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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
XTEW YORK.—The army could
use a few top-flight Broadway
playwrights, particularly those who
have had war experience. But it
-At • already has
Army Impresario its Da _
Injects Realism vid Belasco.
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Into War Games to condition
our new army of 1,400,000 men for
real combat now provide the ut
most in dramatic realism. There
are machines to simulate faithfully
the screaming of Stuka bombers;
there will be the roar of gunfire—
with blank cartridges, of course;
{there will be parachute attacks, ma
chine gunning from airplanes, and
every possible device to keep the
boys from forgetting that “they’re
in the army now.”
Gen. Lesley James McNair,
chief of staff of general head
quarters, a small, keen, alert
man who seems omnipresent in
the army camps, is the impre
sario in this the army’s biggest
and most’serious venture in ap
plied theatricals. He has had
long experience in war games
and has convincingly portrayed
them as invaluable rehearsals
for the real thing, not only for
the instruction imparted but tor
the unconscious, reflex condi
tioning of nerves and sensitivity
to the now heightened tumult of
war.
When the nucleus of a general
headquarters staff was formed July
25, 1940, General McNair was put
at the head of it. That subsequently
placed in his hands the intensified
and expanded war-training maneu
vers, far exceeding anything ever
before attempted, and last Septem
ber he took over the entire training
program of the rapidly increasing
army.
It is regarded as an undertak
ing of the utmost importance
and President Roosevelt recent
ly promoted the army Belasco
from major general to the rank
of temporary lieutenant general.
His knowledge of war is by no
means confined to make-believe.
He fought with the field artil-
_ _ r in France and won the U. S.
Distinguished Service medal and
the French Legion of Honor. He
is a native of Minnesota and was
graduated from West Point in
, 1904. ^
T wis writer went to the wedding
of a young woman friend a few
weeks ago. The bridegroom was
a tall, loose-geared, bespectacled
Perchance Radio S'aTen-
Beam Led Inventor chanting grin
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To Comeiy Bride th atch of
brownish hair. The bride told us
he was a scientist. We should have
known that he was Russell Varian,
the inventor, with his brother Sigurd
and several other associates, of the
Klystron radio generator which
American technicians say is better
than anything the British have in
their new plane-spotting system and
■which has made blind-flying, in fog
or night, like a trip around the block
in a baby-carriage.
Russell Varian worked his way
through Stanford, odd-jobbing for the
professors. His brother Sigurd was
a flight captain with the Pan-Ameri
can Airways on Mexican and Cen
tral American routes. One day Rus
sell got a letter from Sigurd in
which Sigurd said he. was tired of
ramming around in fog and night
and they ought to get together and
work out a radio beam which hom
ing planes could really follow. Rus
sell thought that was a good idea,
so Sigurd brought him his savings
of $4,000 and the boys set up a
workshop at Halcyon.
Their facilities just wouldn’t
do. Dr. David L. Webster, head
of the department of physics, at
Stanford, provided a laboratory,
gave them effective aid in every
possible way and made them
research associates of the uni
versity, bnt the university could
provide no funds. Sigurd’s $4,000
dwindled to $47. The young men
were living sketchily when the
Klystron came through. A rep
resentative of the Bureau of Civ
il Aeronautics put them in touch
with the Sperry Gyroscope Co.
Sperry hurriedly plunked down
a check for $25,000 and built a
laboratory for Russell in Garden
City, Long Island.
Etussell came to New York- His
iio beam had guided him straight
Miss Jane Martinson, a comely
search worker ip biochemistry,
tee of Miss Bessie Beatty of the
rrent radio team of “Betty and
il.” It was a case of love at first
;ht on the part of both. Hence the
dding, just a fortnight later, in
i East Nineteenth street residence
Adolph Berle, now occupied by
ss Beatty. Bride and bridegroom,
th tireless hikers, had their out-
ar togs ready for a long vaca-
n and honeymoon tramp through
w England.
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Troops of the first division are pictured as they boarded a V. S.
army transport vessel in New York, before sailing to take part in
joint maneuvers with United States marines along the coast of North
Carolina.
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Douglas B-19 bomber, largest airplane ever built, is pictured above
as it took off on its first test hop from Clover field, Santa Monica, Calif.
The mighty plane lifted from the concrete runway amid a rousing cheer
from Douglas workers and army officials. Army air corps ace test
pilot, Stanley Umstead, was at the controls.
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Vitamin tests are being conducted at the Chicago quartermaster
depot, U. S. army, with the aid of laboratories of many firms, to find
foods best suited to sustain soldiers. At top, Capt. R. H. MacDonnell,
left, and Lieut. L. E. Kahn, testing various units of C type ration.
Bottom: Capt. Charles Herman, left, and Maj. Jesse H. White.
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Cheery and carefree, seven young American fliers wave good-by to
Chicago on their way to London to join the R.A.F. L. to R., Robert
Wilbur, San Mateo, Calif.; Jack Brown, Chicago; Fred Gamble, Wash
ington; Sam Whedon, Beverly Hills, Calif.; Lawrence Ray Jr., Carthage,
Mo.; Le Roy Skinner, Webb City, Mo.; and Jim Valley, Amarillo, Texas.
Ty Cobb Wins Match
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Ray Joslyn of the Golden Rule
Farm for boys in Franklin, N. Y.,
for whose benefit this charity golf
match was played at the Common
wealth Country club, presents Ty
Cobb with the Bette Davis trophy,
while the Georgia Peach Indicates
with his fingers the three-up score
in which he beat Babe Ruth.
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The Argentine congress commit
tee has requested evidence uncov
ered by Dies committee on Nazi in
filtration into Latin America. Shown
is Robert Stripling, Dies committee
secretary, addressing pouch with
evidence of Nazi and Communist
activities in South America, to
Buenos Aires.
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By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T ESTING’S under way at
Paramount for “For Whom
the Bell Tolls”; Charles Laugh
ton, Akim Tamiroff and Oscar
Homolka have been considered
for the role of “Pablo,” but the
burning question is—who’ll play
“Maria”? It calls for beauty,
but even more for the ability to
act.
We hear that Paulette Goddard
heads the list of the girls to be
tested; seems as if it would be a
superb piece of miscasting if she
got the part. Ingrid Berman’s our
choice—and the author’s.
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Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers has signed for three
years more with RKO; she’s been
there for eight
years. She did “Fly
ing Down to Rio”
then, and her danc-
■aiHs: • afc HI ing with Fred
Astaire in that little
| number made them
I our leading dance
| team in pictures.
| She wisely insisted,
at last, on acting as
well, and worked up
to “Kitty Foyle,”
which she didn’t
want to do, we hear,
but which proved to be her greatest
success. She’s just finishing “Tom,
Dick and Harry” now, and they say
around the lot that it’s a worthy
successor to “Kitty Foyle.”
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Orson Welles isn’t making any
announcements about his second
picture for RKO Radio—he kept
mum about “Citizen Kane” too, re
member, and executives were pretty
startled when they found out, too
late, what it was all about and it
looked as if they might have trouble
if they released it. Instead of a
trouble-maker, they had one of the
best pictures of all time on their
hands! Welles has admitted that
he will write, produce and direct this
new picture, and will star in it.
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Joseph Pasternack, who guided
Deanna Durbin through her success
ful screen career, has signed a con
tract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; it
looks as if he might do for Kathryn
Grayson what he did for Deanna.
Hollywood just didn’t give a
whoop about Victor Mature until he
made a highly press-
agented appearance
in the New York
stage success,
“Lady in the Dark/’
He doesn’t act much
in the play, just
looks tall, dark and
handsome. Now it’s
announced that two
motion picture com
panies want him;
one, Twentieth Cen
tury-Fox, has bought
half his contract Victor Mature
from Hal Roach and
will feature him in two pictures a
year. The first will be “Bowery
Nightingale,” co-starring with Alice
Faye.
Old timers among the movie fans
will remember Raymond Hatton;
probably they’ll also declare that
“The Whispering Chorus,” in which
he starred for De Mille, was one
of the best pictures ever made.
Well, Hatton is working for his old
boss again in “Reap the Wild
Wind.”
Graduated as No. 1 man at U. S.
naval academy in 1940, J. P.
D’Arezzo did not get his naval com
mission because of an eye strain.
He tried the army. Today he is a
first lieutenant with the coast artil
lery in the Canal Zone. He is shown
aboard the flagship of the Gatun
lake fleet, where he is known as ad
miral, of army’s third ocean navy.
W. S. Van Dyke, the ace director,
has been on active duty with the
marine corps for the past year. Now
ho’s returned to the Metro lot. And
what do you suppose his first assign
ment will be? “The Female of the
Species”—a long cry from the
Marines!
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Did you happen to hear “Man on
the Street” on the “Manhattan at
Midnight” radio show about a month
ago? Within 24 hours after the
sketch was presented five motion
picture studios were after it. Para
mount won out; Bing Crosby and
Mary Martin will co-star. They’ve
just completed “Birth of the Blues,”
with Carolyn Lee and Brian Don-
levy.
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People who’ve heard Bob Hope
rave on the radio about Madeleine
Carroll have decided that he must
know her well enough to get auto
graphed pictures of the blonde star
for them. She’s on location in the
West Indies, so they’ve been pes
tering him for the photographs. He
doesn’t mind; he just got a lot of her
pictures, autographed them with his
own name, and had them mailed.
Four years afterleaviiigVenezuela,
Julio Berrlzbeitia, 19-year-old Boy
Scout, arrived in Washington, com
pleting his 20,600-mile hike. He car- i
ried a letter from the president of
Venezuela to F. D. R.
ODDS AND ENDS—Wayne Morris got
leave from the Navy Department to finish
“The Smiling Ghost" for Warner Bros,
before he became an ensign . .#. NBC is
preparing a new series, “Boy Meets Band,"
for its singer-bandleader, Ted Steele, who
used to be an NBC page boy . . . Though
Bing Crosby can't read a note of music t
the boys in John Scott Trotter’s band say
he’s a swell conductor . . . Metro will push
Marsha Hunt up the ladder as a result of
her tvork in "Blossoms in the Dust” . . .
Service men who want to and can see
Hollywood stars broadcasting should ap
ply to Charles Posner of the United Sen*
ice Organizations.
Ask Me Another
9 ^ General Quiz
The Questiont
1. What is a chuck-will’s-widow?,
2. When it’s 11 a. m. in Omaha,
what time is it in Galveston,
Texas?
3. Where are the Plains of
Abraham?
4. What does a mace symbolize
in legislative houses?
5. How does the world’s record
for running and ice skating 100
yards compare?
6. Who did Sir Walter Raleigh
plot to place on the British thronq
in place of James I?
The Answers
1. A bird. (So called from its]
note.)
2. 11 a. m. j
3. Canada (Quebec).
( 4. Authority. A mace is a staff
or mallet.
5. The record in both cases is|
9.4—Identical to the split second,?
6. Arabella Stuart.
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It is not by saying “Honey,
honey,” that sweetness comes into
the mouth.—Turkish Proverb.
BEAT
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Heat Powder. Dust in shoes.
Relieves and eases chafe, and
sunburn. Great for heat rash.
Get Mexican Heat Powder.
Binding Virtues
Moderation is the silken string
running through the pearl chain
of all virtues.—Bishop Hall.
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