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Show We Must Plunge: Our leaders have told us that as yet we are only ankle-deep in the war. No nation and no man can remain ankle-deep. 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 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 cuff on your American trousers isn't worth a Japanese cuff on your American jaw. Our problem at home is not our standard of living. Too many brave Americans have already set us a j heroic standard by dying. I The Marines who land on Pacific beaches are in this war deeper than their ankles. And the skies above j the channel cannot be protected by price ceilings. The men of Bataan divided their food, not profits. And there was no 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 ankles, but up to his heart. Because he knew what it meant to buy peace on his knees. Notes of a New Yorker: John Mason Brown, the dramatic critic, who went under the surgeon's blade to put himself in condition for a naval commission, will prove to be worthy of the navy . . . The navy need have no fears about his presence of mind, either . . . Once when Brown was delivering a lecture lec-ture in New Orleans he strolled up and down the rostrum, making gestures ges-tures as he lectured ... He strolled so far he walked off the platform dumping himself into some laps . . . Returning to the platform calmly, albeit a bit bruised, he continued with: "To pick up the subject where we dropped it . . ." Sallies in Our Alley: Gilbert Gabriel, Ga-briel, the former dramatic critic, is now an officer in the army somewhere some-where in Alaska . . . Before being commissioned some intimates- were requested to give the War Dep't the lowdown on Gil's character, fitness and so forth . . . "How are his morals?" mor-als?" was one query . . . "He is so moral," replied a chum, "he should be sent there as a missionary!" mission-ary!" . . . One of the Broadway sportsmen was saying that the weather at Saratoga was never important im-portant to a gambler "because you can sleep like a top when you're winning" win-ning" . . . "And," said a veteran, "when you're losing you spin like one" . . . David O. Selznick asked Sam Goldwyn: "Why do you hire so many writers for one picture?" . . . "Because," said Sam, "from each writer I get a germ." Zeppo Marx of the famed 4 Marx-men Marx-men was the "kid brother" who was ordered into the act by their mother moth-er .. . Zeppo was too young to be trusted with valuable pieces of stage business or punch-lines and so he nvsrely tagged along, making faces or joining in the chorus ... Of course, he was paid well i . . While Harpo, Chico and Groucho squandered squan-dered their coin on their families, fun or at dice games Zeppo kept salting his away . . . Eventually, he wearied of hamming it and suddenly sud-denly popped up as a Hollywood agent buying into a prospering agency . . . Later he opened his own and represented many movie stars . . . He's rich today . . . His brothers aren't ... In his spare time Zeppo fussed with mechanical things at home while the brothers made whoopee and now and then he was laughed at for wasting his time at his "experiments" ... So what? . . . Zeppo now owns a West coast defense plant! Man About Town: The Star-Spangled: Bing Crosby, rumored Washington-bound 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 bouton-niere bouton-niere . . . Darryl Zanuck, who quit his 20th Century-Fox job (at $5,000 per week) considerably relieved. "I felt," he said, "that I was merely another actor playing a part" . . . Hazel Scott, who clicked so big in Hollywood, getting a $1,000 bonus from MGM for her fortnight's work . . . Lieut. Burgess Meredith, Wm. Saroyan and G. O. Welles in the 1-2-3 dame hunters . . . Myrna Loy The Myrna Lisa. Sounds-in-the-Night: At Reuben's: "Horace Greeley said: 'Go West, Young Man!' and what did he do? He stayed in New York and got rich!" . . . At Mother Kelly's: "On Broadway they keep telling you to keep punching hoping you'll knock yourself out" ... At the Park Central Cen-tral 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 grab him!" |