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Show Cub Reporter's Notes: Happy War Item: He was a top d.tnco director in Hollywood. Taught S.'iirlt-y Temple, Alice Faye and many others how to hoof . . . She was a "name" in E'urope, once wedded wed-ded to the Ziegfeld of Norway and Sweden . . . She came to Hollywood ;ui'l her first film was a flop foolish story, shoddy direction, etc. . . . She returned to The Old Country . . . The Hollywood dance director followed fol-lowed ... He became a big hit in the London night club sector with his own joynt . . . They were married. mar-ried. Such happiness! . . . Then Came The War . . . They fled to her home in Oslo . . . The bombers followed . . . And dropped their eggs close enough to let them feel the splinters . . . They took their children (one by the ex-husband) and sought refuge all over Europe . . . They finally landed in the USA . . . Old friends never forget . . . Money gone, London night club and home in Oslo lost Buddy DeSylva gave Jack Donahue a role In "Panama "Pan-ama Hattie" . . . The girl is the beautiful Tutta Rolfe. Douglas Leigh, the Broadway electrick-sign-magnate (his newest Is the Wilson sign at 4Gth Street for the White-Lowell firm) tells this about Capt. White . . . About a decade ago White and a handful of men were pioneering the African Airways, and one of their group (a famed war ace and stunt flier) attempted at-tempted atlangerous hop from Eastern East-ern Africa to Central Europe . . . When no word came, White assigned one of his men, a British aviator, to search for the missing pilot . . . Risking his life in the uncharted skies, the British birdman finally spotted the wreck on a tiny isle, radioed for help and rescued the disabled flier from his doom . . . Ten years later, the life which was saved by a British Royal Air Force plane was to dedicate itself to the death of Britain . . . The man the Englishman rescued was Captain Udct, Germany's star stunt man, who is in charge of invading parachutists. Several years ago, when F.D.R. summoned the big business men to the White House (to discuss improving improv-ing conditions), one of them was Wendell Willkie. Jimmy Roosevelt, who was his father's secretary at the time, was a friend of Willkie's and took him in to meet F.D.R. They weren't together two minutes when they got into a furious argument. Afterwards, as he was leaving, Willkie Will-kie said to Jimmy: "Your father has a terrific personality, but what a stubborn man!" ... A moment later the President called Jimmy into his office and said: "Your friend, Willkie, has a terrific personality, per-sonality, but he certainly is stubborn!" stub-born!" Mae Keith-Johnson, wile of Colin Keith-Johnson, the actor who first attracted attention in America with his work in "Journey's End," has two sons now fighting in England. After the surrender of Paris, she wrote a depressing letter to them. They replied: "We can't understand why you're so depressed about France giving in . . . We in England aren't at all. We tell the story about the optimist and the pessimist. The pessimist Baid: 'God, isn't this awful? First Czecho-Slovakia, then Poland, Norway, Nor-way, Holland, Belgium, and now France." The optimist said: That's wonderful we're in the finals!' " New Yorker's Are Talking About: The director's wife on the Bundles For Britain Committee, who also sends shaving cream (difficult to get abroad) to an Italian Count in Rome . . . The fact that Betty Hut-ton Hut-ton is still unattached, and not a secret bride as rumored . . . The new Crossley system of checking radio listeners. They phone every two hours, instead of four times a lay. Hendrik Van Loon's new book "Invasion," "In-vasion," in which he Actionizes about people you know by name being knocked off by invading Nazis in 1960 . . . An exciting hunk of make-believe . . . But is it fiction? . . . The spiritual seances in town being organized as another way to spread Hitlerism. Number One devotee dev-otee e a lady author whose husband hus-band puts up bail for local Quislings, et al . . . The packed houses at Chaplin's "The Great Dictator." Apparently Ap-parently not everybody believes what they read in the papers . . . The swell description of a boy brat in "G. Washington Slept Here" "Huckleberry Capone" . . . Nun-nally Nun-nally Johnson's hilarious satir-iclowning satir-iclowning in his Monday col'm. They're Also Talking About: Mark Hellinger's visit to Broadway Broad-way after almost three years in Movietown and his argument that "nothing has changed" . . . Except his girlish figger . . . The way Chaplin feels about his marital statusindifferent sta-tusindifferent . . . And that he didn't want any troublesome publicity pub-licity that might interfere with his piciure . . . The ouch reviews on The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which the Trib musicritic called "a musical bore" |