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Show TJ IAN K SO IV! NO TALKIES The Inquiring Reporter, armed with pad, pencil and camera, asks famous people of the show world THIO QUESTION How do you lilie best to spend Thanksgiving day? CHARLIE MCCARTHY, tho only young man in America who is dummy enough to take wooden nickels: "Ah, Thanksgiving, how I love Thanksgiving! III. iTfr "A -:i There's so much to be thankful for, too, thla year. Last year Bergen was too broko to buy me a dinner and I went to bed nwful hungry, but we're in the money now thanks ! to me. I've already asked Dorothy La-i La-i mour to dinner. Of Charlie course Dot can have McCarthy whatever she wants I'll start with a whitewash cocktail to kill some of those termites W. C. Fields has been sicking on me; then I'll have a bowl of shavings in milk and an oak leaf salad with sap dressing. After that, a slice of oak log well singed over the fireplace, and for dessert ah! some fresh air and sunshine in Bergen's Ber-gen's new car with Miss Lamour at my side! And at eventide home to show Miss Lamour my magic lantern lan-tern slides of my great ancestor, John Alden McCarthy." BOB BURNS, hill-billy comedian of screen and radio, bazooka blower de luxe and philosopher plenipotentiary: "Thanksgivin' dinner din-ner is a real institu- lion down in Arkansas, Arkan-sas, and I only wish I could be down there this year. See-in' See-in' as how I ain't likely to be able to git away from Hollywood, Holly-wood, I'm plannin' to invite Aunt Kezzy Moomaw, Uncle Or-chie. Or-chie. Uncle Chig, Aunt roody. Cousin r"""';',('Trt," j f ; .... , 1 -: I' i & i it - .). . A fU.jit.-jt. 4 Labe, Uncle Slug, Bob Burns Cousin Hod and Grandpaw and Grandmaw Snelson out here to eat with me. Speakin' of Grandmaw Snelson, she was the first one to teach me the real mean-in' mean-in' of bein' thankful. She flggered we all had somethin' to be thankful for. 'Why, I ain't got but two teeth in my head,' she'd say, 'but I'm mighty thankful, especially on Thanksgivin' day, because they meet.' "I know Grandmaw'll enjoy the potlicker I plan to have, whether or not she can get the enjoyment out of the razorback ham." HELEN JEPSON, beautiful soprano so-prano of the Metropolitan and the Chicago City Opera: "My days are ordinarily so carefully planned and faithfully exe- t ' ' X ; " J cuted that I have no time at all to play cook. But I love to cook, and on l Thanksgiving day I dismiss the servants and really do the cooking. It is always turkey, cranberries, sweet potatoes and ( pumpkin pie. And while I am cooking. Uelen Jepson George (my husband) hus-band) is busy carving carv-ing the pumpkin which is our centerpiece. cen-terpiece. Sally, my little daughter, loves it, and George always carves two faces on the pumpkin. One side is a smiling face which Sally sees while she is eating and then when the last bite of dinner has been eaten George turns the pumpkin around and there it is the face that hurts because it ate too much!" i |