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Show tl 1 (Editor's Note: Jack Lalt, Broadway columnist, is guest conductor of this column while Mr. WincheU is on vacation.) Rambling! on the Remington: Actor making the most dough now is Al Jolson and not for acting. act-ing. 'The Jolson Story" is the biggest big-gest thing Columbia ever turned out. . . . Ramon Navarro laughs at sympathetic offers of a "Comeback" "Come-back" hit he salted away a fortune. for-tune. . . . Extras on location for "Tap Roots" had their pay upped from $15.65 a day to $35 because dynamite is used to make noise and debris for battle-scenes, creating a hazard. . . . "Forever Amber," with naughty reputation for spice, and "Life With Father," wholesome as a wood fire, will compete at box-offices. box-offices. Splendid chance to settle what our public wants. Henry Kaiser, who has other griefs, is nursing a bump on his bean. At his summer home, bis wife was launching one of his mass-produced speed-boats, which he had pulled off the assembly-line for their own use. She swung the champagne bottle, bot-tle, but whiffed and bopped the Industrialist where he keeps his million-dollar brain. . . . He blinked and staggered, but came back with a wisecrack: "Darling, you missed the boat!" King Carol pulling heavy wires to get himself and the Magda into the U. S. . . . Dublin and other cities in Eire have legalized Sunday movies, a novelty and a sensation. . . . Sam Salvin's lucky number is 9. He wouldn't rest until, for his forthcoming forth-coming $500,000 Park avenue restaurant, res-taurant, he got the phone company to give him PL. 9-5400 9 and 5 plus 4. . . . Frank Hague Eggers, nephew neph-ew and heir to uncle Frank Hague as mayor of Jersey City, will run for reelection. But insiders say Commissioner John Kenny will end the plague of Hague by trouncing him. About 4 per cent of the national income goes into the hands of those who can still be classified as "rich." . . . 84 per cent is distributed among families earning, in all, less than $100 s week. . . . Only one dollar in every six reaches families taking in more than that. . . . Never before have the masses enjoyed so high a living standard. stand-ard. . . . Nowhere else on the globe has the average human so favorable an economic position. . . . (From an analysis by Marschalk & Pratt Co., of U. S. Treasury Statistics Sta-tistics studied by the Bureau of Economic Eco-nomic Research, University of Notre Dame.) Such findings, from such sources, drive home the truth that our industrial indus-trial squabbles, strikes and other flareups that , animate class feuds are the deliberate products of professional pro-fessional mischief-makers. . . . That our happiness and peace are being besieged and barraged by fifth columnists, col-umnists, largely Communists or Communist-influenced fools. . . . They find their most fertile fields among the minorities they can agitate agi-tate into discontent, many of whom they make miserable and self-conscious, although they were not obsessed ob-sessed with a sense of injustice until un-til they were harangued into it. . . . Especially do these aliens and un-patribtic un-patribtic Americans work on the growing generation. Youngsters are pliable, callow, cal-low, credulous. . . . They must be restrained, because they have not attained mature status, sta-tus, with its rewards of recog. nition and emolument. I find the attitude of our . teenagers teen-agers alarming. ... I often lecture at schools and universities, giving my time freely because I hope I can set some of the immature minds a bit closer to the straight road laid down by their forefathers. . . . The questions they ask are too often angled, too repeatedly indicative indica-tive of suspicion, even resentment, of our established forms of life. ... They almost always start off by asking whether I belong to a union. . . . When I say I do not they look at me as if to say, "Then what do you know about anything?" I now counter that query by saying, say-ing, "Yes, I belong to a union the union of the 48 states." . . . They think that pretty corny. . . . That sort of union does not impress them. . . . One impertinent punk in a journalism class shot back, "Oh then you're scabbing on the JobI" He waited for me after class, fell into step. . . . "Mr. Lait," he said, "Our professors din it into us, that only by organizing, only by fighting fight-ing the capitalists, can we have democracy. . . . That our history is the bunk , glorifying slave-drivers and exploiters of the worker. . . Even when they don't come out cold turkey and say so, they play ; up the Utopian Russian system. ... 1 One told us labor unions were good now; in the end, they would not be needed, but now they were the only instrument of the oppressed to keep in power the spirit of the revolution. revo-lution. . . . Do you think we're going to have a revolution?" I shook my head. I didn't fear a revolution. But I did feel a revulsion. j |
