Show 1 y r We Must Direst Plunge Our leaders have told us that as asyet asyet asyet yet we are only deep ankle-deep in the war No nation and no man can remain ankle They either plunge or get cold feet This means that the sacrifice of civilians must match the bravery of our fighting forces A nation lives by the higher values values values val val- ues of its soul Not by the lower prices on its store counters In 1942 sugar is a luxury and gasoline a comfort But liberty and freedom are still American necessities A Acuff Acuff I cuff on your American trousers isn't worth a Japanese cuff on your American jaw I Our problem at home is not our standard of living Too many brave Americans have already set us a heroic standard by dying The Marines who l land md on Pacific beaches are in this war deeper than their ankles And the skies above the channel cannot be protected by price ceilings The men of Bataan I divided their food not profits And I there was no shift night-shift to relieve the defenders of Wake It will cost most of our wealth to win this war But all our riches to lose it We must give most of our privileges or lose all of our rights Captain Colin Kelly made his choice He went into this war not up to his but up to his heart Because he knew what it meant to buy peace I on his knees Notes o of f a New Yorker John Mason Brown rown the dramatic critic who went under the surgeons surgeon's blade to put himself in condition for fora a naval commission will prove to tobE tobe tobe be worthy of the navy The navy need have no fears about his presence of mind either Once when Brown was delivering a lecture lecture lecture lec lec- ture in New Orleans Orleans Orleans-he he strolled up and down the rostrum making gestures gestures gestures tures as he lectured He stron strolled d so far he walked off the platform- platform dumping himself into some laps Returning to the platform calmly albeit a bit bruis bruised d he continued with To pick up the subject where we dropped it Sallies in Our Alley Gilbert Gilb Gilbert rt Gabriel Gabriel Gabriel Ga Ga- briel the former dramatic critic is now an officer in the army some army some somewhere where in Alaska Before being commissioned some intimates were requested to give the War Dept the lowdown on Gils Gil's character fitness and so forth How are his morals morals morals mor mor- als was one query He isso isso is isso so moral replied a chum he should be sent there as a missionary mission mission- ary One of the Broadway sportsmen was saying that the weather at Saratoga was never important important important im im- im- im to a gambler because you youcan youcan youcan can sleep like a top when youre you're winning winning winning win win- ning And said a veteran when youre you're losing you losing you spin lik like one David O. O asked Sam Goldwyn Why do you hire so many writers for one picture 4 Because said Sam from each writer I get a germ Marx of the famed 4 Marx- Marx men was the kid brother who was ordered into the act by their mother moth moth- er was too young to be trusted with valuable pieces of stage business or punch lines punch lines and so he merely tagged along making faces or joining in the chorus Of course he was paid well While Chico and Groucho squandered squandered squandered dered their coin on their families fun or at dice games games kept salting his away Eventually he wearied of hamming it and suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly popped up as a Hollywood agent buying into a prospering agency Later he opened his own and represented many movie stars Hes He's rich today His brothers arent aren't In his spare time fussed with mechanical things at home while home while the brothers made whoopee whoopee and and now and then he was laughed at for wasting his time at his exp experiments So what now owns a West coast defense plant Man JUan About Town Toun The Star Spangled Bing Crosby rumored Washington-bound Washington to enlist in the army isn't eligible He went there for orders on the Great Bond Drive Ty Power who will train for the gliders proudly wearing the emblem of the marines as a boutonniere boutonniere boutonniere bouton- bouton Darryl Zanuck k who quit his Fox Century-Fox job at per week considerably relieved I felt he said that I was merely another actor playing actor playing a part Hazel Scott who clicked so big in Hollywood getting a 1000 bonus from for her fortnights fortnight's work Burgess Meredith Wm and G G. G O. O Welles Velles in the 3 2 dame 3 dame hunters Myrna Loy The The Myrna Lisa the Sounds At Reubens Reuben's Horace Greeley said Go West Young Man and what did he do He stayed in New York and got rich I At Mother Kellys Kelly's On Broadway they keep telling you to keep punching punching hoping hoping you'll knock yourself out At the Park Central Central Central Cen Cen- Cocoanut Grove He was once caught in a truth At the Aquarium She was so lovesick she took the first pill that came along At Toots Shor's One of these days a check is gonna reach out and |