The White Falcon - 17.03.1945, Page 4

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MANY GIS ARE MAKING
DOWN PAYMENTS ON
FARMS — ARE YOU INT-
ERESTED IN GOING INTO
FARMING AFTER THE
WAR?
“No!! Being an easterner
I’ll let the
western boys
take* care of
our farming
situation!” is
the way that
Pfc. Alfred J.
White ' an-
swers this question. An MP
here,' White was a student
at Villanova. His home is in
Andover, Mass.
Although he wouldn’t com-
mit himself on
his own per-
sonal plans,
Cpl. J. Rowl-
inson of the
R A F h a d
some interest-
ing views. He
says: “In England
think it is a very
thing for people -and especi-
ally servicemen — to make
down payments on such a
thing as a farm Nevertheless,
farming strikes me as being
a healthy and profitable bus-
I don’t
regular
One Year Old
One-year-old Victoria El-
izabeth James will have to go
a long way yet before she has
the lung-power of her father,
famed trumpet player Harry
James, as the above photo
will testify. Young Vickie
huffed and puffed but could-
n’t blow out the flame on
the birthday candle. Her
mother (as if you didn’t
know) is Betty Grable.
iness and I feel sure that
there are many who would
like a chance to start.”
^Mustang basketball play-
er, Pfc. Jos-
eph J. Leyden
of the MPs,
says Iliat lie’s
“definitely
not” interest-
ed in farming.
“I’m strictly a
city hoy (Philadelphia, Pa.)
at heart and being a plough
jockey is not one of my am-
bitions.” Joe was a student
before he joined Uncle Sam’s
MPs.
Still another MP student,
Cpl. Q. F.
Medlin, says:
“I have work-
ed both at
farming and
city jobs and
I think I pref-
er the latter.
My reason is that the income
from the farm is too uncer-
tain. I think I will search
for some other occupation.”
Medlin hails from La Cent-
er, Kv.
REVIEWS OF NEW MOVIES
ON NISSEN HUT CIRCUIT
Tfie following reviews are of new films recently placed on distri-
bution here. Further reviews will appear from time to lime as additional
movies arrive.
GRISSELY’S MILLIONS I
(Republic film starring
Virginia Gray and Paul
Kelly)
A rich millionaire is on
the verge of death, his re-
latives are sweating his de-
parture to greener pastures
in order to realize the proc-
eeds from his will and —
oil, well, you know the rest.
If you have nothing else to
do, you might take it in.
A TREE GROWS IN BROOK
LYN
(20th Cen.-Fox film with
James Dunn, Peggy Ann
Gardner, Dorothy McGuire
and Joan Blondell)
Here’s Betty Smith’s nov-
el done just the way it should
he with Francie, Johnnie
Nolan, Kale Nolan, Aunt
Sissy and all the others. It’s
every hit as true to life and
as human as the hook. Too
much can’t he said in favor
of this film. Every CO
should make each man in
the outfit see this tale of
life in Brooklyn at the early
part of the century. James
Dunn turns in a performance
that’ll put him back at the
lop. Youthful Peggy Ann
Gardner shotVs surprising
emotion and understanding
as voting Francie. Joan
Another World War
Would Be All Over In
Few Hours,”
“A
Says
Bomb Expert
The terrifying prediction of an inevitable World War
III—of such intensity that it will last only a few hours—
has been made by the nation’s foremost bomb-control
expert, John Hays Hammond, Jr., who is currently en-
gaged in secret work for the AAF.
Other Hammond forecasts were that every European
capital will be in constant danger of obliteration within
a few hours from highly developed rocket bombs which
will be radio-controlled and perfected to such a high
degree of accuracy as to constitute a super-artillery; and
that many new automatic devices unknown in the pre-
sent war will be used with devastating effect.
Hammond, the holder of 800 patents, says: “We must
be ready the next time. Some sort fcf system—either of
accredited government representatives or spies—must
be established to keep the U.S. posted on European tech-
nical progress.”
Dorothy McGuire, as Katie
Nolan, in a TREE GROWS
IN BROOKLYN—one of the
new films on the IBC circuit.
Blondell plays Aunt Sissy,
the not too-moral aunt, to
perfection. Only regretable
thing is that such delightful
characters from the novel as
Gussie and Willie FI iPin an
and his horse had to he left
out by the Hays Office.
GREAT MIKE
(PRC film with Robert
Henry and Stuart Erwin)
This is the story of a hoy,
his race horse and his dog.
It’s a good, heart-warming
type of film.
CAN’T HELP SINGING
(Universal film starring
Deanna Durbin and Robert
Paige)
Even with Deanna Durb-
in in technicolor and a Jer-
ome Kern score,, something
went wrong on this film
which turns out to be the
most disappointing Durbin
effort to ‘date. The color is
beautiful, the costumes are
magnificent and Deanna is
gorgeous.
WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
(RKO film starring Ed-
ward G. Robinson and Joan
Bennett)
You’ll come out of this
murder pysehological-myst-
ery in a cold sweat if you
possess the normal human
reactions. Robinson, Benn-
ett and Raymond Massey
make this tale of a college
professor one you can't aff-
ord to miss.
ENTER, ARSENE LUPIN
(Universal film starring
Charles Korvin and Ella
Raines)
Going whole hog, this
story contains that familiar
combination of a continent-
al express roaring through
the black of night, a myst-
erious woman, a jewel thief
and, of course, the inevitable
jewels. This one’ll he of int-
erest just to see how this
combination is handled.
LAKE PLACID SERENADE
(Republic film with Vera
Hruha Ralston and William
Frawlev)
Music, beautiful women
and winter sports — a com-
bination which GIs in Ice-
land should appreciate. Ray
Noble and his orchestra
make this one passable.
MURDER, MY SWEET
(RKO film with Dick Pow-
ell, Clair Trevor and Ann
Shirley)
In hook form this film
was known as “Farewell, My
Lovely.” Somewhere along
the line between the hook
and the final product, som-'
ething was lost. The story
lacks continuity and .fluidn-
ess. It jerks along, in other
words. However. Dick Pow-
ell surprises with his ex-
cellent acting. Clair Trevor
is at her sexiest and Ann
Shirley is her sweet, innoc-
ent-looking self. The cast
makes this picture better
than it would he otherwise.
ATC Planes Averaged One
Flight Per Hoar In ’44
Planes of the ATC’s North
Atlantic Div. made an av-
erage of one flight per hour
during 1944, it was revealed
this week. «
An ANS dispatch states
(hat 10,000 trans-Atlantic
trips, not counting the flights
of the Ferrying Division
(which took thousands of
combat and tactical planes
across the ocean to the com-
bat zones), were made carr-
ying 53,000,000 pounds of
cargo. In addition, 220,000
passengers and 23,000,000
pounds of mail made the
journey.
"He never saved a nickel till he found out that officers
aren't entitled to use the Soldiers Deposits system."