Show Notes Note of an I Innocent Bystander The Magic Lanterns Meet Me I in St. St I Louis bulges with enough pleasant plasant amusement to provide a month of daydreams Set in the 23 skidoo era era the warm humor and Infectious ditties inspire the spirit to show its dimples Delightful Mar Mar- MarJ I J garet OBrien O'Brien steals the picture and i your heart A song-and-dan- song t 1 cinema Som Something thing for the Boys in and comes on a wing buck lands gently on the eyes and ears I I As in all aU musicals the plot plays J I second fiddle sometimes fiddle sometimes it seems that it isn't even in the orchestra I E The March of Times Time's latest I concerns China China China-a a nation of great I tragedies great heroism great I hopes The script of Blonde Fever gets lost in a jungle of J 1 cliches cliches and and no one misses it Those who dreamed up a drama like The Last Ride should be in the Hall of Fame sweeping Fame sweeping it The Paragraph of the Week L. L II Rs R.'s in the N. N Y Y Times previewed history with this dialogue One more question question ques ques- tion Daddy What finally became became became be be- came of 01 this terrible Hitler For a long time my child nobody knew There were sto sto- ries He De was hiding in Spain Japan Argentina Eire You took your choice Then in 1960 a rug collector named Donner Donner- blitz died of indigestion In Chi Chi- cago That was Hitler lie He had been living there sixteen years But didn't anyone guess Daddy No you see see except except ex ex- for lor changing his name and shaving oft off his bis mustache he went right on ion being himself damning Russia England democracy de de- the at Washington Washing Washing- ton and the USA U.S.A. in general So the neighbors took him for just an ordinary crackpot and never gave him a second thought The book stores will short shortly y receive revive re re- re vive an extraordinary book called Axis Rule in Occupied Europe It t is by Raphael Lemkin It is p published by the Carnegie Endowment Endow Endow- ment nent for International Peace Book oracles state it is really the thelast thelast last ast word on what the Nazis have done to The Old Country The Writers Writers' Writers Writers' Writers Writers' Writ Writ- ers' ers War Board staffed with intellectuals Intel Intel- authors editors et al is unable to name a more important volume in its field The author author au- au thor hor of the book has created a word genocide to define the calculated ed destruction by the Germans of national and racial groups Buy two wo copies One to read over andover and andover andover over again and the other to bang on the he head of any supporter of a Nazi soft T The p. p Private Papers Paper OJ Of j a Cub Reporter Sufferers from the cigarette shortage short short- age ige would like to know just why it itis itis its is s that night clubs are enjoying neary nearly nearly near- near ly y all the biz This is how come The night clubs are in inthis inthis this his enviable position because they've always charged a dime to 15 cents over the retail shop prices and of course they still are permitted permit- permit ted ed by the OP A to charge the same tariff ariff as before the ceilings went into nto effect Then besides getting getting getting get get- ting and moro more per pack the cigarette gals are invariably tipped an in average of for each pack This too g goes es to the concessionaire As a result getting per pack for cigarettes for which retail retail retail re re- re- re tail stores charge the concessionaires concessionaires concessionaires conces conces- are able to pay a good deal more for rigs than the retail retail- ers That explains why all the night nightspots nightspots spots are doing a terrific biz I Our Macon editor relays this letter letter let let- ter from Dr W W. 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B Burke His son James is with our State Dept Jim My Father in China Dr Burke spent 50 SO years in China The letter in part The whispering whispering whispering whis whis- campaign in China against the Generalissimo and his wife is largely the work of pro-Jap pro col col- col- col Unfortunately some of our correspondents over there have gotten gotten got got- gotten ten some of the reports in the papers over here At first the Generalissimo Generalissimo Generalissimo Gen Gen- thought he would ignore them Then he realized the rumors were directed more against China than against himself Therefore he felt that he had to bring these stories stories stories sto sto- ries into the light As to the report he had been unfaithful to his wife he declared his relations with his wife had been without stain absolutely absolutely absolutely pure I can understand the object of the Japanese but it is hard to get the workings of our American correspondents' correspondents mind This is for publication a The Wireless A offered this bit of irony The British re le removed moved handcuffs from Fascist Mosley Mos Mos- I Icy ley y but out jailed Gandhi who only desires desires de de- sires freedom for India 1 The March of Time a again aln proves that the headlines are writing the most explosive explosive ex ex- plosive dramatic scripts The MOT makes up dreamed-up mike-believing mike seem more irksome than titan static Nothing more ludicrous than com nowadays urging listeners to buy Youre You're told why you should buy a certain brand Instead brand instead of where |