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Show Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Wireless: Elmer Davis tipped off Tokyo the other round-up that a country can get hurt listening to Berlin. The last nation that played a sure th-ing in the war, he remind- ed, was Italy. War and Broadway find that the softest chump is some-i some-i body looking for something for nothing noth-ing . . . You can cheer the spirit of the Free Company, offering Sunday Sun-day p. m. plays. Its aim is to slap down alien propaganda and plug for our way of life. . Nancy Kelly, Burgess Meredith and John Garfield Gar-field donated perfect acting to the first. But that Hood of film credits at the finish will make their show a trailer if they don't watch out . . . Sen. Gillette (la.) is offering a bill making the sponsors of smear handouts hand-outs tell their name and address. It was the same plan advocated by Morris Ernst, with no takers, on a recent Forum. The Front Pages: Dot Thompson kept Senator Wheeler after school because he seems to know less about English gov't than a colyumist. The Senator said Canada was a colony and that only the King can declare war a remark that would flunk him In any history course ... It is sickening to learn that some of our so-called leaders are afflicted with intellectual anemia . . . Bumito Mussolini, who used to bellow about the glory of Fascism, has now been relegated to boosting the strength of Naziism. In short, he's no longer an Axis partner just an Axis press agent. Hitler's Gayda. Gayda warns the British to give up the futile fight in Africa. That reminds us of the old gag about the gink down on the floor, bloody and swollen from a terrific ter-rific shellacking. He looked up at his victorious opponent and mumbled: mum-bled: "Have you had enough?" The Story Tellers: One man's idea of no reading at all is the just-published book on the Maginot Line. It's like handing a swimmer going down for the third time a copy of "The Life of Johnny Weissmuller" . . . Good describing of a man by Ellis St. Joseph, in Story mag: "His long fleshless frame was anonymous as a clothes tree on which hung a silk hat, frock coat, striped trousers. But the man's sharp angular face was memorable a veritable blueprint blue-print of intelligence." Typewriter Ribbons: Dorothy Parker: Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it and it darts away . . . Anon: It was the kind of a show at which opportunity op-portunity might've knocked, if the critics hadn't . . . Mark Twain: There are two times when a man shouldn't gamble. When he can't afford af-ford it and when he can . . . Simeon Strunsky: A dining room table with children's eager, hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar . . . Anon: Now is the time for all good Republicans to come to the aid of America . . . Isn't it strange that Lindbergh, whose historic his-toric flight helped make the Atlantic Atlan-tic narrower, doesn't realize how narrow it is? The Village News-Press fFrop. and Editor Walt Winchell.) Ex-Gov. of Penn. Earle, who socked that Nazi over there, was a good pal of the late Dolfuss when Earle was stationed in Vienna. Earle prob'ly wanted to smack somebody for that murder, anyhow. Our esteemed rival, Lee Wood, of Roy Howard's Bugle, got off a good one the other noon when he sent one of those collect cables to Hitler, saying: "God save the King and God help you!" - Seems that our isolationists are mighty ignorant of history when they claim Geo. Washington refused to have any foreign alliances. How about George's alliance with the French in 1776? If ye ed were requested to suggest who should get the Pulitzer Prize for "public service," it would certainly cer-tainly go to S. Boehm of the New York Journal-American for his writeups which convicted Kunze and his Bundists. He got his evidence after being shellacked by them twice, too. George Jean Nathan, the critic'fel-ler, critic'fel-ler, gave a copy of his book to Kimi Toye of Japan and inscribed it: "To Kimi One good reason why the United States should not go to war!" George sure likes the opposite sex. Western Union, according to Len Painter of Kansas City, refused to accept a message to a Senator in which he used the word "cowardly." "coward-ly." Telegraph folks said new Gov't rules made them liable to be sued. Since when did it become illegal to call a coward a coward, anyhow? Mussolini's newspapers and schoolmasters want to eliminate all foreign words from the Italian language. lan-guage. They'll put themselves in a heckuva fix if they outlaw the German Ger-man equivalent for "Help!" |