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Show Pi etc York Heartbeat: The Wireless: Eric Severeid, analyzing an-alyzing the news the other midnight, gut pretty bold. He mentioned that the British were more outspoken than ve are more articulate. He doubted that the articulate Britons would stay znum if they found as much Fascism creeping into its official of-ficial places as goes on over here ... Wm. Shirer also got tough-wanted tough-wanted to know how come that Edgar Ed-gar Mowrer, one of our best Fascist-haters, Fascist-haters, couldn't get a passport to North Africa. The Magic Lanterns: "The Siege of Leningrad" is a testimonial to the heroism and courage of the Russians and, better yet, plenty of proof that the Nazis blundered when they tackled the Soviets. Any nation that takes it like that can't be licked with armies. The facts of how the Nazis failed to take the town even with hunger, disease and suffering on I their side are familiar. But the facts don't rob this documentary film of its mighty wallop . . . The Rooney kid shows up in another Andy Hardy 'nstallment, called "Andy Hardy's Double Life." It's a sprightly enough account of Andy and his lady friends, cornier than an Iowa farm, but what of it? . . . The West Coasters Coast-ers are laying bets that "Stand By for Action" will ring all the best bells. It's a Navy tale . . . "Forever "For-ever and a Day," which has everybody every-body in the world in the cast, is another an-other supposed to be heading for hurrahs. The Magazines: Clifton Fadiman has found a swell title for the war. He has monikered it Germany's First War Against Mankind. It would look good on the memos of the peace arrangers . . . The New Republic's paragrapher figures it out that Hitler Hit-ler isn't really dead but only wishes he were . . . Just how tough a job Elmer Davis undertook when he headed the OWI is described in Harper's by Michael Darrock and Joseph P. Dorn. He has succeeded admirably, they write, in providing what the agency was established for: information. The ironical part of it is, the authors, both employed in Washington, chose to by-line the piece with pseudonyms . . . You have to like C. B. DeMille for his shrug-off of the critics' opinions of his super-colossals. super-colossals. John Durant quotes DeMille De-Mille in the SEP: "Every time I make a picture, the critics' estimation estima-tion of the public drops another ten degrees" . . . Collier's K. Crichton has a good tongue-in-the-cheek version ver-sion of H'wood's headaches under rationing. "Apparently movietown is worried that it might have to live normal, ordinary lives" . . . Recommended: Rec-ommended: Jimmy Young's: "Japan's "Ja-pan's Fatal Weakness," in American Ameri-can Legion mag . . . Howard Bru-baker Bru-baker in The New Yorker: "It is reported that 'Putzi' Hanfstaengl, once Hitler's personal piano player, is giving our State Department helpful help-ful hints. Mr. Hull would naturally want to know what kind of music Adolf cannot face." Memos of a First-Nighter: John Barrymore was one of the few actors who had a mind just as alert as those of his severest critics . . . Some of his admirers enjoy recalling re-calling the time a famed actress, sitting sit-ting down front,' annoyed him throughout his performance . . . Her audible remarks to her companion distracted the audience's complete attention, when she wasn't demonstrating demon-strating some point by waving her arms . . . Barrymore waited until the play ended to punish her ... In a brief curtain talk he mentioned that a famed actress had honored him by attending the play . . . "Please stand up," he cooed, "and take a bow" . . . Which she did . . . Then he bowed to her and fang'd: "I want to thank you for co-starring with me this evening." This one has been pinned on many plump persons, but when Alexander Woollcott was tipping the scales in the 300s he liked telling it on himself . . . Two actors, who had suffered from Woollcott- pannings, saw him bathing in the Atlantic City surf . . . 'Xet's go swimming," said one. "How can we?" asked the other. "Woollcott's using the ocean." Mark Twain was once guest of honor at an opera box-party given by a dowager . . . She was talkative throughout the performance, much to Twain's irritation . . . When the opera was almost over she gushed: "I so want you to be with us Friday, Mr. Twain. I'm certain you will like it. The opera will be a great favorite of mine, Tosca'l" Twain coldly replied: "I never heard you in THAT!" Quotation Marks-manship: Ed Mur-row: Mur-row: Rationing means that everyone every-one has bread before anyone has cake . . . O. Henry: Their angry eyes met, each containing an invisible invisi-ble clenched fist . . . Punch: For three-quarters of an hour he lay awake all night . . . Heywoo'd Broun: Trouble had scribbled its autograph all over her face . jj i'urfeld: Oh, for the good old' days vhen the only ism we had to worry bout was rheumatism . . . Wm. J'Dell: He felt as deserted' as a iqaroUe butt. |