now now Gunther ribbed a worn time-worn phrase You dont don't understand said the man This is the most different kind of an Insane asylum It is run by bythe bythe bythe the inmates Americas America's Assembly Line Americas America's assembly line is com com- It runs straight from the great greatheart greatheart greatheart heart of a free people to the hearts of their fearless fighters The Them m money mey streaming into our war bonds is already streaming out of the mouth of the cannon The capitals of the enemy are pan pan- icky Dollar for dollar wheel dollar wheel for wheel wheel and and tank for lor tank the tank the enemy enemy enemy en en- emy Is losing the battle of the factories factories factories fac- fac tories Which means that man for forman forman forman man the enemy must give final account account account ac ac- ac- ac count on his own battlefield He knows that more goes Into a defense stamp than the 25 cents it costs And that our men with their hammers are driving home more than rivets The money pouring into the United States Treasury means Americans have no price on their liberty B Billions for defense means tanks against tyrants and bullets for bullies American workingmen working- working men are too busy to look up but the smoking chimneys of their factories mean the smoking ruins of Berlin and Tokyo The American armament program program pro pro- gram which includes fighting fighting fight fight- ing tag planes was called fantastic by Hitler in a radio speech This is to report that our Ur plane production production production tion will be even greater than Hitler fears Midtown Melodrama l The col col- yum's gums spy over at B. B Altman's department department department de de- store overheard this dIalogue dialogue dialogue di dI- the other afternoon Lady Patron Please Patron Please charge it Salesgirl What Is the name please Lady Lillian Lady Lillian Gish Salesgirl Would Salesgirl Would you please spell It In Fewer Words Vaudeville is definitely making a comeback The showmen obviously figured If its it's so successful in Congress it ought a be a cinch for Br Broadway adway New York Heartbeat The Big Dig Parade Detective J. J Broderick famed for his courage against gangsters frightened stiff over appearing in a film depicting his career Spurned an offer of from l to stay on the police force at 80 per week Chet Shaw new managing ed over at Newsweek The Purple Heart ribbon In his lapel means lapel means that he was wounded in the last war Private Carl Laemmle Jr who spends his week-ends week at a swanky I I Avenue hotel hotel on on 21 a month t r |
