The White Falcon - 24.02.1945, Blaðsíða 5

“Pin-Up Daughter”
Bringing to mind the little girl we have back home—or, perhaps, would like to have
some day when the war has ended—is Hollywood’s brightest young star, 8-year-old Marg-
aret O’Brien. When the GIs here voted Margaret into third place—over such stars as
Bette Davis, Greer Garson and Katherine Hepburn—for the best female performance of
1944, in a White Falcon movie poll, we wrote her a letter telling her of the results.
Shortly afterward we received'from her the above photo. Her more recent pictures have
been LOST AN^-FL. CANTERVILLE GHOST, and MEET ME IN ST: LOUIS.
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Lily Pons and her husband
Andre Kostelanetz are doing
ihe Southeast Asia circuit
for the USO-Camp Shows,
Inc.....Jimmy Durante and
Garry Moore, regulars over
the IBC AFRS station, will
head for the ETO when June
rolls around. ... Both a sing-
ing and dancing chorus will
accompany OKLAIIOMA!
overseas, making it the most
ambitious USO production
to date.
The bawdy musical, GOOD
NIGHT LADIES, which ran
100 weeks in Chicago is tak-
ing! a fling in New York. It’s
compared by some critics
with the last war’s LADIES
NIGHT IN A TURKISH
BATH .... Rochester com-
plains that Jack Benny’s vio-
lin makes “Flight of a Bum-
blebee” sound more like the
In Boise, Idaho, state le-
gislators, who get $5 a day,
are complaining because a
restaurant across from the
flight of a., B-29 .... Mae
West has found a New York
restaurant where she can get
her grapes pre-peeled.
Dr. Artur Rodzinski, con-
ductor of the New York Phil-
harmonic, is planning a pro-
gram for this spring which
will feature music requested
by GIs. IBC men can forward
their requests to the New
York Philharmonic Orchest-
ra, Armed Forces Radio Ser-
vice, Los Angeles, USA .
courthouse displays a sign
reading: “Wanted — dish-
washer. Five dollars per day
and board.”
WINDOW SIGN IN RESTAURANT PUTS IDAHO
LAWMAKERS ON PAR WITH DISHWASHERS
Senator William Langer (R.—No. Dakota) has intro-
duced a bill to deport movie actor Charlie Chaplin “to
protect the morals and girls of the country.” He also
said that Chaplin was not an American citizen although
' a resident of the U.S. for over 30 years.
William Roach, 15, who was chosen the “most re-
presentative All-American boy” in irs Springfield, Mass.,
junior high school class, has been convicted of second-
degree murder and is now the state’s youngest lifer. He
confessed to slaying his school chum, Carolyn Bennett,
14, last June in Forest Park after they had gone for
a bicycle ride.
The Chicago Tribune said Monday that the War
Dept, has countermanded “previous confidential
instructions barring Communists from officer train-
ing and some nineteen various assignments involv-
ing no military secrecy.”
Senator Mahoney (D.—Wyoming) has accused Secre-
tary of War Stimson of giving an utterly unbalanced
account of the manpower situation in the latter’s radio
appeal to the nation for national service legislation, ac-
cording to the Associated Press.
In his" radio address Secretary Stimson said, “We dare
not delay longer,” in enacting national service legislation
as “deadly shortages are now looming before us” and a
Crisis is at hand.
Stimson added that the Senate Military Affairs
Committee, where bill has been pending for days,
has been listening to voices ‘‘speaking for special
and, by comparison, trivial interests.”
Continuing, Stimson stated that under the voluntary
system there has been a turn-over of as much as 90
percent a year in some important industries and that the
“inevitable result of this failure of American democracy
is now becoming apparent at this crisis of the war.”
Senator Mahoney, in his cemments, claimed that the U.S.
has supplied the United Kingdom with $8,000,000,000
worth of war materials, exclusive of food, and Russia with
$6,000,000,000 worth, and added, “I like to think that we
alone of all the nations in the world have done this job
on a free system by voluntary acts of our people.”
Tom Phillips, a real estate broker in Fort Myers, Fla.,
• lias discovered a way to beat the cigarette shortage—as
long as his property lasts. In a newspaper advertisement
lie offered to swap a 50x100 foot lot in a swanky resi-
dential section for fifteen cartons of cigarettes. Mrs. Tte-
becca Edwards was first in the long line of takers and
clinched the deal. Of the cigarette difficulty Phillips said,
“I’ve got more lots than will power.”
In the vicinity of Albany, N.Y., milk is delivered by
bobsled over a roadway chiseled out of 15-foot snow-
drifts. This winter’s snowfall in New York State has
been the heaviest in many years.